How Lucinda Child’s Dance Has Changed After 32 Years

“In 1979, video wasn’t as pervasive, so the effect of seeing the same dancers simultaneously on screen and on the stage was startling. In the contemporary version of Dance, a gap has opened between the live and virtual performers. ‘The dancers today, are very different from what they were,’ Childs explains. ‘They are much more technically trained, they also are different people’.”

Egyptian Movie About Muslim-Christian Romance, Banned Under Mubarak, May Now Be Shown There

“A film about a couple trying to escape the repressive regime of Hosni Mubarak may be screened in Egypt following the former president’s ousting from power. Authorities had banned Cairo Exit, by US-based Egyptian film-maker Hesham Issawi, due to a plot line that features a relationship between a Muslim man and a Coptic Christian woman.”

Turkish Prosecutor Investigates William S. Burroughs Novel For Promoting Immorality

The investigation follows a report by the Prime Ministry’s Council for Protecting Minors from Explicit Publications that accuses Burroughs’s The Soft Machine of “incompliance with moral norms” and “hurting people’s moral feelings.” (Not to mention “lacking unity in its subject matter,” “incompliance with narrative unity,” and “the application of a fragmented narrative style.”)

Using Architecture To Promote Public Health In The Third World

The nonprofit institute Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments (ARCHIVE) is building prototype homes for Haiti designed to reduce tuberculosis transmission in Haiti and new housing engineered to keep out malaria-bearing mosquitoes. “The goal is twofold: to demonstrate an association between design features and good health, and to prove that healthy homes are affordable on a mass scale.”

DVRs Are Boosting Ratings For TV Shows

“Currently, networks are paid by advertisers only for how many viewers watch the commercials in their shows over the first three days after a show is broadcast — a model known as “commercial plus three” (C3) ratings. But networks are monitoring how shows do over a full week after they are broadcast to gauge the depth of audience interest and loyalty.”