Here are a few articles from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
The Unpredictable Experiment: 25 Years of Sloan Science Plays
AMERICAN THEATRE: Maybe Wilbur Wright didn’t actually lob this accusation at his brother Orville on the beach at Kitty Hawk, N.C., in 1900, but he did so onstage at New York City’s Ensemble Studio Theatre in November 1997. This was the debut of Flight, a play by Arthur Giron which, like the Wright Brothers’ fateful experiment, also marked the beginning of something big. Flight was the modest kickoff of a long line of science-themed plays supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, in a unique funding program that continues to this day and shows no signs of stopping.
Misty Copeland reflects on the ‘generational trauma’ felt by Black ballet dancers
Entertainment | phillytrib.com: Misty Copeland has grown used to having the spotlight on her at center stage. In 2015, Copeland sprang into the highest echelons of dance when she became the first African American woman to be a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, one of the most prestigious and well-renowned dance companies in the world.
'Road House' Writer Claims Amazon Used AI to Replicate Actors' Voices
variety.com: Hill’s lawsuit alleges that he filed a petition with the U.S. Copyright Office in 2021, requesting that the copyright return to him after United Artists’ claim was set to expire in November 2023. The suit goes on to allege that Amazon ignored his claims and proceeded with the film, using artificial intelligence to replicate the voices of actors for ADR during the SAG strike in an effort to complete the film before the Nov. 10 deadline.
Dancing Across the Solar System as the Grand Canyon’s Astronomer in Residence
Dance Magazine: When I first imagined choreographing a dance about the connection between the Grand Canyon and how humans explore the solar system, I figured the idea was a little too “out there” to be taken seriously. And yet, last month, I stood at the rim of the Grand Canyon as the park’s official Astronomer in Residence. Perched on a ledge of Kaibab limestone, I began the first gesture phrase that would describe the canyon’s geologic history—and form the backbone for Chasing Canyons, a modern dance solo I premiered at the Grand Canyon’s South Rim on February 23, 2024.
The curious case of the embedded critic
Intermission: Toronto theatre criticism is in a weird spot at the moment. Discussion around criticism in this city feels more volatile than ever before: several theatres have removed critics from their press lists, and artists continue to speak out about the harms they’ve experienced from their side of a review. For some Toronto critics, to write about local theatre is to play a no-win game of extremes, with artists on one side and critics on the other — an us-versus-them between art and its response. As a critic who went to theatre school and continues to nurture my own artistic practices, I fall somewhere in the middle.
