“Equity has revealed plans to draw up a contract especially for small-scale dance companies in a bid to improve pay and conditions in the independent sector. The union is working with the Independent Theatre Council on a contract that will be similar to the current Equity/ITC performers contract, but will be tailor-made for dancers, with their needs and requirements in mind.”
Tag: 10.25.16
Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.25.16
From Arts Experience to Human Experience
by Barry C. Hughson A few months ago, I attended the dress rehearsal for Dreamers Ever Leave You. It was a transformational artistic and human experience. … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-10-25
Great job. You’re fired
Shakespeare’s Globe yesterday released a baffling public statement. It praised Emma Rice, its new artistic director, for the creative, critical and commercial success of her first season, her achievement in attracting new, diverse audiences. And then it sacked her. … read more
AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2016-10-25
Monday Recommendation: Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell, Something Gold, Something Blue (High Note). Harrell’s front-line partners in this stimulating venture are fellow trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and the adventuresome guitarist Charles Altura, each more than three decades younger than the leader. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-10-25
“Showtime” at the Met for Kerry James Marshall: All that Glitters…?
It’s no wonder that Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall, a youthful 61, murmured, “Showtime,” as he strode through the Met Breuer’s press scrum yesterday, turned to the crowd that filled the lobby, and and raised his arms triumphantly before making introductory remarks at his highly anticipated retrospective. … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-10-25
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Washington Ballet Returns To Using A Live Orchestra
“We won’t sell one more ticket if we have live music in the orchestra, and it’s about $100,000 a week. We have to move forward strategically and sensibly, and use the money for the orchestra where we can get the most out of it.”
Toronto Artists Being Pushed Out By Soaring Rents
“According to commercial real estate statistics provided by the Toronto Real Estate Board, commercial space in the city’s west end has increased on average from $15.89 per square foot (annually) for spaces under 1,000 square feet in 2006 to $26.44 in the third quarter of this year.”
Paul Beatty Is First American To Win Man Booker Prize
“The 54-year-old Los Angeles-born writer won for The Sellout, a laugh-out-loud novel whose main character wants to assert his African American identity by, outrageously and transgressively, bringing back slavery and segregation.”
Will AT&T’s Deal For Time Warner Kick Off A New Round Of Media Consolidation?
“Analysts were split on whether AT&T’s move would spur other companies to combine. Several attributed AT&T’s play as a way to position itself as a more robust competitor to Google and Facebook, which capture the lion’s share of online advertising, and Amazon and Apple, which have strong customer relations.”
Madeline Thien Wins This Year’s Governor General’s Prize For Writing
“Thien, a 42-year-old Montreal writer, has been awarded this year’s English-language fiction prize for her breakout novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing. The prize, which celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, counts many of the giants of CanLit among its previous winners: Hugh MacLennan, Gabrielle Roy, Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Robertson Davies, Timothy Findley, Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Rohinton Mistry, Michael Ondaatje.”
Novel Claim: The 1980s Was A Golden Age For TV
“The ’80s bridged the gap between the medium’s tumultuous birth — when it seemed as if it couldn’t decide whether to be vaudeville, legitimate theater, radio with pictures, or free-form video art — and its Peak TV maturation, a period of increased artistic sophistication and overwhelming quantity, literary pretensions, and cinematic effects.”
Curtis Institute Fires Its Board Of Overseers
“Deeply disappointed” is the way overseers chairman Lowell J. Noteboom characterized his reaction in an email to other overseers. “I believe the discontinuance of the overseers is a significant loss to Curtis and that the administrative burden could have been managed in ways that would not have required such drastic action. That said, there seemed to be no will to craft a different solution,” he wrote.
Board Of Shakespeare’s Globe Decides To Jettison Controversial New Artistic Director
“Shakespeare’s Globe artistic director Emma Rice is to leave the theatre in 2018 after its board decided her methods are not authentic enough. Rice took charge of the London theatre in January but has come in for fierce criticism, including for her use of sound and lighting technology.”