In September 2008, Sarah Lamb of the Royal Ballet was rehearsing a pas de deux in Manon when she accidentally smacked her left foot into her partner, severely breaking four metatarsals and rupturing the arch. She recounts spending more than a year trying to fathom a life beyond ballet, then finding herself able to get back on pointe and on stage.
Tag: 02.11.10
Fashion Designer Alexander McQueen, 40 – Killed Himself Just Before New Show
“McQueen, known to his friends as Lee, was renowned for the theatricality of his fashion shows, but thanks to his precision tailoring and attention to detail, the effect was often more beautiful than shocking. His catwalk shows – first in London and latterly in Paris – were never less than 10 minutes of pure theatrical energy.”
More Protests Over Vancouver Olympics’ Unfriendly Art Policies
“The artistic director of Salt Lake City’s 2002 Olympic Winter Games Arts Festival has sent an open letter to VANOC head John Furlong, urging him to withdraw a clause from artists’ contracts that prohibits negative comments about the Games and Olympic sponsors.”
Real Stage Animals, Training For The Opera
Nancy Novograd of All Tame Animals talks about training and providing the four-legged performers who appear in Metropolitan Opera productions from time to time. She tells how one gets horses to let opera singers mount and dismount, cleaning up after Figaro’s donkey, and all about the borzoi who sang along with Renée Fleming.
Irina Arkhipova, 85, Bolshoi’s Star Mezzo
“One of the Bolshoi Theater’s greatest glories during the Soviet era, Irina Arkhipova was an artist whose voice – a magnificent, highly individual mezzo of impressive range, thrust and color – and bold, audacious performing style made her an international success during the prime years of career.”
Kansas City Ballet Gets $900K Challenge Grant
The Kresge Foundation has given the company $900,000 toward the completion of its new headquarters. “In order to receive the $900,000, the ballet must raise $3 million over the next 18 months, which will go toward the total remaining campaign goal of $5.8 million.”
Judge Orders Getty Bronze Returned To Italy
“A judge in Italy has ordered the confiscation of the famed Statue of the Victorious Youth, which is also known as the Getty Bronze. The artwork, which dates from 300 B.C. to 100 B.C., is currently in the collection at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.”
Whatever Happened To Riot Grrrls?
In the ’90s, “[it] was acceptable to be angry and sexy, and in pop culture there were finally a bunch of role models: Courtney Love, Liz Phair, and Kathleen Hanna, to name just a few. Sadly, that potent combination of female rage and sex appeal has slipped out of the mainstream.” Is sexy anger in rock ripe for a comeback?
Australian Ballet Receives Largest Gift Ever
The $8 million [Aus] donation from the Ian Potter Foundation will go largely to maintenance and improvements to the company’s Melbourne headquarters, which will be renamed in honor of Lady Primrose Potter.
The Forgotten Photographer Who Changed The Art Form
“Ask the proverbial person on the street to name a famous painting, and chances are you’ll get an answer, whether it’s Andy’s Marilyn or Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. Yet ask that person to name an important photograph, and silence is all you’ll receive.” Most of us barely remember Larry Sultan, yet “the ‘accidental,’ anti-masterpiece nature of his best work, which has acted to muffle his renown, may ultimately guarantee it.”