“Instead of relying on one developer to finance the $240 million project, a group known as Fidi Global has pushed a different model for the skyscraper: to have Colombians fund the building themselves. After an extensive advertising campaign on billboards, radio, and TV, more than 3,000 people (see the video above) have invested in a share in the building and raised over $145 million so far.”
Tag: 09.23.12
Debut Of Millepied’s L.A. Dance Project: Well, The Dancers Were Good
In fact, by all reports, the six dancers in the company were terrific and Walt Disney Concert Hall was a congenial venue. What’s more, the program included important revivals of two challenging modernist works, William Forsythe’s Quintett and Merce Cunningham’s Winterbranch. Millepied’s new piece, Moving Parts, however …
Sacramento Ballet Gives Up Live Music For Nutcracker
“In a sign of financially challenging times, the ballet will not hire a live orchestra for the traditional holiday production. Over the past two years the company has run a cumulative $320,000 deficit, said Greg Smith, executive director of the Sacramento Ballet.”
Do We Need To Reinvent Ethics For The 21st Century?
Howard Gardner: “Given little or nothing new in the human firmament, traditional morality – the ‘goods’ and ‘bads’ as outlined in the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule – should suffice. My view of the matter is quite different. As I see it, human beings and citizens in complex, modern democratic societies regularly confront situations in which traditional morality provides little if any guidance.”
Skin Color Is Not A Problem In British Ballet, Say These Dancers
“On Friday 5 October, at the Birmingham Hippodrome, Céline Gittens and Tyrone Singleton of Birmingham Royal Ballet will dance the lead roles in the company’s production of Swan Lake. In doing so, the pair will turn an important page in the art form’s history. Both are mixed-race, and it will be the first time that the ballerina role has been taken by a non-white dancer.”
The Library With No Rules
“Manila’s Reading Club 2000 is a library like no other: it lets anyone borrow and then bring back or keep any of its thousands of books.”
Philadelphia Orchestra In Peril
“If we do not act decisively now, we will lose the orchestra.”
The National (And International) Effects Of The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Strike
Will planned CSO concerts in other cities be cancelled as the musicians and management take hard-line stances on the contract?
Modernizing A History Museum, And Making A City Take Notice
“The Atwater Kent Museum … is now the Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent, a modernized showcase for everything from George Washington’s desk to Joe Frazier’s boxing gloves.”
Here Comes Everyone, Or At Least, Here Sleeps Everyone
What does the massive success of Air BnB tell us about disruption and what might happen in our future?