Drama students from Weston College in England and UNLV “will perform the same piece simultaneously, with the overseas actors being broadcast on a screen behind the live action in both locations. The synchronised performance has been made possible by the development of two supercomputers, named ultra grids, which have removed the transatlantic time delay in broadcast.”
Tag: 04.14.15
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.14.15
‘One-Way Ticket’? Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ Should Remain Whole after MoMA’s Showing
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-04-14
Ann Meier Baker, NEA director of Music and Opera, on her new job and NEA Jazz Masters
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2015-04-14
Louis C.K. and the War Against Smugness
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-04-14
Room at the Table: Black female college professors tough it out in Idris Goodwin’s Blackademics
AJBlog: Lies Like Truth Published 2015-04-14
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A New Generation Of Orchestras Is Rising. Great, But…
“I attended both expecting to trumpet the virtues of a more collaborative and flexible model. But I was disappointed. Different though they were, the two performances had a few things in common: Both offered a lot of energy and emoting, but both fell short on the details, with too many moments of sloppiness and too much defaulting to the same general tempo, dynamics and emotional flavor.”
Resignation Exposes Debate About Quality Of UK Dance Training
“A quick glance at Dance UK’s website would suggest an art form that was in very good shape. It reports a dramatic increase in the number of professional dance companies over the past two decades, as well as pointing out that audiences have risen significantly, and students studying the subject at school have grown by more than 200%. But behind the scenes the situation appears less rosy.”
2014’s Biggest-Selling Album? A Movie Soundtrack
“The album – complete with two different versions of the hit song Let It Go – sold four million more than its nearest rival, Taylor Swift’s 1989, which sold six million according to music industry body the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).”
Dance Theatre Of Harlem’s Reinvention Is On A Rocky Road
“The pre-2004 company associated with these particular works, which call on a variety of leading, solo and ensemble dance forces, eventually numbered as many as 44 dancers. The one now under Ms. Johnson’s guidance has 18. She has stressed that in the years since it was reformed in 2012, Dance Theater of Harlem has evolved into a touring company.”
Wheeldon’s New “American In Paris” Choreography Is A Masterpiece
“This is what musical-comedy dance can look like when it’s made by a choreographer who knows how to do more than just stage a song. Once you’ve seen it, you’ll know what you’ve been missing, and find it hard ever again to settle for less.”
‘Literary Geography’ – Literally: Mapping The Emotions Of 19th-Century London
“What lurks behind the literary landmarks of Victorian London? Fear? Joy? Ambiguity? In a new data mining project, a Stanford University research collective has sought to map the British capital’s ’emotional geography’ by categorizing what feelings or sensations common settings convey in the novels of Dickens, Thackeray, Austen and 738 [of their colleagues].”
American Library Association’s Most Challenged Books Of 2013
“The erotic romance book Fifty Shades of Grey is infamous for its scenes involving bondage, sadism and masochism, but the most troublesome literary content in 2013 was language like pee-pee, poopy, wedgie and Dr. Diaper.”