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Bankstown Arts Centre opens "Cultural Cartography: Creating Art at the Intersection of Cultures"
SYDNEY.- Curated by one of the most renowned Australian artists, Guan Wei, Cultural Cartography: Creating Art at the Intersection of Cultures opened at Bankstown Arts Centre on 13th January during Sydney Festival. Running as part of Bankstown Arts Centres NEXUS, an exciting immersive cultural festival showcasing the energy and vitality of young creatives from Bankstown and beyond, Cultural Cartography: Creating Art at the Intersection of Cultures is a provocative exhibition curated by one of Australias most renowned artists Guan Wei and showcasing five young artists Cindy Chen, NC Qin, Chris Yee, Christina Huynh and Anney Bounpraseuth whose works contemplate on and reflect the diversity, complexity and dynamics of contemporary humanities and lifestyles. Curator Guan Wei said, German physicist Werner ... More

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company announces new artistic team
NEW YORK, NY.- Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, a rare Asian American women-led dance company, has been mourning the loss of its artistic leader Nai-Ni Chen for the past week. Ms. Chen is an embodiment of immigrant Chinese American dance artists who came to America to contribute to the world of dance and has since created a company with deep roots in many aspects of community life. Her sudden passing also leaves a legacy of 30 years of work to create cross-cultural dances that empower the next generation of immigrant artists and honors diverse influences in mainstream American culture. To ensure Ms. Chens legacy continues to flourish, grow, and inspire the generations to come, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Board of Directors and Executive Director Andrew Chiang announce the appointment of three new artistic leaders ... More

Exhibition at Carbon 12 presents works by three Austrian-born or Austrian-based artists
DUBAI.- We [] live in disturbing times, mixed-up times, troubling and turbid times. The task is to become capable, with each other in all of our bumptious kinds, of response. [] Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places. In urgent times, many of us are tempted to address trouble in terms of making an imagined future safe, of stopping something from happening that looms in the future, of clearing away the present and the past in order to make futures for coming generations. Staying with the trouble does not require such a relationship to times called the future. In fact, staying with the trouble requires learning to be truly present [].[1] In Staying with the Trouble, theoretician Donna J. Haraway imagines a world in which we live together with various ... More

The visions of PenÃ©lope Cruz
NEW YORK, NY.- You have to wonder if PenÃ©lope Cruz manifested her first phone call from Pedro AlmodÃ³var. As a young girl growing up in Madrid, she watched Betamax tapes of his movies over and over, hoping that the Spanish auteur might find a place for her in his bright and bold world. She dreamed about it so often that the day he did phone her about a role, it didnt even feel like the first call it felt like the tenth, or the hundredth, from someone she already knew very well. That bond was further confirmed when AlmodÃ³var summoned her to his apartment to read scenes. Cruz was still a fledgling actress it was 1992, and her first two movies, JamÃ³n JamÃ³n and Belle Epoque, had only just come out but as she batted lines back and forth with the far more established AlmodÃ³var in his kitchen, their connection couldnt have been more ... More

'Mockingbird,' once a Broadway smash, to pause production amid omicron
NEW YORK, NY.- The producers of To Kill a Mockingbird, a hit play that had been packing in audiences before the pandemic, announced Wednesday that they would shut the show down until June, lay off the cast and crew, downsize the production and then reopen in a smaller theater. At the same time, Girl From the North Country, a heart-tugging musical that uses the songs of Bob Dylan to consider the Depression-era plight of a group of down-on-their-luck Midwesterners in the town where Dylan was born, said it will end its Broadway run on Jan. 23, and would try to reopen in another theater this spring. They became the seventh and eighth Broadway shows to announce temporary or permanent closing dates since early December, when the omicron variant sent coronavirus cases soaring in New York. Their plans for short-term layoffs follow ... More

Love, trust and heartbreak on two stages
NEW YORK, NY.- When Orpheus turned around to look at Eurydice during the closing performance of Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhls Eurydice at the Metropolitan Opera, the audiences collective gasp seemed to shake the grand theater. I recalled another time I heard such a gasp: from the character of Eurydice near the end of Doubt Comes In, a song in the Broadway musical Hadestown. Then, too, the audience gasped along with her. A lifelong classics nerd, I was surprised both times by the reaction. Does the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice really require a spoiler alert? The myth has been kicking around for more than two millennia, after all. Orpheus, the greatest musician of all, marries Eurydice, who dies when shes bitten by a snake on their wedding day. He descends to the underworld, where the god of the dead offers him another ... More

