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...skills. "You have to be based in the tradition, but if you can maintain that, and at the same time do something new, that's a formula for success," says Kenji Nishimura, a veteran Tokyo art dealer. Like many supposedly venerable Japanese traditions, however, nihonga actually isn't that ancient. The term was coined during the Meiji period in the late 1800s, when artists and critics-including a number of Japanophile European expatriates-became alarmed at the way the country seemed to be shedding its cultural skin in the process of rapid Westernization. They called for the preservation of classical...
...decline. it thrives outside academia, in popular song lyrics that millions of people, especially children, can recite by heart. One need only listen to the lyrics of today's hip-hop, rap, jazz and rock-music artists to hear poetry as it has been practiced since ancient times. Contemporary music lyrics can be vulgar, vivid, challenging, eloquent, passionate, inspiring and more-all the things that written poetry used to be. Many academics lament poetry's decline in readership. Who says poetry should be read? The presentation of poetry in written form has declined, not the art form itself...
...think in the metric system) selling truly random and useless things to very excited crowds. Rusty skis from the 1980s sat alongside massive teddy bears, buckets of Dora the Explorer pins, countless musty books (my favorite: the biography of Jacques Chirac published in 1982), and a box full of ancient-looking, browned cartes postales...
Musical director Matthew L. Tobey ’07 made another odd change to the play by choosing to integrate music of Felix Mendelssohn and various electric guitar and piano arrangements throughout the play. The choice was anachronistic, as the play is set in ancient Athens. The sporadic electric interludes, however, proved much worse as they were particularly intrusive to the play’s plot...
...FACT THAT BELLY dancing, an ancient Middle Eastern tradition, is widely known throughout the U.S. is largely due to one woman: choreographer Serena Wilson. In the '60s she opened her renowned New York City studio--among the first in the U.S. to focus exclusively on belly dancing--and over four decades helped bring the rhythmic dancing into the mainstream. To combat its sexualized image, Wilson barred her dancers from performing at male gatherings (bar mitzvahs included). She was 73 and died from a pulmonary embolism...