“Three seeming contradictions – energy/rest, extroversion/introversion, and openness/sensitivity – are not separate phenomena but together seem to form the core of the creative performer’s personality.”
Tag: 06.10.13
Yoram Kaniuk, 83, Maverick Israeli Writer
A scion of Jewish Palestine’s high-culture aristocracy, a veteran of Israel’s war of independence, a prolific author with an innovative (not to say quirky) prose style, and a provocative commentator on his nation’s social and political issues, Kaniuk struggled for acceptance in literary circles (and a decent income) until a 2010 memoir made him into a national celebrity.
Trauma Queens: Women Who Love Law & Order: SVU
Emily Nussbaum: “The audience was two-thirds female, young women, for the most part – the same demographic that drives fan fiction, romance novels, and vampire stories. ‘Oh, you enjoy this, do you?’ an angry john says, in the SVU pilot. ‘Is this how you get your rocks off?’ He’s talking to some detectives, but he might as well have been addressing viewers, for whom the show’s pulp appeal was simultaneously addictive and faintly shameful.”
Intiman Theatre’s Rebirth Alters Seattle’s Theatre Scene
“With the demise of the old Intiman and its 2012 rebirth with a summer “microseason,” the local theater scene has been radically altered.”
Seattle Revives The Bookmobile – For Bicycles
“A small group of Seattle Public Library (SPL) staff will be pedaling – and peddling – books on the pavement this summer, thanks to the new Books on Bikes pilot program. Librarians on bicycles are traveling to several outdoor events across the city with a custom-built book trailer that can carry 500 pounds of materials and display 75 books at a time.”
Britain’s National Statistics Agency To Include Arts In Measures Of Well-Being
“The Office for National Statistics is to use responses from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s Taking Part Survey – which details consumption of and participation in the arts and culture – in response to public demand for their inclusion in the Measuring Well-being Programme.”
Adapting A Play For YouTube
“In a small theater on the campus of East Los Angeles College, actor Christopher Gorham was performing a scene from the David Henry Hwang play Yellow Face over and over again as a camera crew went through several set-ups of the dialogue-heavy sequence.”
Why Natalie Dessay Is Leaving Opera For Theater
“There’s nothing left for me to sing. I’ve done most of the roles I could do. I don’t want to play Juliette. At my age? Please! Or Lucia or Adina or anything else like that. That’s why I’m quitting. You have to love your repertoire. For a while I thought it was fun, but no. On to something else.”
What Pussy Riot Won’t Do
Rioter Yekaterina Samutsevich: “Legal, paid music performances: We’re offered them to this day and we always turn them down. It’s just not what we’re interested in. In addition, there’s all sorts of commercial activities; we’ve been approached to make profit, and we’re against that. We’re also against any sort of public statement. What we specialize in are guerrilla performances.”
Joyce DiDonato Shows How To Handle A Cell Phone Interrupting A Concert
During a recital the mezzo gave at La Scala last weekend, just as she was the quiet ending of a Rossini aria, someone’s phone went off. She finished like the pro she is, but when she came back for a bow, she asked the audience if it had been Rossini calling to check in.