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Does the Body Think? Do Your Neurons Dance?

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The Brain Piece

“What I realized while working on ‘4Chambers’ is that everything in your heart, everything you feel — it’s all the brain,” she said.

In an early version of the new work, Ms. Oberfelder gave herself the comedic role of a fact-dispensing “brain guru.” But she wasn’t satisfied.

“The poetry of the movement was getting lost in the didacticness of the science,” she said. “So I thought, why not get the audience to try to feel their brains, without telling them how? To set up situations where they’re interacting not only with their minds intellectually but passing that down through the body, being in a physical space with other bodies, making connections with others and with sensation?”

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Grammy Award Opera Singer Isabel Leonard Announces ‘Alma Española’

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Isabel Leonard

Isabel Leonard has announced her new album “Alma Española.”

The new CD will feature the Grammy winner alongside presents Grammy-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin in an all-Spanish recording for voice and guitar. The album will include twelve arrangements by Ms. Isbin in their premiere recordings as well as duos by Federico García Lorca, Manuel de Falla, Xavier Montsalvatge, Agustín Lara and Joaquín Rodrigo.

There will also be guitar solos by Granados and Tárrega.

The album is for release on July 14 and will be released by Bridge Records.

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Elizabeth Rodriguez on Rehearsals

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Elizabeth Rodriguez

In your career, I imagine you’re either offered things or offered to audition for a ton of roles. What are the big things that you look for in a role? You play a lot of really strong women.

Elizabeth Rodriguez: I look for something I understand and that impassions me. People say, “Oh, this person is in it,” or “that person is doing it.” And that’s all kind of fantastic for a second, but it’s not gonna make you want to show up, especially 8-times a week when it comes to plays.

And I guess, I try to ask questions about, which I never used to, who the players are, who the director is? Is it an actor’s director? I think ultimately, I want to do work that speaks to me and it has to be realistic. I need to feel like the people I’m surrounded with are artists and want to do it for the sake of working, not for the celebrity of things. I don’t have a lot of patience for that.

I feel like, because I’m with a theatre company, I’ve been so blessed with being surrounded by so many talented people and being directed by really talented people and being inspired by them. And so, that’s what feeds me.

I think who we are as actors, we can’t have an objective perspective. When you’re directed by someone who is incredible, they have the ability to see it and explain it and bring you to it. It’s kind of amazing. Your brain almost snaps open and you hit a different level of consciousness within the character of understanding things. And that’s what I want to strive for because I don’t think anyone can get there on their own.

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[News] Film Director Wim Wenders Makes A Successful Opera Debut

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Wim Wenders

The celebrated film director was cheered to the rafters last night in Berlin, at the end of Bizet’s Pearl Fishers. Wenders has been pursued for years by Bayreuth to stage an opera, on one occasion pulling out at the last moment. It took Daniel Barenboim to entice him onto the opera stage, to great acclaim.

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8 Minutes, A Work Inspired By Solar Science Research

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8 Minutes

Alexander Whitley: I am not trying to explain the science in any way, nor am I doing a piece to explain science: there is no way the body can explain complex scientific ideas, but it can represent them in a certain way, which allows people to engage with the ideas behind the theory. What I’ve come to really appreciate is that physics and dance aren’t so different. They are both about studying and understanding movement. It is just that they ask questions in very different scales; solar physics is about understanding movement of atoms and particles and photons, or something of the size of the Sun itself, which is vastly beyond our comprehension. It has been really interesting to learn about the theory, and behaviour of the movement at these different scales and then ask questions of the body in relation to them, and see how much the body is capable of understanding and expressing those ideas, and so they have thrown a lot to me in terms of different ways of thinking about movement, which has been really exciting.

Alexander Whitley Dance Company performs 8 Minutes at Sadler’s Wells on 27 and 28 June 2017. For tickets and further information visit the Sadler’s Wells website.

Photo Credit: Johan Persson

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Ben Platt on How He Found Himself

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Ben Platt

“It’s a daily thing that I’m still figuring out. What we all look for as actors are pieces that we want to throw ourselves into and make us want to give everything to, and I’m so in love with this piece of theater — I’ve obviously had four years to fall in love with it, but I mean, I couldn’t believe in it any more, and characters like this do not come around ever, where you get to use all the tools on your belt and really feel this synergy between you and the character. I feel a deep responsibility, as the person who’s administering the story every night, to give it at the same level each night. But I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that I’m a human being and that days are different and that there are some days I feel better than others. It’s the kind of role that has taken over my whole life — as I’ve alluded to earlier, I have very strict regimens, as far as eating and sleeping and therapy and all that. It is a sacrifice, but the experience is all the sweeter because you’re making it, earning every last drop of it.”