Ryan Tracy for the Directorship of the New York City Opera presents
A WAY FORWARD: A Rescue Plan for the New York City Opera
Friday, January 9, 2009
Table of Contents:
Overture: Introductions
A Brief State of the New York City Opera
The First Eighteen Months
Need for Fiscal/Administrative Transparency
Limit of Term
Administrative Re-Organization
The Board of Directors
Creative Advisory Board
A Home for New York [...]
A WAY FORWARD: A rescue plan for the New York City Opera
The Not So Short List
Since announcing my candidacy for the directorship of New York City Opera, my team has worked hard and tirelessly to flesh out a not-so-short list of nominees for the proposed para-advisory board that will help me reshape the future of New York City Opera.
We have cast a wide net in order to ensure that every [...]
C.C. for New York City Opera Directorship
Counter Critic for the Directorship of The New York City Opera
“A Key-Change We Need”
[Update: WATCH VIDEO]
Preamble
I hereby announce my candidacy to assume directorship of The New York City Opera.
In these uncertain times, artistic organizations need stalwart leadership that will provide vision, direction, and most importantly, thought that isn’t lodged in the dark recesses of somebody’s [...]
A Weekend With CounterCritic
Friday night we stopped by DNA for Laura Peterson’s “Electrolux,” reviewed in The Times by Gia Kourlas. Our very own RT will actually be reviewing this for The Brooklyn Rail, so all we can say now is, it was def worth checking out.
Saturday afternoon we hit the replay of the Met’s simulcast of Peter Grimes [...]
Tounge in cheek? Sure! Whimsical? Absolutely! Just don’t call it “family entertainment”
Dance Review: Mark Morris’s “King Arthur” @ New York City Opera
(Photos by Carol Rosegg)
The City Opera has returned from a two-month hiatus with a production to be proud of. Mark Morris’s “King Arthur” (2006), an abstract (and abstracted) opera/dance based on the 17th century collaboration between poet John Dryden and composer Henry Purcell, satisfies as [...]
Glitter and Be…Paul Taylor
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RITE OF SPRING MONDAY! (Oh boy…)
The second round of the rock-em-sock-em performance art biennial known as Performa, ended Monday night in a self-immolating “Grand Finale” at the Hudson Theater in Times Square. The festival, which has made us all laugh, cry, pull out our hair, stress out way too much about our fashion sensibility, and [...]
N.Y. in L.A.
L.A. dance correspondent, Benn Widdey, sent us this report on a recent wave of flirtatious engagements of big gun NYC choreographers in La La Land!
The past several weeks have brought some of your hometown heroes out to the west coast. The bigger local venues can afford to bring in some of the seat-filling [...]
Nacho Duato
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Nacho Duato isn’t breaking any ground with his choreography. And his style can easily be traced to current dance and dance-theater luminaries in both Europe and the United States. But the program his Compañía Nacional de Danza presented Wednesday night at Brooklyn Academy of [...]
Dance As Dialog: A reader responds
C.C. new BFF and company member of the Mark Morris Dance Group, David Leventhal, emailed me regarding this post, where I wryly commented on a little piece he wrote for The Times about the trials of touring in a big dance company. Below, I post his first email to me. Followed by my email to [...]
