An estimated 100 million people speak Swahili – more than French, Turkish, or Korean. And now enthusiasts are trying to spread use of the language all across Africa. (audio)
Tag: 11.22.16
Reimagining A Bauhaus Ballet For The Age Of Smartphones And Artificial Intelligence
Oskar Schlemmer created his 1922 Triadic Ballet as a response to the Industrial Age. Now two curators and 30 collaborators, including Karole Armitage (choreography) and furniture designers the Campana brothers (costumes), have mounted an updated version in, of all places, Jersey City.
‘Blamegiving Day’ – For Decades, Secularists Campaigned To Get God Out Of Thanksgiving And Concern For The Poor Into It
You think the “War on Christmas” is a bitter struggle, Bill O’Reilly? Pish-posh. Repeated efforts by secularists to erase the religious element from a U.S. government-declared national holiday go all the way back to President Grover Cleveland and before.
Eight Broadway Stars And Directors Give Their Thoughts On Trump’s Tweets And Theater As Safe Space
Susan Stroman: “For somebody like me who’s done The Scottsboro Boys, it’s a space to start a conversation.”
Matthew Broderick: “We’re now talking about yet another nonissue. … It’s like [Trump] flashes a little shiny paper in front of everybody and any bit of bad news gets forgotten.”
Andrea Martin: “‘A safe place.’ Not if Patti LuPone’s onstage!”
In 19th-Century America, Theater Was Anything But A Safe Space
To judge from newspaper reports of the time, audience behavior was more like what you get at a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Pittsburgh Symphony Strike Is About To End: Report
“The sides could agree to a deal as soon as this week, resuscitating the symphony’s dormant season, people with ties to both sides in the labor dispute told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this week.”
Thieves Steal ‘Nutcracker’ Costumes From Rhode Island Ballet Company
Last week the artistic director of Festival Ballet Providence and an assistant went to the company’s storage space to fetch the crates full of costumes and found that many were half-empty. They have three weeks to find replacements.
David Hockney To Create Stained-Glass Window For Westminster Abbey
The window, to be unveiled in June 2018 in the church’s north transept, is in honor of Queen Elizabeth II.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.22.16
Snowball’s Chance in Helsinki: Guggenheim Again Seeks Council Approval (plus Abu Dhabi update)
Will the Guggenheim Helsinki, proposed in 2011 and stalled ever since, finally get off the drawing board? On Monday, the Helsinki City Board voted 8-7 to revive this persistent project, which will once again be … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-11-22
Research Reveals Six Story Arcs We All Respond To
They examined 1,327 stories from Project Gutenberg’s fiction collection — all English-language texts between 20,000 and 100,000 words — using three language processing filters. In the end, they found “broad support for the following six emotional arcs…”