It had to happen eventually, we guess. A student production at an elite Auckland secondary school used a prop that was, in fact, a real straight razor covered in duct tape and silver paper.
Tag: 04.07.16
This Dance Piece Reminds Us All That Adult Men Interacting With Young Girls Doesn’t *Have* To Be Creepy
The project Men & Girls Dance “is exactly what its title suggests: adult male performers dancing with young girls. That relationship, though, has been tainted in recent years. Put the words ‘men’ and ‘girls’ in the same sentence and it’s likely to call to mind suspicions of abuse. This is what Fevered Sleep is hoping to challenge.”
Seven Ways For Actors To Get Better At Handling Rejection
“Some of the most successful actors cite their setbacks and failures as their most formative experiences; experiences that have moved them forward and propelled them to success. … So how can you, as a working actor, become more resilient?”
When You Get A Bad Review, Should You Hit Back At The Reviewer?
These days, “when amateur enthusiasts are as likely to review your work as Fleet Street experts (albeit self-proclaimed) and when most readers, if we’re honest, skim newspaper reviews and skip to the pithier comments, are you entitled to tell the blogger to fuck off as publicly as they rubbish your work when you think they’ve been unfair?” Maybe, suggests Phil Wilmott.
This Poor Arts Center: First The Censors Cracked Down On It, Then The Walls Fell In
Egypt’s leading contemporary arts space, “Townhouse gallery in central Cairo has been shut to staff after a section of the recently renovated five-storey building collapsed on Wednesday. The neighbouring Cairo Hackerspace, a community workspace for engineers, designers and artists, was completely destroyed.” The attached Rawabet Theatre has reportedly come through without damage.
Arena Di Verona Opera Festival Goes Into Liquidation
One day after unionized staff narrowly voted to reject cost-cutting measures to reduce debt of €25 million, the board of the Fondazione Arena di Verona, which operates the popular summer festival, voted unanimously to ask the national culture minister to shut the organization down. Verona’s mayor claims that this action won’t affect the actual performances this summer, though a new, privatized entity will have to run the festival. (in Italian; Google Translate version here)
Philadelphia Orchestra Launches New Social-Impact Programs
“The group is instituting [one new] program, increasing others, and packaging them under an umbrella acronym: HEAR, which stands for health, education, access, and research. … The initiatives are part of a changing institutional direction, [orchestra president Allison Vulgamore] said, taking the orchestra more heavily into social-mission work. ‘I want to be off stage as much as we are on stage.'”
U. Texas Student Found Murdered Was Promising Ballet Dancer
“The body of 18-year-old Haruka J. Weiser was found Tuesday in a creek in the heart the University of Texas campus, one day after her roommate reported her missing … She was in Austin on a full dance scholarship.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.07.16
George Goldner: Nothing If Not Opinionated–And Entertaining
It’s not quite The Car Guys, but an exchange at a recent symposium at the Frick’s Center for the History of Collecting* has tickled a couple of people I know … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-04-07
The Butterfly Art Project | Frygrond
This is the third essay in a series of four “We the Audience” posts designed to introduce my readers to the citizen artists working in some of South Africa’s most challenged areas. … read more
AJBlog: We The Audience Published 2016-04-07
Flesh and the Gaze
Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner’s Eskasizer, at The Boiler February 26 through April 3. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-04-07
Kudos Wayne Shorter, sole “jazz” Guggenheim fellow
Though the Guggenheim Foundation has in recent practice conferred several of its prestigious annual fellowships on musicians of jazz or beyond, only Wayne Shorter, the great 83 year old saxophonist-composer – an NEA Jazz Master, co-founder of Weather Report, … read more
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2016-04-07
Record Store Day
Every day is a special day. That is not a random feel-good statement; it reflects the reality that most, if not all, days on the calendar are co-opted in the name of a cause, … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-04-07
Just one week away
My concert — my reemergence as a composer — is just one week away. April 14, 7:30 PM at the Mansion, the warm and intimate performance space at Strathmore, the big performing arts center … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-04-07
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Panama Papers Clarify Ownership Of A Modigliani That Had Been Stolen
A Paris art dealer’s estate wants the art-collecting Nahmad family to return Amadeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With A Cane, which it claims the Nazis seized in World War Two. Panama Papers documents show the family had hidden true ownership of the work.