“I was a little nervous because it was on national TV. It’s a lot different from just regular performance. You can see the audience very close to you and you can feel the energy. It’s not like in a [City Ballet] show, where they don’t start clapping or cheering in the middle of it.”
Tag: 04.14.10
Beauty And The Beast: On The Unacceptability Of Ugliness
“There are no ugly girls, no old hags in popular culture. Every week we are supposed to pretend like Tina Fey is ugly on 30 Rock, that America Ferrera was hideous even beneath the glasses and the braces on Ugly Betty … If that is the epitome of public ugliness, well, then the actual hags are way below the line of visibility. Women are allowed to have some power, but only if they’re hot.”
The Guardian’s ‘Step-By-Step Guide’ To Deborah Colker
“A small person with a huge presence, Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker combines the competitive edge of sport, the self-discipline of ballet, the freedom of modern dance and the daredevilry of circus into one big audience-friendly package.” (The critics aren’t always so impressed.)
Smart Women Writers And The Men They Put Up With
“The intimate lives of writers have always had a special attraction for readers, perhaps because we imagine that people who can shape ideas and arrange scenes on the page should be able to offer us some special insight into how to order our messy off-the-page lives. This has rarely been proven the case … [A]ll the same it has not stemmed our interest in finding out what Sylvia said to Ted or why Simone pimped for Jean-Paul.”
Anatomizing The Evolution Of A Play
At its Philadelphia opening in January, Terrence McNally’s Golden Age “was obese, indulgent”; at the Kennedy Center in March, it was “shorter by 40 minutes” and “had acquired punch, and charm.” It’s “an example of the way new American theater can evolve when an estimable playwright and a high-level theater company with access to talent and money are involved.”
Deal: De Young Museum Will Keep Most Of Its Oceanic Art
But 29 pieces “will be sold to help settle a cross-country legal drama that involved sweeping philanthropy, a bitter internecine spat over money, and a $25 million loan from Sotheby’s that helped amass what is considered the world’s most important private collection of tribal objects from Papua New Guinea.”
Latest Venture For De Niro’s Tribeca: A Chicago School
Tribeca Enterprises “has taken a 50 percent interest in the Loop-based two-year digital media vocational school Flashpoint: The Academy of Media Arts and Sciences,” which “will be known as the Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy as it opens a virtual pipeline between the 75,000-square-foot Clark Street facility and Tribeca’s New York headquarters.”
Browsing On iBooks Doesn’t Have To Bite — Yet It Does
“[S]hopping for books using iBooks, which essentially applies the maddeningly blunt tools of iTunes to a collection of some 30,000 idiosyncratic titles (even more will be added later), is like being asked to dismantle a wristwatch with a butter knife. I love reading on my iPad, but that doesn’t blind me to the abject inadequacy of the iBooks store.”
Stripped Bare, The Guggenheim Is A Revelation
“I’ve always considered the Guggenheim a tug of war between architecture and whatever was on display, with the latter often losing. But being in the freshly painted interior–not stark white, which Wright hated, but a kind of soft ivory–reminded me what a remarkable gift he left us.”
France Fills An Education Gap With College For DJs
“It’s not for deadbeats. During one recent class, teacher Olivier Colignon–who goes by the professional name DJ Getdown–blasted a student for his narrow repertoire. ‘You have no pop-rock on your computer?’ he barked. ‘No Nirvana? No Queen? A DJ’s job is to make people dance, not just play music you like.'”