The parent nonprofit Dream Center Education Holdings, based in Los Angeles, cited declining enrollment as the reason for its decision. Dream Center purchased 31 Art Institute schools in early 2017 from Education Management Corp., a for-profit school operator in Pittsburgh, with the intention of converting all of the schools into nonprofits.
Tag: 07.13.18
The Journalist Who Signed Up For Every Kind Of Dance And What He Learned
For five years, Henry Alford signed up for everything from pas de deux classes and a swing dance conference to tap lessons with Alvin Ailey and a “contact improv jam.” He researched the lives of the greats — Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Bob Fosse, Arthur Murray, Mikhail Baryshnikov — and includes anecdotes about each. For example, in the early 1960s, Martha Graham told a roomful of Texas college students that “all great dancing stems from the lonely place.” “Where is the lonely place?” asked a girl in the audience. “Between your thighs,” Martha told her. “Next question?”
Integrated Dance: Moving From Here To There (From Wherever You Are)
The inclusive method of movement and contact was developed by English dancer Adam Benjamin. It aims to create a safe and open space for people to have personal, physical and artistic breakthroughs, regardless of whether its practitioners have any physical disabilities.
Longtime Cincinnati Symphony Concertmaster Steps Down After Nerve Injury
Timothy Lees has been on leave since December due to medical issues related to a nerve injury affecting the fingers of his left hand. He has undergone cervical spine surgery and continues with a plethora of treatments. Lees has been on intermittent leave since the condition rose in April 2016. Although he was able to perform for the orchestra’s tour of Asia in March 2017 and again for the re-opening of the renovated Cincinnati Music Hall in October 2017, persisting symptoms resulted in his going back on leave.
Two Of America’s Last Three Blockbuster Video Stores Are Closing
According to the Blockbuster Alaska Facebook page, the franchise’s last two locations in the state will shut their College and Debarr locations, located in Fairbanks and Anchorage respectively, on July 16, and will reopen the next day to sell off their inventory through August.
Relocating This Science Museum Could Be The Most Expensive Museum Move In History
“The New South Wales state government is pushing ahead with a controversial plan to relocate the Powerhouse Museum — part of the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences — from central Sydney to a western suburb, despite widespread criticism and an ongoing parliamentary inquiry. At a cost of A$1.2bn ($890m), … [the project] means demolishing the museum, which opened in 1988 in Ultimo, central Sydney, and seven historic buildings in Parramatta, 23km to the west, to make way for a new museum due to open in 2023.”