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La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
Once again in May, La MaMa Moves Dance Festival presents new work by both emerging and recognized choreographers in all three of La MaMa, E.T.C.’s venues.
May 9 – 12: Love Story, Palestine by Yoshiko Chuma and School of Hard Knocks
May 11- 13: – Chamber Works : An evening of work by various choreographers: Vicky Shick, Elena Demyanenko and Joe Poulson, Maura Donohue and Peggy Cheng, …more…
One of the cruel realities of performing artists is while they often do not earn much, they have extremely complicated tax returns. This can involve a stack of 1099s, W2s, and filing in multiple states, royalties statements, and even international returns. Performing artists also have greater out-of-pocket expenses than the average worker, and one of the complicating factors in their tax return is how to divide deductions between schedule C …more…
The Seldoms
One of Chicago’s most interesting dance companies, The Seldoms have a strong sense of physicality, flow, and mystery. It is easy to see the intelligence behind their choreography as the work is not only driven by questions dealing with contemporary issues, but also a personal relationship to the environment.
Artistic director Carrie Hanson, named by Dance Magazine as one of 25 to watch in 2012, founded the company in …more…
Las Vegas features many classic and tastefully preformed burlesque and showgirl productions. For visitors and locals desiring the experience of the old school style of showgirl productions that are synonymous with Las Vegas, Jubilee at Bally’s is the longest running show of its kind. Jubilee is a Donn Arden production with a cast of 85 performers which incorporates singing, dancing, acrobatics, magic and marvelous costumes and sets.
This extraordinary theatrical …more…
George Balanchine's Allegro Brillante
Ballet San Jose offers a mixed program April 13 through 15 to include three company premieres. The troupe, which has undergone an abrupt leadership change and now operates without an artistic director, appears at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts in Program II of its 2012 spring season. It is worth noting that not a single work by indefatigable company founder and former artistic director Dennis …more…
On March 14th, I had the rare privilege to see a professional dance company do a studio rehearsal. This was two days before the company debuted “Square None”, a new work choreographed by Norbert De La Cruz III. Aside from the wonderful opera-meets-electronic remixed music, and Austin Scarlett (of Project Runway fame) baroque inspired costumes, the rehearsal showed each of the dancers moving freely throughout the piece and dancing with major …more…
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Two local companies are presenting new works this weekend in Pittsburgh.
Gia T. Presents, the company of improviser Gia Cacalano, will be performing in BLINK with dancers England/Amsterdam’s Vincent Cacalano, New York’s Wendell Cooper and Philadelphia musician Michael McDermott as well as a cast of local performers–Jil Stifel, Jeff Berman, David Bernabo, Hill Jordan and Dr. Nelson Harrison. BLINK is an interdisciplinary improvised score with live …more…
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The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has done a great job bringing in dance works for the Dance Council season as a part of its Distinctly Dutch Festival–at the end of February, Dance Works Rotterdam’s Anatomica and now the US premier of Last Touch First.
Last Touch First is the work of Jirí Kylián, the former artistic director of Nederlands Dans Theater and Michal Schumacher, an expat well-known for …more…
Chicago’s Thodos Dance Company is performing in Anchorage on Thursday, April 19, and if that’s news to you, you’re not alone. I just stumbled on the information myself, hidden away on the CenterTix website. The show has hardly been advertised and hasn’t appeared on most local arts calendars, and tickets aren’t yet for sale. But no, Beyoncé is not in the dance company. I’ll get to her in a minute. ...more...
The Firebird
The Firebird ballet has a long and exciting history ever since it was created by Michael Fokine in 1910 for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes. Since then there have been several versions of The Firebird. George Balanchine’s 1949 version was created for his leading ballerina at the time, Maria Tallchief. Maurice Bejart juggled the imagery by using a revolutionary male figure to play the part of the Firebird, and …more…
Teaching kids to dance
During the year, PDP offers a variety of programs and workshops that help to stimulate audiences as well as the dance community, whether they are dance performances, Master Classes, educational opportunities, or artist forums.
