This growing firestorm on social media zigs and zags, but at the heart of the diversity issue is the question: “who are the dominant taste-makers in the ballet world today” and do they have the foresight, the will, and the $$, to fix the problem? (Check out Ballet …
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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 …
Read more →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.
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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 …
Read more →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 …
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