The actor-director’s new “Middle East Theatre Academy plans to offer workshops for [Arab] youngsters in every aspect of the industry, including acting, writing, producing and directing.” The venture will have no fixed home; the first classes will be held in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Tag: 02.07.11
Was Franz Liszt Really Hungarian? Or Simply European?
The village in which he was born 200 years ago was called Dobotján at the time; it’s now on the Austrian side of the border and called Raiding. He was happy to tell his audience in Budapest, “Je suis hongrois” – in French. Hungary claims him now, but was Liszt really a proto-citizen of the European Union?
The Power of the ‘About-to-Die’ Image
They’re some of the most famous photos ever taken: the Vietnamese general firing his pistol at a handcuffed man’s head; the starving Sudanese girl being stalked by a buzzard; Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. “[The] about-to-die image draws us into the action, forcing us to complete the unfinished sequence we’ve been shown … We’re active participants whether we like it or not.”
Report On UK Music Education Put Forward Emphatic Plan
The report is notable for its “insistence that music has to remain one of the statutory subjects on the curriculum otherwise, “the subject might well wither away in many schools – and in the worst-case scenario, could all but disappear in others”, but the government says that evidence will have to be sent to the national curriculum review consultation.”
Choreographer James Kudelka Talks About Dancing A Solo When You’re 55
“I am not a performing animal and I won’t soon do this again. But I like to know I can, in the right piece and the right setting, which this program is because all of these pieces are very personal statements.”
CBC’s Canada Reads Project Is A Books Phenomenon
“The producers are unapologetic for this exercise in literary populism: who needs to apologize when a total of 1.75 million people listened to the broadcasts on radio last year and another 250,000 accessed podcasts online.”
Black Swan vs. Swan Lake: A Brief FAQ
New York City Ballet principal dancer Sara Mearns, who’s currently dancing Odette/Odile with the company, answers such questions as “Can dancing Swan Lake make a dancer go completely mental?” and “Can the ballet’s final scene, as in the film, be danced with a shard of glass lodged in one’s torso?”