“She is Ali Stroker, an unforgettable presence in the new production of Spring Awakening on Broadway. And though she says she’s danced all her life, she does that dancing from a wheelchair. Since the age of two, when she was in a car accident, she’s been paralyzed from the chest down.”
The Fascinating Undoing Of History While Restoring DC’s Renwick Gallery
“We knew that we had one false ceiling to take down. We had a plan to put new ductwork in. What nobody knew was that, above this false ceiling, there was a second false ceiling. And then a third false ceiling.”
Erin Butcher Staged An All-Female Play In A Public Park And It Didn’t Go So Well
“These gentlemen did not appreciate a freckle-faced little lady telling them what to do in anything resembling an authoritative voice. They would yell back at my request and I would immediately back down.”
A Dozen Or More Jackson Pollock Canvases Could Be Fake: Report
“Reports written by Nicholas Eastaugh, the director of Art Analysis & Research (formerly Art Access & Research), examin[ed] the pigments used in 23 paintings. Of those, 12 were found to include CI Pigment Yellow 74, which was not commercially available before the Abstract Impressionist artist died in 1956.”
Al Pacino-David Mamet Play’s Broadway Opening Delayed By Two Weeks
China Doll, “bolstered by Mr. Pacino’s star power, has been selling very strongly at the box office, but there has been some skeptical early buzz about Mr. Mamet’s play and Mr. Pacino’s performance, and the delay will both lengthen the amount of time the team has to work on the project before critics weigh in, and reduce the effect of reviews because they will run later in the play’s limited run and after the traditionally lucrative Thanksgiving weekend.”
Is This Netflix’s Version Of ‘Serial’?
“Netflix appears to be the latest player to see the genre’s value: It announced Monday that it will be releasing a documentary series called Making a Murderer in December. The 10 episodes will follow the story of Steven Avery, a man who was convicted of rape and later exonerated by DNA evidence after serving 18 years in prison. The kicker: After his release, he was sentenced to life for murdering another woman in 2005.”
The Future Of How We Work?
“As we head toward 2025 the role of work in society could hardly appear more different. Either people have been increasingly sucked into a vortex of punishing, oppressive work that absorbs many more hours than the standard 40 per week, or they have been excluded from any possibility of jobs that provide decent livelihoods.”
Alex Ross: A Massively Ambitious Opera With LA For Its Stage
“Many passersby react to the opera with a momentary perplexity that seems to fade as they walk on. Others become curious and ask questions. By the end of the run, thousands of Angelenos will have joined the piece’s accidental audience, which may turn out to be the more important one. Whatever the reaction, “Hopscotch” triumphantly escapes the genteel, fenced-off zone where opera is supposed to reside.”
Afghanistan’s First Female Conductor In A Country That Can Be Hostile To Music (And Musicians)
“We are part of this struggle. We are standing against violence and terror with our arts and culture, particularly with music. That’s one of the ways we can educate our people about the importance of living in peace and harmony, rather than killing each other.”
In Ballet, Real-Life Romance Is The Enemy Of Onstage Chemistry
“You don’t need real-life love to make great art, but what it’s invaluable for is publicity. … Knowing that the dancers on stage also share a bed may add a frisson for the audience, but that’s all about projection rather than the performances themselves. … You didn’t get more electric than the most famous onstage couple, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, but he was gay and she was 20 years his senior. There have been suggestions they were lovers – but that seems more like fan fiction than fact.”
What’s Missing From ‘Narcos’, The Netflix Series About Pablo Escobar? Colombians
It’s not just the lack of Colombian accents in the Spanish. “For many Latin Americans, Escobar’s story isn’t a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction biopic. It’s a case study, a cautionary tale that all too often hits close to home. … In taking true events and presenting them through a lens of literary fiction, the series is implicitly separating the viewers from the terrible tragedy of Escobar, and from the very real lives he shattered.”
Real Ballet Dancers Fact-Check ‘Flesh And Bone’
“Some critics have embraced the show, but what I wanted to know is what professional dancers thought of its depiction of their world. So we talked to three dancers who aren’t involved with the production. Here’s what they had to say about Flesh and Bone‘s first episode.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.09.15
The 4 Types of Audiences
You want to attract, grow, diversify and sustain your audience? Great! But the biggest mistake you can make is to think of that audience as a single entity. True, “your audience” converged at some point … read more
AJBlog: Audience Wanted Published 2015-11-08
Entr’acte
Between performances of Lo, her new quasi-violin concerto, Caroline Shaw paid a visit to our Composition Department yesterday. Her visit came in two chunks: first coaching a graduate string quartet in her 2011 composition Entr’acte, … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-11-09
Recent Listening In Brief: Fortner, Salvant, Giuffre
Sullivan Fortner, Aria (Impulse!) In Sullivan Fortner’s debut album as a leader, the shaded subtlety of his keyboard touch is only one of the young pianist’s notable attributes. His harmonic inventiveness, grasp of the jazz … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-11-09
Three Veteran Adventurer-Choreographers Get Together
First time I’ve been to JACK, where Neil Greenberg, Yvonne Meier, and Jennifer Monson are sharing a program. The Brooklyn space reminds me of the original Dance Theater Workshop of the 1960s, when it sprang up in Jeff Duncan’s loft at 215 West 20th Street in Manhattan. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-11-08
Even the Most Brilliant Musicians Are Mortal
Death is not taking a holiday. I learned on my way to California that my good friend Martha Herr died on Halloween. She had survived breast cancer twice, and this time succumbed to … read more
AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-11-08
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