Lesley Stahl does a 13-minute segment on the star choreographer. (video plus transcript)
Tag: 04.03.16
Meet The Dancers Who Live And Breathe Martha Graham
“The company features dancers from all over the world who have had varying entry points into the Graham organization. Yet each was pulled in by the force of Graham, who died in 1991 at 96, and by her technique, which is rooted in the breath; movement is initiated in the pelvis and concentrates on the oppositional force of contraction and release.”
Ben Whishaw Promises He’s Not Damaged Like The Characters He Plays
“It’s weird, isn’t it? Because I don’t see myself that way and I’m not that way. But I agree that obviously I’ve played a lot of people like that. I don’t know why it’s come about to be like that.”
‘Car Talk”s Ray Magliozzi Checks Out The Famous Old Cars Of Cuba
“What we saw were beautiful cars. The 1957 Chevy taxi we rode in was beautifully maintained. But it was not original by any means. A lot of cars had Hyundai diesel engines. … That’s part of their ingenuity – to rip out [original] engines and create something more reliable and newer and something you can get parts for.”
Preserving Disappearing Languages By Setting Them As Music
“A growing number of [composers] are turning their attention to languages that are extinct, endangered or particular to tiny groups of speakers in far-flung places with the aim of weaving these enigmatic utterances into musical works that celebrate, memorialize or mourn the languages and the cultures that gave birth to them.”
The Paris Venue That Became A Musical Theatre Powerhouse – What Will Happen To It Now?
Over his 11 years as general director of the Théâtre du Châtelet, Jean-Luc Choplin made the American comédie musicale the heart of his programming, producing one critically praised hit after another, even exporting productions to Broadway and winning Tonys. Next January, Choplin steps down and the Châtelet closes for a 2½-year renovation. What then?
Could Theatre Be The Cure For Ailments Of The Digital World?
“In acting classes, students grapple with the effects of technology on their brains, bodies, and social selves. Cellphones must be turned off and put away. The goal is to disconnect with technology and to connect with one another and themselves.”
16-Foot, 50-Pound Contrabassoon Stolen From Concert Hall
Buffalo Philharmonic musician Martha Malkiewicz returned from a weeklong break to find that her instrument had been taken from atop a row of lockers backstage at Kleinhans Music Hall.
A New Trove Of Letters Reveals A Lot More About A Mysterious Poet
The poet Adrienne Rich’s “radical feminist beliefs had a curiously distancing effect, often thought too blunt, too simplistic. It seems hard for people to imagine that these ideas could be the result of a complex mind, a complicated experience. And like many artists, Rich was wary of those who wanted to connect her work too closely to the shape of her life. When she died, she asked that her friends and family refrain from participating in any full-length biography; many of her archived letters to close friends are sealed until 2050.”
The Woman Who Knows How To Rebuild Syria
“I had no illusions of being the next Zaha Hadid. … Nevertheless, hope is blind, and always manages to find its way into the human heart, mine included.”