“Performers from the Royal Ballet, the Washington Ballet and the Staatsballett Berlin – who all trained under the Royal Academy of Dance – have joined forces to call on parents not to push their children into starting pointe work just because some of their peers might have.” Says one, “Starting too early can cause enormous damage.”
Tag: 09.15.16
A Look At Hong Kong’s Enormous In-Progress Arts Center
“A game-changer for global performing arts is certainly the powerhouse taking shape in Hong Kong: the West Kowloon Cultural District. Spread across 40 hectares of land reclaimed in the 1990s as part of the HK$200 billion (£20 billion) Airport Core Programme, the hub is run by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority and will include 17 core arts and cultural venues, as well as space for arts education.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.15.16
Michael Hersch, 9/11, and the twin towers of light
The way we now live is increasingly unthinkable, with the daily news over the summer carrying accounts of one mass-killing disaster after another. What do you do with that? One answer was to be had at the the Lower East Side venue known as The Spectrum. a tiny, living-room like place … read more
AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2016-09-15
Carmen Herrera, 101-Year-Old Overnight Success, Gets Her Whitney Close-Up (with video)
Given her centenarian status, I was astonished by the Whitney Museum’s decision to schedule its Carmen Herrera show to open more than a year after the Whitney had unveiled its new facility. … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-09-15
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Latest Private Museum Suggests Growing Clout Of Collectors
That this low-profile Dutch businessman could pull together such a significant representation of Kelly’s work — with loans from the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, Tate London, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the artist’s own studio — for his private museum in a far-flung corner of the Netherlands indicates the kind of leverage that Mr. van Caldenborgh, 75, and other major collectors, now have in the art world.
Jack Hofsiss, Tony-Winning Director Who Kept Working Even After Becoming A Paraplegic, Dead At 65
When he won a Tony in 1979, at age 28, for The Elephant Man, his career kicked into overdrive – until he was paralyzed in a diving accident in 1985. But, after a long recovery and a period of depression, an invitation from the Berkshire Theater Festival restarted what would become a long career.
Thomas Heatherwick’s $150 Million ‘Stairway To Nowhere’
“By the look of the renderings officially unveiled on Wednesday morning, New York’s next significant landmark may be the city’s biggest Rorschach test, too.”