“Elena Lobsanova, a member of the National Ballet of Canada’s corps de ballet, and Cory Stearns, a soloist with the American Ballet Theater, won the Erik Bruhn Prize at the Erik Bruhn Competition in Toronto on Wednesday evening. […] Toronto-based independent choreographer Matjash Mrozewski won the competition’s new choreographic prize.”
Tag: 03.19.09
Paris Reimagined (Because It Doesn’t Work)
Architects’ “10 strategies for creating a metropolitan area known as Grand Paris” mark the city’s “first major redesign since the Napoleonic era. Their ideas range from the prosaic to the fanciful. But they all say that Paris – its public transit system saturated, its periphery spoiled by ugly housing projects, and its suburbs an undefined sprawl of disconnected towns – does not work.”
Aisles! NYC Ballet, Opera To Carve Paths For Patrons
“Taking an orchestra seat at the New York City Ballet or New York City Opera can often sound like this: ‘Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me’ and on. The rows of up to 56 seats have no aisles, so a patron can potentially knock knees with dozens of others. But that is going to change.”
Art Institute Fee Hike Draws Threat From Alderman
“A powerful Chicago alderman is threatening to halt free city services provided to the Art Institute of Chicago because of its plan to increase admission fees by half. But it’s unclear whether Ald. Ed Burke (14th) can reverse the museum’s course, and he suggested something less than that might satisfy him, even as he expressed anger over the fee hike.”
Chicago Appeals Vagueness Ruling On Preservation Law
“Firing back at an appellate court decision that ruled that Chicago’s landmark law is unconstitutionally vague, the city has appealed the decision to the Illinois Supreme Court, citing numerous cases nationwide in which courts have rejected vagueness challenges to laws comparable to Chicago’s.”
Report: Riccardo Muti Asked To Lead Rome Opera
“Riccardo Muti, music director designate of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has been invited to become music director of the Rome Opera and is reported to have asked for time to mull over the offer, according to the blog Opera Chic.”
ACLU Sues School That (Briefly) Canceled Rent
“More than a month after controversy erupted over Corona del Mar High School’s reported cancellation — then rescheduling — of a production of ‘Rent,’ the American Civil Liberties Union sued school officials Wednesday for fostering a ‘sexist’ and ‘homophobic’ atmosphere. “
Online Peril: Overexposing Ourselves To Beliefs Like Ours
“When we go online, each of us is our own editor, our own gatekeeper. We select the kind of news and opinions that we care most about. … The danger is that this self-selected ‘news’ acts as a narcotic, lulling us into a self-confident stupor through which we will perceive in blacks and whites a world that typically unfolds in grays.”
Google’s E-Book Library Finds An Outlet In Sony’s Reader
“Aiming to outdo Amazon.com and recapture the crown for the most digital titles in an e-book library, Sony is announcing Thursday a deal with Google to make a half million copyright-free books available for its Reader device, a rival to the Amazon Kindle.”
Fairey’s Obama Posters Voted Design Of The Year
“The ‘Hope’ series of Barack Obama campaign posters, used in the runup to his election as U.S. president in November, was voted the design of the year in a U.K. competition. Created by the artist Shepard Fairey, the posters beat 90 runners-up in the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2009 contest organized by London’s Design Museum.”