AltWeeklies Wire
Columbia’s Art Community Gives Charleston a Run For Its Moneynew
If you live in a city with an international arts festival, a gallery on every other corner, one of the oldest art museums in the nation, and an amazing contemporary art center — and that city is also on the ocean — why would you spend 90 minutes on a congested highway to check out the art scene in a state government-dominated city where life often revolves around large young men bashing into one another under stadium lights?
Charleston City Paper |
Jeffrey Day |
04-13-2012 |
Performance
Can Charleston's Dance Community Bounce Back?new
The local dance scene is going through a rough patch. The two companies that have carried the community for decades are in flux. Robert Ivey Ballet is adjusting to new management after Ivey, a major figure in the local arts world, passed away late last summer. And the Charleston Ballet Theatre rang in its 25th anniversary season with a slew of board resignations, talk of financial mismanagement, and accusations of plagiarism — and some are wondering if the company can even recover.
Charleston City Paper |
Erica Jackson Curran |
04-13-2012 |
Performance
Composer Tobias Picker tapped to write a lead role for new SA opera companynew
When the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters announced their newly elected members on March 12, it was a good day for Schott Music, the venerable international music publishing company headquartered in Mainz, Germany, since 1770.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
04-05-2012 |
Performance
Ballet Magnificat! Marks 25 Yearsnew
As a professional ballerina, Kathy Thibodeaux began to pray about her career and her future when she became a Christian in 1979. "Should I keep dancing? Do I give up dancing?" She wondered. At that point, she says, no one in the country was really dancing for Jesus. Her Christian friends were skeptical that dancing was something a nice Christian girl should do.
Jackson Free Press |
Briana Robinson |
12-08-2011 |
Performance
Befringed and Bewildered? Surviving Orlando's International Fringe Theatre Festivalnew
Dwarfs with flashing tools? Check. Red dildo in the hand of a randy senior citizen? Check. Devil's weed, racial jokes told in blackface, the politics of pee and the mysteries of the clit? Check, all four.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
05-15-2008 |
Performance
