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Tag: 10.31.12
Batsheva Dance Company Tries Out Cunningham/Cage-Style Indeterminacy
In Session, the dancers’ movement vocabulary comes from Ohad Naharin, their artistic director, and house choreographer Sharon Eyal, but the rules (such as they are) determining where they move and when are vrey much along the lines of an old Merce Cunningham-John Cage happening. (A DJ determines the music on the spot, without dancer input.)
Polish Rock Star To Be Tried For Ripping Up A Bible
“Poland’s supreme court has issued a landmark judgment against a heavy metal musician who tore up a Bible at a gig in 2007. Although the judges conceded that Adam Darski, AKA Nergal, did not intend to offend his audience, they ruled that he could still have ‘offended religious feelings’, violating Polish law.”
Glyndebourne Cancels Performance Following Death Of Singer
“Robert Poulton, a baritone with Glyndebourne opera, was tragically killed in a car accident in Sussex late last night. He had been due on stage tonight at the Theatre Royal, Norwich in Dvorak’s Rusalka as part of the company’s 2012 tour. But as a mark of respect to his family and colleagues the performance has been cancelled.”
Lebbeus Woods, 72, Visionary Conceptual Architect
“The last of the great paper architects, Woods achieved cult-idol status among architects for his post-apocalyptic landscapes of dense lines and plunging perspectives.”
New Piece Added to Puzzle of Truman Capote’s Answered Prayers
“A small piece of Truman Capote’s famously unfinished novel Answered Prayers has come to light. The six-page story, ‘Yachts and Things,’ found among Capote’s papers in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library, is published in the December issue of Vanity Fair.”
The Artwork That Big Coal Declared War On
Chris Drury’s Carbon Sink: What Goes Around Comes Around, installed at the University of Wyoming in late 2011, “consisted of a 36-foot-wide circle of logs from beetle-killed trees, arranged in a whirlpool pattern around a pile of coal. … In May 2012, however, just after most students left campus, Carbon Sink quietly disappeared.”
NY Culture Shuts Down For Clean Up
“Shutdowns past Wednesday were possible as some organizations waited for word on how much transportation would be available to take art-gazers, music-listeners and theatergoers to their destinations before making any announcements.”
Are Tourists Ruining The Sistine Chapel?
“Earlier this month, Italian literary critic Pietro Citati sparked a storm by writing an open letter in a major Italian newspaper denouncing the behaviour of crowds visiting what is technically a sacred place. Tourists, he said, “resemble drunken herds” as they unwittingly risked damaging the frescoes with their breath, their perspiration, the dust on their shoes and their body heat.”
What Disney’s Acquisition Of Lucas Means For Movies
“Disney’s increased reliance on these powerhouse production companies underscores the role of a studio that’s not so much a story incubator but a marketing juggernaut.”