“Seven years ago, the Colorado Ballet appeared to be at a financial death’s door, but Saturday’s bustle and a 2017 season finishing with record attendance and box-office receipts show the company is very much alive.”
Tag: 03.31.17
State-Of-The-Art New Dance Studio Will Give Away 5,000 Hours Of Free Rehearsal Space Every Year
The just-opened Studio Wayne McGregor (yes, the choreographer) in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will make the free space available to dance artists at all career stages. But there’s a catch – a good one …
EDM (Electronic Dance Music) Was A Huge Phenomenon, But Now It’s Rotting From The Head
“It’s 2017, and EDM, a disposable culture from the start, is rotting in the trash. Battered by its association with bro culture and drug deaths, the genre has become America’s anthem for vomit and sexual coercion. Since the last time I was in Miami, SFX has gone bankrupt, Avicii has retired, and even Skrillex, once the genre’s poster child, is returning to his rock roots and collaborating with Incubus. So what happens to Miami Music Week, once the epicenter of America’s corporate dance music bubble, in today’s post-EDM world?”
The Guardian’s Music Editor On How Music Has Changed In His Eleven Years Doing The Job
“Rock music is in its jazz phase And I don’t mean it’s having a Kamasi Washington/Thundercat moment of extreme hipness. I mean it’s like Ryan Gosling’s version of jazz in La La Land: something fetishised by an older audience, but which has ceded its place at the centre of the pop-cultural conversation to other forms of music, ones less tied to a sense of history. Ones, dare I say it, more forward looking. For several years, it seemed, I was asked by one desk or another at the Guardian to write a start-of-year story about how this was the year rock would bounce back. But it never did. The experts who predicted big things for guitar bands each year were routinely wrong. No one asks for that story any longer.”
The Jamaican Dance Style Keeping Brooklyn Kids Off the Street
Shawn Theagene joined the Bloods at age 12, dealt drugs by age 14, and got a knife in the back of the skull at 15. Twenty years on, he says the ‘bruk up’ style of street dance saved him, and he’s spreading it to others.
Yannick Wants To Get The Met Opera Doing More World Premieres (And He Has Some Composers In Mind)
In a Q&A with Michael Cooper that also touches on how he sees his role as music director (he takes up the post in 2020) and his relationship with General Manager Peter Gelb, Yannick Nézet-Séguin says “The Met for the past few years has been involved in a lot of Met premieres, which were not world premieres … I like this, but I am really passionate about being personally involved in every step of the birth of a new piece. We will definitely get involved again in world premieres. And one way we found to make that work will be through collaborations with [the] Philadelphia [Orchestra],” where YNS is also music director.
‘S-Town’ Smashes Podcast Download Record Set By ‘Serial’
“The original Serial first season took seven weeks to reach 10 million downloads, setting a record at the time in reaching that milestone.” S-Town passed the 10 million mark in four days.
‘New Yorker’ Cartoonist Jack Zeigler Dead At 74
“[He] contributed more than 1,600 cartoons to The New Yorker beginning in the mid-1970s. His work, which featured talking toasters, the Lone Ranger, Sammy Davis Jr. and more, was defined by a satirical, silly, observational style.”
$700,000 Rodin Sculpture Found In A Storage Locker In Southwest France
“The 72cm high plasterwork of a naked, muscular man carrying a young woman bears the sculptor’s engraved signature and was a preparatory work for Rodin’s bronze sculpture I Am Beautiful [Je suis belle]. … It went unnoticed until the death of its owner in 2013, when it was spotted in a box in furniture storage in Biarritz.”
This British-Iranian Composer Was Almost Denied Permission To Visit The U.S. For The Premiere Of Her Opera
And what is Soosan Lolavar’s opera – titled ID, Please – about? Immigration.