On Monday night, naturalists, artists and conservationists will take part in "Moving Ecologies," a post-performance discussion of the urban landscape.
BEIJING — As far as dramatic timing goes, the text message from the powers that be announcing the sudden cancellation of a post-performance discussion of "Top Secret: Battle for the Pentagon Papers" was, well, perfectly timed.
"What is dance today, and how does it fit into the larger cultural picture?" Carla Peterson, the artistic director of Dance Theater Workshop, asked on Thursday night during a post-performance discussion of Charlotte Vanden Eynde and Kurt Vandendriessche's "Map Me".
Recommendations from the three main stakeholder groups included putting more emphasis on community-based activities, developing a closer relationship with the district and provincial authorities, particularly in relation to handing over the project, and providing more detailed feedback to staff on their performance, including discussion of how to improve it.
In a pre-performance discussion with Ara Guzelimian, the dean of Juilliard, Boulez dropped a hint about what's changed: when the piece was first performed, more than half a century ago, it required fifty hours of rehearsal.
Everybody in BP has a personal development plan which is discussed with line managers as part of performance discussions.
In prose and in a post-performance discussion he tells of being reunited with Mr. Ajayi in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, during his recent visit.
At first I couldn't decide whether this is an unholy marriage of adolescent video game obsession with rockstar dreams or a legitimate art form, but my experience at last weekend's Blip Festival a series of performances, discussion panels, and screenings celebrating 8-bit music and visual art cleared things up for me a bit.
Herein, we offer a broader view of performance management, including discussion of how it differs from performance appraisal.
What has proved problematic are the gender politics, with stories of Downton Abbey's Lily James employing a "liquid diet" to pour herself into Sandy Powell's tightly corseted costumes provoking controversy about negative body images, paradoxically reducing talk of her performance to discussions of her waistline.
Each event leads audiences through a packed program of storytelling, performances, discussion, and meditation.
