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A Kinetic, Slightly Goofy New Form Of Competitive Dance Develops In Côte d’Ivoire

“There is some debate over exactly when biama emerged, but it exploded in popularity after the coronavirus pandemic as young people turned to TikTok to post and respond to dance challenges that fused acrobatics with goofiness that pushed bodies to their limits.” - The Guardian

Why Are Theatres Still Ignoring (Mostly) The Deaf Audience?

Most films are distributed with caption tracks, but cinemas, on average, caption only 1% of all showings. This is despite statistics showing that in the UK, one in seven people – approximately 14% of the population – are deaf or have hearing loss. - The Conversation

The Mystic Poet-Saints Of Kashmir, One Hindu And one Muslim

The 14th-century Hindu poetess Lal Ded and the 15th-century Sufi Muslim poet Nund Rishi wrote not in the elegant, aristocratic court language, Persian, but with simple words and phrases in Kashmiri, the everyday language of ordinary people These mystics are seen by many Kashmiris as spiritual grandmother and grandfather, even today. - The Conversation

Rise Of The Neo-Luddites

The label of “neo-Luddism” or “digital Luddite” is also being reclaimed by people concerned about labour conditions, society and democracy in an era of AI expansion twinned with personal profit. - The Conversation

Company Turns AI On Art Fraud

In practical terms, that means a knowledge graph representing thousands of artworks, with billions of nodes detailing the complex relationships its algorithms have identified between them. - Didginomica

How A Grassroots Seattle Theatre Built Itself From The Ground Up

As Taproot’s current and founding artistic team members chat in the theater’s comfortable lobby, with its welcoming windows looking out onto North 85th Street in Greenwood, it’s hard to believe that the company’s permanent space was once an X-rated movie theater with a dirt floor basement. - Seattle Times

Do The People Of This Slovakian Village Really Want To Lose UNESCO World Heritage Status?

That’s what all the headlines said, but the people of the well-preserved medieval village of Vlkolínec say it’s not that simple. They want to protect their small, still-living community from the pressures of overtourism, which could easily overwhelm it. - Deutsche Welle

Two Pittsburgh Theatres Merge

Pittsburgh's theater community is betting that a business deal of its own — the merger of the Pittsburgh CLO and the Pittsburgh Public Theater — will pay off. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

When Superfans Go Too Far

In recent years, celebrities have attempted to set boundaries for their adoring, sometimes obsessive fans.  - The New York Times

Theatre That Hadn’t Shown A Movie In 35 Years Has Highest Ticket Sales In The Country For “Odyssey”

The venue, which hadn’t shown a first-run movie for 35 years, has announced it’s the highest grossing theatre in the country for Christopher Nolan’s mythological epic on the film format. - The Hollywood Reporter

Samantha Morton Says She’s Gotten No Acting Work Since She Finished Shooting For “The Odyssey”

A two-time Oscar nominee who’s widely expected to get another nomination for her performance as Circe, Morton said, “I’ve got really good agents and a manager, but at the end of the day, I’m 49. I do believe I’m a good actor, (but) there are other good actors out there.” - Variety

John Caird: Broadway Has Become Disneyfied

Caird concluded that Broadway’s significant cost meant it might now “no longer necessarily be people’s choice of where to put a show, which is maybe a good thing". He added: “Maybe some sanity will return .” - The Stage

Who Is Buying Massive Quantities Of Books?

We know that something mysterious is afoot. Someone—if not more than one group or company—has been snapping up massive volumes of books from shops around the world. - The Atlantic

The Big Estate Sales That Are Reshaping The Art Market

The list of collectors whose art has arrived at auction over the past two years reads like the society pages of decades past. Some died; others have merely reached an age when keeping several hundred million dollars’ worth of paintings around no longer seems quite as important as it once did. - ARTnews

Bruno Campanella, Opera Conductor Known For Bel Canto, Is Dead At 83

After emerging internationally in the late 1970s, he established himself as one of the leading specialists in the operas of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini. He guest-conducted at most of the world’s major opera houses and served as music director of the Teatro Regio in Turin for three years in the 1990s. - Moto Perpetuo

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