Tag: 06.19.21
A New Company To Get Retired Dancers Back Onstage
Alice Topp and Jon Buswell, resident choreographer and technical director at the Australian Ballet, have just launched a Melbourne-based troupe called Project Animo, whose...
How The Boston Symphony Changed In Mark Volpe’s 23 Years At The Helm
It's been a consequential time for our culture, and the role of an orchestra has changed enormously. - Boston Globe
Thousands Of UK Music Fans Stuck With Tickets To Postponed Gigs As Country Locks...
The latest four-week delay to fully unlocking Covid restrictions has pushed an additional 5,000 gigs into doubt. - BBC
An Ode To Procrastination
When I’m procrastinating, stalling, temporizing, I am defined at the metabolic level by the thing that I am not doing. - The Atlantic
Andrew Lloyd Weber Retreats — His West End Theatres Will Observe COVID Rules
"If it were just me, I would happily risk arrest and fines to make a stand and lead the live music and theatre industry...
Hong Kong’s Bookshops Face Tough Choices As Censorship Rules Shift
A lack of clarity about why certain books are suddenly off limits has complicated decisions about which titles to stock. - The New York...
Choreographers Test Monetizing Their Work With NFTs
One NFT has been minted for each of the three holograms. The creators will receive a majority percentage of the auction sale, along with...
Why Globalization Is In Disfavor
It is not globalization that has brought us to the brink of the abyss, but the peculiar strain of globalization that emerged in the...
Where Is The Art World After COVID? Look To Documenta
Documenta is also a barometer for changes in the world around it, as a major new exhibition in Berlin demonstrates. - The New York...
A Theatrical Experience That Makes You Wonder If It’s Theatre?
Theater is perhaps the closest term to describe the experience, but even that is poorly suited; “Liminality” evades any one category or definition, though...
Art Is Increasingly Being Used To Launder Money — The Feds Are Moving In
They have realized how useful art has become as a tool for money launderers, and are considering boosting oversight of the market and making...
How To Organize Your Books (Or Not)
Shelving exemplifies “two tensions, one which sets a premium on letting things be, on a good-natured anarchy, the other that exalts the virtues of...