Marc Brew, an Australian Ballet alumnus who is now artistic director of the Oakland-based AXIS Dance Company, writes about the spinal-cord injury that left him in a wheelchair and how he continued to work as a performer and choreographer afterward.
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Anthony Roth Costanzo on Glass, Handel and “putting it together.”
Opera singers aren’t brought up to be as enterprising as Anthony Roth Costanzo. But few have his resume: He’s a child Broadway star-turned Princeton student-turned countertenor. Was Stephen Sondheim’s great networking song, “Putting it Together,” playing in the background when David Patrick Stearns met up with Costanzo a few weeks ago? No, but it should’ve been.
Can ‘Insta Novels’ Get Young People Excited About Literature?
“[The New York Public Library] will be releasing digitized versions of classic novels, novellas, and short stories on their Instagram account, @nypl, through the ‘Stories’ and ‘Highlights’ features. … The campaign started with Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, which released with 200 pages distributed over the course of two days. Forthcoming titles include The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.”
The Three Genres Of Post-Ringling Bros. Circus
“Circus using performing animals, now restricted in 43 different countries, is dying out. It has been replaced by three different sub-genres, according to Brisbane Festival artistic director David Berthold. First, is the Cirque Du Soleil approach: big, ballsy, and cinematic (essentially traditional circus without the tigers). Second, is blockbuster cabaret that contains high circus skills (think the down n’ dirty Blanc de Blanc). The third is what Berthold calls ‘art circus’.”
Unprecedented: Big Media Companies In Leadership Turmoil
While executives come and go regularly, no one can remember a time when there was so much change and turmoil at the top of all of the networks.