"Audiences love big, stage-filling choreography with dramatic music and luscious dancing. But every once in a while, a short, spare dance packs a punch. And that’s what people remember when they walk out of the theater." Wendy Perron lists some of the greatest. - Dance Magazine
People who relish mental challenges are not necessarily more intelligent – although some research has found that, on average, they score higher on fluid intelligence, the ability to solve problems and think logically. - Psyche
The Musée du Fromage, opening this weekend on Île Saint-Louis in central Paris, will feature demonstrations of how several different varieties (out of hundreds in France) are made, how to "read" the milk, the importance of bacteria, and the big effects that small details can have. - The Guardian
Kazuko Shiraishi shot to fame when she was just 20 with her “Tamago no Furu Machi” (“The Town that Rains Eggs”). A pioneer of performance poetry, she was known for her Ginsberg-esque public readings (occasionally with Ginsberg himself), sometimes accompanied by jazz, and she created Japan's Beat poetry scene singlehandedly. - AP
Maria is a successful actor/singer/director in Britain, and Sonia is arguably London's leading producer. They've occasionally worked together before, but Merrily We Roll Along is their big passion project, which they did in England, Japan, and Boston before the New York production that just won four Tonys. - The New York Times
Earlier this year, ISIS's media arm created two YouTube channels, with corresponding Facebook and Twitter/X accounts, branded as Al Jazeera and CNN and matching those outlets' graphics and logos. ISIS created four videos each in Arabic and English, all reporting fake news, before getting kicked off YouTube. - Institute for Strategic Dialogue
The first of these "experiential entertainment venues" will open next year at the King of Prussia Mall outside Philadelphia and the Galleria in Dallas. Each outlet, called Netflix House, will feature "immersive" experiences (including shopping and eating, of course) based on major franchises like Bridgerton, Stranger Things and Squid Game. - TheWrap
The first of them — rectangular pillars over 10 feet tall, made of reflective sheet metal — materialized, seemingly out of nowhere, in Utah in late 2020. Over four months, similar pillars appeared, then disappeared, in various places on every continent. Now one has reappeared in the desert mountains north of Las Vegas. - AP
The London-based Team Phat — which has already been banned from Venice — was doing its thing in the seaside town of Matera, in the arch of the Italian boot, when they stood on a stone protruding from a historic building and it fell off. They videotaped the whole thing. - The Washington Post (Yahoo!)
We are in a feedback loop in which social media edifies and dictates taste. In a time of strained attention, where every next post in the feed threatens to be a succession plan for what came before it, content makers are looking to land on the grid and stick there. - Artnet
No aspect of the process of making a play has been left unturned. From the lighting (switching to LED bulbs) to reducing travel (rehearsals are longer but less frequent to cut down on journeys) “everything has come in for scrutiny,” says Marcel Klett, the managing director. - The Guardian
Instead of a left-right thing, the report repeatedly locates a different divide — between people who are interested in news and politics and those who are not. - NiemanLab
Seven months ago, the museum was criticized not for a sympathetic view toward Israel but instead for antisemitic leanings. The turmoil in which so many universities and cultural institutions were now engulfed was playing out at the museum as whiplash. - The New York Times
Instead of a measurable, quantifiable thing that exists independently out in the world, we suggest that intelligence is a label, pinned by humanity onto a bag stuffed with a jumble of independent traits that helped our ancestors thrive. - Aeon
“As someone who’s interested in pushing the boundaries forward, we have to know what our past looks like and embody that. What do we really love about Bayadère? It’s the choreography to the music. So, we’ve kept it. We’ve made it better.” - JStor
