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...Scala, Berlin's Deutsche Oper and even New York City's Met struggle to fill seats. The reasons for opera's slow decline are legion. Classical music critic and consultant Greg Sandow points to governments' dwindling support of the arts, a paucity of singers with the ability to perform the standard repertoire, and above all, audiences that look elsewhere for entertainment...
While the thought of smart robotic insects may seem frightening, this is not Steven Spielberg’s “AI.” Wood wants these robots to able to perform tasks on their own, perhaps delivering information from one point to another. Moreover, the MAVs’ small size limits the processing power that the devices can carry...
...Youth Movement—followers of Lyndon H. LaRouche, a political agitator and eight-time presidential candidate. Some professors welcomed the lyrical demonstrators as a calming force amid the hustle and bustle of shopping period classrooms. Professor of Biostatistics David P. Harrington said he gave the group permission to perform in his course, Statistics 100, “Introduction to Quantitative Methods.” “They said, ‘Can we do a little singing?’ and I said, ‘You can.’ I didn’t know what...
...Over 250 performances later, Birdbrain has become a classic of contemporary dance, catapulting the company onto the world stage, including the hallowed Th??tre de la Ville in Paris, where last year ADT became the first Australian troupe invited to perform. "Dance in Europe had been dominated by very conceptual work that was physically very minimalist," explains Stewart, 44, "and we came crashing through with Birdbrain, which is completely maximalist from a movement point of view." From Feb. 20, at Sadler's Wells in London, the extremely muscular choreographer has the chance to further shift perceptions of the body...
...returned some of the old luster to the office. Much of that has faded in the past month. "One of the hallmarks of the Reagan presidency has been his ability to restore the public's confidence in the White House as an institution and in Government's ability to perform," says a Republican political adviser. "That confidence is damaged, probably permanently...