“What they created was probably the most intensive and creative art and architectural movement of the 20th century, a sourcebook so copious that there’s scarcely any movement since that wasn’t anticipated by something tried and discarded between 1915 and 1935.”
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Mikhail Baryshnikov Can’t (Won’t) Stop Dancing
“I’m not dancing in white tights, after all. I’m dancing in street shoes and in jeans sometimes. It’s called dance, too. There are all kinds of movement – look at artists in tango or flamenco or butoh or hula. People dance at any age’.”
New Headache For Spider-Man As Investor Sues
“The cost of using a Broadway theater became more expensive after the production experienced delays and one woman who put up collateral for the show is still waiting for her money.”
Trisha Brown As Choreographic Mentor
“[Stephen] Petronio’s dances may be as brash and dark as Brown’s are soft and sunny; [Vicky] Shick may take her cues from persona and behaviour as much as from the gravity and momentum that inform Brown’s aesthetic – but Brown’s working method has influenced them deeply.”
NY Theatre – Remembering A Social Role In Class Struggle?
“Plays in New York haven’t been noted for their sweeping social consciousness in recent years (or even decades). But in the past couple of seasons the theater has seemed to remember the inherent dramatic value within the dialogue, or lack thereof, between classes.”
Van Gogh’s Socks And Pollock’s Viscosity – For Kids
“We have one for Van Gogh. It’s called Van Gogh’s sock drawer,” says an Indianpolis arts TV show producer. “What did he put in his coffee? What was he like on a daily basis? The kids get really excited when I make [the artists] more human.”
Surfing A Wave Of K-Pop – And It’s Not About To Go Away
YouTube makes the music market deeply global – and Korean pop music? Yeah, that’s about to take over everything. Listen, and learn what might show up next at your town’s concert hall.
To Be Read Pile: It’s Never Going To Happen. Breathe.
“I have never enjoyed a novel by Eudora Welty enough to keep going. I think I got to the end of V., which may be even worse than having put it down, and know for a certainty I never got far in Gravity’s Rainbow.”
Ira Glass Could Give A Damn If Radio Survives (So Stop Asking Him!)
This American Life’s Ira Glass: “For some reason radio seems to survive, and I believe it’s because as long as there are cars with radios and people are lazy, people will get into a car and turn on a radio. And thank God people are fucking lazy. And like radio sort of just is there.”
Footloose But Not So Fancy Free For An American At The Bolshoi
The first American to be named a principal dancer at the Bolshoi says he’ll never be a Bolshoi dancer, but he’s ready to meet the weight of expectations. First, he might have to learn to stop smiling so much.