The brilliant xkcd addressed the urgent question "what if everyone in the world got together in one place and jumped at the same time?" He posited a gathering of the world's population in Rhode Island - which he claims is the perfect size to contain 7 billion folks who weigh on average 50 kg - and confirmed the findings of ScienceBlogs and Straight Dope, reassuring us that the earth's recoil wou [..]
NPR reminded us today of how Gene Kelly brought an all-American athleticism and machismo to dance while the Huffington Post whipped out video clip after video clip to show how everyone from Patrick Swayze to Michael Jackson and Chris Brown wanted to dance like Gene Kelly. "It was at a time when the male was not viewed as some kind of dancing entity," [Edward] Villella recalls. "We were so used to [..]
Seems like every major and minor city boasts a fringe festival these days but none as ambitious, provocative, and entertaining as Edinburgh's. This year's tantalizing offerings include an Orestes from Japan, a Hurt Locker-style staging of Macbeth, Janáček’s thrilling opera 'The Makropulos Case', and an 'Alice in Wonderland' that examines pornography's impact on modern pop culture. The dance [..]
Alastair Macaulay's editor must have asked him to think of SOMETHING that would boost readership of The New York Times' increasingly staid Sunday Arts & Leisure section so he wrote about NAKED BALLET. But even my Level 1 students could tell you the reason why we don't dance naked is because the most important part of ballet is the allegro, and you can't dance allegro with body parts bouncing [..]
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