The dancer-choreographer-MacArthur ‘Genius’ talks with Leonard Lopate about renovating the genre and the world premiere of her piece ETM: Double Down. (audio)
Tag: 04.26.16
There’s More To Syrian Archaeology Than Palmyra
“Some five years into its violent civil war, Syria remains a hotbed of archaeological exploration. Such exploration involves perhaps a good deal more danger than those archaeologists envisioned when they were in graduate school.”
How On Earth Do You Choreograph Something Fresh To Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’? Edouard Lock Was Itching To Try
“These are pieces that have entered the collective unconscious. The act of combining something that you’ve already experienced with something you haven’t yet seen is something I like to use as one of the tensions available to a work. There’s a sort of distortion between the stage and the audience that is dependent on the memories of each individual.” (One thing Lock did not do is leave the music as is.)
The Rarefied World Of Larry Gagosian
“Gagosian himself is estimated to clear $1 billion in sales annually and is among a small group of gallery owners whose appetites are omnivorous: He works across the contemporary and modern eras, representing living artists like John Currin and Mark Grotjahn while also dealing on behalf of the estates of Alberto Giacometti, Richard Avedon and Helen Frankenthaler.”
Odd: Why Are Our Actors Of A Different Color A Different Color?
“You don’t see Leonardo DiCaprio, Sandra Bullock, and Tom Cruise painting their faces to win roles, but this color-changing gambit has practically become required of black dramatic actors who want to appear in big-budget movies.”
Gay Dance Clubs Decline As The Culture Moves On
“The new generation just doesn’t support large dance clubs. They spend money on special events I do, like my RuPaul’s Drag Race, Pride and Halloween events. But the days of the weekly dance party are over, at least for now.”
When A Robot Kills, Is It Murder Or Product Liability?
Responding to a new short story about a robot who/that kills her/its owner, a legal scholar considers issues of robotics law that will arise sooner or later.
30 Years Of Chernobyl In Literature
“Through three decades of literary response, Chernobyl has undermined the sort of authoritative depiction that might bring closure. But something closed can be forgotten. The finest works express profound doubts about the power of language to absorb a disaster of this magnitude, and so continually reopen it to new ways of being remembered.”
A Symphony For Tape Decks (Talk About Historical Instruments …)
No Sharps, No Flats is an installation made up of 30 partially deconstructed boom boxes with tape decks, each one containing a composition by metro D.C. musicians. All of the music is in C major. Harmonious? Not for long – because it’s all on cassette tape, which has problems you youngsters don’t know about and the rest of us may have forgotten …
Why The Royal Ontario Museum Decided To Digitize Its Entire Collection (And That’s Just The Start)
Q: So five years, 1.5 million images, mobile apps, access points in the galleries. That’s a huge endeavour. The big question is, why? A: Well, it’s obvious. This collection doesn’t belong to the museum. It belongs to the public. And technology is the way we’re going to give it back.