“Q; Have dancers changed over these 42 years in the way they learn and the way they dance? A: The work ethic is different. They’re required to do so much now, in such a short time. We don’t have the luxury of work weeks. … I find them burning out a little more often than it should be happening. But I leave, and I come back, and I’m amazed how good this company is from top to bottom.”
Tag: 01.05.15
FCC Rules: Airlines Must Allow Musical Instruments On Planes
“This rule requires that carriers must allow a passenger to carry into the cabin and stow a small musical instrument, such a violin or a guitar, in a suitable baggage compartment, such as the overhead bin or under the seats in accordance with FAA safety regulations.”
How The Digital Revolution Is Destroying Our Culture
“The discussion of culture is being steadily absorbed into the discussion of business. There are “metrics” for phenomena that cannot be metrically measured. Numerical values are assigned to things that cannot be captured by numbers. Economic concepts go rampaging through noneconomic realms: Economists are our experts on happiness!”
Classical Music Administrator Resigns From Position, Reminds Organization To Keep Things Radical
“Question the impulse to administer people, to make them compete against one another, to set up panels of judges or bureaucratic processes to make what should be individual artistic decisions. Don’t put arbitrary barriers between artists and audiences. “
A Dancer Trades In Ballet For Acting Because Of Ballet’s ‘Insular World’
“‘As a dancer you’re very coddled, especially when you’re in the company,’ she says. ‘You’re given a schedule every, single day. We are treated as children in a lot of ways.'”
Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Is Set To Be The ‘Next Oprah’ With New Book Club
“The club also underscores the scope of Zuckerberg’s wide-reaching ambition for Facebook as an unbundled, omnipresent force online”
Thirty Art-Writing Clichés To Ditch In The New Year
Ben Davis: “It’s a new year, which is a fine excuse as any to ditch old bad habits. Here below, I have assembled a not-at-all exhaustive list of art-writing words that I could do without in 2015. I admit, I’ve been guilty myself of abusing some or all of them – but of course that’s what New Year’s resolutions are for.”
The Jack Bauer Issue: Can Fictional Depictions Of Torture Make People More Willing To Condone It?
Many of us would like very much to think that the answer is no, but researchers seem to be finding otherwise.
Don’t You Dare Put In Your Movie That Sergei Eisenstein Was Gay, Russia Tells Peter Greenaway
“Nikolai Borodachyov, director of Russia’s Gosfilmofond, or State Film Foundation, told newspaper Izvestia that his organization would not take part in the project” – titled The Eisenstein Handshakes – “unless details about Eisenstein’s ‘nontraditional sexual orientation’ were edited out of the screenplay.”
From “1Q84” To Mother-In-Law Troubles: Haruki Murakami To Start An Advice Column
“The website, named ‘Murakami-san no tokoro‘ or ‘Mr. Murakami’s place’ will solicit problems from fans of the surrealist, whose novels are published in dozens of languages around the world.”