“Both arts require strength, grace and poise; and the protagonists of each are known for prima-donna behaviour and for wondrous athleticism that can be delicate or brutal.”
Tag: 06.08
A First Step To A Major Spanish Ballet Company?
“Half a dozen international stars – American Ballet Theatre’s Angel Corella and the Royal Ballet’s Tamara Rojo among them – owe their fabulous techniques to Spanish training.” But there is no major Spanish ballet company for them to perform in. Now Corella has returned to start an academy and, hopefully, a major new company.
Reconsidering The Women Writers Who Came Before
“In the 1970s a number of books were written to reappraise women authors and the literature they produced. For the most part these books focused on nineteenth-century Britain (to a lesser extent on the United States and France) and they clearly ‘started something’.”
Is Google Training Us To Be Dull Thinkers?
“Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking–perhaps even a new sense of the self.”
The Ravinia Way
When Welz Kauffman took over the leadership of Illinois’s Ravinia Festival in 2000, he had his work cut out for him, both fiscally and artistically. “The ensuing years have found Ravinia a bit more theatrically charged and a lot more fun… What’s remarkable is that it’s happening to overwhelming critical and public approval in a culture that pays lip service to but ultimately fears popularization of musical programming.”