“It doesn’t matter what Isaac Hernández’s skill set is, he will be the dancer that got to where he is because his girlfriend is also his boss. Ms. Rojo is the AD who gave prominent roles to her boyfriend and the management at [English National Ballet] are the ones who left a publicly funded dance company open to litigation from dozens of dancers claiming discrimination or constructive dismissal because the boss is sleeping with one her dancers. Should their relationship go south, which of course never happens, …”
Tag: 01.31.18
How The Gongs Puccini Had Custom-Made For ‘Turandot’ Ended Up In A Queens Warehouse
None of the Asian-style gongs that Puccini could find in 1920s Italy had just the sound – more precisely, the pitches – he wanted. So he had a set specially fabricated. Of course, Puccini died before the opera’s premiere, and the gongs slipped people’s minds afterward. But not everyone forgot.
Making Theatre From, And About, Disaster And Terrorism Drills
“The point is that practice makes perfect – in theatre as in emergency situations. We rehearse for both, and ‘lockdown’ drills preparing children for the threat of active shooters are on the rise in American schools. Breach [Theatre’s] new show, The Drill, questions the effectiveness of such procedures. It asks whether playing out attacks increases rather than diminishes their potency.”
How Is It We Came To Hate Talking On Our Phones?
Not only are phone calls unstable, but even when they connect and stay connected in a technical sense, you still can’t hear well enough to feel connected in a social one. By their very nature, mobile phones make telephony seem unreliable.
Call To Action: Curators, Historians, Artists Call For More Engaged Cultural Institutions
“We are writing to affirm the leadership role of cultural institutions in advancing cultural and social as well as political public discourse. As stewards and advocates of contemporary and historical cultural expressions, we directors, curators, and staff members of cultural institutions, as well as the board members to whom we are accountable, have a particular obligation to facilitate the free and safe exchange of ideas about our contemporary world with art as the catalyst.”
The Curious Case Of The Movie Whose Studio Lost Confidence In It
Annihilation will still hit screens in the world’s two biggest markets—the U.S. and China—but the Netflix partnership is an unusually public show of nervousness over the film’s profitability. Paramount can use the money from the deal to help recoup the film’s reported $55 million budget, but if Annihilation is a hit, the studio will miss out on any international grosses. The deal also effectively signals Paramount’s lack of trust in the vision of the filmmaker it hired.
Actual One-Star TripAdvisor Reviews Of Paris
Only go if you are interested in art history. I love history, but I couldn’t stay here for more than an hour, as its pictures doesn’t make sense to me.
Michael Haneke Is Making An English-Language Miniseries (Yikes!)
The Oscar- and Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker (The Piano Teacher, Amour) is working on a ten-part miniseries titled Kelvin’s Book, “a dystopian story set in the near future.”
So What Was Manhattan’s Lincoln Plaza Cinema *Really* Like? This. (And Maybe This Is Why It’s Closing)
“Irritated cross talk and loud quarrels, whether between couples or random filmgoers, was such a mainstay of the Lincoln Plaza experience that last fall, my wife and I made a point of going there to see The Meyerowitz Stories, with Dustin Hoffman playing an ill-tempered sculptor and bad father, because we knew it would be like seeing the film in Sensurround.” And, found Bruce Handy, it was – even at a weekday matinee.
U.S. Commercial Airlines Give Millions For Renovation At National Air And Space Museum
Nine of the country’s ten largest passenger carriers have donated a total of $28 million for a makeover of the exhibition on the history of commercial aviation at the Smithsonian’s most popular museum.