Lyn Gardner: “Hacking away at London funding and simply throwing it at the big regional theatres outside the M25 would be easy but not helpful. The right help needs to be targeted in the right places … Get it wrong, and we might just as well sit around burning £50 notes.”
Tag: 02.20.14
Now Martha Graham’s Dances Can Be Archived the Way Merce Cunningham’s Are
The Mellon Foundation has given a $1 million grant to the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance to organize and digitize its archives and to create “toolkits” to help revive and restage Graham’s works.
Staging Gay Liberation
“As two plays set amid the 1960s gay rights movement open in London, their writers, Jon Bradfield and Thomas Hescott, discuss charting gay life before their time and why theatre is a good place to explore oppression.”
Ballerinas Weren’t Always Required to Be So Thin (So We Should Stop Demanding It Now)
Judith Mackrell: “A century ago, weight was never so contentious. While ballerinas were inclined to be more slender than the norm, … those dancers were not expected to be excessively thin. … It was in the mid-1920s that attitudes to dancers’ bodies shifted.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.20.14
Dismemberment of the Corcoran: Whither the Collection?
Source: CultureGrrl | Published on 2014-02-20
The Corcoran Gallery, and Help for Indie Bookstores
Source: CultureCrash | Published on 2014-02-20
Venezuelan conductor attacks ‘injustice, systematic torture, atrocities’
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-02-20
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New Research: Being Dishonest Can Boost Your Creativity
“After Harvard Business School researcher Francesa Gino reported in 2011 that that highly creative people are more likely to engage in unethical activities, she began to wonder whether dishonesty could actually enhance creativity. Her latest paper suggests the answer is yes.”
And Now: John Cage, The App
It’s 4’33” and it’s not as daft as you might think. “With a swipe of the i-hand on the interface – which records your realisation of the piece, mapping it on to the durations that Cage provided for the three movements of the work – you can hear 4’33”s from all over the world.”
Corcoran Failure – The Enron Of The Arts?
“When it comes to leadership, the Corcoran boards of the last decade are the rough non-profit equivalents of the boards that ran MCI and Enron in the for-profit sector. Like trustees at MCI and Enron, Corcoran trustees committed no crimes, but they numbly bumbled, doing much damage on the way down.”
Five Things Movie Directors Never Say To Actors
“When actors only concern themselves with making something real, it usually ends up being boring for the camera and the audience, no matter how genuine it feels to the actors.”
A Global “Grand Partnership” For Arts And Culture?
“The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) and the English Arts Council are establishing a ‘Grand Partnership’ for arts and culture, for the United Kingdom mind you. I say let’s make it a ‘Great Grand Partnership’ by making it a worldwide partnership.”