December 14, 2007

Scanning the Dance Blogosphere

I feel like I've been losing touch with posts to a lot of dance blogs as I've been focusing on Great Dance blogs and dance in New York City. So I went on a reconnaissance mission this morning:

- Joe Grohens of The Topic is Tango links to MSNBC video story, "For blind teens, tango is a way to connect."

- Boris Willis hits the 25-hour mark for his Dance-A-Day video series.

- Maria at A Time To Dance points to news story about yet another dance site focused on social networking. This one is from MC Hammer and it's called DanceJam - in beta.

- The Evil Imp blog offers skeptical take on the rise of social networking sites as they relate to dance. I think that their criticisms have some merit, but there is also a very important upside that I will write about in upcoming post.

- Nutcracker rehearsal videos from the Joffrey ballet on their j-Pointe blog. Video 1 and Video 2

- Jolene of Saturday Matinee on her ideal Nutcracker.

- The latest video from Clare Byrne's Weekly Rites.

- Judith Mackrell on The Rolex model for sponsoring artists.

- Matt Gough writes about "«vicki» - virtual improvisational choreographer / kinetic instructor (also known as «choreobot»)" Read about VICKI here. Matt points to other software for choreography here.

- The creator of VICKI, Julie Cruse, is joining Tony Schultz's class at Sarah Lawrence College.

- Wendy Perron writes about Dancers Responding to AIDS (DRA) benefit event this past Monday.

- Amanda Abrams kicks-off extended conversation in response to Daniel Burkholder's post "I'm an elitist, and so are you."

- Chopper offers a history lesson in popping.

- Carl recommends swing dance history books.

- More Washington, DC dancers share their dance-related stories on Bourgeononline.

- Shallom of Moving Space and Time posts video of dance she choreographed and performed in called "Dancing Waters."

- Matt of Ranting Details on musical theater and learning how to really perform.

- Two recent posts from The Winger that I like: "The Origin of an Idea" by Kristin Osler of Staatstheater Kassel Tanztheater and "Wings Rehearsal" by David Blumenfeld of Atlanta Ballet.

- I missed this panel last night that Culturebot wrote about that investigated "the performing arts and the geography of New York City." I would have liked to have heard Aviva Davidson, the artistic Director of Dancing in the Streets.

- This is not blog post. Here is story by Sarah Frater from Wall Street Journal about proliferation of dance styles around the world: "Great Leap Forward: Innovators Expand The World of Dance."

- Network Performance writes about dance performance that takes place today in Second Life. Here are performance/RSVP details. If you attend please write about it/screen capture it - or something along those lines. I'll try to make it.

- New dance therapist blogger Donna Newman-Bluestein links to this video of a dancing medium sulphur crested Eleanora cockatoo -- impressive!

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