As an antidote to the massive meat market that is the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters winter conference in New York – and as a corrective to the event’s paucity of contemporary dance – a “lone 28-year-old dynamo” has launched the American Realness festival.
Tag: 01.02.11
Peter Brook Bids Farewell to His Paris Theatre
“On New Year’s Eve the hugely influential English director Peter Brook finally ended his 36-year tenure at the experimental Bouffes du Nord theatre in the French capital. Friday night’s performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute was the 85-year-old’s last production as the artistic head of a venue that has become synonymous with inventive, avant-garde work.”
Line Between Animation, Reality Is Blurring
With the extensive use of computer-generated animation, or CG, in movies such as the “Pirates” franchise, “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland,” the lines are blurring between live-action and animated pictures in a way that Walt Disney himself could have scarcely imagined.
Line Between Animation, Reality Is Blurring
With the extensive use of computer-generated animation, or CG, in movies such as the “Pirates” franchise, “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland,” the lines are blurring between live-action and animated pictures in a way that Walt Disney himself could have scarcely imagined.
Scotland Stalls On Choosing New Poet Laureate
“Edwin Morgan was Scotland’s greatest living poet and the natural choice in 2004 to become the country’s first makar – its national poet laureate. In fact, the role was created for him. Finding a successor, though, is proving a little more controversial. More than three months after Morgan’s death, confusion surrounds the post and who should fill it, leaving many in the arts community perplexed.”
James Levine’s Four Decades Of Orchestra-Building
“Mr. Levine is an American generalist, but that hardly means he’s just generally competent. What’s remarkable is how convincing he is in most styles, how idiomatically right they sound under his baton.”
Romance Fiction Powers E-Book Market
“The trade in heaving bosoms is the ‘fastest-growing segment of the e-reading market’, mainly, it seems, because the e-reader is the electronic equivalent of the brown paper wrapper: digital equals discreet.”
Alastair Macaulay’s Nutcracker Marathon
I didn’t grow tired of seeing “The Nutcracker” 37 times in 27 treatments. Why? Because its features change on every level.
MoMa Makes A Comeback
“To its credit, perhaps, the Modern has become the leading exemplar of the changing role of new art in museums. Where museums used to be vaguely or overtly suspicious of the new, allowing it through the door only hesitantly, now they can’t get enough of it, or at least certain kinds of it.”
Americans Watched Even More TV In 2010
“Americans watched more television than ever in 2010, according to the Nielsen Company. Total viewing of broadcast networks and basic cable channels rose about 1 percent for the year, to an average of 34 hours per person per week.”