Jean Houston: “I have never met a stupid child. I have met incredibly stupid systems of education. . . . If you put art back as a central part of the curriculum. . . then a child is simply not gong to fail.”
The decision to cut art out of the public school curriculum will go down as one of the colossal blunders generated by the right-wing, neo-liberal dominance of the past forty years.
So did Kay Mazzo remark two years ago, after watching Violette Very teach her Emeralds solo to School of American Ballet students.
It was unforgettably beautiful, eloquent, moving—and instructive, as Verdy explained point after point in that vivid way she had.
SAB director Mazzo was joined by Edward Villella, like Mazzo an ex-colleague of Verdy’s.
Watching Lincoln Center Festival’s Jewels at the Saturday and Sunday matinees, the Paris Opera Ballet gave what seemed like two very different performances of Emeralds–again it was a matter of subtle differences.
In the new video he’s lensed, Fraudster Ryan gets to play dress down and show off his forearms while shilling for the latest GOP misuse of public funds.
How much do we want to bet he will try to launch military action against some/any/whatever country in order to derail investigation into his myriad illegal activities?
Trump keeps showing that this is one art form with which he’s intimately familiar.
So it’s claimed that Trump actually found some behavior or remarks inappropriate?
It’s a daisy chain of zooming at the White House these days.
Those Soloviev quotes were prelude to launching the website for:
People’s Artist: The Life and Death of Yuri Soloviev
by JL and Lisa Whitaker
YURISOLOVIEVBALLET.COM
Trump has woken us up, there’s no question about it.
Just spoke to someone who used to watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! after dinner but now is watching the news.
Mark Sumner at Daily Kos writes:
“At least Americans are getting a good look at what ‘business leaders’ are like and how businesses are run. For decades, Americans have been fed a line of BS about how government is inefficient and corrupt while businesses are handled by enlightened leaders guided by the invisible-but-wise hand of the market.”
The Mooch’s servile encomiums are just what the dictator ordered!
