More than a century ago, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “Rite of Spring” created a sensation perhaps unlike any other in the history of theater. Featuring Vaslav Nijinsky’s staccato choreography and Stravinsky’s dissonant score, and depicting scenes of pagan...
One of the COVID-19 pandemic’s many harsh impacts has been its stifling effect on live performance. From the days when Broadway went dark to the crash of the arts economy that followed, performers worldwide have felt the consequences of the pandemic over...
Yale’s Jacqueline Goldsby and Meredith McGill of Rutgers University recently received a $1.7 million grant from The Mellon Foundation to support the development of The Black Bibliography Project (BBP), an initiative that aims to revive and transform...