“Argentine songwriter and singer Facundo Cabral, an icon of Latin American folk and protest music, was shot to death early Saturday by unknown gunmen who intercepted his car in Guatemala City and pumped it full of bullets.”
Tag: 07.10.11
Russian Conductor Fired – He Claims – For His Opposition To Putin
“Mikhail Arkadyev, the outgoing conductor of Vladivostok’s Pacific Symphony Orchestra, said he was told his contract would not be renewed after he spoke out against his professional trade union joining a new political movement widely thought to be part of Mr Putin’s campaign to regain the Russian presidency next year.”
England’s Hot New Outdoor Arts Venue: Highway Overpasses
This summer, the unused spaces under the roadways that Brits call “flyovers” are hosting events from summer movie screenings to rock and world music concerts to table tennis tournaments. (The best part: shelter from the rain.)
Ethan Stiefel Talks About Taking Over the Royal New Zealand Ballet
“I have to ask how I can make dance in New Zealand better, how I can develop a signature style for the company … It can’t just be about my own ideas. … I want to be able to find choreographers and designers of a level that can be developed, so a long-term ballet culture can be created here.”
Not Dead Yet, But Close: Internet Message Boards
“Message boards were key components of Web 1.0 – the Web before broadband, online video, social networking, advanced traffic analysis and the drive to monetize transformed it. … [The] boards were almost invisible to anyone intent on profiting off Web traffic – and so they’ve been nearly written out of the history of the Internet.”
Lost, And Reconstructed, Oscar Wilde Play To Get World Premiere
Constance, about a loyal wife not unlike the author’s own spouse (whose name was Constance), was the only play Wilde completed after his release from prison and subsequent exile. The English original evidently did not survive World War II; the current version is retranslated from a French version published in 1954.
Exhausted Artists, It’s OK To Get Off – Or To Turn Off – The Treadmill
Nancy Wozny: “There’s work to be done, and if you don’t have a staff to do it, it’s usually you. It gets old. People get tired. Our labors of love can easily shift into labors of dread. As someone who has ceased making art, I want to say it’s OK to stop. … Being an artist is not a life sentence.”
Choreographer Roland Petit, 87
He was “a world choreographer of chic and erotic theatricality who blew away the French classical ideal in a roar of liberated sensual heat … and his roles for his exquisite wife, Zizi Jeanmaire, repositioned ballet drama upon the femme fatale rather than the virgin.”
Carlos Acosta, Cuba’s Ballet Superstar, On The Island’s Future
Cuba is opening up to the outside world. But you can’t rush the process if you want to retain a country’s authenticity and culture. Look at islands such as Puerto Rico; I don’t know where its culture ends and American culture begins. … I want to make Cuba an artistic destination not just the place people visit to see the home of Che Guevara.”
Reconnecting Urbanized Australian Aboriginals To Their Origins Through Dance
Native Australians who have spent their entire lives in cities often find it difficult to connect with indigenous culture. Bangarra Dance Theatre is helping provide a link – for its own dancers as well as for audiences.