The style of movement, “which Naharin devised when he had back trouble,… is rooted in the dancers’ own movement patterns, making them conscious of their bodies in an extraordinary way, graceful and jerky at the same time, strong in balance and vivid in the articulation of every muscle and bone. The results are distinctive, but limiting.”
Tag: 10.22.08
Founder of America’s Biggest Little Circus Is Leaving the Ring
“Paul Binder, the 66-year-old founder, artistic director and ringmaster of the Big Apple Circus, will be stepping away from the tanbark next year after three decades as boss man of the little top.”
George Frideric Handel, Businessman and Gourmand
“London’s Handel House Museum, where the German-born composer died, will host an exhibition in 2009 focussing on his passion for food and his finances to mark the 250th anniversary of his death.”
Margaret Atwood Says She’s Not a Social Campaigner
“There are aspects of my books that are there because they are present in real life. It’s not my mission to carry out this task or else I wouldn’t be a writer, I would be a leader of some movement or a propagandist. It would bore us all to read something where everything is wonderful, where everything goes well, without any problems.”
Financial Times to Lay Off Up to 60 Staffers
“FT management has begun consultation with employees about the redundancies, with staff in the editorial library and the managing editor’s office at risk of losing their jobs. Other employees who face possible redundancy include staff from advertising sales, finance, IT, conferences and marketing. No journalists will be made redundant, but FT insiders fear the loss of librarians will affect editorial quality.”
Getty Acquires Valuable Bronzes, To UK Chagrin
The J. Paul Getty Museum is preparing for the arrival of two bronze casts of a pair of ancient marble sculptures in Florence. “The Getty recently purchased the bronzes for an undisclosed sum from London dealer Daniel Katz, after the British Cultural Ministry’s effort to keep the artworks in England failed to raise the officially recommended price of about $10 million.”
Is Broadway Giving Audiences Too Much Of A Say?
“The latest exhibit in [the] desire to play it safe on Broadway – to ensure that audiences get exactly what they want – is the ghastly audience survey, a little ballot that turns every theatergoer into a junior George Abbott, the legendary director who used to ‘doctor’ his friends’ shows out of town… But let’s be honest: The audience survey is ridiculous. You can’t fine-tune a great musical by pandering to Mr. and Mrs. Great Neck.”
Novelist Scores Trifecta Of Canadian Literary Noms
“Rawi Hage’s Cockroach, already nominated this year for the Scotiabank Giller and the Rogers Writers’ Trust prizes, added a Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction nomination to the list yesterday. It is the only novel in the running for all three of Canada’s top book prizes.”
Empty Chair in T.O. To Mark Absence Of Burmese Poet
“Most featured writers at this year’s International Festival of Authors will spend Toronto’s 29th annual literary happening engaged in readings, panel discussions, book signings and media interviews… Not so Maung Thura, the Burmese poet, activist and comedian better known to his countrymen by the stage name Zargana. Zargana will pass the event in the same way that he has spent much of the past 20 years: imprisoned in a Rangoon cell by the military rulers of Burma.”
Christo Makes A Public Plea For His River Project
Colorado officials may not yet have decided whether to allow Christo to cover a 40-mile stretch of the Arkansas River in cloth canopies, but that’s not stopping the artist from drumming up support for the project as far away as Washington, D.C. “This whole exhibition feels more like a publicity campaign for a product than like a considered investigation of an important aesthetic event.”