Artist: Kings of Convenience (feat. Feist)
Track: Know-How

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Book: War and Peace

Quotation: It is not difficult to capture a fortress but it is difficult to win a campaign. For that, not storming and attacking but patience and time are wanted.

Comments: Time and patience: all that is needed. Period.

Article: Alvin Ailey dance troupe shines under new leadership

Author: Sarah Kaufman

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/alvin-ailey-dance-troupe-shines-under-new-leadership/2012/02/08/gIQAW6lwzQ_story_1.html

Favorites parts: The light romanticism of “Arden Court,” danced to a baroque score by William Boyce, will surely improve with time, as the dancers take on its noble shapes with less effort and more fullness. But the Ailey dancers absolutely possess the fine-tuned, grounded athleticism to do well in Taylor’s works — more so, in fact, than the classical ballet dancers who tend to undercut the fine balance between weight and buoyancy that Taylor demands.

Article: In documentary ‘Pina,’ a physical examination of choreographer’s legacy

Author: Sarah Kaufman

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater-dance/in-documentary-pina-a-physical-examination-of-choreographers-legacy/2012/02/02/gIQAnGWYlQ_story.html

Comments: I had never heard of coreographer Pina Bausch, but after reading this article, I'm determined to know all of her works intimately.

Favorite bits: "It’s telling that we see the dancers moving only if they’re performing; otherwise, when they speak about Bausch, we hear their words in a voice-over while Wenders films them sitting utterly motionless. It is as if we’re reading their minds. And one conclusion is: What are they without Bausch but mute, still and locked up in their thoughts?"