“Movement Afoot is just one of several startup dance ensembles to emerge in the past five years in central Ohio. The groups – also including Oyo Dance Company (contemporary), New Vision Dance Co. (jazz), and Columbus Modern Dance Company and Columbus Moving Company (modern) – represent a variety of styles. Most have fewer than 10 dancers. Given the popularity of Columbus’ primary companies – BalletMet and Columbus Dance Theatre – the proliferation of ensembles raises an obvious question: Will the community support so many groups?”
Tag: 10.24.16
Poet Lucia Perillo Dead At 58
“Known for her sense of humor and her writing about living with multiple sclerosis, … she received a MacArthur ‘Genius’ fellowship [in 2000] … {and] was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her collection Inseminating the Elephant.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.24.16
When Is a Climax Not One?
The Yasmeen Godder Company from Israel mingles performers and spectators. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-10-24
Nobel Thoughts
Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, and discussions ensued: why him? These discussions are understandable and mostly reasonable, and they are good discussions to have. But at the same time, it’s … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2016-10-24
Tom Hayden: Gone But Not Forgotten
Looking back: Mad Magazine + Tom Hayden = SDS. And before I forget. Meanwhile, the obits are pouring in for Tom Hayden, who died yesterday. … read more
AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2016-10-24
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Report: The Biggest Arts Funding Continues To Go To The Largest Organizations. And So…
“The lion’s share (60%) of funding – grants, gifts and contributions – continue to go to the largest budget cultural institutions across the country (those with budgets over $5 million) and that, in fact, the funding to the smaller organizations, with budgets under $1 million has actually declined, and ‘that is a drearier future than we saw in 2011′.”
Report: Fear Is The Biggest Barrier To Diversity In the Arts
The third and final report on the survey, which was published this week, revealed that the sector is split on whether or not audiences actually resist ‘more diverse artistic product’, but this appears to be enough to put organisations off programming, producing and exhibiting it. Respondents indicated that these fears are compounded by ‘inadequate funding’. One respondent said: “When you are struggling to survive, your priorities and passions focus on playing to the paying gallery! We become risk-averse and for us, this means programming rich old white acts for a rich old white audience.”
Maintaining That Difficult Line Between Fiction And Literature
Judging fiction is easier said than done. Cyril Connolly, formerly of the Observer, once wrote that “the great difficulty in reviewing new novels is to maintain a double standard – one to judge novels as fiction and the other as literature. Luckily, very few novels pretend to be literature, but when they do it is necessary to slate them by one rule and praise them by another.” In recent memory, several Booker panels have given masterclasses in the fine art of making a sow’s ear out of a silk purse.
William Bowen, 83, Former President Of Princeton U And The Mellon Foundation
“Before leaving Mellon in 2006, Dr. Bowen was instrumental in creating global electronic archives of scholarly journals and artistic images, including JSTOR, ARTstor and also Ithaka, which provides digital services to academia.”