Alice Topp and Jon Buswell, resident choreographer and technical director at the Australian Ballet, have just launched a Melbourne-based troupe called Project Animo, whose roster will be made up of performers in their 30s and up who have retired from the country’s major established companies. “They’ve learned their craft,” says Topp, “they’ve experimented, and now they’re in a place where they know who they are and they know how they want to sound and feel.” – The Age (Melbourne)
How The Boston Symphony Changed In Mark Volpe’s 23 Years At The Helm
It’s been a consequential time for our culture, and the role of an orchestra has changed enormously. – Boston Globe
Gabriel Van Aalst talks about the role of an Artistic Catalyst
The President & CEO of the New Jersey Symphony talks about the orchestra’s new “Artistic Catalyst” role and the importance of serving community. – Aaron Dworkin
Thousands Of UK Music Fans Stuck With Tickets To Postponed Gigs As Country Locks Down Again
The latest four-week delay to fully unlocking Covid restrictions has pushed an additional 5,000 gigs into doubt. – BBC
An Ode To Procrastination
When I’m procrastinating, stalling, temporizing, I am defined at the metabolic level by the thing that I am not doing. – The Atlantic
Andrew Lloyd Weber Retreats — His West End Theatres Will Observe COVID Rules
“If it were just me, I would happily risk arrest and fines to make a stand and lead the live music and theatre industry back to the full capacities we so desperately need.” – BBC
Hong Kong’s Bookshops Face Tough Choices As Censorship Rules Shift
A lack of clarity about why certain books are suddenly off limits has complicated decisions about which titles to stock. – The New York Times
Choreographers Test Monetizing Their Work With NFTs
One NFT has been minted for each of the three holograms. The creators will receive a majority percentage of the auction sale, along with a percentage of any secondary sales. – dot LA
Why Globalization Is In Disfavor
It is not globalization that has brought us to the brink of the abyss, but the peculiar strain of globalization that emerged in the 1990s—a system in which international financial markets would discipline the bad habits of democratic governments, not the other way around. – The Atlantic
Where Is The Art World After COVID? Look To Documenta
Documenta is also a barometer for changes in the world around it, as a major new exhibition in Berlin demonstrates. – The New York Times
A Theatrical Experience That Makes You Wonder If It’s Theatre?
Theater is perhaps the closest term to describe the experience, but even that is poorly suited; “Liminality” evades any one category or definition, though what else could we expect from a show that’s all about the in-between spaces in perceptions and realities? – The New York Times
Art Is Increasingly Being Used To Launder Money — The Feds Are Moving In
They have realized how useful art has become as a tool for money launderers, and are considering boosting oversight of the market and making it more transparent. – The New York Times
How To Organize Your Books (Or Not)
Shelving exemplifies “two tensions, one which sets a premium on letting things be, on a good-natured anarchy, the other that exalts the virtues of the tabula rasa, the cold efficiency of the great arranging, one always ends by trying to set one’s books in order.” – Washington Post