“Audiences attending a new musical called The Bookie at [Aberdeen’s] Lemon Tree Studio this week have been asked to roll a pair of dice to see how much they have to pay for their seat. Thus, if you roll snake eyes, you pay £2 or – at the other end of the scale – a double six and you pay £12.”
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‘The E.S. Dance Instrument,’ A Choreographic Flying Machine
“It really does feel like flying,’ says dancer Brian Solomon as he glides elegantly through the air, thanks to the inventive imagination of the Swedish-born aerial choreographer, Sven Borge Johansson.” Johansson’s device is “like a highly evolved teeter-totter, comprising a 6.5-metre boom, adjustable fulcrum and crossfoot support column.”
‘What Age Do You Still Wish You Were?,’ Asks a New Play
On Ageing, now at London’s Young Vic, “strive[s] to capture the experience of ageing at different stages, drawing on conversations with a wide range of people, from a four-year-old girl who regarded herself as an adult to an 86-year-old woman who insisted on the value of parties.”
Risking Her Life to Make a Film in Afghanistan
“Sonia Nassery Cole knew that shooting a movie on location in Afghanistan could get her killed. The most vivid reminder came a few weeks before filming, she said, when militants located her leading actress and cut off both of her feet.”
Jill Johnston, Cultural Critic and Lesbian Firebrand, Dead at 81
At The Village Voice in the early 1960s, she chronicled New York’s exploding avant-garde performance scene. A decade later, she became a standard-bearer of the lesbian separatist movement, with her book Lesbian Nation and such notorious events as the kiss-in she and friends staged during a Town Hall debate on feminism chaired by a sputtering Norman Mailer.
Buddy Collette, 89, L.A. Jazz Legend
“[The] Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist, flautist, bandleader and educator … played important roles in Los Angeles jazz as a musician and an advocate for the rights of African American musicians.”
Art Institute of Chicago Sues Engineering Firm Over Modern Wing
“Among the problems cited in the suit are cracks in concrete floors, condensation clouding the main vestibule glass and an air-conditioning system that can’t maintain a safe climate for artwork.” The estimated cost of repairs is $10 million.
A Means to Measure Consciousness?
“Consciousness has long been the province of philosophers, and most doctors steer clear of their abstract speculations. After all, debating the finer points of what it is like to be a brain floating in a vat does not tell you how much anesthetic to give a patient.” But one researcher suggests that consciousness is just integrated information in the brain, and that we can measure it the way we measure data in, say, a cell phone call.
Dancing Machines at Lille’s Old Train Station
The French city’s Gare Saint-Sauveur, now a cultural center, is hosting an exhibition of installations “for anyone prepared to question their perception of movement.” There’s a cylinder where two people can dance amid “a storm of polystyrene pellets,” a set of dance films made with heat-sensitive cameras, and a sculpture “featuring arms and legs from tailor’s dummies executing a mechanical dance routine.”
Barnes & Noble’s Latest Trouble: Board Battles
“Barnes & Noble sustained a setback on Monday when a powerful proxy advisory company endorsed directors proposed by the billionaire investor Ronald W. Burkle over the company’s own slate, which included its chairman, Leonard S. Riggio.”