“In January 2015 the 75-year-old ensemble organised a Kickstarter crowdfunding initiative, following the sudden cancellation of its state subsidy at the end of 2014. The £300,000 target needed to fund the 2015 season was successfully met with the help of private donations from individuals and local businesses.”
Tag: 02.12.16
Zero Gravity – Choreography’s Final Frontier?
“This time, it’s not a modern dance company that’s pushing the limits of choreography. It’s the quirky pop band OK Go … For their newest video, ‘Upside Down & Inside Out,’ the band performs an intricately-choreographed dance, using the fact that they are literally weightless to try unthinkable physical feats.” (includes video)
They Read It For The Articles: Playboy’s First Nudity-Free Issue, Reviewed
“Playboy doing away with naked women … might sound like Vogue doing away with fashion, or Cat Fancy doing away with cats, or, frankly, Vanity Fair doing away with movie stars and badly behaving rich people. … Now that the ‘the articles’ are, indeed, the only reason to read Playboy, the question is raised: Are they, in fact, any good?”
Get Inside Bosch’s ‘Garden Of Earthly Delights’ Via Virtual Reality App
“The triptych from the turn of the 16th century is too precious and fragile to leave its home, the Museo del Prado in Madrid, but now, thanks to a virtual reality experience, anyone with an iPhone, iPad, or Android can ride a giant fish through the three panels of the Dutch artist’s strange world.”
The Art Of Genius – An Uneven, Messy Quality
“Thanks to the diversity of human experience and human talents, we know that genius isn’t a monolithic quality that appears in identical form everywhere we find it. Einstein’s genius was different from Curie’s, and scientific genius is different from musical genius. Celebrity, on the other hand, tends to follow more predictable patterns.”
Is This Why Americans Don’t Trust Experts? (An Experiment)
“It turns out that hearing from experts on both sides of an issue distorts our perception of consensus — even when we have all the information we need to correct that misperception.”
Glenda Jackson Is Returning To The Stage – In Shakespeare’s Greatest Role For Older Actors
Twenty-five years ago, when Jackson gave up acting for politics, she was considered perhaps the most formidable actress in the English language; after 23 years as a Labour MP, she retired from Parliament last year. She’ll be back on the boards later this year at the Old Vic, with Deborah Warner as director, playing …
How My Ballet Career Survived Five Knee Operations In One Year
Marijn Rademaker, longtime principal of the Stuttgart Ballet, now at Dutch National Ballet, tells the long and frustrating story of his meniscus injury – including what that nurse should not have said to him on the operating table.
So It Begins: First Of UK’s National Daily Newspapers To Go All-Digital Stops Print Next Month
“At its peak sales hit around 428,000 copies a day. Twenty-five years later, the number of copies being sold on a weekday in newsagents is rather closer to 28,000.”
Will Small, Used-Book Bookstores Be The Last Ones Standing?
“The not very glamorous economic answer is that it’s a lot easier to make money selling used books. … On the whole, the problem with new books is that there’s a list price set by the publisher and a discount price that’s also set by the publisher. So, as a new bookseller, you have no control over what the book sells for or what you pay for it. With used books, if you’re smart, you find ways to get them cheap, and you decide what you price them at.”