As part of the Education Project Series, PDP is presenting a free artist forum on April 22, 2012 to discuss the difficult realities that dance teachers may face when working in educational settings. …more…
Andile Ndlovu
Born in the rough Soweto township of Ladysmith, Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa, Andile Ndlovu was drawn to dance as a little boy. His family moved to Johannesburg when he was ten and it was then that he started ballroom dancing, shifting to ballet when he was fifteen. After he was noticed dancing at a local outreach program by South African choreographer Martin Schonberg, he was offered a …more…
Lauren Cuthbertson and Federico Bonelli in the Royal Ballet production of Romeo & Juliet
Well, not exactly. But it is just this sort of headline that Ballet in Cinema, a project of alternate content theater network Emerging Pictures, inspires. On March 22 at 12:30 pm, for $25, you can take a seat in the Grand Lake Theater, an Oakland, California movie house, and enjoy the Royal Ballet’s production of Romeo …more…
All eyes are focused on the upcoming ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL, one of the nation’s largest electronic music festivals. The fest returns to Miami’s downtown Bayfront Park area and will be happening from March 23 – 25, 2012 as part of Music Week in Miami. The lineup for Miami’s annual Ultra Musical Festival promises to be an absolutely stacked affair.
Aficionados de la música electrónica y festivales artísticos esperan ansiosamente por el …more…
Even without an entire lifetime of dance under his belt, Chaz Buzan is a dancer’s dancer. With natural through-lines of energy that extend from his solar plexus outwards, and from heart to throat out to the top of his head, his dancing seems to be a birth right rather than something acquired. ...more...
Each summer, the Vail International Dance Festival appears to light up the community with two weeks of exceptional dance programming. Sponsored by the Vail Valley Foundation, which is responsible for bringing a wide variety of annual events, the festival is also in the hands of former ballet star and festival Art Director Damian Woetzel, who this year has lined up a brilliant roster of performances. ...more...
On Saturday, June 30th 2012, contemporary ballet choreographer and innovator William Forsythe will receive the prestigious Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Life Achievement in Modern Dance. The award will be presented by one of his former company dancers, Jill Johnson before Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s performance at the Durham Performance Arts Center in Durham, North Carolina, which will include Quintett, a piece created by Forsythe in 1993. Past recipients of this award have included Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Alwin Nikolais, Katherine Dunham, Alvin Ailey, Anna Sokolow, Twyla Tharp –and the list goes on. ...more...
There are so many notable upcoming performances in the Omaha area that I’m going to offer you an overview of the March shows you won’t want to miss. Get your tickets for these shows now because waiting too long can result in one of those annoying moments when you realize that the show you want to see is sold out. Nobody likes that moment. ...more...
Born in Korea, Eun Jung Choi-Gonzalez grew up learning the traditional dances of her country. She moved to the United States in 1991, later graduating from North Carolina School of the Arts. As a dancer, she has performed nationally and internationally with many companies and choreographers, such as Mark Dendy, the Limon Dance Company, Sean Curran, and MIRO Dance Theatre. ...more...
Spring comes early for Bay Area dance lovers with March engagements by daring, evocative and critically acclaimed local and touring troupes. ...more...
You: are under 21, living in or traveling through Santa Fe, and are creative. Your parents: could really use some down time, wanna know their kid is safe/productive/engaged. Your pockets: have some lonely dollars, but just enough to get by. ...more...
It is both a risk and a dream to start your own company. You raise it like a child giving it your time and energy. And it takes all of your experience and more to raise it. Be The Groove, created in 2006, is the rhythmic loving child of Stephanie Paul and Davora Sides.
Stephanie Paul grew up as an athletic child. She danced from a young age until she was …more…
Karole Armitage, known for her punk approach to classical dance, will present the work Three Theories this Saturday as part of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Dance Council season. Armitage’s company Armitage Gone! Dance is known for their exciting speed of movement and their ability to contrast the fractured lines and asymmetrical forms of the choreography with the continuous and symmetrical forms of ballet.
Three Theories is based on the best-selling book …more…
The Warhol, a favorite Pittsburgh museum and namesake of Pittsburgh native and revered pop artist Andy Warhol, will be including dance among its offerings for the 2012 Off the Wall series. Butoh-trained and Bessie award-winning dancer/choreographer Kota Yamazaki will be performing a work inspired by an essay entitled In Praise of Shadows. ...more...
Gill is a Brooklyn-based choreographer who graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2003. Gill represents a constantly emerging new breed in dance, creating work that is by motivated design pared down, bare bones, structured, and highly symmetrical. In fact, symmetry seems to be the fundamental theme in her work, with use of mirror images and a stage often divided in perfect halves by her six dancers. ...more...
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