"PC2170 would make dancers pay a fee to receive a certification and be able to practice professionally. Its purpose is to make dance a more legitimate profession and improve the working conditions of dancers, who have struggled with unfair wages and poor working conditions." Not everyone is convinced. - Remezcla
I’m not an advocate of doing in historically specific productions but look for this place of speculation that connects opera fundamentally with the world of science fiction. - San Francisco Classical Voice
"It (makes) sense that the movies are always horror, too, because that’s the genre with the most recognisable structures and beats. It’s far easier to understand the sudden arrival of a beloved character in a horror than in, say, a gentle coming-of-age drama." And next year are Popeye and Tarzan … - The Guardian
Google has agreed to pay $100 million CAD a year — or about $73 million in U.S. dollars — to broadcasters and other news outlets as part of the new Canadian Journalism Collective. The offer is made in exchange to be exempted from Canada’s Online News Act, which passed last year. - InsideRadio
"For many working in the arts across (New South Wales), the tone and priorities of the reformed model come as a surprise and sparks deep concern. Among those concerns is the reduction in funding categories under the tagline ‘Simpler’, which heightens the process's competitive nature and disadvantages smaller organisations." - ArtsHub (Australia)
California lawmakers have revived legislation to charge online platforms for the news articles they publish, a proposal that stalled last year amid divisions within the journalism industry and intense opposition from Google and other tech companies. - Yahoo!
A very popular performer at the Paris Opera Ballet, he left after getting caught in the middle of a notorious battle between Rudolf Nureyev and Maurice Béjart. Following a very successful freelance career, he ran the ballet troupes in, successively, Bordeaux, Avignon, Marseilles and Nice. - ResMusica (via Google Translate)
These situations aren’t that bad, and so you don’t do anything about them, whether it be to take action or kickstart psychological processes to cope. - Psyche
Sure, it doesn't have any particular melody or even a beat, but music it is. Various musicians liken it to Phil Spector's "wall of sound," ambient music, synth punk, drone music, a theremin … There's even a sax player who publicly jams with cicadas. - Chicago Tribune
The contracts for Benjamin von Blomberg and Nicolas Stemann, who had jointly run Zurich's Schauspielhaus since 2019, were not renewed following a right-wing media campaign claiming the "wokeness" of their productions drove audiences away. So last week they threw a final soirée called "House of Wokeness." - The Art Newspaper
The suspect was caught trying to sell the manuscript, which contains Bernini's designs for the altar canopy in St. Peter's Basilica, to a buyer who turned out to be a Vatican official. The suspect claims what he had isn't the missing manuscript and was a gift. - National Catholic Reporter
Last month Ghanaian artist Joseph Awuah-Darko made public accusations against Wiley; now Black Lives Matter activist Derrick Ingram has accused Wiley of rape while they were dating for several months in 2021, and filmmaker/poet Nathaniel Lloyd Richards says Wiley groped him during a date in 2019. - Artnet
"National Amusements, which owns a majority voting stake in embattled entertainment giant Paramount Global, said Tuesday that it has ended talks on a possible merger of Paramount with movie production company Skydance Media." The Redstone family, primarily Shari, owns the controlling interest in NA. - AP
The Free Library Foundation's management insisted that none of this season's remaining events were cancelled — and then, as authors have withdrawn, has quietly cancelled them. A few have gone ahead, but not smoothly. - Publishers Weekly
Activists from the group Animal Rising went to the new portrait of the British king (the red one), covered his face with a sticker of Wallace from the animated series Wallace & Gromit, and attached a speech bubble saying, "No cheese Gromit, look at all of this cruelty on RSCPA farms." - CNN
