“A young woman started to cry as she described her personal struggles with a career in dance, and the difficulty of working multiple jobs in the service industry without access to adequate health care or insurance. This could be you. This could be your dance student. … Why would anyone actually want to enter this profession?”
Tag: 07.12.12
The Wild, Weird World Of Haitian Television
“Haitian TV is clamorous and dissonant: instructional announcements about cholera prevention butt up against hedonistic music videos, foreign soap operas and glossy commercials aimed at people who can’t afford to buy much.”
Selling Naming Rights – A Tradition That Goes Back To Medieval Times
“Squinny-eyed merchants squeezed their likenesses on to the wings of altarpieces they had paid for. Aisle chapels were as likely to be named after the bankers who had financed their decoration as after the saints to whom they were dedicated or the mere artisans who had frescoed them.”
Star Of Slumdog Millionaire, Playing A New Tess In Trishna
Frieda Pinto, who plays the role of the titular Trishna in Michael Winterbottom’s new adaptation of Tess of the D’Urbervilles, on playing the role: “Sometimes you don’t put to rest what you opened up emotionally that day. It’s like walking around with an open wound. You are the open wound.”
Plan For Shift In Berlin Museums Provokes Outrage
“Plans to empty the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin of its Old Masters and fill it instead with 20th-century art have left cultural chiefs facing accusations of irresponsible neglect of what one critic described as the nation’s family silver.”
Canada’s Supreme Court Scraps Extra Royalty For Downloads
“[The] Supreme Court decided against an industry plan that would have authorized the collection of additional royalties on music downloaded through services such as Apple’s iTunes. The court said that downloading a copy of a song is essentially the same as going to buy it in a store – so no additional royalties should be added.”
Southwest German Radio To Merge Its Two Orchestras
Despite extended protests, the state-funded network – strapped for money, like most state entities in Europe these days – has decided to merge the ensemble based in Freiburg and Baden-Baden into the larger orchestra in Stuttgart.
Dara Singh, Bollywood’s First Action Star, Dead At 84
Singh began his career as a wrestler, winning a world championship in 1968, but started appearing in movies as early as 1952. He appeared in 115 feature films, always doing his own stunts, but he was most famous for his portrayal of the monkey god Hanuman in the wildly popular 1980s TV serialisation of the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Pacific Standard Time, LA’s Art Mega-Festival, To Have Sequel
“The J. Paul Getty Trust is gearing up to organise a sequel to its successful collaborative project, ‘Pacific Standard Time (PST)’, in ‘five or six years’ time’, says the trust’s chief executive and president James Cuno. ‘We recognise that [it] is just too good to let drop’.”
Power Really Does Corrupt, Says Neuroscience
“Power increases testosterone levels, which in turn increases the uptake of dopamine in the brain’s reward network. The results are an increase in egocentricity and a reduction in empathy.”