Martha Graham heir withdraws license for Martha Graham Company to perform the late choreographer’s work. – CBC
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FATHER OF MODERN DANCE
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Nijinsky’s death. His choreography is a study in grace and brutality, in his “madness” he invented modern dance, he was 50 years ahead of his time, his life was an erotic spectacle – narcissistic, instinctive, free – and his work captured the emerging rhythm of mind for a generation that was heading into the fearsome carnival of the Great War. But Nijinsky was a sleek gazelle trotting round the edge of a precipice; he was a primitive: how did he come to be the patron saint of modern art? – The Telegraph (London)
SHAKESPEARE IN THE HEARTLAND
The Utah Shakespeare Festival won this year’s Best Regional Theatre Tony Award a few months ago. The theatre “was virtually unknown in New York until the Tonys but well known among a Shakespeare underground in the heartland. As many as 155,000 theatergoers, mostly young families and older people from the Midwest and Far West, surge into this sedate mountain town in the southwestern corner of Utah each summer for afternoons and evenings of professional theatrical productions.” – New York Times
OUTSIDE THE BOOM
London’s museums are booming these days. But outside the capital it’s quite a different story. “It is no secret that many of our large regional museums – Bristol, Exeter, Cheltenham, Leeds, Leicester and, most important of all, Glasgow – are in serious financial difficulties, as indeed are many university museums.” – The Telegraph (UK)
THE REBIRTH OF ART
“All over London, the words ‘make it new’ have lately been applied to museums.” Art has the new buzz of the 21st Century. – New York Times
WE ARE THE WORLD
“The one discipline you might expect to be free of such internecine squabbling is the big tent of World Music, a generic term used to describe just about anything outside the mainstream. But even here the canvas is being rent, as rival interests – from different continents to distinct countries to particular regions (or, if you’re part of Morocco’s notoriously fractious Master Musicians of Jajouka, individuals) – fight for the right to partake in what is, following the success of Buena Vista Social Club, a veritable pot of gold.” – The Sunday Times (UK)