The former prima ballerina at La Scala and international star will succeed Martin Schläpfer (who decided not to renew his three-year contract) at the start of the 2025-26 season. - Danza e Danza
Staff from The 92nd Street Y, New York are resigning, after the storied cultural hub abruptly halted a scheduled reading by author Viet Thanh Nguyen. - NPR
"It’s 10 a.m. on a Wednesday morning and 18 dancers are leaping, jumping and twirling in the Dayton Ballet studio. … 'Reach, reach, good!' Brandon Ragland says as he guides them, sometimes all together, sometimes in smaller groups. 'Keep the chest up!'" - Dayton Daily News
"Florida officials filed an application with the nation’s highest court on Friday asking that the prohibition against enforcing the anti-drag show law only be limited to the Orlando restaurant which challenged its constitutionality" after lower courts blocked wider enforcement. - AP
The redundancies, along with closing the museum to the public on Tuesdays as well as Mondays, come as the DMA plans over $200 million in capital projects, including a major building expansion as well as major upgrades to security, electrical, HVAC, and fire suppression systems. - MSN (The Dallas Morning News)
She will complete her seven-year term at the end of this season, though she will remain director of the company's Vanguard Initiative for emerging opera composers. - WFMT (Chicago)
Ita O'Brien, who helped launch the profession in Great Britain, is at the Gran Teatre del Liceu working on the European premiere of John Adams's Antony and Cleopatra. - The Guardian
"Dubbed the first Black action hero, Roundtree became one of the faces of the 1970s blaxploitation movement when he starred as the street-smart New York sleuth." He appeared in more than a dozen other features and several television series. - The Hollywood Reporter
Unlike El Greco or Van Gogh, very few artists are household names these days. Fame in the art world is about having currency in the right circles. As those chosen to be on show at the art fair Frieze testify to, some artists achieve ultra-recognition ultra-young. Surprisingly, this can be a disaster. - The Conversation
The term dystonia is rooted in the Latin prefix dys, or difficulty, and tonus, meaning tone or tension. It refers to involuntary disruptions in muscle tone that cause spasms and shakes. It has been divided into many categories and subtypes, depending on the body parts affected and the age of the person when it began. - The Guardian
“We’ve received our ratings from Nielsen, and they said it is not even close,” said All Classical’s President and CEO Suzanne Nance. “We’ve been pulling a 6.5 market share, and the closest competitor is 3.0.” - The Oregonian
The key aim was to use music to connect young people from Catholic and Protestant backgrounds on both sides of the Irish border. Almost 30 years on, this remains the central goal of the 140-member orchestra. - BBC
A recent set of studies in the journal Psychological Science suggests that a more personal factor – specifically, how much a piece of art seems to relate, in one way or another, to you – can contribute greatly to its aesthetic power. - Psyche
"The audience and engagement that we get from X is small. Among our social media platforms, X is among the smallest sources of traffic," a CBC spokesperson told The Canadian Press when asked why it hasn't fully returned. - Yahoo!
Since 2021, the agency has given general operations funding only to organizations with budgets under $250,000. In March, the CAC lifted that cap — and then reinstated it in August. Many larger organizations spent time completing the very involved application, then learned they weren't eligible after all. Why? - MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
