“Making it as a ballerina in San Diego often means getting an extra job to bring in more money. City Ballet members do everything from working at bars or bookstores to teaching dance and appearing as guest artists with other companies.”
Tag: 12.08.10
Royal Shakespeare Co. Launches Amateur Theatre Project
“After pitching a Shakespeare-themed performance – which can be a straight text, an evening of sonnets or a devised piece inspired by Shakespeare – the amateur theatres will be eligible to attend an exchange event, hosted by theatres across the UK. … A selection of the performances will be showcased at the RSC theatres in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2012.”
WikiLeaks and Culture, Part 2: US-Spain Quid Pro Quo – Undersea Treasure for Art Looted by Nazis
“In a conversation with the Spanish culture minister, … the US ambassador in Madrid … sought to tie the treasure found off the Iberian peninsula by Odyssey together with attempts by an American citizen, Claude Cassirer, to recover a painting by Camille Pisarro that hangs in a Madrid museum.”
WikiLeaks and Culture, Part 3: In Saudi Arabia, American TV Trumps Radical Islamism
“Satellite broadcasts of the US TV shows Desperate Housewives and Late Show With David Letterman are doing more to persuade Saudi youth to reject violent jihad than hundreds of millions of dollars of US government propaganda,” according to a US State Dept. cable included in the recent WikiLeaks dump.
UK Gov’t Launches £80M Philanthropic Matching Fund Scheme
“The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, today announced an £80m match-funding scheme to encourage private giving to arts organisations, and launched a review ‘to encourage philanthropy across the whole of government’ to be completed next spring.”
Scandal Rocks Kabuki World as Top Star Gets Caught in Bar Fight
“The normally staid world of Japanese kabuki theatre is scrambling to salvage its reputation after its most famous exponent was forced to apologise over a drunken brawl that has temporarily halted his career.”
Art You Can Swim In, at LA MOCA
“[At] MOCA’s new show on Latin American light and space art … a lifeguard will be in attendance. Towels will be handed out. And disposable bathing suits will be sold at the bookstore. All so that visitors can see and experience for themselves what looks like a psychedelic swimming pool. The highly immersive artwork was conceived by Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica and filmmaker Neville D’Almeida in 1973.”
How WikiLeaks Messes With The Traditional TV News Paradigm
“Watching the WikiLeaks story unfold on TV has been both an education and a delight. For a start, it seems to me that television news is at a loss when it comes to understanding, embracing and harvesting the online world. The WikiLeaks story has highlighted this and perhaps even put TV news on the defensive.”
Cultural Olympiad’s London 2012 Festival – Lots Of A-List Artists
“More than three million people are expected to attend the Cultural Olympiad’s London 2012 festival, which if successful, will represent a spectacular turnaround for a project which has been widely derided as a potential flop.”
New Micro-Philanthropy Website For Artists
“USA Projects on the www.unitedstatesartists.org website hopes to connect people with artists and raise tax deductible contributions for original works. Current projects seeking contributions, starting from as little as $1.”