In Toronto, “Kaeja d’Dance is presenting Porch View Dances, a series of pop-up, pay-what-you-can shows that are turning a downtown community’s porches and courtyards into temporary stages. “
Tag: 07.20.12
Pinterest, Tumblr, And A Lot Of Wasted ‘Curation’ Time
“Like other forms of pastiche — the mix tape, the playlist, the mash-up — these sites force you to engage and derive meaning or at least significance or at the very least pleasure from a random grouping of pictures. Why not dive into an alternative world full of beauty and novelty and emotion and the hard-to-put-your-finger-on feeling that there’s something more, somewhere, where you’re not chained to your laptop, half dead from monotony, frustration and boredom?”
Don’t Even Try That Handwritten Manuscript Thing With Modern Musicians; Engraving’s Where It’s At
“It is now completely within any composer’s grasp to control the look and feel of their music to the nth degree and as more of us become fluent in truly professional engraving techniques, the more attention we can give towards the actual content of the music itself.”
London Research In The Spotlight – With Cool Graphics
“Britain’s capital is, and always has been, a place that ferments cultural and scientific change.” Some research from and about the Olympics host: home-field advantage (boosts of testosterone might explain it), global warming threats to the city (the Thames Barrier, let’s say, is a little busy), and a lot more.
Rain In The UK Spoils Yet Another Theatre Festival
The UK’s first vaudeville festival has been rescheduled to May 2013, joining a list of other fests cancelled this summer due to rain and flood fears.
They Don’t Write Those Jazz Standards Like They Used To
Apparently, no new jazz standard has been composed since 1974. Ted Gioia says that’s because right around then, the repertoire was becoming codified – standardized.
When Popular Culture Looked Back
Turn the clock back exactly a half-century and you’ll find yourself in a different America–but one fraught with subtle signs and portents of what was to come. Nowhere is that lost world of confident certitude more clearly visible than in the surviving relics of its popular culture.
Tom Davis, 59, SNL Writer And Al Franken’s Partner
“In 2004, contestants on Jeopardy! were stumped by the clue ‘He was the comedy partner of Al Franken.’ … But the fact is that Mr. Davis helped shape Mr. Franken’s comedy, and vice versa, from the time they entertained students with rebellious, razor-edged humor at high school assemblies in Minnesota.”
Cate Blanchett And Andrew Upton On Running Sydney Theatre Company
She: “[It’s] healthy, anarchic randomness [mixed with] rational, militaristic-like precision.” He: “[It’s] the marriage of the business and the art, which isn’t necessarily an unhappy marriage. … Because in the end, you want happy audiences. You want people to come and see your shows. No one’s trying –” She: “– to be Grotowski. It’s just guiding the right audience to the right show.” He: “We haven’t quite cracked that yet, but we’re working on it.”
Stolen Matisse Odalisque Seized In Miami Hotel Sting
Odalisque in Red Pants was reported missing from the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas in 2002; thieves had put a forgery in the frame and taken the original. “On Tuesday, F.B.I. agents in Miami arrested two people in a sting operation and accused them of trying to sell the long-lost painting, said to be worth $3 million.”