“Those attending Jérôme Bel’s The Show Must Go On are expected to join in the fun, and help the choreographer strip the dance down to its ‘zero point’ … ‘What should take 10 seconds, the normal ‘house lights off’ and ‘stage lights on’ before dancing begins, takes eight minutes,’ Bel explains.”
Tag: 06.19.10
Reporters And Editors Join Rush To Screenwriting
“Journalists crossing over into other writing fields is not new. … But in recent years, David Kinahan of the Writers Guild of Canada says there’s been a definite increase in the number of journalists trying their hand at TV and film writing – a trend he attributes, in part, to a tightening job market as news outlets consolidate and struggle to stay relevant in the digital era.”
The Man Who Faked Shakespeare
“In the winter of 1795 a young, talented and cheeky man named William-Henry Ireland signed the bottom of a tattered piece of paper “Wm Shakespeare.” It was the first of hundreds of notes, poems and plays that Ireland forged and passed off as William Shakespeare originals. The world was so desperate to read more of the Bard’s work that the trick actually worked — for a time.”
Nézet-Séguin Signs Contract With Philadelphia Orchestra
“All along the way, Nézet-Séguin gave good-humored syllable-by-syllable lessons on how to pronounce his name (Yah-NEEK Neh-ZAY Say-GUN), a conflation of his mother’s maiden name, Claudine Nézet, and the family name of his father, Serge Séguin. The day’s best mispronunciation was at City Hall with Nutter: It came out something like ‘Unique Cezanne.'”