“People would REALLY stop coming to the theater. And we’d realize that it wasn’t ‘risk’ we were missing all along, but connection to our audiences. And we’d start re-thinking things.”
Tag: 09.02.12
Activists Disrupt Israeli Dance Group’s Performances In Scotland
As protests went on during three separate performances by the Batsheva Dance Company, “the dancers stood stock still on stage, the curtain was lowered and the house lights brought up until the protesters were ejected.”
Co-Founder Of File-Sharing Site Pirate Bay Arrested In Cambodia
“A founder of the Pirate Bay filesharing website has been arrested in Cambodia at the request of Swedish police. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, was detained in Phnom Penh by officers executing an international warrant issued against him in April after he did not turn up to serve a one-year jail sentence for copyright violations.”
Will Einstein On The Beach Make Sense In 2012?
“Questions abound: Will a classic from the past, especially one full of timebound pop-culture references, look dated today? Will its eccentricities of pacing and form seem more or less convincing than they once were? And for those of us who loved the work in its previous incarnations, to what extent will these recast Brooklyn performances test the strength of our nostalgia?”
Dance Isn’t Just Invading Art Museums, It’s Settling In
“In recent years the form has become a high-profile fixture in museums, galleries and international exhibitions. What at first seemed like a run-of-the-mill trend has developed into a thoughtful integration. … And performance series are being incorporated into historical surveys.”
Why The Culture Wars Are A Good Thing
“While many find these disagreements disheartening, I will argue that they can be a good thing – if we manage to make them fruitful for a culture debate. Can we be sure that our beliefs about the world match how the world actually is and that our subjective preferences match what is objectively in our best interest?”
Mixing Documentary, Anthropology And Art Film
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, director of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab: “It takes ethnography seriously. It’s not as though you can do ethnography with a two-day, fly-by-night visit somewhere. But it also takes ‘sensory’ seriously. Most anthropological writing and most ethnographic film, with the exception of some truly great works, is so devoid of emotional or sensory experience.”
Alexander Saxton, 93, Manhattan Preppie Turned Working Man, Novelist, Historian
The child of the editor in chief at Harper & Brothers, he was an Exeter and Harvard student who left school to become a regular Chicago laborer. His experiences working and living within the working class informed his entire career – as the author of three successful novels, a prolific left-wing journalist, and ultimately one of America’s top historians of the labor movement and race relations.