| Written by Diana, on 14-06-2007 23:56 |
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10:56pm 6/14 "And Veronika’s advice to young dancers, pursuing their dream? `Ballet is a very difficult and complex profession. To gain even a measure of success is very tough. It is a culmination of many factors: physical abilities, emotional commitment, dancing ability, stubbornness, sheer will, belief in yourself, and the right frame of mind to succeed (even when the world seems to crumble around you).
"`One must be willing to work without any breaks, with a limitless pain threshold, and an unwavering love of your chosen art. But the most important factor is to know that you have something to say to your audience and to be able to deliver it to them in such a way that your hard work will then be rewarded.`"
I ordered a subscription to The New Criterion and I was reading their brochure with quotes from various critics. I like these two most: "The weird thing is, the art world he bashes reads Kramer like crazy, even if it's by flashlight, under the blankets. The wickedly iconoclastic, sinfully readable Kramer makes other art critics read like, well, art critics.” – Peter Plagens, Newsweek, "Roger Kimball is one of the rare critics who consistently responds with the proper degree of outrage.” – Gertrude Himmelfarb Times Literary Supplement. I've read a couple intros to articles and in the first 100-200 words there is a lot said but you really never hear what the article is going to be about...AT ALL. If it's about one dancer, in the first 200 words there isn't a single mention of him/her and you wonder if you're reading the correct article! Anyhow, sounds like a good read regardless. It sure is expensive though, $48 for 10 issues and they're asking readers to donate $2,500 so that they can cover the costs of "bagging" magazines for safer mailing. Obviously there are die hard readers who may just find it worth wild to donate (it's also tax deductible) but it would really have to WOW me to pay even more so that others can have ther magazines "protected" in shipment.
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