“The Carolina Ballet will get some emergency funding from the city after losing funding from one of its significant and regular donors. Ballet Executive Director Lisa Jones said one of the organization’s major donors is no longer in the position to make regular contributions.”
Tag: 01.07.13
A Long Look Backstage At Covent Garden
“From the Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden, Kirsty Wark takes us on an unprecedented journey behind the scenes with The Royal Opera featuring live rehearsals, interviews and insights.”
Detailed Wikipedia War Entry Revealed As Fake
“It went undetected for five years on Wikipedia, but now a seemingly meticulous entry about a 17th century conflict between colonial Portugal and India’s Maratha empire has been outed as a hoax.”
St. Paul’s Penumbra Theatre Survives After Emergency Fundraising
“The company took in $359,000 during an emergency fund-raising campaign that ended Dec. 31, allowing it to plug a $340,000 budget shortfall and to mount a production in March.”
Dancing In The Round
“Perhaps lightness does not age well. But the clarity of Cunningham still shines.”
Yale’s Art Makeover
“After nine years and $135 million, the Yale Art Galleries on the university’s campus in New Haven, Connecticut, have reopened to display the treasures you more typically find in a big-city museum. The project is the culmination of a campus-wide arts master plan that has taken 17 years and $500 million.”
Unknown Titian Discovered In Bowels Of Britain’s National Gallery
“Is it just possible that Titian paid for a syphilis cure with a portrait? If so, it would not be the only astonishing thing about this painting, which has just been rediscovered in the basement of the National Gallery.”
Florida’s Kravis Center Settles Labor Dispute For $2.2M
“The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach will pay the money to 248 employees represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, AFL-CIO, Local 500. … The relationship began to deteriorate in 2000 when the center fired six stagehands, refused to recognize the union and declared an impasse in negotiations.”
Kennedy Center To Review How It Selects Honors Winners
“The Kennedy Center has formed a committee of artists and community leaders to review the heretofore opaque process by which winners of the annual Kennedy Center Honors are selected. … [The move] is part of a series of steps the center has taken in response to a controversy that erupted in September over the lack of Latino honorees.”
Ancient Roman Amphitheatre Discovered In England
“Remains of a huge, 2,000-year-old Roman theatre, thought to be the first of its kind in Britain, have been discovered in Kent. … In addition to the orchestra pit – in which choruses would have performed – the ruins also include a narrow stage, featuring holes that are thought to have allowed flooding for aquatic displays.”