“The English National Ballet School has been accused of putting pressure on its students to lose weight in a controversial message on Facebook. A call for students … to ‘work off” Christmas calories appeared on the school’s Facebook page … It comes despite widespread industry concern about the issue of eating disorders among dancers.”
Archives for January 9, 2014
Orlando’s New Arts Center Finally Has Opening Date
The long-awaited Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts will be open before the end of 2014, management promises.
Edward Albee, Bessie Smith and Saving a Dying Hospital
A Brooklyn theater company is mounting a site-specific production of Albee’s The Death of Bessie Smith – “which by most evidence is based on an apocryphal account of how Smith, the black, early-20th-century blues singer, was denied treatment at a whites-only hospital” – at a struggling community medical center.
Traveling Across China, Playing the Hollywood Hits
The hardy musicians of the American Hollywood Film Orchestra “schlep by bus, train and plane to more than a dozen [Chinese] cities from late December to mid-January, offering up crowd-pleasing medleys from movies such as Titanic, Dances With Wolves, The Incredibles and The Godfather.”
Meet Senator Renzo Piano
The starchitect has been appointed to a lifetime seat in the upper house of Italy’s parliament.
Europe’s Lingua Franca? These Folks Want It To Be Latin
“A modest white schoolhouse near Brussels is in the vanguard of a long-struggling movement of Latin enthusiasts who refuse to say requiescat in pace to the ancient language.”