“Australians are increasingly embracing the arts, with fewer people regarding them as elitist compared with a decade ago, and about 17 million people engaging with forms from music and theatre to literature. But… people with disabilities and migrants from non-English-speaking countries are being left behind.”
Tag: 03.07.10
Attendants Chase Concert Out Of Rome’s Pantheon
“Officials from the Italian culture ministry will on Monday begin investigating an episode that has flabbergasted music-lovers and opened a heated debate in Italy on the power of its public employees and the trade unions that back them. According to the organisers, the concert had only four minutes to run; the attendants’ representatives said that it was more like 40.”
Investigating The Science Of Dance
“When dancers improvise, do they think about how they’re moving, or does it just come naturally? And if they are thinking, what kinds of thoughts are they having?”
Orlando Officials Hope To Forge Ahead With New Performing Arts Center
“Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer will defy the downed economy Monday and pitch a $69 million bond sale to city leaders that would allow construction to start on a new — albeit pared back — downtown performing-arts center.”
WABC New York Restored To Cable As Oscars Begin
“The 18-hour blackout began at 12:01 a.m. Sunday morning when some 3.3 million Cablevision subscribers in the New York area lost their ABC signal after the cable operator and WABC didn’t make any progress in their tense negotiations over retransmission consent. “
How Ireland Supports Culture – Reset Needed
“The situation in Dublin highlights the scale of disarray. We know that around €200 million of taxpayers’ money is spent annually on mainstream cultural services and facilities, including arts, film, heritage, libraries, local authorities, national cultural institutions, and so on. There is, however, no strategic purpose behind this spending and it is hard to imagine how this way of working can contribute to Ireland’s recovery.”
San Jose Rep Theatre In Danger Of Closing
“Despite a bailout from the city in 2006, the theatre’s operating loss nearly doubled from $220,908 in 2008 to $406,812 last year, according to officials.”
Cable Company Yanks New York’s WABC Off The Air In Dispute
Walt Disney Co. pulled the signal of its New York television station WABC-TV from Cablevision System Corp.’s 3.1 million cable TV homes early Sunday morning Eastern time, right in the middle of a rerun of “Lost.”
Chronicled: Iris Murdoch’s 30-Year Relationship With A Former Student
“David Morgan, now a lecturer himself at Chelsea College of Art and Design, was a 24-year-old novice from a troubled, itinerant background when he met Murdoch, already a respected author in her forties, in February 1964.”
The Twyla Tharp Phenomenon
“There’s hardly an area of dance that Ms. Tharp hasn’t conquered since she entered the New York scene in 1965, two years after graduating from Barnard College. As her work on movies like “Hair” and “Amadeus” attests, Ms. Tharp embraces the chance to reach large audiences.”