Robbins, who directed and choreographed On the Town, The King and I, West Side Story, and many more classic musicals, returned to ballet fully in 1969 – and changed American ballet as well. “He weeded out artifice and mannerism where he could. The naturalness he elicited was a particularly American style that then enriched the world of dance.”
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Mississippi Gets A New Writers’ Trail, Stretching From Faulkner To Ward
Eudora Welty and Richard Ford will also be getting markers in a new series stretching across the state. Will Richard Wright make the cut? That’s yet to be decided.
Polish Theatre Directors Push Back Against The Government’s Hard Right Turn
Warsaw just hosted a theatre festival with five women directors and a lot of young, fiery daring. One of the glass-ceiling-breaking women: “I’m trying to sound some kind of alarm—that we should be very careful not to let ideas possess our brains or our souls.”
Thirty-One Hours Of Marvel Movies In One Theatre? Sure, Why Not?
Eleven movies, leading up to the newest Avengers show. A two-day movie marathon. “By the time Infinity War was on deck, 28 hours in, the excitement was palpable. When the 3D seemed to be misaligned during the unwanted trailers, I was genuinely worried there was going to be a riot. A raucous ‘FIX IT! FIX IT’ chant filled the room before the image was quickly repaired.”
How Fabulousness Animates Queer Culture
How to define a word that’s so slippery yet so engrained in everyday use? It’s a tricky task, but moore offers the four main characteristics of fabulousness: It doesn’t have to be expensive; it can be secured in innumerable ways; because it’s largely practiced by queer and other marginalized people, it’s “dangerous, political, confrontational, [and] risky”; and it’s about being a spectacle not only to be seen, but also because certain people are over-surveilled and undervalued. Put another way, fabulousness is primarily about a swashbuckling and transgressive world-making.
How The Supreme Court Broke Hollywood’s Movie Theatre Studio System 70 Years Ago
The Supreme Court’s 1948 ruling agreed that the studios were giving preference to their own theaters, which was a violation of antitrust laws. Targeted were Metro, Warners, Paramount, RKO and 20th Century Fox, which were ordered to get rid of their theater holdings. Also affected were “the little three defendants, United Artists, Universal and Columbia,” according to Variety at the time.
Philosophers Don’t Talk – Or Think – Enough About The Meaning Of Life
“Philosophers ponder the meaning of life. At least, that is the stereotype. … In fact, professional philosophers rarely ask the question and, when they do, they often dismiss it as nonsense. … If they go on to talk about meaning in life, they have in mind the meaning of individual lives, the question of whether this life or that life is meaningful for the person who is living it. But the meaning of life is not an individual possession. If life has meaning, it has a meaning that applies to us all.”
How The Culture Wars Are Changing Theatre
Across the entertainment industry, hard battles are being fought for visibility and representation.