“Burning Man organizers say the eight-day counter-culture festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert has sold out for the first time in its 25-year history.”
Tag: 07.26.11
What If College Really Isn’t The Great Equalizer?
It is simply not possible for all Americans to earn college degrees, and insisting that they really should is neither a wise nor a particularly humane solution.” And if all Americans did graduate from college, then college would no longer be any guarantee of a good job and a decent living (or rather, it would be even less of one than it is now).
Joffrey Ballet Dancers Approve New Contract
“Dancers voted Monday to approve an agreement that would end their labor dispute with management and attended rehearsals on schedule.”
Site-Specific Interactive Theater Meets Wall Street Finance
“Call it an alternate-reality game played in primary reality. Call it avant-garde performance art. Call it whatever you want. … Red Cloud Rising is theater outside the theater. It unfolds like real life, especially in the way we deal with people these days, not just in person but through phone calls, texts and e-mails.”
Choreography About Remembering Choreography
For a piece she has titled Document, Sandra Parker “set up a series of what she calls ‘performed interviews’, in which she asked several dancers with whom she had worked to come into the studio and tell her what they recalled of the choreography. … If movement and dance are in some sense ephemeral, in what ways can they be remembered or captured or recorded?”
Dubbing Movies And TV Into Arabic Is A Complicated Matter
The choice of dialect turns out to be crucial to a particular property’s success. “Should it be Egyptian dialect, the lingua franca of Arabic comedy? Light and airy Lebanese, a proven winner for sitcoms? Syrian Arabic, edgy, serious, well suited to drama? Khaleeji, the dialect of Arabs in the Persian Gulf, the region’s most lucrative television demographic? … Or the old standby, classical Arabic?”
100-Year-Old Archaeological Dig Wraps Up
“Archaeologists unearthing a biblical ruin inside a Palestinian city in the West Bank are writing the latest chapter in a 100-year-old excavation that has been interrupted by two world wars and numerous rounds of Mideast upheaval.”
How The Hapsburgs Shaped European Art
“Out of the doomed empire came some of the most provocative and brilliant art of the modern age, with Klimt and contemporaries such as Schiele investigating sexuality and the psyche years before the surrealists. The Habsburgs deserve to be remembered. They played a colossal role in the story of Europe, and its art.”
Is Electronic Music Losing Its Humanity?
“Computer technology has evolved tremendously over the past few decades, and electronic music has definitely followed suit. But are humans still at the creative core of the craft, or have we become lost in the shuffle?”