To survive long-term, companies such as Woolly need to convince social-justice-minded, cash-challenged millennials to buy tickets. The crucial challenge: Can they do this without alienating …
"The technologies allowed me to show things to you"for example, how past landscapes can change overtime, how you can look from the scale of a beetle, how you can change your perspective. The…
OCAD U seeks Black candidates who can demonstrate how their lived experiences inform a deep commitment through their work to intersectional Black communities and whose theoretical, technical…
The glasses are aimed at D/deaf audiences and offer personal captioning, flashing the production's dialogue in front of the wearer's eyes as the actors say it. They were developed by the NT …
Relaxed performance " an approach to performance that challenges what have developed as strict expectations and codes for audience and performer engagement and behaviour " is making theatre …
Artists are expected to make work about fighting climate change and fascism, or promoting gay rights, Piotr Bernatowicz says. "Artists who do not adopt this ideology are marginalized," he sa…
Yuan Yuan Tan wasn't even intending to join the company back in 1995, but no principal dancer in the history of the company has lasted as long. " San Francisco Chronicle
What are people looking to do? The most popular searches, by one analysis, range from the achingly prosaic to the exceedingly specific"from "how to kiss" to "how to make a rainbow-loom starb…
We are now in the mature stage of a book-to-film boom that is quietly transforming how Americans read and tell stories"and not for the better. The power of this force is hard to quantify bec…
The lack of progress in adversarial philosophical exchange might rest on a simple but problematic division of labour: in professional settings such as talks, seminars and papers, we standard…
None of us are good listeners all the time. It's human nature to get distracted by what's going on in your own head. Listening takes effort. Like reading, you might choose to go over some th…
Pugh founded Ballet Memphis in 1986 with two dancers and a $75,000 budget. The organization grew over the years and now has a company of 21 dancers and a four-million-dollar budget. It al…
By being thrust forward in time at warp speed over the last few decades " fueled by seriously cranked-up air-conditioning and the bountiful oil production from beneath their deserts that beg…
Since 1987, Chicago Sinfonietta has been a defiantly different kind of orchestra. The orchestra was founded by Maestro Paul Freeman to address the disconnect between the utter lack of divers…
"There are more resonances between programming and poetry than you might think. Computer science is an art form of words and punctuation, thoughtfully placed and goal-oriented, even if not n…
When they started collaborating in 2011, they didn't plan on their composing careers revolving around the stuff of nightmares. And the work, they'll freely admit, can exert a psychological t…
At least from small-press publishers, we're getting more work that looks at, not so much how do we survive the apocalypse as how do we live with nature? How do we live in this world? " Washi…
Both the retrospective and the prospective interpretations of the Hubble Constant have stoked ongoing controversy in the 90 years since Edwin Powell Hubble published the first definitive evi…
Writing to learn, as I am imagining it, is a divergent social practice fueled by a lovely cocktail of curiosity, imagination, experience, and ignorance. For my purposes, there are two kinds …
When the Taliban destroyed the historic Bamiyan Budha, the international response "was indeed collective, a near-universal eruption of outrage and dismay at the loss. At the United Nations, …
Defense secretary Mark Esper acknowledged that striking cultural sites with no military value would be a war crime, putting him at odds with the president, who insisted such places would be …
The site BachTrack tracks concerts internationally: "In 2019, we listed nearly 35,000 performances of concerts, opera and dance " more than ever before." " BachTrack
If disinformation in 2016 was characterized by Macedonian spammers pushing pro-Trump fake news and Russian trolls running rampant on platforms, 2020 is shaping up to be the year communicatio…
"The messages conveyed through disinformation range from biased half-truths to conspiracy theories to outright lies. The intent is to manipulate popular opinion to sway policy or inhibit act…
The idea that this might be actionable is the new twist. Every song benefits from what preceded it, whether it's a melodic idea, a lyrical motif, a sung rhythm, a drum texture. A forensic an…