Former Australian Ballet and Royal Danish Ballet artistic director Marina Gielgud explains how much of the job is coaching and how much is teaching steps, the preparation she has to do for a job, the challenges of remounting another choreographer’s work, and how she handles a star dancer who wants to do the steps his way.
Tag: 05.17.15
When A Wacky Fringe Theater Company Starts Granting Real MFAs
“In the fall, the four-year-old Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training” – operated by Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre Company – “and the University of the Arts’ Ira Brind School of Theater Arts will launch one of the country’s only accredited graduate degrees in devised performance, which is created collaboratively by performers rather than written by a playwright. That means, among other things, students can take out federal loans to learn to stage intergalactic gay extravaganzas.”
How A Trinidad Indian-Puerto Rican Kid From The Bronx Became A New York City Ballet Prince
For a start, the first dance he saw that made him fall for ballet was one of the spiky Balanchine-Stravinsky abstract works, not La Bayadère.
The New Republic Seriously Loves The New Whitney
“In an age when museums have overtaken churches as the apex of architectural aspiration, Piano is our Brunelleschi.”
What Happened When A Male Astronomer Said Scientists Were ‘Boys With Toys’
Scientists who happen to be women didn’t take kindly to that statement … and started #girlswithtoys.
Serving The Country On A Jury Is Patriotic And Great And All, Except For The PTSD Part
“The greatest difficulty often lies in homicide and death penalty trials, in which jurors not only share the burden of imposing guilt (or even death), but are necessarily confronted with the loss of life that led to the case. Some jurors even report physical ailments, including headaches, nightmares, and symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder.”
Picasso Stage Curtain Exiled From Four Seasons Gets A New Home
“On Sunday morning it was hanging, rolled up in a 23-foot tube, over West 77th Street. At the ready were about two dozen people, on the street and inside the museum on Central Park West, prepared for the final hours of an operation that had been planned for months and rehearsed repeatedly.”
The Great War Writer Whom America Just Plain Forgot
“Wouk never lets the reader forget that the Second World War was the biggest collective undertaking in the history of the human race. No movie could ever depict it, because no movie could ever have the budget.”
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Canterbury Cathedral’s 800-Year-Old Stained Glass Comes Down To Ground Level
“This enormous carpet of glowing colour is some of the oldest and most extensive stained glass in Europe – and so in the world. It was an appalling moment when we discovered that they would all have to be taken down, but it has given us an extraordinary opportunity to look at these figures in such detail – they will never be seen like this again.”