“Guillem has arrived in Florence to pre pare for Wil liam For sythe’s Step text. How ever with the uncer tainty of the future of the Mag gio Musicale Fiorentino, and with the almost cer tain elim in a tion of its dance com pany, MaggioDanza, the 10 June performance [was] can celled ‘to allow the theatre work ers to par ti cip ate in a demonstration’.”
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Can China’s Equivalent Of Colonial Williamsburg Become A Hotbed Of High Culture?
“About 75 miles southwest of Shanghai is a beautifully restored, 1300-year-old ‘water-town’ called Wuzhen where Chinese tourists flock each year.” Yet with a landmark new performing arts center and an equally new international theater festival that’s both artistically challenging and a big box-office success, Wuzhen is making a bid to become a cultural destination along the lines of Avignon, Aix, and Edinburgh.
Want To Change Societal Values? Hearken Back To William Morris
Morris was “a passionate advocate of what’s much missed today, the pleasure (and pain) of the handmade and the value of the vocational. He esteemed craftsmen and women, makers of tiles and furniture and carpets and china.”
Novelist Margaret Atwood Rocks At Online. How – And Why?
“The Booker prizewinner, who has more than 400,000 Twitter followers, gets stuck into every technological initiative going, from co-writing a zombie novel with Naomi Alderman on Wattpad to changing the way artists interact with their fans online through her new company Fanado.”
Stuck in ‘Women’s Work’ Roles In Canadian Film
“In an industry that’s so dependent on women in front of the camera – hello, Rachel McAdams, Jessica Paré, Kim Cattrall – the situation for Canadian women behind the camera is a bit of a horror movie.”
Campaigning for The Tonys? No Spa Treatments Allowed
“To nab the spoils, contenders lack the tools of many of the conventions of Hollywood’s annual Oscar rite. For one thing, strict rules prohibit swag.”
Abigail Heyman, 70, Photographer Who Documented The Lives Of Women In Quiet Despair
“In one of the book’s most arresting images, Ms. Heyman photographed herself undergoing an abortion.”
Troubled High School Kids Stay In School – And Get Jobs – WIth The Arts
“‘I don’t think I would have graduated high school if I hadn’t come to A.R.T.,’ says Cami Shishko, who recently completed her freshman year at the Cornish College of the Arts.”