“A company shows anxiety on its face – that is, on its Web site, which has become the face of the modern corporation. Visit sites for recently troubled or confused enterprises, including Maclaren, Toyota, Playtex, Tylenol and, yes, John Edwards, and you’ll find a range of digital ways of dealing with distress.”
Tag: 03.28.10
A Pina Bausch Dance Made For – And On – Young And Old
“When it first appeared in 1978, Kontakthof showed a dozen men and a dozen women as they prepared for a formal dance, with the action spinning off into surreal flights of fantasy, frustration and regret. When the piece was revived in 2000, however, Bausch decided to up the ante by presenting two different casts. In one, the performers were teenagers, in the other they were over 65 years old.”
Emma Thompson On Staying Sane (Just Barely)
In an appearance on the long-running BBC radio program Desert Island Discs, the actress and screenwriter “talks candidly about her battle with depression during the split from her first husband, Kenneth Branagh, and reveals her continued efforts to escape the critical ‘voices in her head’.”
Sarasota Ballet Headed Back Into The Black
“A year ago, the troupe was deep in the red. But now it hopes to be in the black by the end of this season – thanks to cutbacks and restructuring. … Ballet administrative jobs have been slashed to four. World-renowned choreographers, in several cases, have let [the company] produce their high-profile ballets royalty-free just to help the ballet get through rocky times.”
How Detroit Arts Organizations Are Faring
The city and state are economically challenged. And its arts groups? Michigan Opera Theatre. The Detroit Symphony”. Detroit Institute of Arts.
London Olympics Logo – Worst Ever?
“Garish colors, aggressive shapes and dodgy typography were just a few of its design crimes. Some thought it looked like a swastika. Others spotted Lisa Simpson doing something unmentionable. The animated version caused seizures among some people with a particular type of epilepsy. Fly posters appeared across East London featuring an unofficial version of the logo in which the numbers 2, 0, 1 and 2 were replaced by the letters of an off-color word.”
Sanaa Wins 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize
“The pair’s buildings include the acclaimed New Museum in New York, a sculptural stack of rectilinear boxes on the Bowery, which was completed in 2007. The first Sanaa project in the United States was a glass pavilion for the Toledo Museum of Art, completed in 2006.”
It’s A Hit! After A Year “Next to Normal” Breaks Even
“Next to Normal,” which passed its one-year mark on Broadway on Saturday and is preparing for a national tour in November, now qualifies as a hit: it has earned back its $4 million capitalization, the producers said last week.
What’s Big In Cleveland? Polka, That’s What
“The Bohemian dance that developed in the 19th century and has been popular mainly with folks of a certain age and ethnicity had appeared to be passe. Now it seems to be making comeback in some of the most unusual places. But it’s also hanging tough at the same old haunts.”
Report: Almost Half Of All West End Tickets Now Bought On The Internet
“It also discovered that 93% of London audiences in 2008 (when the research was undertaken) thought that the performance they attended was either very good (75%) or fairly good (18%), while 83% thought their ticket represented good or fairly good value for money.”