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• Dance School Retools Around Wellness, Mental Health

  26-01-2022 23:33 via bbc.com
  
  Students are taught mindfulness, yoga, talking therapy – and coping techniques, such as breathwork. “The aim is to counterbalance everything else they do, not only in their training but in their lives; to let go of pressure, judgement, expectations.” – BBC
  
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• Broadway Shrank Last Week

  26-01-2022 23:01 via deadline.com
  
  Broadway continued its winter freeze last week, with box office dropping 11% to a slim $16,494,289 for its meager 21-show roster. Attendance for the week ending Jan. 23 was 152,135, a slip of 6% from the previous week. – Deadline
  
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• Charlie Brown’s Voice Is Dead

  26-01-2022 22:32 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Born in Los Angeles on Aug. 10, 1956, Peter Robbins got his start as a child performer and, beginning at age 9, brought to life beloved Peanuts character Charlie Brown. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Can “Anarchist Architecture” Make Us More Resilient?

  26-01-2022 22:01 via theconversation.com
  
  “Architecture and anarchy may not seem like the most obvious pairing. But since anarchism emerged as a distinct kind of politics in the second half of the 19th-century, it has inspired countless alternative communities.” – The Conversation
  
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• The Shortcoming Of Immersive Art

  26-01-2022 21:29 via jacobinmag.com
  
  The “immersive entertainment” industry, which includes nondigital experiences such as escape rooms and other content in which the participant feels a sense of presence in an artificial environment, is large and growing, spanning contexts such as live events, arts performances, and museums. – Jacobin
  
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• Radical Change As Threat? It Wasn’t Always So…

  26-01-2022 20:31 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  When we do imagine radical change, it is usually dystopian, and often, at least implicitly, predicated on ecological catastrophe. Seen from this vantage point, the change is striking, and the question of how we “got stuck” is indeed the crucial one. – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• Why American Conservatory Theater Is Shutting Down Its Admired MFA Program

  26-01-2022 20:02 via americantheatre.org
  
  “The school had been working tirelessly to find a university partner in order to stay open. … But, as ACT artistic director Pam MacKinnon put it, there were three reasons that such a partnership did not come to fruition: ‘COVID, COVID, COVID.'” – American Theatre
  
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• Pivot To Video Is Changing The Performing Arts

  26-01-2022 19:28 via tinyurl.com
  
   “You get something different from film. We want to be specific in our storytelling: we want it to be close-up and we want to feel the energy of the artist. That means venturing into film. It’s not cheap but it’s extremely rewarding.” – Style Weekly (Richmond)
  
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• How Shirley Jackson Took Apart The Pieces Of Postwar American Womanhood

  26-01-2022 19:01 via guernicamag.com
  
  “(Her) career endeavor (was) to explore the fragmentary internal landscape of her generation of women, often through themes of madness, fracturing, and disorientation.” – Guernica
  
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• Ireland Launches Universal Income Plan For Artists

  26-01-2022 18:32 via artforum.com
  
  The program will cover two thousand arts and culture workers for a span of three years. The government has earmarked €25 million ($28.3 million) for the plan, which is expected to go into force later this winter. – ArtForum
  
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• The Long, Odd History Of American Comic Books

  26-01-2022 18:04 via thenation.com
  
  After starting as kids’ entertainment, they were used as World War II propaganda and even a vehicle for public education about the atomic bomb. Then some comics, pursuing an adult audience, grew dark, violent and sexual enough to cause an outright moral panic. And then came the ’60s. – The Nation
  
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• ‘We are tearing open that wound’: the First Nations artists reclaiming Tasmania

  26-01-2022 17:34
  
  For the island’s Mona Foma festival, public spaces ‘dripping in colonialism’ have been disrupted with screams, violence and truthLaunceston is one of Australia’s oldest and perhaps most characterful cities. It’s full of Georgian, Victorian and Federation-era buildings largely untouched by wrecking balls or developers, often bearing their year of construction a century ago or more.With manicured lawns, flowerbeds and a classically inspired 1859 fountain, Prince&rsquo
  
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• Africa’s Cultural Institutions Leading The Way On New Ways Of Presenting Culture

  26-01-2022 17:23 via hyperallergic.com
  
  These visionary entrepreneurs, who represent some of the continent’s best talent in professions ranging from architecture to finance, are creating new models of preserving and showcasing art, history and culture. From Lagos to Luanda, they are building local museums, archives, libraries, arts spaces, and cultural centers. – Hyperallergic
  
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• A Tale by Mohammed Mrabet As Told to Paul Bowles and Transcribed by Mark Terrill

  26-01-2022 17:16 via artsjournal.com
  Mohammed Mrabet, a young Moroccan painter from Tangier, met the American ex-patriate composer and writer Paul Bowles in 1965. Bowles, who lived in Tangier for decades, taped many of Mrabet’s spontaneous stories and translated them into English, eventually resulting in the publication of more than a dozen books. Mark Terrill, himself an American ex-pat writer and poet, recalls that during a kif-fueled visit with the two of them, Mrabet began “improvising some of his crazy tales while
  
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• The Whirling Dervishes Of Konya Are Torn

  26-01-2022 17:01 via theworld.org
  
  The ritual of sema (as it’s called) is meant to be a sacred meditative practice, and its practitioners are devout Sufis uncomfortable with commercialization. On the other hand, the Turkish city where they live needs the tourist money. – PRI’s The World
  
