“Harvey Fierstein, who won Tony Awards for best play and best actor in 1983 for his landmark gay drama, Torch Song Trilogy, but has mostly written musical scripts since then, has a new play coming to Broadway for the first time in nearly 30 years.”
Tag: 09.09.13
Ballet’s Color Problem, As Seen By A Royal Ballet Member
Eric Underwood: “In a corps de ballet, especially for women, the idea is to be identical: you’re trying to move the same and not call attention to yourself. For someone who isn’t white, that’s difficult. You’re left with a choice: you have to either become so great a dancer that you’re not left in a chorus or a line, or embrace your beauty and hope others do, too.”
An App Built To Help Dance Go Viral?
“Trance is built to let dancers create and share minute-long video clips of their work with a dance-focused audience. The Trance platform is aimed at letting dancers show off their unique styles, and enabling dance fans to see the latest work from their favorite artists — and discover new artists to love.”
How Libraries Are Evolving
“Libraries were places of silence with pockets of group work and activity. In the 21st century university, they are becoming places of learning activity with pockets of silence.”
Does Playing Music At Work Help Or Hurt Productivity?
“Police in England and Wales paid £660,952 for licences so staff could listen to music in offices in the past year, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. But does music played at work help or hinder employees?”
The Role Of Snobbery In Appreciating Classical Music
“The reason that research can seemingly suggest that our enjoyment of wine, certain foods, and classical music is BS can tell us a lot about snobbery and how we experience the finer things in life, the limitations of expert judgment in any field, and why marketing is so powerful.”
A Need For Bigger Thinking In The Arts
“If student loans, or the threat of student loans, are a significant barrier to high quality talent entering and staying in our field, then we should use our collective power to lobby the federal government to forgive all student debt. Not just for artists, for everyone. Much in the way the technology community is currently advocating for immigration reform for everyone, not just programmers. For young artists and administrators, forgiving their debt would be equivalent to giving them a substantial raise.”
The Best Ideas From Anywhere (Just Asking)
The arts are supposed to be about ideas. And yet are they just our ideas or should we be seeking the best ideas from outside the arts?
Study: Majority Of Orchestra Musicians Play In Pain
“Eighty-four percent reported experiencing pain that interfered with their performance at some point in their career. Precisely half the players “reported experiencing current pain during performance.”
Osmo Vänskä Extends Deadline For Leaving Minnesota Orchestra
The orchestra’s music director “is easing his deadline for a restart of rehearsals as part of the drive to end the orchestra’s lockout of musicians, and by extension, his threat to resign.”