“Women Sufi poets were part of a widespread emancipation movement in the Indian Subcontinent and West Asia that started more than a thousand years ago and lasted till the nineteenth century. Interestingly, these poets fought for women’s rights at a time when that concept was still unformulated.”
Tag: 03.30.12
Arsenal Footballers (Soccer Stars) Learn Ballet Moves [VIDEO]
Yes, it’s for an advertisement, and the men aren’t super with the barre work – but it’s fun anyway.
Catharsis In Theater: Putting Customer Service Horror Stories Onstage
“Playwright Lisa Kron mines her own life to create her often-hilarious work. She has written about being the child of a Holocaust survivor, and about her mother’s struggles with chronic illness. Her latest play deals with a struggle common to all of us – the agony of computerized customer service.”
Louisville Orchestra Musicians Agree To Binding Arbitration
“Louisville Orchestra musicians have agreed to binding arbitration toward a new contract but under several conditions,” among them that “the orchestra’s board of directors signs a one-year agreement guaranteeing [the musicians would] work during that period under the terms of their previous contract, which expired May 31.”
Novelist Harry Crews, 76
“A Georgia-born Rabelais, Mr. Crews was renowned for darkly comic, bitingly satirical, grotesquely populated and almost preternaturally violent novels. … [His] novels out-Gothic Southern Gothic by conjuring a world of hard-drinking, punch-throwing, snake-oil-selling characters whose physical, mental, social and sexual deviations render them somehow entirely normal and eminently sympathetic.”
What You Have To Go Through To Buy A Foreign Book In Argentina
“In Argentina, a new and bizarre piece of red tape means that imported books and magazines are being held at customs at Ezeiza airport, some 25 miles outside of Buenos Aires. Rather than receive their reading material through the letterbox as intended, readers of foreign material currently have to travel to Ezeiza” and pay a set of fees for the privilege of picking them up.
America’s Greatest Art Forger Gets April Fools’ Day Exhibition
“Mark A. Landis, who has dressed as a Jesuit priest or posed as a wealthy donor driving up in a red Cadillac, apparently never took money for his forgeries and has never been arrested. Now his ‘works’ have been collected into their own tongue-in-cheek exhibit, called Faux Real and opening on April Fools’ Day at the University of Cincinnati.”
Injury And The Dancer
“An injury steals from the body and gives to the soul. The net gain for one component of the self should be in direct proportion to the other’s loss: The more arduous the physical ordeal, the greater the spiritual strengthening. That’s what I like to tell myself, at any rate.”
Counting Up Ballet Jobs In Britain
“How many classical ballet dancing jobs, full-time, are there in Great Britain? I make it just 289. That’s the Royal Ballet 94, English National Ballet 67, Birmingham Royal Ballet 57, Scottish Ballet 36, Northern Ballet 35. Rambert does sometimes take classically trained dancers: another 23. So, at a stretch, 312 full-time jobs for Britain’s classical ballet graduates to be searching for a vacancy in.”
In Case You Missed It, SAG and AFTRA Have Actually Merged
“After two failed attempts and 80 years of on-and-off efforts, the members of SAG and AFTRA have voted to merge. The new organization, called SAG-AFTRA, was born Friday afternoon.”