“When former BalletBoyz Michael Nunn and William Trevitt launched something they called the Talent three years ago, it was an experiment, an apprenticeship ensemble … Already, however, the Talent has become one of the UK’s most popular companies, with a new tour set to premiere works by A-list choreographers Russell Maliphant and Liam Scarlett.”
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Ballet And Bitch-Fights, Simultaneously – On Set At Bunheads
Series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino: “We just shot a scene where the girls are in a spat, and the whole thing takes place during a dance routine. We built a dance with yammer. A yammer dance. It’s tricky as shit. It wasn’t hard enough to do separately, so I just had to throw it together.”
M. S. Gopalakrishnan, 82, Master Of South Indian Violin
One of the greatest exponents of Carnatic music, Gopalakrishnan was equally revered as a soloist and for accompanying singers and fellow instrumentalists. Unusually, he was equally comfortable playing in the very different styles and forms of Hindustani (North Indian) classical music.
Dead Sea Scrolls Online Library Goes Live
“Courtesy of Google, in collaboration with the Israel Antiquities Authority, the new Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library is now home to detailed digitized photographs of thousands of biblical and non-biblical manuscripts.”
World’s Oldest Recordings Of Family Christmas Discovered
“Curators at the National Museum of London have discovered what they believe to be the first ever recordings of a family Christmas. They were made 110 years ago by the Wall family who lived in New Southgate in North London. There are 24 clear recordings on wax cylinders which were made using a phonograph machine between 1902 and 1917.”
Into The Vortex Via A Century-Old Quilt
“You might not expect a mind-bending vortex to emerge from an old quilt. But about 100 years ago, a housewife armed with a needle and some red and white scraps of cloth crafted a unique pattern that doubles as a brain trick.”
Soprano Lisa Della Casa, 93
Admired for her elegant physical beauty as well as her pure and soaring voice, she enjoyed a two-decade career as one of the world’s top interpreters of Mozart and Strauss. “Her acting was subtle, occasionally too fidgety, never melodramatic. Her voice emerged with the utmost naturalness, never a suggestion of effort.”
Yale Art Gallery To Reopen After Three-Year, $135M Makeover
Architect Richard Olcott “called the project ‘beyond a renovation. It was a series of interventions,’ in which floors that were sometimes half a floor off were joined, steel beams were sunk over the length of four stories to hold added roof space for dramatic ceilings.”
Landfill Harmonic: Paraguay’s Recycled Orchestra Makes Instruments Out Of Trash
“The upcoming documentary Landfill Harmonic (a totally righteous pun, I feel obligated to note) is about a slum in Cateura, Paraguay that still has an orchestra, and orchestra with instruments made of trash.”
A Coming-Out Story Starring ‘The Filipino Clint Eastwood’
The Philippines’ entry for the best foreign-language film Oscar is, of all things, “a movie about a cantankerous, closeted [and very Catholic] older gay man whose only companion is a dog.” The director describes his lead actor, Eddie Garcia, as “the Filipino Clint Eastwood, or maybe even bigger in the context of local showbiz.”