Las Vegas is often thought of as being synonymous with an adult playground. However, there is educational entertainment for children tucked away just a short distance from all the neon, over-sized drinks with neck straps and scantily clad show girls. Since 1990, the Lied Children’s Museum has entertained over 1.6 million visitors. The board recently announced plans to move the current museum to a new location in Las Vegas’ Symphony …more…
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The American Underpinnings of Pina Bausch
February 22, 2012 by
Wim Wenders’ recent movie Pina has opened up a wealth of discussions, panel presentations, commentary, and musings on the artist, as well it should. As one of the best films on Dance covering one of our century’s great Dance artists, Pina is as evocative as the woman it portrays. ...more...
Brooklyn Mack: What’s In a Name?
February 20, 2012 by
In this case… everything.
First the stats: from Elgin, South Carolina, he started his career at 12 years old, studying with Radenko Pavlovich and Milena Leben and then getting himself a scholarship at the Kirov in Russia. From there he apprenticed with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, joined the American Ballet Studio Company, and danced with a number of other solid companies, winning medals and prizes until today where he is now in his 3rd season with the Washington Ballet. ...more...
Gustavo Ramirez Sansano: Current and Classic
February 17, 2012 by
Gustavo Ramirez Sansano’s choreography is getting a lot of notice, especially right now in the Chicago area where he is Artistic Director of Luna Negra Dance Theater, appointed as of 2009. ...more...
Big Easy 2012 Classical Arts Awards
February 10, 2012 by
Each year the Foundation for Entertainment Development and Education, known colloquially as the “Big Easy Entertainment Awards foundation,” honors the musicians, dancers, conductors and singers who contribute to the classical arts of opera, ballet and dance and music.
The affair a luncheon held at the Hotel Monteleone is an opportunity to honor these artists, patrons and teachers who contribute to the classical arts in significant ways and enrich the culture of …more…
Saving Humanity One Dance At A Time
February 8, 2012 by
Pablo Malco, choreographer and director of The Hip Hop Symphony, the dance performance extravaganza hosted by the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on January 29, 2012, tells us about how he got into dance, the making of The Hip Hop Symphony and the dance company turned foundation (www.pablomalcofoundation.org) that brings the art of dance into the community. ...more...
Chicago International Salsa Congress
February 6, 2012 by
Salsa has become a global phenomenon. In any country people can be found who appreciate the music, the dance and the culture associated with it. Events known as Congresses or Congressos can be found all over the world from New York to Italy, Zurich, Isreal, China and Puerto Rico. Chicago’s International Salsa Congress (CISC) has come into its eleventh year with a bang. Created by Saladeen Alamin and Rosita Ragin-Alamin, …more…
St Louis, Missouri’s Salute to Dance: 2012’s National Dance Week
February 6, 2012 by
Fourteen years ago the United Dance Merchants of America decided to revive a tradition started by Capezio and Dance Magazine to celebrate dance. The community of St. Louis jumped onboard and today the free event, National Dance Week, which is featured throughout the country from April 20 – 29, boasts many sponsors, over 50 local professional, university, and dance studio companies, as well as classes and workshops. ...more...
In Praise of the San Francisco Ballet
February 1, 2012 by
The San Francisco Ballet is so technically strong, so “deep,” to borrow a term from team sports rhetoric, lavish praise can be extended to its soloists and even to the ranks of the corps. ...more...
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s Uncommon to feature Dwight Rhoden premiere at August Wilson Center
February 1, 2012 by
via PBT website
In an uncommon move, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (PBT) will stage its first work in partnership with August Wilson Center for African American Culture. The show, Uncommon, will open the post-holiday season for the well-established Pittsburgh company and will feature a world premiere by Complexions Contemporary Ballet‘s Dwight Rhoden.
Uncommon will be performed with a live chamber orchestra that will play works by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. The show …more…
Anna Tikhomirova: Exuberance and Light
January 31, 2012 by
Ana Tikhomirova
The daughter of a dancer, Tikhomirova studied at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy where she was later given leading roles in school performances. When she entered the Bolshoi Ballet as a corps member in 2004, she was soon dancing soloist parts and is now a full-fledged soloist in the company.
Watching Tikhomirova dance the first variation of the Grand Pas De Deux in Don Quixote, or in Asaf Messerer’s Spring …more…
Pittsburgh Dance Council to Host US Premiere of ANATOMICA
January 30, 2012 by
Dance Works Rotterdam from Pgh Cultural Trust website
Coming to a theater near you! Not only an internationally renowned company, but a US premiere. The Pittsburgh Dance Council, a branch of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, will host Dance Works Rotterdam‘s ANATOMICA at the Byham Theater at 8pm on February 18th.
The performance, the first and third piece of a triptych by artistic director André Gingras, explores the “danger, beauty, and consequences …more…
Chinese New Year: The Year Of The Dragon
January 26, 2012 by
The Chinese New Year celebrations are cascading across the city. Las Vegas has several annual Chinese New Year celebrations; tour any of the large casinos in late January and early February, and one can expect to see a wealth of traditional symbols such as red lanterns, bamboo shoots, fruit-bearing trees and the animals from the zodiac. This is the Year of the Dragon, representative of those born in the …more…
Performing This Weekend: Pulse, Anchorage’s Thrilling New Dance Ensemble
January 21, 2012 by
Anchorage’s Pulse Dance Company is performing this weekend, and it promises to be the most exciting dance concert in Alaska this spring. That may be a brash and hyperbolic statement, but I can’t help it. Watch a couple videos of Pulse for yourself (there are several on their website). You may decide that you agree with me.
