Tag: 02.14.01

Arts patron Alberto Vilar has given $50 million to the Kennedy Center to finance ten annual visits by the Kirov Ballet and Opera company. In the past year Vilar has given more than $100 million to performing arts groups. The New York Times (one-time registration required for access)

Twyla Tharp is tired of the itinerant artist life. So she’s bought into Brooklyn with a new company of her own. “Having achieved counterpoint she can respect, and whatever other skills and insights her various projects engendered, she’s ready to commit herself to building a troupe again. Work for hire inevitably involves compromises, and compromising is not how she wants to spend the rest of her life—although some adjustments she’s more than willing to make.” Village Voice