Tag: 09.14.00

CALIFORNIA DREAMING

San Jose offers members of the disbanded Cleveland San Jose Ballet a chance to “test the waters to create a new ballet company in the Silicon Valley.” To make it happen, San Jose would have to raise an additional $2 million for the first season and “a high percentage” of the current dancers would have to sign contracts to make the plan work. Dancers have until today to sign contracts. – The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

TWO WEEKS OF BALANCHINE

The Kennedy Center kicked off it’s ambitious two-week Balanchine Celebration Tuesday, during which six companies from around the world will perform the whole range of Balanchine’s work. Perhaps surprisingly, “there is no sense of competition. Rather there is a sense that one company enhances another, and all confirm Balanchine’s faith in the classical ballet vocabulary as an enduring dance idiom. – New York Times

BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST?

There’s never been a shortage of filmmakers (from “The Agony and the Ecstasy” to “Basquiat”) trying to get inside a painter’s mind and tell the imagined backstory of a work of art. Spanish director Carlos Saura’s new film, “Goya in Bordeaux” blames a thwarted love affair for the Spanish master’s nightmarish masterpieces. – The Guardian

THE NEXT SENSATION

Two curators talk about the Royal Academy’s follow-up show to 1997’s “Sensation.” “Apart from Monet, ‘Sensation’ was the most successful exhibition we’ve had in recent years, we had 300,000 visitors and, above all, they were young visitors, and everybody likes young visitors. There’s this perception that young people are more important, so Sensation gave a kind of buzz to the Royal Academy which was unique, and they said ‘Do it again’.” – The Independent (UK)

RELUCTANT COLLABORATORS

  • Hans Haacke’s controversial installation at the Reichstag isn’t yet a success. “Because it was designed to involve MPs’ active participation, the artistic statement will never be complete. It will be missing Mr Haacke’s most important ingredient: earth. For the trough is supposed to be filled with dirt scraped together by MPs from their own constituencies. So far, about 30 [of 669] have filled the sacks provided by the artist.” – The Independent (UK)

BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST?

There’s never been a shortage of filmmakers (from “The Agony and the Ecstasy” to “Basquiat”) trying to get inside a painter’s mind and tell the imagined backstory of a work of art. Spanish director Carlos Saura’s new film, “Goya in Bordeaux” blames a thwarted love affair for the Spanish master’s nightmarish masterpieces. – The Guardian