“Lois Kirschenbaum has been called the city’s biggest and longest-standing opera and ballet buff, showing up nightly to performances in New York since the early 1950s. Even at the old Met, on 39th Street, there was Ms. Kirschenbaum, wrangling her way in.”
Tag: 06.10.12
Issue: What Happens When The Computers And Electronic Instruments That Power Modern Music Are No Longer Around?
“Instruments (the term now including computers and music-creation programs) that push the limits of possibility today may well be landfill three years from now.”
Is There An Australian Dance Style?
“That is something I think we’ve been grappling with for 50 years. But the things that we get told, when we go overseas, is that there’s an openness, that the movement is quite large. It’s a bit reflecting of our country, which is vast, wide-open expanses of nothing. I think there’s an optimism. The company tend to be fairly, um — they’ll give anything a go. There’s this term in Australia: ‘She’ll be right, mate.’ And that’s a sort of attitude in the way the dancers dance.”