First, the need-to-know: Pulse performs at 8:00 pm on Friday and Saturday, January 20 and 21, 2012 ...more...
Kleber Rebello: The Real Thing
January 20, 2012 by
Kleber Rebello
Kleber Rebello is one of the few male ballet dancers of today embodying the essence of princeliness so essential to the great classical ballets. His presence on stage at once announces that we are looking at the real thing, not a man engaged in bravura only, but also in true majesty of the art form.
From Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Rebello trained at the trained at Escola de Dança …more…
August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble: Pittsburgh’s Dynamic Force
January 18, 2012 by
The Dynamic Women of Dance ~ photo: Cassie Kay Rusnak
It’s for a good reason that Dance Magazine has placed AWCDE on their top 25 list for 2012. This Pittsburgh, PA company has been astounding audiences with its highly trained dancers who, in the words of Director Greer Reed-Jones, are “hungry, committed, and passionate.”
With their first season in 2009-2010, the company demonstrated its commitment to bringing different ethnicities together to …more…
New York Live Arts: 2012 Spring BASH
January 14, 2012 by
Fresh Tracks: Celebrating Women Choreographers
New York Live Arts is the product of Dance Theater and Workshop’s liaison with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. The project is designed to bring contemporary work to the fore through commissioned funding given by foundations and individual donors. Dance Theater Workshop, which was created in 1965, is one of the longest running juried platforms for presenting new dance to the public, …more…
New York Live Arts BLESSED by Meg Stuart
January 11, 2012 by
The American premiere of choreographer Meg Stuart’s BLESSED comes to New York Live Arts in Chelsea tomorrow, for a run that will last from January 12-14. It is a rare opportunity to see Stuart’s work here in the U.S. Though she was born in the States, Stuart lives and mostly works in Europe, where her experimental work has been highly influential. ...more...
Yonah Acosta: One of Dance Magazine’s Top 25 of 2012
January 10, 2012 by
Born in Havana, Cuba, Yonah danced with the Ballet Nacional de Cuba until he was invited to join the English National Ballet in 2011. Entering the company as a first artist, he soon graduated to junior soloist, gaining leads in ballets such as Roland Petit’s Le Jeune Homme et la Mort. ...more...
Keenan Kampa: Racehorse Ballerina
January 9, 2012 by
Another stellar member of Dance Magazine’s top 25 for 2012, Keenan Kampa is a young ballerina from Oak Hill, VA with the limbs, legibility, and corporal freedom of the brilliant French dancer, Sylvie Guillem. It is no wonder that Kampa was one of the first Americans asked to attend the Vaganova Ballet Academy in Russia as just a mere teenager. The Vaganova Academy is where the great Mikhail Baryshnikov, among a bevy of other great ballet stars, was formed and nurtured. ...more...
2012 San Francisco Dance Seduces
January 9, 2012 by
The overindulgence of the holiday season – to include gorging on myriad Nutcracker interpretations — leaves one with no alternative than to look forward to an early 2012 filled with exciting dance offerings. Overwhelmed as we are with anticipation, if we end by succumbing to temptation, who can blame us? ...more...
Onegin Opens at San Francisco Ballet January 27
January 9, 2012 by
Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin is known for romantic immediacy. In my college Russian class, where we recited his works by heart, I could never get past the third line of the poem “I Loved You” without bursting into tears. Pushkin achieved what most writers only dream of, fusing as he did both the sound and meaning of language to create irresistible emotional impact. ...more...
One of Dance Magazines Top 25, Caleb Teicher: Suave with a Groove
January 7, 2012 by
As adorable as they come, you can immediately sense the charm in this young, talented dancer who taps out rhythms as elegantly as the greats, but with a thoroughly updated sensibility. ...more...
Ana Lopez: One of Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch for 2012
January 6, 2012 by
Ana Lopez and Alejandro Cerrudo ~ Photo: Todd Rosenberg
It is Dance Magazine’s tradition of highlighting dancers and dance companies to watch as each year new constellations appear over the horizon. I am about to present a series of blogs honoring each of these future stars, helping to cast light on each one’s attributes so that you the reader and member of the audience can seek each one out and …more…
Dance Theater of Harlem Returns!
January 5, 2012 by
One of the most iconic ballet companies in the United States is about to return to life as auditions are underway for 18 dancers. When DTH closed its doors in 2004, it boasted a company of 44, dancing some of the greatest ballets created by George Balanchine and other renowned neo-classical, classical, and contemporary choreographers. Now the company readies itself for a more modest beginning that befits the time. With contributions amounting to $2.5 million, the company ultimately needs $5K to bring itself up to speed. A touring schedule that begins in October will help bring in these revenues that can embrace a New York season by April 2013. ...more...
