Why Setting A Dance About Apartheid On American Dancers Makes Sense Right Now

“When Kevin ‘Iega’ Jeff saw Fana Tshabalala’s Indumba at the annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience in South Africa, he immediately knew he would ask Tshabalala to set the work on his company. … [Tshabalala] welcomed the chance to create an American-focused version for DRDT because he believes that ‘the impact of apartheid is the same as what America is experiencing internally … America is going through a social and political transformation, and Indumba could help in cleansing.”

Jean-Luc Godard Is Not Dead Yet, So Let’s Stop Obsessing Over His Early Films

“Brace yourselves for a wave of Godard nostalgia. It’s 50 years since Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and co. closed down the 1968 Cannes film festival in solidarity with student protests in Paris. … Those were the days, eh? When cinema was radical and part of the revolutionary struggle. Nobody embodied that more than Godard. He is cinema’s Picasso and its Che Guevara. He is the auteur wannabe auteurs want to be and remains the most dazzling, inventive, stylish, insouciantly brilliant yet confrontationally political film-maker the medium has ever seen. But by the time of Cannes 1968, Godard was also closing the curtain on his own auteur status.” And, argues Steve Rose, we should do the same thing.

How Did Dance Tutus Become Runner Chic?

I’ve run a handful of races per year since my first 5K in 2008, and have done enough theme/costume runs to be used to seeing women (and occasionally men) in fluffy statement skirts—sometimes stiff ballet-inspired tutus, sometimes just sparkly costume skirts (utilitarian running skirts are a different sartorial category.) I stopped thinking of running tutus as a novelty, however, when I saw them being sold as official merchandise at the 2013 Color Run in Chicago.

Is Shakespeare Holding Back British Theatre?

Where would British theatre be without him? Quite possibly in a more interesting place. Of course, we are blessed to have all those wonderful plays, but the success of Shakespeare has created a gold standard by which all British theatre is calibrated. He set us on a path of literary theatre that still dominates today. A little less Shakespeare production might allow a bit more room for new plays and the devised, visual and physical work that often gets too little space on our stages.

Why Is Marvel Ending The Most Lucrative Movie Franchise In History?

With the Avengers movies, “the studio has breathed lucrative new life into its decades-old comic-book properties, and built a ravenous fan base for each new character it introduces at the multiplex. Now Marvel says it wants to clear the table it has spent the last 10 years arranging and make way for something new. … Audiences are about to find out what finality looks like for a motion-picture money-minting machine: Will the story actually come to a conclusion? Will characters die, and will actors leave the series?”