“I wanted her to understand what muscle groups were involved, and how most people walking on the street are internally rotated with their shoulders — their palms are facing back. With ballet dancers, you have to spin that back so it looks more like their arms are an extension of their back, and that whole alignment lengthens your neck. It widens your shoulder line.”
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Tamara Rojo Says Her Boyfriend Dancing In The Company She Runs Isn’t Nepotism (He’s Too Good For That)
The former Royal Ballet star and current artistic director of English National Ballet has been catching some flack for her romance with principal dancer Isaac Hernández (who’s 16 years younger). SDhe insists there is “not even a possibility” of conflict of interest: “He has won all the awards you can possibly win, so there was nowhere I could promote him.”
Distracted? We Need A “Slow Thought” Movement. And Here’s A Manifesto
Slow Thought is a porous way of thinking that is non-categorical, open to contingency, allowing people to adapt spontaneously to the exigencies and vicissitudes of life. Italians have a name for this: arrangiarsi – more than ‘making do’ or ‘getting by’, it is the art of improvisation, a way of using the resources at hand to forge solutions. The porosity of Slow Thought opens the way for potential responses to human predicaments.
New Lead In 50-Year-Old Case Of Stolen Caravaggio
The 1609 painting Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence was stolen from a Palermo church in 1969, and since then many mafia informants have told authorities tales about it ranging “from the unlikely to the absurd.” But now someone has offered an account of the work’s fate that may be credible.