“‘Ballet is like a push-pull between feeling and logic,’ [Alonzo] King says. ‘Every human being has both, and ballet is a balancing act between the two. If you get too much logic it defies what you might be feeling, and yet with too much feeling things become unbelievable.'”
Tag: 05.18.16
Anti-BP Activists Gate-Crash British Museum Opening To Protest
“The piece was made of materials including crude oil from the Gulf Coast, a teargas cartridge from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, and 340 lines of black stones, which, according to a release from the group BP or Not BP?, ‘symbolizes how BP’s operations in Egypt are ‘surrounded by human rights violations’.'”
New Director For San Diego’s Soon-To-Expand Museum
Kathryn Kanjo: “We have this collection that wants to see the light of day and has no physical space. … We show it regularly but we don’t show it steadily.”
Sofia Coppola Directs Her First Opera – With Valentino As Costume Designer
The production of La traviata at the Rome Opera is still in rehearsals, but it has nearly sold out its 15-performance run – and is, according to the company’s general manager, “already the biggest box office hit in the history of the theater from 1880.”
Ambassador Theatre Group Forces Out Its Founder And CEO
“Howard Panter, a knighted titan of British theater who had been ambitiously leading his company into the American market, is suddenly out as leader of the company that he and his wife founded 24 years ago.”