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• The Brave, Skilled, And Versatile “Swings” Who Keep “The Lion King” Running Through The Pandemic

  26-01-2022 16:33 via vulture.com
  
  Jacqueline René, for instance, can do, and has done, everything from Nala the lioness and Shenzi the zebra to the bird lady, a patch of savanna grass, and the eye of the ghost of Mufasa — all depending on who tested positive for COVID that day. – New York Magazine
  
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• Badal Roy, Who Brought Indian Tabla Drumming To Cutting-Edge Jazz, Dead At 82

  26-01-2022 16:05 via nytimes.com
  
  He had only the rudiments of Indian classical training and played in an unorthodox manner, using up to seven drums instead of the conventional two. He spent a long career working with musicians from John McLaughlin to Miles Davis to Ornette Coleman to Herbie Mann. – The New York Times
  
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• January design news: circular Levi’s and a Barbican birthday

  26-01-2022 15:59
  
  Finnish feminist artists, award-winning art at the Collect Craft Fair and a fashion/homeware collaborationVisiting the Barbican estate in London is like entering a slightly different version of reality. Few places open to the general public feel as hermetic as the estate created by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. If you visit to mark the Barbican Centre’s 40th anniversary next month, make sure you take it all in.Singular vision is also celebrated in Helsinki this month with an art s
  
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• Checking In On San Francisco’s Pilot Program Of Guaranteed Income For Artists

  26-01-2022 15:32 via sfgate.com
  
  The program, launched by the city government and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts last March, provides $1,000 a month, no strings attached, to 130 participants (chosen from 25,000 applicants). Here’s a look at how two of them, a choreographer and a writer/teacher, are doing. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• The Entire Marcel Duchamp Archive Is Now Available For Free Online

  26-01-2022 15:04 via msn.com
  “It is a vast online trove of Duchampiana” assembled by the Association Marcel Duchamp, the Pompidou Center, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “a virtual ‘readymade,’ now available to scholars, artists, and the general public all over the world.” – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• “Fight Club” Gets A Whole New Ending For Streaming In China

  26-01-2022 14:36 via variety.com
  
  In execution, it’s sort of lame: instead of explosions, a title card is slipped in to say that the authorities foiled Project Mayhem and Tyler Durden was sent to a “lunatic asylum.” And, says one source, this was probably done by the distributor, not the government’s censors themselves. – Variety
  
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• Little Brick Hospital In Regional Bangladesh Wins RIBA’s Best New Building Award

  26-01-2022 14:08 via theguardian.com
  
  In the city of Satkhira, near the giant Sundarban mangrove swamp on the Indian border, the Friendship Hospital, designed by the Dhaka-based firm Urbana, manages to channel rain, wind, and sunlight to keep people as dry, cool, and well-lit as possible in such a setting. – The Guardian
  
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• This Orchestra Somehow Kept Going Through Lockdowns, Floods, Power Outages, And The Madness Of Today’s Venezuela

  26-01-2022 09:03 via nationalgeographic.com
  
  The Orquesta Sinfónica Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho in Caracas is already the country’s least conventional symphonic ensemble: they frequently perform in the barrios and regularly explore fusion with Afro-Caribbean music. Their most recent project, Sinfonía Desordenada (Disorderly Symphony), turned out to be, er, aptly named. – National Geographic
  
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• Senior Assistant Dean

  26-01-2022 06:17 via artsjournal.com
  With a primary goal of building and sustaining institutional business alignment, the Senior Assistant Dean (Sr. AD) enables information sharing and provides point of decision making guidance for the School’s administrative activities in support of Shepherd School of Music (SSM) and Rice University mission and goals.The Sr. AD works closely with the dean to explore, evaluate, and coordinate strategic planning and implementation of initiatives with significant potential benefits for the SSM.
  
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• Los Angeles Master Chorale: Associate Director, Institutional Giving

  26-01-2022 06:05 via artsjournal.com
  Title: Associate Director, Institutional Giving
  Reports to: Chief Advancement Officer
  Status: Full Time / Regular / Exempt
  Salary: DOE + BenefitsSummary of Duties:
  The Los Angeles Master Chorale, a resident company of The Music Center of Los Angeles, seeks a skilled Associate Director, Institutional Giving to create, develop and execute strategic fundraising plans for foundation, corporate and government giving to the Los Angeles Master Chorale.Essential Duties, Responsibilities, Functions:Resea
  
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• Symphony San Jose – General Director

  26-01-2022 06:01 via artsjournal.com
  OrganizationCelebrating its 20th Anniversary Season, Symphony San Jose (The Symphony) is a premier arts organization committed to the communities of San Jose and the Bay Area. Founded in 2002 as Symphony Silicon Valley, the organization has built its own artistic and inclusive identity through a broad range of popular programs. Repertory featured includes all of the symphonic classics, as well as more contemporary composers, including Gabriela Ortiz, Quinn Mason, Jennifer Higdon, and Avner Dorma
  
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• Indie Movies Are Quite Odd Right Now

  26-01-2022 00:03 via variety.com
  
  Let’s call them “bizart-house movies,” for lack of a better term — unapologetically odd and original creations, led by a gifted group of rebel auteurs who don’t kowtow to popular expectations. – Variety
  
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