Given that few ballets “have much life expectancy, is lifeblood to be found in the brief intensity of helping to create something that won’t be around next year? Or does lifeblood course only through those rare ballets that hang around into adulthood and enrich the repertory of other companies?”
Tag: 07.03.10
Unloved, Charles Saatchi Gives A Major Collection To England
“While the mainstream big beasts of the arts jungle, notably Sir Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate (revealed last week to be on a taxpayer-funded salary of at least £160,000) are hailed as visionaries, Saatchi continues to be sniffed at. Even the artists whose names he made are happy to have a sneer at his expense.”
The Opening Mind (Except In Culture)
“[O]ur own national determination to close the mind, and all the senses, to things that are unusual or different does seem to be far less pronounced than it was in my childhood. This is not just true of intellectual or cultural matters: it is true of everything. … I sense, though, that there are still one or two fields in which narrowness of mind prevails, and they are in culture.”
Dance Pioneer Anna Halprin Still Moving At 90
“Halprin’s name may be familiar, but her work – until now – has been little known outside the performance and healing arts worlds. Although she danced in New York in the 1930s, she left that scene long before some of her famous students — including iconic choreographers Tricia Brown, Meredith Monk and Yvonne Rainer — discovered her San Francisco Dancer’s Workshop and rocked the art world with their postmodern concepts.”