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Hula Dancers Missing The Dance Are Teaching It To The World Online

DANCE Posted: April 27, 2020 6:00 am

Even though it’s hard to teach hula online – first the hands, then the feet, then the body, on Zoom calls – one instructor says it’s “giving us an opportunity to see each other, ‘he alo he alo,’ face to face, at a time when we’re not supposed to be seeing each other.” And, bonus: Students from nowhere near Hawai’i are starting to learn. – Hawaii News Now

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The Fifty Best Musicals You Can Stream Right Now

THEATRE Posted: April 27, 2020 4:45 am

Yes, 50 is a lot, but we’re already in week *checks notes* a zillion of this lockdown and no live theatre, so might as well get started, right? – The Stage (UK)

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Helping The Handel And Haydn Society Head Into The Future, By Acknowledging The Real Past

MUSIC Posted: April 26, 2020 10:00 am

The Handel and Haydn Society has been around, performing Baroque concerts on period instruments, since 1815. And now it’s time to diversify their programming – and acknowledge the diversity they’ve already had, says Reginald Mobley, their new programming consultant. “‘There are so many composers that are female or black or queer that have existed long before we really thought of race or sexuality as a social construct,’ says Mobley. … ‘What it does is gives a sense of belonging … to all of these various communities that have always felt unwelcome or left out of classical music or ‘high art.’'” – The Bay State Banner

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Hey Kids, Your Homework During Quarantine Is To Watch Hitchcock Movies

MEDIA Posted: April 26, 2020 9:30 am

And then write essays about them. On the other hand: “The other night I tried Wings of Desire. That really didn’t go well. You could see the kids’ minds were blown by the concept of angels hearing people’s thoughts, but it was a tad too mature. Still, at least it got everybody to bed early that evening.” – The Guardian (UK)

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A Dancer Puts Her Retirement On Pause Along With The Ballet

DANCE Posted: April 26, 2020 9:00 am

She had her retirement dress and her finale plan. She’d stretched and was ready for rehearsal for the performance on March 13. “Suddenly, the carefully choreographed end to Kuykendall’s 22-year career was swept up in the vortex of the coronavirus pandemic, adding a note of aching dissonance to her coda.” – Colorado Sun

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When Libraries Open Up, They May Quaratine Books Between Checkouts

WORDS Posted: April 26, 2020 4:30 am

Logical, right? (Maybe? Who actually knows?) The New York Public Library’s CEO says that “libraries once they reopen may impose a quarantine period on books that lasts as long as scientists determine the coronavirus can survive on the materials.” That is, of course, one of the big questions. – Yahoo Finance

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Movie Studios Rethink Their Business Models

AUDIENCE, MEDIA Posted: April 24, 2020 2:01 pm

While stuck indoors under lockdown, consumer have grown even more accustomed to streaming movies from the comfort of their home. Executives suggest those habits could make moviegoers more unwilling to buy tickets to midlevel films in the future. – Variety

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Rehearsals Over Zoom? Really? On The Other Hand…

THEATRE Posted: April 24, 2020 1:31 pm

“I’m not going to say this new online platform replaces theatre, I just think that temporarily it is a really interesting form of storytelling.” – American Theatre

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LA’s Most Devoted Museum-Goer Finally Takes A Break

PEOPLE Posted: April 24, 2020 1:01 pm

For eight years the retired architect, who immigrated to Los Angeles from the Philippines in 1969, had been visiting a different art museum, gallery or public art installation every day of the week, rarely, if ever, deviating from his routine. – Los Angeles Times

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This Year’s Emmys To Be Streamed

MEDIA Posted: April 24, 2020 12:31 pm

“We’re giving it a try to be creative. Yes, it would have been easier just to post a press release, but the board, especially for our chapter, decided to see if we could come up with something. We’re going to give it a shot and see how people like it.” – Variety

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How Dancing African Pallbearers Became A Worldwide Meme (And Why They’re Partying Like It’s 1349)

DANCE Posted: April 24, 2020 12:01 pm

No, it’s not a traditional practice, but there are pallbearers in Ghana who (at the bereaved’s request) will execute some slick moves while toting the coffin on their shoulders. The social mediaverse, as it’s wont to do, has turned images of these dancers into a meme — first to make fun of epic fails, now to express coronavirus dread and warn people to stay home and wear masks when out. Writer Dan Schindel makes the case that the choreographed casket carriers are just a 21st-century variant of a meme that goes back to medieval Europe. – Hyperallergic

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4’33” In Midtown Manhattan: Exploring How Coronavirus Has Changed The Sound Of The City

MUSIC Posted: April 24, 2020 11:03 am

Karissa Krenz: “Perhaps the coronavirus is forcing us to have an extended performance of John Cage’s … groundbreaking 1952 work that epitomized his every-sound-can-be-music philosophy. … I’ve been taking some of this time to listen anew, experiencing the sonic composition of a paused city. … Hearing it now, slowed to a relative calm, it speaks volumes about what comprises the whole.” – WQXR (New York City)

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How Locked-Away Artists Are Expressing Themselves

ISSUES Posted: April 24, 2020 10:31 am

Practical concerns aside, it can be difficult to keep creating during a pandemic that has already killed more than 180,000 people worldwide. Even so, people who need to express themselves through their art are finding new ways. – The New York Times

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Ten Playwrights Are Working On A Coronavirus Serial For YouTube. Does It Qualify As Theater?

