Associate choreographer Corinne McFadden Herrera: "It’s a never-ending process. The show’s principals generally stay about a year here in the States, and then we try to turn them all over at once. But the ensemble is like a revolving door because of how the contracts work." - Dance Magazine
The tour marks a revival of cultural exchanges between China and the United States. The Asian nation will also host a series of performances starting next week by the Philadelphia Orchestra, marking the 50th anniversary of the orchestra’s historic visit to China in 1973. - ABCNews
Veteran TV writer/showrunner Warren Leight (Law & Order: SVU): "Be open. … Some writers come in with a notion of what they’re going to write and how many actors they’re going to take. And they draft two actors and then they stop. And inevitably when they do that, they fail." - American Theatre
"Concerts are concerts; OK, the people are coming, and they are enjoying it. But then, what are we doing in wider terms? What are we doing for schools, for education, for deprived people, for mental health, for everything else?" - Van
"The deputy communications minister, Teo Nie Ching, told the parliament’s lower house that concert organisers must have 'a kill switch that will cut off electricity during any performance if there is any unwanted incident. We hope that with stricter guidelines, foreign artists can adhere to the local culture." - The Guardian
"In a 'novel' ruling on 'one of the oldest forms of human expression,' the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a decision last year that dismissed choreographer Kyle Hanagami’s lawsuit, which claimed that Epic Games stole his dance moves and used them as 'emotes' in Fortnite." - Billboard
"Re-entry is always harder than takeoff. … What’s weird is the adrenaline let-down. … That fact remains, though, it’s not really over. Not as long as SAG-AFTRA and Fran, Mother of Labor Dragons, are still at the table. God, I wish I could be in that dimly lit room." - The Hollywood Reporter
The flagship of African-American legacy media, hard-hit by the forces hammering print media over the past two decades, went bankrupt in 2019. Black investors came to the rescue, and Ebony is active on paper and online — but the wall between advertising and editorial has become unsettlingly porous. - Columbia Journalism Review
"Leaders of a private foundation working to build a museum and memorial to honor the victims of (murder) at a gay nightclub in Florida said Friday that they were dropping their plans to build a museum, even as the city of Orlando is moving ahead with constructing the memorial." - AP
"'Treasured Ornament: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art' was announced by the museum in early October — days before Hamas attacked Israel — and was slated to open Saturday, Nov. 4. The touring exhibit featured 'fine glassware, ceramics, metalwork, painting, weaponry, weaving and more from countries across the Middle East.'" - WESA (Pittsburgh)
"(The) esteemed Soviet-born conductor rebuilt the once-storied St. Petersburg Philharmonic after the collapse of communism and led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for seven inspired years at the turn of the 21st century." - MSN (The Washington Post)
To narrow one’s approach to knowledge to any one field, any one area of specialisation, is to reduce one’s view of the world to the regulations of competing discourses, trivialising knowledge as something reducible to a methodology. - Aeon
The stunning drawings were rediscovered in 1975. That’s when Paolo Dal Poggetto, then director of the Museum of the Medici Chapels, tasked restorer Sabino Giovannoni with trying to clean part of the walls of a narrow chamber beneath the church’s mausoleum, which had been designed by Michelangelo in 1520. - Artnet
Part of the material includes texts from the network’s CEO Casey Bloys imploring lower-level staffers to create fake accounts on Twitter to respond to critics talking about their shows and on websites discussing HBO. - New York Magazine
One of his hallmark offerings at Harvard was a class called Rep Ideal, in which he held forth on how a permanent company of actors could forge a bond between the institution and a community. Nothing else, he said, could create such a flexible acting instrument. - The New Yorker
