“In a world of slash careers, where we easily understand the lawyer/journalist or physician/entrepreneur, why are we dancers or something else? Why would someone be thought of as a failure if they are a dancer/college professor or a strategic planner/choreographer? If they are happy, who is anyone to judge? Our foremothers and forefathers in the field were teachers/dancers/choreographers. Why are we trying to make excuses for the very inner-workings of the field?”
Tag: 03.10.15
What’s The Purpose Of Dance School Again?
“The purpose of the university dance program is to offer students the opportunity to participate in a deep and profound process of creating, performing, responding to, and connecting from the practice of an art form. Dance takes them into the life of arts-informed human beings; people who live not at the margins of the world, but lead the way, by example, to full, proactive, creative, disciplined, empathic, and imaginative lives.”
Pritzker Prize Goes To Architect Frei Otto One Day After He Dies
“The German architect and engineer best known for his tent-like structures for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich … died Monday in Germany at age 89. … Otto’s death forced Pritzker officials to scramble to prepare an announcement that is typically carefully choreographed.”
Metropolitan Museum Names New President
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art has appointed Daniel H. Weiss, the president of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, to succeed its outgoing president, Emily Rafferty, who is stepping down later this month after a decade in the post and nearly 40 years at the museum.”
Conducting’s Next Big Question: Who Will Bag The Berlin Phil?
“Here’s the situation as I see it, based solely on subjective rune-reading, along with a pinch of happenstance and hearsay.” Tom Service handicaps the possible candidates.
Evelyn Glennie And Emmylou Harris Win 2015 Polar Music Prize
“Dame Evelyn, who played at the opening of the London 2012 Olympics, was the first person in history to have a full-time career as a solo percussionist. … Harris, from Birmingham, Alabama, has recorded more than 25 albums over four decades and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.”
Why Does Hunger Shape So Much Behavior That Has So Little To Do With Food?
“Hunger makes Belgians less charitable, Israeli judges more draconian, and Ohioans likelier to stick pins into voodoo dolls that represent their spouses. And, according to a paper published last month … it turns Canadians into hoarders.” Why? “Part of the answer can be gathered from observations of other animals.”
He Changed The Face Of The Art Form In Britain: The Verdict On Nicholas Hytner At The National Theatre
Michael Billington: “I’d say Hytner has done more than anyone since Peter Brook and Peter Hall in the 1960s and 70s to change the face of British theatre. His advocacy of cheap seats and of live broadcasts will, I believe, be viewed by future historians as a major cultural turning point.”
In Unprecedented Move, UK Equity Expels Member
“The union has expelled Craig Joseph, a member of Motown tribute band the Gillettes, after he lied in court during a case in which he was being supported by Equity, resulting in a costs liability for the union of more than £600,000.”
Hilary Mantel Wants To Try Playwriting
“The British author whose best-selling novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies have been adapted for a stage production soon to open on Broadway … said, ‘The process of working with this team has changed my vision of what I might want to do in the future.”