Tag: 12.05.18

Justin Peck Explains How He Used Everyday Movement To Choreograph The Actors In His New Short Films

“For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been interested in how people move in everyday life. The way someone leaps over a puddle in the gutter to hail a cab or the way one person holds a door for another. Or even the way cooks in a restaurant kitchen work with synchronicity in their confined quarters. … That instinct became the jumping-off point for this series of Great Performers films simple gestures drawn from the everyday.” — New York Times Magazine

Watch Justin Peck’s Dance Films Choreographed On Some Of The Year’s Best Movie Actors

“Justin Peck, the New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer, created a series of dance films for the year’s best actors. The scenarios put everyday characters in familiar situations: packed into a subway car, stuck in a doctor’s office, caught in downpour. But once they start moving, the actors” — Julia Roberts, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Glenn Close, Regina Hall, Yoo Ah-In, Ethan Hawke, Elsie Fisher, Yalitza Aparicio, and (together) Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, And Rachel Weisz — “turn our common experiences into welcome moments of enchantment.” — New York Times Magazine

MoviePass Tries To Get Itself Back Together With An Overhauled Pricing Model

“Despite becoming a trending topic for all the wrong reasons, the company that once planned to be the Netflix of moviegoing believes it can win back the trust of its customers after a bumpy year that’s led to a wave of articles predicting its imminent demise. … As part of that effort a chastened MoviePass is unveiling a new series of monthly plans, the prices of which will vary depending on geography.” — Variety

While The Smithsonian’s Popular Museums Get The Cash, The Poor Old Castle Desperately Needs A Renovation

“The Castle was a jewel in its heyday, but it has been falling into disrepair for years and is now mainly an office building, providing space for about 200 employees. … Last year, there was an electrical fire; the year before that, stones fell off its exterior. And this fall, an outbreak of mold — not the first — forced the evacuation of more than 30 employees. … Meanwhile, the institution has focused on dozens of other projects at its 19 museums, research centers and zoo,” including several renovations and the building of two museums from scratch. — Washington Post

Musicians’ Union’s Largest Local Votes To Throw Out Old Leadership

“It was the first contested election in nine years at Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, and it could cause national ripples. Adam Krauthamer was elected president with 67 percent of the vote, beating Tino Gagliardi … in a stunning upset, amid concerns over the underfunded musicians pension plan and broader changes facing music, the original gig economy.” — New York Times

Robert Rainwater, Influential Curator Of New York Public Library’s Art Holdings, Dead At 75

“Throughout his 37-year career at the library — including two decades as the first chief librarian of the Wallach Division, which combined the library’s vast holdings in art, prints and photographs — Mr. Rainwater … oversaw a vast expansion of the [library’s] holdings in modern and contemporary prints, artist-made books and printed ephemera from the 1970s onward.” — New York Times