“Dressed in black tights, Natalya, 26, dances in front of a jury. Her dancing is important, but just as vital are her vital statistics. A children’s choreographer from Minsk, she was trying last week to become a dancer in the Crazy Horse cabaret, a Parisian-based dance show that has combined striptease and burlesque for the last 60 years.”
Tag: 03.09.11
Marina Abramovic Wins Two-Year Copyright Battle
“Performance art grande dame Marina Abramovic has won a two-year legal action against a French film-maker who committed copyright infringement by making two films, mainly based on her 1992 Biography piece, that misrepresented her work.”
A New Kind of Freedom: What Station-Wagons Meant To 1950s America
The great “land barges” gave “individuals more options, more independence, more freedom to do as they pleased, setting up camp when the place they’d arrived at felt like the right place, driving on when it didn’t. In the wake of a car that could serve dinner and sleep four comfortably, who wanted to stay bound by the old rules and mores?”
Javier de Frutos – A Guardian Step-by-Step Guide
“Whatever else he may be, De Frutos is never risk-averse. Nothing is done in moderation, he doesn’t believe in good taste, and he values provocation above acceptance. He made his name as a soloist, exploring his own turbulent self in bare-all pieces …”
Pina Bausch’s 10-Part Dance Cycle to Play London’s Cultural Olympiad
“In the first collaboration between Sadler’s Wells and the Barbican, the works” – “an unprecedented season of 10 back-to-back works created as she responded to cities and countries that she visited throughout her long career” – “will be staged in June and July 2012 as a highlight of the Cultural Olympiad. In the world of contemporary dance this is as big as it gets.”
BBC Closes Its ‘College of Comedy’
“A BBC training scheme that was set up to nurture emerging comedy writers and endorsed by leading creative talents such as Armando Iannucci and David Mitchell has been scrapped after it failed to secure funding for a fourth year.”
Claim: UK Arts Groups Should Give Up Non-Profit Status
“The model of corporate governance is broken. Arts & Business has been as guilty as any of encouraging corporate leaders to be on the boards. When times are fine, it’s good. When times are bad, a risk-averseness comes into a trustee board and grips like a cold hand on a throat. We are seeing managements terrorised, marginalised and treated with contempt by trustees.
Claim: UK Arts Groups Should Give Up Non-Profit Status
“The model of corporate governance is broken. Arts & Business has been as guilty as any of encouraging corporate leaders to be on the boards. When times are fine, it’s good. When times are bad, a risk-averseness comes into a trustee board and grips like a cold hand on a throat. We are seeing managements terrorised, marginalised and treated with contempt by trustees.
Report: Glasgow Arts Have Grown Substantially Since Its Year Of Culture
While performance is by far the largest area of the cultural sector, with 57 organisations employing 1,485 full time equivalents and boasting a turnover of £87.63 million, the broad details mask strong dependence on the four Scottish National Companies based in the city.
Can We Build A Better Man/Woman?
“What if the biggest breakthroughs come in improving man himself? Some technology experts think mankind will transform itself into a fitter, smarter and better-looking species in coming decades–a blink of an eye in evolutionary terms.”