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Tag: 04.14.11
Texas Ballet Theater Cuts Pay, Performances
“[The] dancers’ paid weeks were cut from 35 to 33, this season, a reduction of 5.7 percent. Administrative employees, including [the executive director], are seeing a 5 percent decrease for the year. And … the company canceled all four June performances of Don Quixote … in Dallas.” (The Fort Worth dates will proceed as scheduled.)
The Only Dance Company With A Minimum Age Requirement
Gus Solomons jr’s troupe Paradigm (“Dance legends in concert”) uses only performers 50 and older. But what dancers! The roster ranges from youngster Robert La Fosse to the still-fabulous 80-year-old Carmen deLavallade.
US Culture Agencies Get 11.2 Percent Budget Cuts
“The National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services will be faced with reining in their grantmaking between now and Sept. 30, when the 2010-11 budget year ends.”
Saving The Mural Sendak Painted In My Bedroom
“At 20 feet long and ten inches thick, the wall weighs 1,400 pounds. Fortunately, an faulty bit of conduit pipe inside the wall had caused a crack in the middle, enabling conservators to remove the wall in two pieces.”
Philadelphia Orchestra Players Stage Anti-Bankruptcy Action In Hall Before Concert
“In a bit of theater in support of organized labor, musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra gathered on stage for their usual Thursday night concert, and then, minutes before curtain time, fanned out into the audience with leaflets pleading their case with the listening public.”
Sidney Harman, 92, Hi-Fi Mogul And Rescuer Of Newsweek
“In an ideal life one wouldn’t have to choose between the pursuit of wealth and the pursuit of knowledge. By that standard and many others, Sidney Harman – the scientist, stereo mogul, Under Secretary of Commerce, professor, philanthropist, and magazine publisher who died on Apr. 14 – lived ideally.”
Ahead Of Graffiti/Street Art Exhibit, LACMA’s Neighborhood Sees Increased Graffiti
“While museum director Jeffrey Deitch was unveiling his ‘Art in the Streets’ exhibition Thursday at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in a preview for invited guests, the Los Angeles Police Department reported a spike in graffiti and vandalism in the museum’s Little Toyko neighborhood.”
Worldwide Sit-In Planned In Support Of Ai Weiwei
“On Sunday, some of Ai’s supporters are planning a show of solidarity through a peaceful sit-down in front of Chinese embassies, consulates and other government buildings around the world. The sit-in is planned for 1 p.m. local time Sunday.”
Lost Kurt Weill Ballet To Have Covent Garden Revival
“The Royal Opera House (ROH) is to stage the British premiere of a ballet by German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill that was lost in a library basement for 80 years. The ROH is showing Magical Night, or Zaubernacht, in December. The ballet tells the story of two children’s toys brought to life.”