‘YouTube Is Awash in Pirouettes! Is Virtuosity the New Porn?’

“Google your favorite ballet stars, and you’ll find assorted bravura passages that show off his leaps, his spins, her balances on the tip of her tiny, heavily shellacked toe, their amazing flexibility. … Subtleties don’t play well on YouTube, so the abundant dance clips have been promoting a kind of connoisseurship of virtuosity.”

Seoul’s Stadium Turandot Cancelled for Second Time

An extravagant staging of the Puccini potboiler planned for the city’s World Cup Stadium next month, with Lorin Maazel conducting, has been called off “due to low ticket sales and severe weather conditions, the organizers said. … The canceled show was initially planned for May, but was called off then because of the sinking of the warship Cheonan.”