Author name: Sheryl Carpente

When Denise Scott Brown visited Las Vegas for the first time in the 1960s, she was overwhelmed with emotions. But she wasn’t quite sure which ones. “The first thing I felt was a kind of shiver,” she recalls in a new documentary. “Was it horror or was it pleasure?” She was intoxicated by the frenzy

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Historically, RAI, Italy’s public broadcaster, has always been subject to government control. During the political era dominated by Silvio Berlusconi, the late media mogul turned three-time prime minister, for example, the infamous “Bulgarian Diktat” caused an uproar: following a declaration by Berlusconi, management effectively removed the

The artistic director of the Montreal-based troupe Le Patin Libre (“free skate”) stresses that audiences shouldn’t expect anything like Merce Cunningham or Pina Bausch or Alvin Ailey but in an ice rink. Yet their work is to conventional figure skating something like what contemporary dance is to ballet. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN) Source link

Backstage at Paquita, Paris Opera Ballet The end-of-year boom in box office earnings at the Paris Opera Ballet has been severely hit by strike action. Pierre Lacotte’s 2021 version of Paquita at the Opéra Bastille was programmed from 5 December until 4 January, and Alexander Ekman’s long sold-out Play at the Palais Garnier from 7