Founded in 1989, Bangarra is now the flagship performing company of Australia’s (and perhaps the world’s) aboriginal peoples. “When you sit down and see a Bangarra show, you don’t realise you’ve just been given a 50-minute history lesson, you just feel like you’ve been taken on a journey and it comes back to you in waves.”
Tag: 10.30.09
Curiosity, The Antidote To (And Flip Side Of) Anxiety
Psychologist Todd Kashdan points out that the two mechanisms evolved together and complement each other. “Anxiety is in fact one-half of a quite useful yin-yang process. Rather than resist it, he argues, we should acknowledge its existence and turn up the volume on the other side of the equation: the impulse that pulls us toward challenge and exploration.”
Richard Burton’s ‘Economy Of Motion’
Dick Cavett, in an epilogue to a series of online columns remembering the late actor, reveals that the widely praised slow-motion actions Burton employed in his 1980 Broadway run of Camelot “were in part bred of pain.” He needed, and subsequently had, a gruesome operation called a laminectomy.
Las Vegas Dreams Crash
“Over the last two decades, no other American city grew as quickly as Las Vegas. In 1980, it had 460,000 inhabitants; now it has 2 million. But now, the recession has blasted open one of its deepest craters here in this city surrounded by the Mojave Desert. Las Vegas now has the country’s highest rate of home foreclosures, and more than 70 percent of homeowners here owe more on their mortgages than their houses or condos are worth. Since 2006, the average home price has dropped by a half.”
The Impressario Gene
Impresarios are businessmen by definition, but they also possess the starry-eyed ability to stare stone-cold fatal logic in the face and say, “We can make that work.”
The Meaning Of Art Is – Who Cares?
“The most deadening influence on art in our time is the belief that content matters more than style. If you look back on the artists who have won the Turner prize since the 1980s, or the artists most often mentioned in the media these days, what they have in common is a message.”
Chinese Writers Confront Google Over Books Project
“Two Chinese writers’ groups claim that Google has scanned Chinese works into an electronic database in violation of international copyright standards. The organizations are urging China’s authors to step forward and defend their rights.”
Ground Zero Arts Center Might Be Slipping Away
“There is such a narrow window of opportunity to ensure that the site remains viable. If we don’t take advantage of this opportunity, we believe it will be lost.”
Brighton Beach Memoirs Closes On Broadway After Only One Week
“The Depression-era comedy-drama, loosely based on the early life of playwright Neil Simon, has struggled with low sales since it began perfs Oct. 2.”
Will Digital Singles Save The Recording Industry
“Last week, the Official Charts Company published figures that showed sales have already surpassed the record of 115.1m singles sold last year by almost 2m, and we haven’t even entered the Christmas run-up. So, has the music industry finally turned a corner and found the panacea to all its woes?”