“I think it’s time to recognize that we have with us dancers who are great partly because of their work with living choreographers. They are not only goddesses, but muses too.”
Tag: 07.08.13
Protecting (What’s Left Of) Moscow’s Historic Architecture Becomes Mayoral Campaign Issue
“The battle over the preservation of Moscow’s architectural heritage has become visibly political in recent weeks, as prominent opposition parties criticized acting mayor Sergei Sobyanin’s policies. Several candidates have promised to address the issue in the run-up to this September’s mayoral race.”
Lincoln Center Goes Prospecting Among Chinese Immigrants And Hipsters
The Lincoln Center Festival has scheduled 27 performances of this year’s centerpiece offering, the indie-rock-meets-Chinese-opera extravaganza Monkey: Journey to the West. That’s a lot of seats to fill – and to fill them, Lincoln Center is looking to groups well outside its usual audience demographics.
Nashville Symphony Appeals FEMA Payout For Flood Damage
“The Nashville Symphony has filed an appeal with the Federal Emergency Management Agency over some of the money obligated to it after flood waters overtook the lower levels of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in May 2010 … Symphony officials often point to the flood as a significant factor in its current fiscal crisis.”
Will A New Director Mean A New Direction At The Pushkin Museum?
“For many in Russia, Marina Loshak’s appointment to replace Irina Antonova, who had headed the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts for more than half a century, is more than a mere reshuffle. It means that modernization has spread to museums – one of the most conservative spheres of public life.”
How Jane Campion Wishes She Had Ended The Piano
“I didn’t have the nerve at the time. What if Ada just went down, she went down with her piano – that’s it.”
Sophia Loren Returning To Screen At Age 78
The legendary beauty’s first starring performance in nearly a decade will be in an adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s La voix humaine directed by Eduardo Ponti, Loren’s younger son.
The Case Of The Deadly Pigments
The first article about art colors no longer in use got such a good response that they did a second one. Most of these pigments fell out of use because they were made of substances like arsenic, lead and uranium.
NYC Takes Over The Struggling South Street Seaport Museum
“It continues to struggle with an estimated $22 million in damage from Superstorm Sandy. The Museum of the City of New York said last month it could no longer operate the waterfront museum in lower Manhattan.”
Reconsidering LA’s Latino Theatres
One of the gathering’s implicit tasks, participants say, will be trying to come up with a reasonable working concept of what Latino theater is, particularly in a region as culturally complex as Southern California.