With popular choreographers such as Olivier Wevers, Danielle Agami and Zoe Scofield, a good infrastructure of classes and studios, an enthusiastic audience, and costs of living and creating work far lower than in New York, the Emerald City has become a destination for young dancers.
Tag: 11.25.12
The Power Of A Theatrical Marathon
Nicholas Nickleby, The Mahabharata, Angels in America, Gatz – “[M]arathon plays, at their most effective, require an act of sustained imaginative commitment that can turn an audience of disparate individuals into a pop-up community, forging a bond that endures far longer than the walk back to the parking lot.”
60 Minutes Goes To New York City Ballet
CBS’s flagship newsmagazine profiles the US’s flagship ballet company. Correspondent Lesley Stahl talks with ballet master Peter Martins, visits a School of American Ballet class, and watches from the wings a performance of Balanchine’s Apollo.
Why Did The Evening Standard Theatre Award Judges Choose The Winners They Did?
Read on – they’ll tell you.
Is The God Of The Bible Perfect? Can He Be?
Yoram Hazony: “As far as I can tell, the biblical authors avoid asserting any such thing. And with good reason. … The belief that any human mind can grasp enough of God to begin recognizing perfections in him would have struck the biblical authors as a pagan conceit.”
How Dogme 95 Changed Denmark
The artistic manifesto championed by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg “wasn’t just a watershed for film, though. It was a watershed for all of Denmark, and one that would come to embody its cultural renaissance. … Dogme, I discovered, had even sparked a renaissance in Danish cooking.”
David Foster Wallace, Bard Of Clinical Depression
“Depression was part of Wallace’s psyche, and so it was part of his job to describe it. He knew that profound isolation is one of its chief tortures. He also saw how natural it was for observers to find the depressive unbearably self-obsessed. Perhaps that’s why Wallace worked so hard to make communicable the inchoate fragments he managed to pull out of himself while he was suffering.”
Three Writers Sitting Around Talking About David Foster Wallace
Eric Been, Maria Bustillos and Michael Goetzman discuss such propositions as “[He] was his most consequentially gracious when his tenderness and generosity were only barely outpacing his capacity to be a total dickhead.”
For Oliver Stone, All Roads Lead To Vietnam (Or The Sack Of Rome)
“From where Stone sits, World War II begot the cold war, which landed us in Vietnam, a manifestation of American imperialism, which led inexorably to our current battle in Afghanistan. We have, Stone says, been sold a fairy tale masquerading as history, and it is so blinding it may ultimately undo us.”
A Light Bulb Goes Off (But Only If It’s A Smart Light Bulb)
“The bulb, in concert with other home technology, is an almost magical item that augments your lifestyle. Maybe its convenience and smart powers even add to your relaxation, health or happiness. Seriously, it might.”