“In 1979, video wasn’t as pervasive, so the effect of seeing the same dancers simultaneously on screen and on the stage was startling. In the contemporary version of Dance, a gap has opened between the live and virtual performers. ‘The dancers today, are very different from what they were,’ Childs explains. ‘They are much more technically trained, they also are different people’.”
Tag: 04.26.11
Maxine Hong Kingston Says She Writes Faster In Verse
“Because poetry is condensed I don’t have to make my way right over to the right margin, I don’t have to leap around in time and space, and I can say a lot with fewer words if I can just find the right words.”
Another Potential Royal Ballet Director Says, ‘Not Yet’
“While cheerfully confirming that it is, to say the least, ‘a bit early’ in his career to apply for the directorship of the Royal Ballet when Monica Mason steps down next year,” company principal Steven McRae “says he’d definitely like to go for the job at some point.” (Christopher Wheeldon said roughly the same thing last week.)
Egyptian Movie About Muslim-Christian Romance, Banned Under Mubarak, May Now Be Shown There
“A film about a couple trying to escape the repressive regime of Hosni Mubarak may be screened in Egypt following the former president’s ousting from power. Authorities had banned Cairo Exit, by US-based Egyptian film-maker Hesham Issawi, due to a plot line that features a relationship between a Muslim man and a Coptic Christian woman.”
Turkish Prosecutor Investigates William S. Burroughs Novel For Promoting Immorality
The investigation follows a report by the Prime Ministry’s Council for Protecting Minors from Explicit Publications that accuses Burroughs’s The Soft Machine of “incompliance with moral norms” and “hurting people’s moral feelings.” (Not to mention “lacking unity in its subject matter,” “incompliance with narrative unity,” and “the application of a fragmented narrative style.”)
Drama League And Outer Critics Circle Award Noms Announced
“Anything Goes” and “Sister Act” led in nominations with eight and nine respectively. Winners will be announced on May 16, and the annual awards ceremony will be on May 26 at Sardi’s.
Marie-France Pisier, 66, French New Wave Actress
She “was discovered by François Truffaut and appeared in three of his films, including Love on the Run, and … worked with notable directors like André Téchiné and Luis Buñuel.”
Using Architecture To Promote Public Health In The Third World
The nonprofit institute Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments (ARCHIVE) is building prototype homes for Haiti designed to reduce tuberculosis transmission in Haiti and new housing engineered to keep out malaria-bearing mosquitoes. “The goal is twofold: to demonstrate an association between design features and good health, and to prove that healthy homes are affordable on a mass scale.”
A Baritone Sings The US Housing Price Index
“The Case-Shiller home price index is a powerful way to look at the story of housing in America. You can see the boom and bust all in one simple graph. But when we go on the radio to talk about home prices, a graph isn’t much good to us – nobody can see it. So we converted the Case-Shiller graph into musical notes.”
DVRs Are Boosting Ratings For TV Shows
“Currently, networks are paid by advertisers only for how many viewers watch the commercials in their shows over the first three days after a show is broadcast — a model known as “commercial plus three” (C3) ratings. But networks are monitoring how shows do over a full week after they are broadcast to gauge the depth of audience interest and loyalty.”