Dale Clevenger, Chicago Symphony's fearless horn master, dies at 81
NEW YORK, NY.- Dale Clevenger, whose expressive, daring playing as the solo French horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 47 years made him one of the most respected orchestral instrumentalists of his generation, died Jan. 5 at a hospital near his home in Brescia, Italy. He was 81. The cause was complications of Waldenstroms disease, a form of lymphoma, his family said. Clevenger was a pillar of the famed Chicago brass section, which has long been renowned as an unrivaled force for its clean, majestic sound, fearless attacks and sheer might. Working with his equally enduring fellow principals, Adolph Herseth on trumpet, Jay Friedman on trombone and Arnold Jacobs on tuba, Clevenger helped shape that section into the envy of the orchestra world and the joy of its conductors. In a statement, Riccardo Muti, the orchestras music ... More

Reggie Wilson explores the power of moving together
NEW YORK, NY.- Even choreographer Reggie Wilson sees how many would think that his new piece, Power, is just another version of they stood shaking while others began to shout, which premiered in 2019. How many people have made pieces inspired by Mother Rebeccas Black Shaker community? he said, dissolving into a characteristic fit of laughter. But while the two works have some similar movements, he added, theyre really not the same piece at all. When Wilson became aware of Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson, a Shaker eldress who formed her own community in Philadelphia in the 19th century, he was immediately intrigued about how Black and Shaker traditions intertwined or didnt. Shaker worship incorporated dance. Both of Wilsons works are based on an imaginative speculation: What might Jackson's worship have ... More

Maria Ewing, dramatically daring opera star, dies at 71
NEW YORK, NY.- Maria Ewing, who sang notable soprano and mezzo-soprano roles at leading houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, beginning in the mid-1970s, and whose ambiguity about her racial heritage helped drive her daughter, actress and director Rebecca Hall, to make the recent movie Passing, died Sunday at her home near Detroit. She was 71. A family spokesperson said the cause was cancer. Ewing was a striking presence on opera stages, where she strove to bring an actors skills and sensibilities to her roles rather than simply stand and sing. Ive watched how actors work and work at it, Ewing, who was once married to director Peter Hall, told The Orange County Register of California in 1997, when she was appearing in LA Operas production of Umberto Giordanos Fedora. I dont mean to criticize or underestimate ... More

A pop star becomes a guru
NEW YORK, NY.- No matter what any rock star tells you, theyre all conscious of the cult of personality, Alex Ebert said, looking like a tenured musicology professor with his tan button-down shirt, shaggy beard and horn-rimmed glasses, while seated amid grand pianos and organs. For a lot of them, thats their primary occupation. Ebert, 43, would know. In 2009, as the founder of the Los Angeles folk-rock band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, he led a 12-member troupe of neo-hippie troubadours into rock n roll satori with the seismic single Home. Maybe youve heard the ebullient chorus, Home is wherever Im with you! Or perhaps you can recall the almost revival-choir hook, Laugh until we think well die, barefoot on a summer night, never could be sweeter than with you, set to accordions, trumpets and Seven Dwarfs-style whistling. ... More

Coachella to return in April with Billie Eilish and Kanye West
NEW YORK, NY.- Billie Eilish, Harry Styles and Kanye West will headline the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April, as the music industry takes hopeful steps toward the return of festivals and touring in 2022. Coachella, set for its usual two-weekend format, April 15-17 and April 22-24, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, will return after two years mothballed by the pandemic. On Wednesday, after weeks of speculation and leaks in the music press, the festival announced its complete 2022 lineup, which will also feature performances by Megan Thee Stallion, Lil Baby, Doja Cat, Phoebe Bridgers, the reunited electronic dance group Swedish House Mafia and dozens of others. (West is billed on the official festival poster as simply Ye.) The event is expected to run at its full capacity of up to 125,000 concertgoers a day. Coachella ... More