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There's dance, but then there are podcasts, and then there's the international dance film festival as well. " Dallas Morning News
Superman was "too chubby" to play James Bond, Kevin Hart (The Rock's "non-ripped" co-star) starts at the gym at 5 every morning, and movie men are partnering, i.e. getting sweet but addictin…
"On a single day, when he was 40 and full of innovative fire, he had jotted down 112 ideas for 'new things,' among them a mechanical cotton picker, a snow compressor, an electrical piano, ar…
The now-18-year-old said he did it because "he had to prove a point 'to every idiot' who said he had no mental health problems, asking police if it was going to be on the news." " BBC
Auberjonois " Father Mulcahy in the 1970 movie M.A.S.H., iconic chief of staff in the 1980s sitcom Benson, and Odo in the 1990s show Star Trek: Deep Space 9 " was also a stage star who earne…
Richard Burton and John Gielgud in a scene from Hamlet. This production, staged by Gielgud, was filmed in 1964 at a Broadway performance: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and hist…
"First of all, dismiss ideas, and social background, and train the freshman to shiver, to get drunk on the poetry of Hamlet or Lear, to read with his spine and not with his skull." Vladimir …
Orlando, a new opera based on Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a time-traveling, gender-bending love letter to her aristocratic lover Vita Sackville-West, "is the first opera commissioned from a fe…
Spinney created two indelible characters, and, in his long tenure on Sesame Street, assisted in the creation of many more. "His Big Bird had a childlike innocence, sometimes goofy, sometimes…
This isn't the why, but a result: "Guy Williams and his fellow visual-effects artists have spent so much time staring at Will Smith's face, they've practically memorized his every pore. '…
Peter Kalivas says his PGK Dance Project, begun 25 years ago while he was working as a professional dancer in Munich, "must always be attempting to resolve the three main barriers the profes…
"Education discourse has recently turned toward resilience and grit. This article critiques the neoliberalism embedded in resilience education and the manner in which a resilience focus enco…
"New York City's On Site Opera, known for staging works in non-traditional spaces, is presenting Amahl and the Night Visitors next month inside the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen, which serves l…
Bess Rothenberg, senior director of strategy and learning at the Ford Foundation: "The scale and momentum of the #MeToo movement compelled the Ford Foundation to take a long, hard look in th…
"Current versions of local government artist-in-residence programs typically stop short of figuring out how to induce social change by focusing too much on the artists' narrowly defined art …
"Columbus conductor and clarinetist Antoine Clark wants women musicians and musicians of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds to be heard. Clark is bringing his vision to the McConnell Arts…
"As tertiary music institutions explore ways to increase the social orientation of their curricula, it is important that the student voice be present in research and scholarship. How do stud…
"At a time when black creators are being celebrated as much as ever " from Hollywood to the fine arts " some are raising the question of whether black people are truly the main beneficiaries…
"It's funny to think of art that is so topical and of-the-moment having such a long history. It's a big deal when any regional dance company turns 30, but especially remarkable for one that …
"Marie and Franz have a new guest at their Christmas Eve party this year. Emma Lookatch and Larke Johnson, both dancers in the Adaptive Dance Program at Joffrey Academy of Dance: Official Sc…
"Slaughter grounds thick with buffalo remains and a savaging of Thanksgiving myths are two of the highlights in the new wave of indigenous art heading for Britain." " The Guardian
Talking NY Phil: "I'd wish for less attention and money to be squandered on overhauling the hall and more on improving the mix of musicians (guest soloists and visiting conductors) and on re…
Digital taxes are only a start, says France's digital affairs minister. "More important? Targeting the biggest tech companies"most of which are American"with new regulations to prevent them …
The author of Ducks, Newburyport (yes, the 1,000-page, one-sentence novel) has some ideas. Lucy Ellmann: "I find the annual celebration of contemporary writing, the Xmas lists of 2019 books,…
LA's MOCA employees now won't need to go through additional certifying steps " or employer "education" either. MOCA Director Klaus Biesenbach said recognizing the union was "in full alignmen…
