I’d like very much to see some of the work Ratmansky created while in Moscow. Created might be the wrong word, as many of the works seem to be recreations of lost works, like the “Flames of Paris”. Ratmansky in the end – even in the short piece I saw – was always about deconstruction. Rather than the matter itself, Ratmansky wanted to look at the illusion: Meta-choreography.
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“Every day I am inundated with email forwards, usually from church members, extolling the virtues of our nation’s leaders and the current war….They’re the ones that are always sending me these emails about how wonderful it is to bomb cities full of women and children because of a lie.
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What has happened at the Staatsoper is that a generation change has taken place. Nearly all of the senior generation that had grown up under the old system are gone. As well as Mlles Tamburi and Sollak, Niki Adler has also left the Staatsoper. There are apparently no real replacements for these dancers, eager to put on their own choreographic works.
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Found a great weblog today. Infrequent posts (fortunately more frequent than the ones at La Vie Viennoise since I got lost in my business in Slovakia in the last six months) but good ones. Items you may wish to read: The implosion of the music business beginning strangely with F.D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and Peter Drucker’s management analyss. The article concludes with case studies of Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Peter Gabriel discussing in a serious way what might replace it. Despite any claims about deceased actors who snoozed through their Alzheimer’s dementia in the White House, the Soviet Union…
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Nothing prepared me for headlines like this one from the WSJ: Heavenly Tax Havens.
A certain Daniel J. Mitchell of the Cato Institute has been given space to tell us that while “wealthy tax evaders may not be sympathetic figures, especially with those of us who meekly comply with the law…low-tax jurisdictions serve a valuable role in the world economy.”
So those who don’t pay their taxes but enjoy the benefits of “high tax” host nations are bold heroes while the rest of us are meek and stupid sheep!
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