“In the nation of Colombia, a dance troupe known as ‘The Body School’ is gaining widespread attention for helping members of the company to escape lives of violence and hardship.”
Tag: 06.29.08
In Lebanon – A Struggle For Contemporary Dance
“In Lebanon, popular culture remains committed to folk forms like dabkeh and belly dance, while the middle classes – the natural audience for contemporary dance – remains emaciated after 15 years of civil war, civil unrest and migration.”
The Unknown (Prolific) Composer
“The Philadelphia composer created 3,000 works over 60 years – 32 symphonies, an opera, songs inspired by Lord of the Rings – but was barely known to artistic colleagues living only blocks from his apartment at 19th and Pine. His concerts were off the grid, his recordings few, his recognition level nothing remotely resembling what composers crave – and need, in order to grow.”
Real Friends Of The Barnes
“The most cogent argument for not hijacking the Barnes to Philadelphia wasn’t that it shouldn’t be changed at all, that Dr. Barnes wouldn’t approve. He has been dead for 57 years. It was that the foundation represented a rare historical artifact, whose distinctive genius loci, like that of Bartram’s Garden in Southwest Philadelphia, described a precious and irreplaceable historical context for novel innovations in art education.”
The New Cleveland Museum Unveiled
“The reopening will mark completion of the first part of a $350 million expansion and renovation aimed at transforming the museum. By 2012, two new wings will rise to bracket the 1916 building and the 1971 education facility, joined by a huge glass atrium. The museum sees it as a project that will lift the city’s fortunes along with its own.”
Does Product Placement On TV Need Better Regulation?
“Some are questioning whether viewers should be better informed when broadcasters are paid to feature a brand in a TV show. The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it will look into the blurring of the line between content and commerce.”
Should There Be Tax Incentives For Broadway Producers?
If film and TV producers get tax incentives to make their product in Gotham, why not legit producers?
The Lion King Effect
The show has been a huge success. And it seemed revolutionary. But did it really have an impact on the theatre or on Broadway?
Leonard Slatkin, The Washington Years
Slatkin the conversationalist is like Slatkin the conductor: You get a lot of material, flecked with flashes of apparent revelation that recede as quickly as they appear. Talking about one subject, his firefly mind is already on to the next one.
Lessons Buckminster Fuller Taught Me
“There was nothing mad, however, about Fuller’s objectives: He just wanted to invent devices that would help humankind and protect the planet (which he dubbed, no kidding, “Spaceship Earth”).”