In April, just days before opening night, the troubled 23-year-old star – followed in short order by his mentor, Igor Zelensky – quit a London production of the Peter Schaufuss Ballet’s adaptation of Midnight Express. Now Schaufuss has filed suit against the two dancers for £400,000 lost due to their departure.
Tag: 09.28.13
Music Director Quits Scottish Opera After Two Months On The Job
“The company said Frenchman Emmanuel Joel-Hornak had ‘withdrawn’ from his post, amid rumours of behind the scenes rows with Scottish Opera’s New Zealand-born general director Alex Reedijk. But the company provided no explanation of why Mr Joel-Hornak was leaving, when he had handed in his notice and why a swift departure had been agreed.”
Ai Weiwei Taught His Prison Guards About Conceptual Art
“So of course first they think I’m just lying. But they are fast learners. … They are all very smart, intelligent people. It’s only because their job limits them to a very limited position. … One day they came back in to interrogate me some more and they were very happy, as if they had made a great breakthrough in the case: ‘OK, we found out! You’re part of Dada.’ I said, ‘Ahh, yes, you’re a little closer.'”
Why The Booker Prize’s New World Focus Is Bad For Canadian Writers
So how can “global expansion” mean less literary diversity for the world’s most influential English-language literary prize? This question can be answered in two words: Jonathan Franzen. By which I mean that American literature, in all its mighty cultural force, is about to swim up like Moby-Dick and swallow the Booker Prize whole.
Banff Center Adjusts Its Focus On Music (And Classical Music Purists Rise Up)
“What I kind of have to keep reminding everybody here is that we’re all makers of music. Which is not the same as playing the music of someone who lived 200 years ago, in some state of perfection. It’s actually about putting yourself out there right now and making a whole bunch of choices, and every choice might fail. You know?”
What Does A Useful Critique Look Like?
The C.E.O. of Getty Images: “Say to yourself, ‘Am I going to make this significantly better, or am I going to make it only 5 or 10 percent better?’ Because in fiddling over the small stuff, you take away all the empowerment.”
Why Software Should Be Free – Now (With The NSA) More Than Ever
“If you use a program to carry out activities in your life, your freedom depends on your having control over the program. You deserve to have control over the programs you use, and all the more so when you use them for something important in your life.”
How Did New York City Ballet’s Executive Director Get To Where She Is?
Katherine E. Brown: “It was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. … The ballet needed a new approach. It had incurred serious deficits, and ticket sales and financial sources were declining.”
What’s The Value Of A Hatchet Job In Film Criticism?
“As wrong-headed as they may be, mean-spirited reductionist critiques can be really funny, particularly if served up in a pithy one-liner that pierces the heart of the movie and bursts its shimmering creative bubble.”
Will A National Latino Museum Be Derailed By An Immigration Museum?
“The two proposals are not precisely rivals, since Congress conceivably could OK both museums.” Riiiiiight.