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    The Fred Step

    in Aesthetic Issues

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    Insight: ABC of Ballet - The Fred Step

    "Ursula Hageli, Ballet Mistress with The Royal Ballet, and Romany Pajdak, First Artist, explain The Fred Step, a signature move of the late, great, choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton."

    Works & Process: Doug Fullington's "After Petipa"

    in Ballet Presentations, Lectures/Symposia, Exhibits & Awards

    Posted

    One question. Perhaps I misunderstood but I thought that later choreographers used less mime and tried to incorporate characterization into the choreography. I would like to understand better why characters were often more fully developed with the earlier works. Would this be because of the loss of mime?

    From the pointe article mentioned above:

    How are the notations different from the
    Swan Lake
    and
    Sleeping Beauty
    that audiences are used to seeing today?

    The choreography is often simpler (though not in the case of petit allegro variations for men!), the mime more prominent, the characters often more fully developed and the plots more involved.

    Ballet Trading Cards (Capezio/tobacco cards)

    in Ballet History and Music

    Posted

    Here is some information I have been given in response to your question. Hope it helps.

    Maker - Capezio

    Title – Famous Dancers Gallery

    Number of cards in set – 12

    Year of issue - 1950

    Current catalogue set value – 36 UK pounds

    Available on-line from Murray Cards London (code CCG 200).

    Murrays also have various other cigarette and trade card sets related to dance in their current on-line catalogue.

    The New York Public Library

    in Other Performing & Fine Arts: Performances, Exhibits, Films, and Events

    Posted

    Nonetheless, almost every single former librarian with whom I spoke opposed the plan to renovate the main branch. Why? Ann Thornton, the system’s newly appointed top librarian, suggested that the concerns of former librarians are due to the fact that, as she put it, “Change is really difficult.” The change the older librarians had trouble dealing with, however, was not technological. It was the change in the library’s mission. No former staff member said to me, “The administration doesn’t care about books.” Rather, they said, “The administration doesn’t care about research.”

    It is frightening how widespread this attitude is. When staff disagree with a shift in underlying values of an organization management says the individuals are not flexible enough and can't cope with change. And when dissenting staff resign management are not concerned because the resignations help reduce staff numbers through "natural attrition".

    And all that experience and knowledge those staff members have is lost to the organization. . . .

    The New York Public Library

    in Other Performing & Fine Arts: Performances, Exhibits, Films, and Events

    Posted

    Libraries are being squeezed from many different directions. Full text journal articles are a wonderful resource but come with a real sting in the tail.

    The Lairds of Learning

    How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers?

    By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 30th August 2011

    "You might resent Murdoch’s paywall policy, in which he charges £1 for 24 hours of access to the Times and Sunday Times. But at least in that period you can read and download as many articles as you like. Reading a single article published by one of Elsevier’s journals will cost you $31.50. Springer charges Eur34.95, Wiley-Blackwell, $42. Read ten and you pay ten times. And the journals retain perpetual copyright. You want to read a letter printed in 1981? That’ll be $31.50.

    Of course, you could go into the library (if it still exists). But they too have been hit by cosmic fees. The average cost of an annual subscription to a chemistry journal is $3,792. Some journals cost $10,000 a year or more to stock. The most expensive I’ve seen, Elsevier’s Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, is $20,930. Though academic libraries have been frantically cutting subscriptions to make ends meet, journals now consume 65% of their budgets, which means they have had to reduce the number of books they buy. Journal fees account for a significant component of universities’ costs, which are being passed to their students."

    http://www.monbiot.c...ds-of-learning/

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