A Rare All-Women Butoh Troupe
The four-member Tokyo-based company called Wozme isn't the first all-female butoh troupe, but it's the only one currently active in Japan — and, there...
How Do You Teach A Dying Language That Only Nine People Speak?
The dense Mukogodo Forest, one of the largest in east Africa, is the traditional home of the Yaaku. Originally hunter-gatherers, they looked after the 300...
Does Listening To Music While You Work Help Or Distract? The Studies Say…
Listening to instrumental or familiar music in the background competes less with a study assignment than music with lyrics or unfamiliar music. Instrumental music also seems to...
Pianist Sues Melbourne Symphony For Canceling Gig, Alledgedly For His Views On Gaza
The pianist has filed legal proceedings in the federal court, alleging MSO management cancelled the 15 August concert in Melbourne in an attempt to...
Keeping Traditional Sudanese Music, Dance, And Poetry Alive For Refugees From The Civil War
"A band with 12 Sudanese members now lives with thousands of refugees in Egypt. The troupe, called Camirata, includes researchers, singers and poets who...
The American “Faith-Based Film” Industry: A Statistical Analysis
"Insulated from mainstream Hollywood and decidedly idiosyncratic in their production — (faith-based films) are overlooked relative to their consistent success. We'll explore the rise...
The Problem With Using Software To Determine What Shakespeare Did And Didn’t Write
Scholar Darren Freebury-Jones used a text database called Collocations and N-grams to spot parallel phrases and passages in Shakespeare's plays and those of his...
Please Don’t Build A Football Stadium Across The Street From Our Concert Hall, Begs...
A bid to bring the first-ever professional Australian-rules football team to Tasmania involves constructing a 23,000-seat stadium, to host rock concerts as well as...
As Rubin Museum Closes Its Space, Calls To Return Nepali And Tibetan Art And...
"Since March, the Tibetan-led campaign Our Ancestors Say No has been protesting the museum and collecting online petition signatures demanding the return of what...
How Paraguayans Have Kept Their Indigenous Language Alive And Thriving
Despite having been banned under the 35-year dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, Guaraní is now, alongside Spanish, a fully official language of the country. Half...
Gramophone Awards 2024: Hilary Hahn Playing Ysaÿe, Carolyn Sampson, Czech Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas
The Record of the Year Prize went to Hahn's disc of Ysaÿe's Six Sonatas for unaccompanied violin. Soprano Carolyn Sampson is Artist of the...
Asheville’s Arts District Destroyed By Floods From Hurricane Helene
The neighborhood of galleries, music venues, artist studios, breweries, and other businesses was completely inundated by the clay-brown waters of the French Broad River...
Manchester Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Acquitted By Judge
The decision was likely because they didn't actually vandalize any art: the two Just Stop Oil activists simply glued their hands to the frame...
Who’s Funding The Arts? And Does It Need To Change?
Yearslong decreases in corporate charitable giving and overall charitable giving made The Chronicle of Philanthropy ask, in January, “Has the giving crisis reached the point of no return?”...
The Importance Of Dangerous Words Onstage
Who needs to see a play in which inflammatory positions and arguments aren’t dangerous? Hatred and intolerance won’t disappear because pious new puritans stop...
Opera In The UK Is Suffering. Except In This One Place
Glyndebourne, a privately funded festival that receives little state support, has been mostly immune from the convulsions of the opera industry in Britain. -...
Ballet Star Steven McRae’s Three-Year Recovery From “The Worst Injury A Dancer Can Have”
The Royal Ballet principal was mid-performance in London when his Achilles tendon snapped and he was carried from the stage screaming in pain. After...
NPR Retooling Its News Magazine Shows As Audiences Slip
Among the changes it’s making on its flagship programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered are including more stories in the 2- to 3-minute range, featuring a broader...
Giant Sydney Festival Gets A New Director
Kris Nelson, a Canadian national currently based in London, is well-known for his transformative work as the Artistic Director and CEO of the London...
TV Is Dying. Streaming Is A Pain. Watching World Is In Pain
Welcome to the glorious, occasionally terrible and definitely weird moment when old TV is slowly dying and new “TV” is not exactly thriving, either....
The Real Miracle Of Notre-Dame? Reconstructing The Intricate Wood Frame Of The Roof
That project meant finding trees comparable to the huge oaks used to make the original eight centuries ago, finding or reproducing the medieval tools...
Students Entering Elite Colleges Don’t Know How To Read Books. Why?
It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading. It’s that they don’t know how. Middle and high schools have stopped asking them to....
AI And The New Questions About Copyright
From a legal perspective, even though the use of AI dates back to the 1950s... the proliferation of AI today brings to the forefront...
Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival Selects Giancarlo Guerrero As Director
The 55-year-old Costa Rican conductor, currently completing his 16th and final season as music director of the Nashville Symphony, takes over the summer music...
CNN, Its Revenues Falling, Paywalls Its Websites
U.S. users will have to pay $3.99 a month or a discounted rate of $29.99 a year for access. The subscription will allow unlimited...
