Tag: 07.06.16

Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.06.16

Dancers and Puppets Rebirth the World
Fantasque by John Heginbotham and Amy Trompetter opens Bard Summerscape 2016. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-07-06

They don’t expect results
What’s in this post:

  • A Boston Symphony concert poster, just as ineffective as most classical music press releases
  • A theory: that these materials are ineffective because no one really expects them to do very much.
  • And then, at the end, this thought: … read more

AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-07-06

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Iraqi Dancer Among Those Killed In ISIS Bombing This Week

“Adil Faraj bucked conservative Iraqi culture to teach himself how to dance via YouTube and Skype, inspired by a Michael Jackson performance he watched on DVD. He danced to videos in his cramped family home — hiding from a society scornful of the art form and from the chaos that engulfed Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Then, he was discovered by the Manhattan-based Battery Dance Company and brought to Jordan to train professionally and perform for the first time on stage.”

Appointment Of New Director At Berlin’s Volksbühne Has Some People Panicking About The Entire Direction Of The City

The city government’s choice of Tate Modern art msueum director Chris Dercon for the job “has laid bare long-simmering worries about the direction of Berlin’s arts scene. … Critics say that officials are forsaking an artistic tradition of locally produced, politically and aesthetically unconventional programming. Instead, they see an effort to redraw the theater’s mission to make Berlin a more attractive and marketable destination for tourists and for the internationally minded millennials who have moved into many of that city’s trendiest districts.”

Yves Bonnefoy, 93, France’s Great Modern Poet And Translator Of Shakespeare

“By 1978, when his collected poems were published, Mr. Bonnefoy’s position as France’s most important poet, and one if its most influential men of letters, was secure.” In addition, “over the years, he translated 15 of [Shakespeare’s] plays, all of the sonnets, and wrote extensively on Shakespeare’s poetics. His translations of Yeats are equally well known in France.”

Should We Archive The Tweets And Social-Media Profiles Of Famous Artists For Posterity, The Way We Save Their Letters And Diaries?

“If journals, sketchbooks, letters, and scribbled-on napkins are venerated and kept for insights into great minds, there seems to be a case that tweets should be held onto, too. Then again, publicly accessible 140-character bursts can be so frivolous – and based so much on maintaining appearances – that they might seem like they don’t offer anything worth preserving.”