Less than a day after the leak of an email in which board chair Ronald Perelman said that executive and artistic director Clive Gillinson had shown “a troubling lack of transparency” and that the Board of Directors was failing to provide “appropriate oversight,” Perelman told the board’s executive committee he would not stand for re-election next month.
Tag: 09.17.15
Dance As Protest: Pretty Big Movement
“Pretty Big Movement, seven big women who seamlessly blend African dance with hip hop, plan to stage a protest dance for Black Lives Matter this month. They’ll perform in front of a police precinct down the street from where they rehearse at the Harlem YMCA.”
Study: There’s A Difference In The “Promiscuity” Of Audiences
“New research drawn from Audience Finder, based mainly on performing arts data, shows that the most highly engaged attenders, those who made six or more bookings per year, account for less than 12% of all bookers in the last three years. This select group is, however, responsible for making more than half (52%) of all the bookings made in the last three years. At the same time, 54% all those who have attended the arts in the last three years have only booked once. At 17.3% these one-time bookers are responsible for making less than a fifth of all bookings made during that time.”
An Odd Opera Racial Tradition Now Coming To An End At The Met Opera
That leading opera houses have continued to use blackface into the early 21st century, long after minstrel shows and similar performances have been rejected as racist, may be more surprising to many people than that the practice is now being ended by the Met, after 124 years, for the new production of “Otello” that will open its 2015-16 season on Monday, Sept. 21.