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Tag: 11.16.11
Dallas-Area Ballet Troupe Up And Disappears
“Paul Mejia’s Metropolitan Classical Ballet has vacated its premises in Arlington. … ‘They stopped paying their rent and we found the doors locked by the landlord’,” said the head of once dance center who shared teachers with MCB.
Holding Together The Pieces Of Frederick Ashton’s Ballets
On top of all the usual difficulties of preserving an art form as ephemeral as dance, Ashton had a problematic attitude toward his artistic legacy: As he himself put it, “F*** posterity!” Tony Dyson, founder of the Ashton Trust talks about how he and his colleagues keep Ashton’s ballets alive on stage.
Another Completion of Mozart’s Requiem (And This One’s Postmodern)
Composer Michael Finnissy: “Supposing Mozart was alive now in 2011 and he was looking back at himself in 1791 – what would he have to take account of musically, because we are in a completely different musical period? I imagined Mozart in the present day, working to complete the Requiem, looking back across the centuries which have passed since his death.”
US Congress Battles Over IP Bill That Tech Companies Say Would “Break The Internet”
“Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, AOL, Yahoo, eBay, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and a host of other groups and companies oppose the measure, saying the bill will break the internet as we know it.”
Google Opens Digital Music Store To Challenge iTunes
“Looking to extend its reach as a hub for entertainment and social networking, Google introduced a set of music features on Wednesday, including a download store to compete with iTunes.”
How Rafael Bonachela Got To Live His Dream
“I get up in the morning and it’s like, I’m doing everything in the world that I’ve always wanted to do: I have 16 great dancers and four studios and I’m living in Sydney, a city that is beyond beautiful.” Judith Mackrell gets the choreographer, now artistic director of the Sydney Dance Company, to tell how he got there.
Ai Weiwei Speaks On Tax Evasion Charges
“I was a hostage a half year ago. Now I paid the ransom and I feel [I’m] being robbed – but, you know, officially, eh?”
London’s Tricycle Theatre Names Successor To Longtime Director Nicholas Kent
“Indhu Rubasingham is to be the new artistic director of the Tricycle theatre, when Nicolas Kent steps down in May next year after 28 years in charge.”
New York City Opera Rejects Performers’ Offer To Perform For Free
The endangered company’s orchestral players and singers had offered to give up their pay for this season in exchange for maintaining health insurance and other benefits and a say in management. Administrators say that the company cannot afford even that proposal and can only pay per hour of labor.