Adolphe Binder, previously the director of the GöteborgsOperan Danskompani, was the fourth director to run the Tanztheater Wuppertal since Bausch’s death, and the first to have had no direct relationship with the choreographer or her works. (The longtime Wuppertal member Dominique Mercy ran the company with Bausch’s assistant and rehearsal director Robert Sturm until 2013, when they were succeeded by Lutz Förster, another veteran company member.)
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Amid Serious Budget Woes, Toronto’s Luminato Festival Loses Its Artistic Director
Josephine Ridge was only in the job for two years. She has previously served as artistic director of the Melbourne Festival and as executive director of the Sydney Festival for nearly a decade.
Why Are Authors Advised To Ignore Bad Reviews? We’d Be Better Off If They Didn’t
“Our literary culture would be richer if we could observe more interactions between authors and critics. (A couple of very smart people explain why they think this is a bad idea here.) Unfortunately, authors are routinely advised to ignore negative reviews, while positive reviews are showered with smiley faces on social media, as though literary criticism were simply an extension of book marketing.”
Alternative Nobel Reveals Its Longlist – And It’s A Pleasant Surprise
The New Academy asked Swedish librarians to nominate an author from anywhere in the world who has told the story of “humans in the world” – and the resulting longlist is surprisingly surprising. Yes, some of the perennial Nobel contenders are here, and deservedly so: Cormac McCarthy is nominated, as are Margaret Atwood, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Amos Oz and Haruki Murakami. But the librarians have also added some fresh faces to the usual suspects
How Netflix Figured Out How To Dominate The Emmys
Yeah, it spent billions. But “Netflix racked up its dominant tally by having lots of Emmy-approved shows in many categories, rather than one or two overperforming titles — perhaps the best possible outcome for an outlet whose business model is geared toward appealing to as wide an audience as possible. While HBO, NBC, and Hulu all had shows with more than 20 nominations, Netflix’s biggest performer — The Crown — earned a comparatively modest 13 noms.”
A National Review Intern Goes To The Whitney Museum And Decides… (Surprise) It’s Not Really A Museum
“One gets the feeling the patrons of this museum visit to prove how progressive they are. They do not care that the so-called art is the quintessence of bilge. They care only that it advances the ideology de rigueur. The March for Life has been going on since 1974, yet we find no “Abortion Is Murder” sign in the quite incomplete history of protest. That would get the museum shunned by high society. Indeed, there is no reason the Whitney should go on calling itself an art museum now that it has forgone artistic merit as its selection criterion. Let it call itself the Protest Shrine — at least then the unwoke will save their money.
Despite Efforts, Lack Of Diversity Is Still A Big Problem In America’s Orchestras
African-Americans make up 1.8 percent of orchestras nationwide while Hispanics make up 2.5 percent, according to an industry-wide study. Those statistics inspired several performing arts organizations to form the National Alliance for Audition Support, which prepares talented musicians of color for auditions. Making it past that first hurdle is crucial as one opening in a top-tier orchestra can easily attract as much as a thousand candidates.
Enormous Casino Going Up In The Shadow Of Santa Fe Opera Has Fans Worried
The casino, a multimillion-dollar project by Tesuque Pueblo, is being built on land that housed a flea market for many years. Construction has been moving rapidly since it started in earnest earlier this year, and the casino is expected to open this fall. Exactly what the finished product will look like — or how it will affect people’s experience at the opera — is a big unknown because the project is still in the works.