The company’s brand strategist explains: “I think the ballet really needed to put a stake in the ground and say, ‘This is happening here, you need to take note.’ Because no one else would do that for them. One of our big challenges was to shift the perception of what ballet is all about.”
Tag: 10.22.09
James Levine On His Health, And Juggling Two Huge Jobs
“James Levine knows people are worried about him – and about his job stamina. On the eve of what was supposed to be his return to the concert stage, Levine responded to questions about his health and his ability to serve as both music director of the BSO and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York, arguably two of the most important jobs in American music.”
P.S. 1 Names A Former Curator As New Director
Klaus Biesenbach, 43, is “a former curator who has remained an adviser” to P.S. 1. Biesenbach, who “for the past three years has also been MoMA’s chief curator of media and performance,” said he wants “to start a real dialogue between the two institutions yet keep very distinct programs.”
Alice Munro Says She Has Fought Cancer
“I’ve been lucky with my health,” the 78-year-old author said. “Also, I think we are lucky now in our medical intervention that keeps us going. I have a heart bypass and I’ve just had cancer and things like that are just dealt with now.”
The Visionary Behind The Met’s Risky New Ring
“[U]ntil recently [Robert] Lepage has been best known among hip theater-goers. His nonoperatic stage works … can run from 90 minutes to nine hours, are written in collaboration with his actors and technicians, and have nothing in common with anything else on the world stage.”
Rocco Goes On Tour
“Rocco Landesman, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, announced Wednesday that he is taking a whistle-stop tour of the country to ‘spotlight all the ways that art works.'” Such a tour “has been a technique that previous NEA chairmen, going back to the tenure of actress Jane Alexander, have undertaken.”
What Arthur Dent, Dracula and Winnie Have In Common
“The literary creations of authors stopped being sacred territory roughly 20 years ago, when the estates of late authors began leasing out the copyrights to old works.” But a “troika of high-profile revivals, all within a 10-day period, brings these after-death sequels to a new level of prominence.”
Torture Request Names Names, From AC/DC To Tupac
Here’s the list of artists and songs named in the Freedom of Information Act request for records of music the United States used in torture.
Musicians Demand Titles Of Songs U.S. Used In Torture
“A high-profile coalition of artists — including the members of Pearl Jam, R.E.M. and the Roots — demanded Thursday that the government release the names of all the songs that were blasted since 2002 at prisoners for hours, even days, on end, to try to coerce cooperation or as a method of punishment.”
Owner Of Missing Warhols Lashes Out At LAPD
“Maybe if they would do their job . . . and spent some time looking for the art instead of being accusatory of the person who had it stolen, they might actually find it,” said collector Richard L. Weisman, who added that, on the advice of his lawyers, he would not speak to the police.