“One day I found [young] Chris sitting in the wings after a stage rehearsal … He told me that he was interested in choreography and that he hoped to get the chance to make some work of his own one day. I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I didn’t put much stock in his dream, though I found it endearing that he wanted to grow up to be a choreographer one day.”
Tag: 01.05.12
What Should The Dance World Be Talking About In 2012? (A List Of Ten Ideas)
Think 3D, globalization, contemporary choreography and so much more.
Collective Genius: The Internet Is For Citizen Science, And Maybe A Whole Lot More
A thousand, or thousands of, amateurs at keyboards can help astronomy, math and a whole bunch of other fields. But they won’t produce the works of Shakespeare. Can collective genius ever address art or literature? Maybe, says author Michael Nielsen.
Is Art Culture Possible In A Culture Obsessed With Money?
“Instead of making things, inventing them, or pursuing other kinds of enterprise, commercial, intellectual or educational, our national effort has become focussed on money.”
The Peak Of Our Lives? (Not When We’re Young)
“Although middle age may seem like a universal truth, it is actually as much of a manufactured creation as polyester or the rules of chess. And like all the other so-called stages into which we have divvied up the uninterrupted flow of life, middle age, too, is a cultural fiction, a story we tell about ourselves.”
Chinese Web Video Companies Battle For Viewers Abandoning State TV
“Beijing has allowed such private companies to flourish with fewer of the controls imposed on China’s entirely state-owned newspapers, TV and radio, possibly to avoid stifling what is seen as a promising high-tech industry. Their surging popularity threatens to erode viewership for state TV, which Beijing sees as a tool to mold public opinion. That raises the threat communist leaders might tighten controls to protect their media presence.”
Drunken Woman Punches Out (And Moons) $30M Clyfford Still Painting
“A 36-year-old Denver woman, apparently drunk, leaned against an iconic Clyfford Still painting worth more than $30 million last week, punched it, slid down it [with her bare bottom] and urinated on herself, according to a criminal case against Carmen Lucette Tisch.”
Why Should England Fund The Arts? (Do We Have To Answer That Question Again?)
“Please God, no. Over 60 years after the foundation of the Arts Council, 50 years after the creation of the RSC, with publicly funded British plays the toast of Broadway, visits to newly free museums doubling in a decade and British concert life the envy of the world, surely we don’t have to justify giving public money to the arts? Again? Well, yes, we do.”
Why Are We Still Fascinated With Joan Of Arc After Almost 600 Years?
“The self-proclaimed agent of God’s will, she wasn’t immortalized so much as she entered the collective imagination as a living myth. Centuries after death, she has been embraced by Christians, feminists, French nationalists, Mexican revolutionaries and even hairdressers. (Her crude cut inspired the bob flappers wore as a symbol of independence from patriarchal strictures.)”
Fad Diets In History
“As we embark on a new year, many people are undoubtedly beginning new eating regimens in the name of slimmer waistlines. But as they wrestle with the diet du jour, perhaps it’s worth taking a lesson from the methods of the past.”