Apr 13, 2017
It’s every musician’s goal to leave a lasting impression on their listeners. This can be challenging, especially when the nervousness we so often experience during performances is a factor. There’s nothing more frustrating than spending countless hours practicing for...
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Mar 22, 2017
On Thursday, beloved English Actress Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton penned a powerful op-ed for CNN calling Donald Trump’s proposed slashing of funding for the arts “mind boggling considering how much the arts benefit our lives and our world.”...
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Mar 13, 2017
Continuing from last week’s best female auteur theatre directors post, here is the second half of the list: Phyllida Lloyd, Deborah Warner, Katie Mitchell, Marianne Elliot and Emma Rice. 6. Phyllida Lloyd Lloyd (CBE) is an English director of theatre, opera and...
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Mar 8, 2017
When we think of the great auteur directors working in theatre today, like most exclusive artistic circles, it’s dominated largely by men, and old, white men at that. Ivo Van Hove, Thomas Ostermeier, and Peter Brook are all names that immediately come to mind. But who...
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Dec 14, 2016
In 2012, I completed a documentary film that provided an interesting insight into the transmission and diffusion of a uniquely American music culture and an art form to India. What made it intriguing is that this transmission took place in the 1920’s and...
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Aug 30, 2016
Many members of the performing arts community deserve their merit: producers, directors, dancers, singers, performers, comedians, crew members, composers, musicians, actors/actresses, artists, costume designers, and so on. They all put together the extraordinary,...
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