“Arts Council England has emerged unscathed from a major ‘efficiency’ review of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s arm’s length bodies, which has seen both the UK Film Council and the Museums , Libraries and Archives Council abolished.”
Tag: 07.26.10
Could Margaret Atwood’s Dystopias Actually Happen?
“Yes, absolutely. One of the things people … were working on in 2001 when I was actually halfway through Oryx and Crake, is the ability to create diseases. We can do that now. … People thought when I wrote Oryx and Crake that I made all this stuff up. I actually hadn’t. Year of the Flood? Granted I stretch it a bit, but these things are quite doable.”
Pacino Merchant of Venice Schedules Broadway Run
“On Monday, the Public Theater said it will transfer its Shakespeare in the Park production of The Merchant of Venice to Broadway in the fall. Al Pacino will stay on in the role of Shylock,” as will “most” of this summer’s cast. The run is scheduled from Oct. 19 through Jan. 9.
‘Fall for Dance’ 2010 to Feature Rare Cunningham Work
Merce Cunningham’s Xover, with music by John Cage and scenery by Robert Rauschenberg, “will make its New York debut as part of New York City Center’s 2010 Fall for Dance Festival.” Other performers in the series, for which all seats are $10, include India’s Madhavi Mudgal, Spain’s Company Rafaela Carrasco, Taiwan’s Shu-Yi & (Dancers) Company and hip-hop dancer Mr. Wiggles.
Choreographers, Stop Blogging About Your Damned Process!
Dance magazine editor Wendy Perron: “I realize a blog is a good way to keep your website alive and to involve your potential audience. But explaining how you make a dance, the problems you encounter and how you solve them, is not going to help either you as the choreographer or your potential audience. To dig into your imagination enough to make a dance, you need to be embroiled in a place where there is no explanation.”
‘The Harmony Institute Wants to Change Your Mind – At the Movies’
“In the last few weeks, a little-noticed nonprofit with big ideas about the persuasive power of movies and television shows quietly began an initiative aimed at getting filmmakers and others to use the insights and techniques of behavioral psychology in delivering social and political messages through their work.”