The Finnish choreographer “was a promising young goalie. And if you know anything about hockey, you know that goalies need to be incredibly flexible. They need to be able to do some serious splits. To do that, the young netminder, the son of a physician and a dentist, signed up for his first dance lessons at 12.”
Tag: 10.09.13
World’s Oldest Public Cinema Reopens After Restoration
The Eden Theatre in the French seaside town of La Ciotat, near Marseilles, was where the Lumière brothers showed their moving picture – shot locally – of an oncoming train that had viewers leaping from their seats in fear. Now the 1889 house “as undergone a €6.5m … refurbishment that has more than restored its former glory.”
Another Damn Fool Male Conductor Mansplains Why Women Can’t Conduct
“Conductor and composer Bruno Mantovani lit a firestorm last Friday when Radio France posted an interview with him in which he ran through a veritable laundry list of putative reasons why women couldn’t succeed as conductors, ranging from infant-bearing to child-rearing to our innate lack of brawn and stamina.”
Juilliard School Gets $60 Million Gift For Scholarships
Bruce Kovner, chairman of the school’s board, has funded a set of fellowships – 25 immediately, increasing gradually to 52 by 2018 – that will cover all of a student’s expenses, from tuition, room and board to textbooks and travel expenses.
Why The French Want A Law Protecting Bookstores From Amazon
This summer the culture minister “accused Amazon of driving prices down in order to raise them once a monopoly had been secured. The concept is so repellent to national sentiment that an English word has been commandeered to describe it: dumping. … As online sales rise, Amazon has come to be seen in France as le mastodonte américain, the mammoth capitalist interloper rumbling across the Atlantic to trample on the delicacies of culture.”
Is There Any Kind Of Play Marianne Elliott Can’t Direct Brilliantly?
We may know her best for War Horse, but Michael Mopurgo selected her to direct the staging of his book after seeing her production of Shaw’s Saint Joan. She directed Kim Cattrall in Sweet Bird of Youth for Kevin Spacey’s Old Vic, and her National Theatre staging of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won seven Olivier Awards.
Have A Look At The World’s Coolest Currency Notes
You think the U.S. Mint’s new $100 bill is impressive? “Perhaps nothing that rolls out of our ATMs will ever compete with the patriotic phantasmagoria of Kazakhstan’s currency, which looks like what would happen if you gave Robert Rauschenberg the keys to the Office of Printing and Engraving.”
Norman Rockwell Painting Goes Missing From Queens Storage Space
“The painting was found to be missing from Welpak Art Moving and Storage in Queens on the evening of Sept. 13, the police said. The warehouse, at 58-60 Grand Avenue in Maspeth, provides shipping and storage services for museums, art galleries and private collectors, according to its Web site.”
Film Critic Stanley Kauffmann, 97
“Mr. Kauffmann’s varied careers went from being an actor and a stage manager with a Manhattan repertory company, and as a book editor and a writer of vaguely philosophical novels, before he was named film critic at The New Republic in 1958. His reflective, highly wrought essays appeared weekly for the next 55 years, with a break in 1966, when he was briefly the chief theater critic for The New York Times.”
Five Major Threats To Our World Heritage
“Ranging from as iconic a site as the St. Louis Arch to an overlooked mask-making tradition in Hong Kong to the entire country of Syria, the sites include landscapes, religious structures, and vernacular structures along with architectural sites, each selected from 248 nominations”