THEATRE Posted: April 24, 2020 10:02 am

Turns out not even the people involved agree on the answer to that. Absolutely not, says Ryan Rilette, artistic director of metro DC’s Round House (the theater behind the project): “You can’t actually capture the quality of being with a group of people, breathing the same air, listening to a story together.” But playwright Alexandra Petri (yes, the Washington Post columnist), who wrote the first episode, says that “[it’s] fundamentally a 10-minute play, but it happens to be set inside your computer.” – The New York Times

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Was This The Social Media Of The 1700s?

WORDS Posted: April 24, 2020 9:29 am

In 1769, amateur historian James Granger published the Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution. It was an interactive book, aimed at collectors of printed images—a popular new hobby at the time. The Biographical History featured portraits of historical figures and blank leaves to let readers take notes referring to their own collections. Soon, collectors went beyond the book’s intended use, instead adding their own portrait collections directly inside. – JSTOR

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How’s The American Shakespeare Center Hanging On? By Improvising

THEATRE Posted: April 24, 2020 9:04 am

“With no clear indication when the theater might be deemed safe to reopen, [managing director Amy] Wratchford and her remaining team (all on half or quarter salary) have written contingency operating plans, only to have to crumple them up and formulate new ones. … [The company is] converting its ticket-buying lists into class lists and turning some of what’s executed on its modern-day Renaissance stage into teachable moments online.” – The Washington Post

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Private Freedom Versus Public Interest: Houston, We Have A Problem

IDEAS Posted: April 24, 2020 8:31 am

The logic of private interest – the notion that we should just ‘let the market handle it’ – has serious limitations. Particularly in the United States, the lack of an effective health and social policy in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has brought the contradictions into high relief. – Aeon

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Why The Met Opera’s Big Online Gala Is Controversial

MUSIC Posted: April 24, 2020 8:01 am

Saturday afternoon’s At-Home Gala, the brainchild of Met general manager Peter Gelb, will have opera stars performing live on the Web from wherever they’re waiting out the COVID lockdown. What’s the controversy? Detractors say that a company that furloughed all its staff performers and declared force majeure to break soloists’ contracts has no business asking those people to perform for free. “But with one or two exceptions,” Gelb tells David Patrick Stearns here, “everybody leapt at the idea of doing this.” – WQXR (New York City)

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‘Hell No, We’re Not Opening On Monday’: Movie Theaters Resist Political Pressure To Put Butts Back In Seats Now

AUDIENCE, MEDIA Posted: April 24, 2020 7:03 am

“They don’t want to be lumped in with meatpacking plants and senior centers as hot spots for the virus. Already struggling financially, theaters fear that a too-soon return could stigmatize them as dangerous places to congregate. And with new movies from Hollywood not set to debut until the middle of July — at the earliest — opening too soon would only make operators spend money before they could truly recoup costs from patrons.” – The New York Times

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Fox News Tries Using First Amendment To Defend Its Now-Retracted Reporting On Seth Rich’s Murder

MEDIA Posted: April 24, 2020 6:32 am

The Democratic National Committee staffer was shot during a mugging in the summer of 2016, but a conspiracy theory, developed in right-wing circles and repeated on Fox News, claimed that Rich was murdered because he (not Russian hackers) handed DNC emails to WikiLeaks. Rich’s parents and brother have sued, and the network has suffered serious fallout (hence the rare retraction). Fox execs are now claiming that the First Amendment means one of their reporters can’t be forced to give a deposition; the plaintiffs maintain that deliberately false reporting is not protected. – The Hollywood Reporter

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U.S. Court Of Appeals Finds A Constitutional Right To Literacy

ISSUES Posted: April 24, 2020 6:04 am

A three-judge panel from the 6th Circuit ruled 2-to-1 that “education — at least in the minimum form discussed here — is essential to nearly every interaction between a citizen and her government. … Voting, taxes, the legal system, jury duty — all of these are predicated on the ability to read and comprehend written thoughts.” The decision revives a suit against the state of Michigan by a group of Detroit public school students. – Publishers Weekly

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Video Of Recent Van Gogh Theft Emerges

VISUAL Posted: April 24, 2020 5:31 am

“The robber, who arrived to the [Singer Laren] museum [near Amsterdam] on a motorcycle, broke in by smashing reinforced glass doors with a sledgehammer. Leaving the scene, the thief took Van Gogh’s The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring (1884), carrying the painting under his right arm.” – Artnet

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Peter Jonas, Who Ran English National Opera During Its ‘Powerhouse’ Years, Dead At 73

PEOPLE Posted: April 24, 2020 5:05 am

As general director from 1985 to 1993, he, along with director of productions David Pountney and chief conductor Mark Elder, “fostered a production style based on radical, dynamic dramaturgy, underpinned by the highest musical standards …, leaving behind a series of productions that have entered the annals of operatic history.” He had a similar run at the helm of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 1993 to 2006. – The Guardian

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Zoom-As-Artistic-Medium, The Music Video

MEDIA Posted: April 23, 2020 3:01 pm

The three-minute video for the band Thou & the Get’s single “Phenom” is a kaleidoscope of ordinary images whose rhythm and hostility bust the limits of Zoom. The video speaks to the locked-down dreamer in all of us, as it reframes the possibilities for community, expresses the frustration of confinement and reminds us that one way to shake it off is through our inherent creativity. – Washington Post

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Bankers Didn’t Just Want To Own The Art, Now They Want To Run It Too

VISUAL Posted: April 23, 2020 2:25 pm

Sure, the machers of the banking industry have deep roots in the art market—the Medicis fueled the Renaissance, the bankers of the East India Company let Rembrandt put up his paintings as loan collateral, and the robber barons used their money to build the Frick and the Morgan. But today, bankers don’t just want to be patrons—they want to be players, occupying roles once filled by art experts. – Artnet

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