“YouTube began rolling out its so-called digital wellbeing tools Monday morning, which include a dashboard that tells users how much time they’ve spent on the service watching videos. The Google-owned video service also recently launched a new feature that allows users to set reminders, alerting them when it’s time to take a break from binging.”
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Visiting Art Museums Can Help Patients With Chronic Pain: Study
Researchers from UC-Davis “found that 57 percent of chronic-pain patients who attended a private hour-long tour” – branded as “Art Rx” – “of the galleries of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, reported a decrease in their pain levels up to three weeks after the tour. Most participants also generally reported feeling less socially disconnected, a common byproduct of chronic pain.”
Watching Michelle Dorrance Choreograph Tap Steps On ABT
“‘Don’t look at the mirror, look at your feet,’ Michelle Dorrance corrects. Smiling at the counterintuitive suggestion, Gillian Murphy, Devon Teuscher and Christine Shevchenko — American Ballet Theatre principals accustomed to projecting up and out to opera house balconies — look down at their pointe shoes as they shuffle into a line of tight fifth positions. As polyrhythmic strains of music fill ABT’s studios, the trio flashes through small, quicksilver position changes while Teuscher quietly counts a steady 4/4 beat that isn’t yet audible in the music.”
How You Choreograph James Corden’s Street Broadway Productions In 45-Second Bites
“Once James [Corden] steps in, you want to laugh at everything, but what makes what we’re doing funny is that we take it very seriously. So I always have to tell the dancers: ‘You approach the crosswalk like this is Broadway. Like this is the best thing you’ve ever done in your life.’ And that’s what makes it so funny, because people that are driving by are like, Why is there a full-blown production in the street?“
Props To The Lexicographers: How Aretha Franklin Got A Citation In the OED
Ben Zimmer recounts how he traced the origin of the slang word “props” to Aretha’s version of the hit “Respect” (not Otis Redding’s original) – and convinced the gatekeepers of The Oxford English Dictionary to give the Queen of Soul her due.
New Artistic Director Gets Started At Ballet Idaho
Says Garrett Anderson, “I want to create a company in which the dancers won’t just be relegated to the studio. They will understand the organization in a more holistic way, and feel a sense of agency that is not limited to choreography. That ownership will then allow them to take the choreography to a new level.”
More On Creative Placemaking From Kresge Foundation Study
“Earlier this year, the Kresge Foundation published the first in a series of white papers to help grantmakers and practitioners more successfully integrate arts and culture into community development. … Kresge recently published the second white paper, ‘Creative Placemaking and Expansion of Opportunity — Observations and Reflections,’ which surveys the state of the rapidly evolving field … Here are some key takeaways.”
After Eight Months At Calgary Opera, CEO Keith Cerny Comes Back To Texas
“Cerny was, for seven years, the General Director and CEO of the Dallas Opera. His sudden resignation from there was announced in December 2017. Cerny took charge of the Calgary Opera in January 2018. He begins his [new job as CEO of the Fort Worth Symphony] in January 2019. In the news release, he cites the travel constraints as a big reason for moving back to Texas.”
Superlative Numbers At the Met. But Crazy Ones Too
Last week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art issued a press release saying it had welcomed its one-millionth visitor to its special Costume Institute exhibition, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination. Really? Truth is, we can’t be sure of that. Because of the complex installation, actual numbers are nearly impossible to compute.
Monday Recommendation: Luciana Souza
Luciana Souza, The Book Of Longing (Sunnyside)
Returning to recording, Luciana Souza is inspired by poetry. The Book Of Longing finds her drawing inspiration from poets of two centuries …