The real theatre revolution should be theatres. The buildings. They should “be buildings that can respond, sensitively and nurturingly and challengingly and ambitiously, to an artform that wants to be all the things that buildings, and especially big theatre buildings, often can’t be: fleet, acute, unorthodox, dissident, liquid, ticklish, erotic, hopeful.”
Tag: 10.02.10
Architecture’s New Rock Star? Newfoundlander Todd Saunders
“Hooked. On architecture. That’s what you’ll be feeling after the Fogo Island arts colony is done with you. A series of pavilions cut like shards of volcanic stone are being constructed off the coast of Newfoundland at the edge of the raging Atlantic.”
Paris Decides Larry Clark’s Photos of Teens Are for Adults Only
“US photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark attacked a minimum 18 age-restriction on an exhibition of his work due to open in Paris as an attack by the older generation on teenagers. … Clark’s influential work as a photographer and as a film-maker has focussed on teenage culture. They are an often unflinching look at sex, nudity and drug use.”
Houston Symphony Players Ratify New Contract
No Detroit-style problems down there: HSO musicans have “ratified a four-year-contract that keeps them on stage through the orchestra’s 100th anniversary season. The new agreement freezes salaries for the 86 players at a $1,575 weekly minimum for the first year of the agreement.”
Emanuel Gat, the Anti-Choreographer
“I’m really passive,” Gat whispers to an interviewer. “I observe and make tiny corrections. I don’t impose choreography, I create an environment for choreography to grow. I don’t plan. I allow it to happen.”
Praise Gaia! UK Officially Recognizes (Neo-)Druidry As a Religion
“The Charity Commission has accepted that druids’ worship of natural spirits could be seen as religious activity. The Druid Network’s charitable status entitles it to tax breaks, but the organisation says it does not earn enough to benefit from this.”
The Loneliness of the Mexican Modern-Dance-Maker
“Mexican choreographer Tania Pérez-Salas labors in greater obscurity than most artists in her field. In her country, modern dance is peripheral and support is minimal. The recognition isn’t much better elsewhere in the world, where the image of Mexican dance tends to be … women swishing voluminous skirts and men stomping around in wide-brimmed hats.”
Venice – Your (Giant) Ad Here
“The price, however, is not high; it costs about €40,000 a month for three years to cover part of Doge’s Palace overlooking the lagoon and connecting with the Bridge of Sighs–less than two pages of advertising in a daily paper. And even with this money coming in, the restoration is still €600,000 short of the €2.8m needed to finish the job.”
How We Relate To Color
Yellow or pink flowers? The green or blue sweater? From cars to furniture to iPods, we make decisions about color all the time. Now, scientists are starting to figure out why we like the hues we do.
What Really Killed Canadian Painter Tom Thomson?
“That suspicious death – accident? murder? suicide? – and the subsequent question as to whether his body remained at Canoe Lake, where his friends had buried him, or had later been exhumed at the Thomson family’s request and taken to Leith, Ont., has made Tom Thomson Canada’s greatest enduring mystery, his famous works inextricably tied to his fate.”