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After 25 years, Australian dance star Lucy Guerin bows out of the company she founded | Dance
If there is one thing the professional dancer learns never to expect, it’s longevity. The physical demands on the body and increasing risk of injury tend to necessitate short careers. Melbourne-based choreographer Lucy Guerin has…
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Edward Berger Says Movie Business “Needed Netflix To Wake Up”
The movie business “needed Netflix to wake up” the industry, according to Edward Berger, but the Oscar-winning All Quiet on the Western Front director predicted it could be the Hollywood studios inspiring the streaming service in years…
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A Maverick Pedagogical Proposition | Unanswered Question
Today’s crisis in humanities education takes many forms, and many are the proposed remedies.
One such is a brave new two-volume, 1,700-page textbook, The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition. Its authors, Allen…
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Hong Kong Overhauls Its System For Performing Arts Funding, And Groups Are Nervous
Since 2008, the territory’s government has funded nine designated major performing arts groups, including the Hong Kong Ballet, Philharmonic, and Repertory Theatre. The city’s chief executive has announced a planned change to a more…
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‘A vigorous apologist for a cruel emperor’: Is Caryl Churchill’s explosive new play about Trump and…
Triumph, which has just opened at London’s Almeida theatre, is Caryl Churchill’s latest piece of explosive minimalism. Running at just 20 minutes, it skewers contemporary barbarism without mentioning the names of Trump, Putin or any of…
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‘Other Desert Cities’ ‘860’ ‘A Few Good Men’ See Broadway…
The fall season is gearing up on Broadway, with a number of new shows prepping for openings and drawing in big grosses.
Other Desert Cities, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Allison Janney and Joe Keery, was the third highest…
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As fans reject AI-generated music, even boosters are drawing the line | Music
Streaming services, notable musicians and fans are confronting the growing presence of AI-generated music and drawing lines in the sand.On Tuesday, Spotify announced it had removed about 50m songs considered AI slop from its…
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The Battles Over Jimmy Buffet’s Estate
Three years after Jimmy’s death, the family is locked in a legal dispute over that Margaritaville fortune. It has upended the fun-loving vibes the musician spent his life cultivating, with the family seeming rudderless without Jimmy as…
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If You Want to Deify Your Music Teacher, Make Sure You Have Two — Thomas Wolf
Another teacher at the Curtis Institute who was treated like a God was harpist Carlos Salzedo, whose influence on generations of harpists is legendary, given their ultimate career success. It is true that the two pedagogues, Tabuteau…
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