July 31, 2008

West African Dance ROCKS

Today, I danced as I never have before; I danced to drums that lifted. I could have sworn my chair was flying. I would have sworn my arms had become wings. I know today I lost my body and refound a new movement home. Today, I am more sore than I have ever been before ... Wheelchair Dancer

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Ishmael

clearleft recently launched «silverback», an application for usability testing...this should be useful for examining viewer responses to 'interactive' works, and screendance ... quodlibet

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Dance Blogger Doug Fox warms up! (Pictures)

Marlon Barrios Solano takes pictures of me when I stopped by to say hello before my modern dance class with Isabel Gotzkowsky at DNA last night ... DNA World

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the revelation...

The director watched me in class 2 weeks ago and it's a complicated story that eventually I'll get to, but basically today they finally told me how much they can pay me and if I agree to it then I sign the contract tomorrow ... Off Center

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Give Me Balanchine!

I'm glad the Robbins Celebration is over. Yes, I know he's a top choreographer, very versatile, and his ballets much-beloved by dancers and audiences alike ... Oberon's Grove

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Robert Battle: Enthusiast (Video)

Watch Christine Jowers's interview with choreographer Robert Battle whose Battleworks Dance Company has launched its fifth anniversary season at the Joyce Theater this week ... InfiniteBody

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Vail Dance Festival video playlist

Vail Dance Festival video playlist: Vail has a whole collection of rehearsal and performance videos from the festival. It's a nice way to get a feel for what is going on if you can't be there ... Danciti

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Theo Jansen (Video)

Like me, Theo Jansen started out in science, went into art, and ended up somewhere in between ... robturknett.com

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Violin vs. Robot Guitar, With Mari Kimura and GuitarBot (Video)

Mari Kimura is an experimental string player extraordinaire...GuitarBot is a "guitar"-playing robot ... Create Digital Music

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July 30, 2008

Tradition in action (Video)

Members of the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers (New York) perform their North American Indian social dances for some summer students and the public at the Newark Museum (Newark, New Jersey) ... InfiniteBody

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A Glimpse into the Gaga Workshop

Dancers had come literally from all over the world - the U.S., Mexico, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and no doubt many other countries - to study Gaga ... Deborah Friedes/The Winger

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July 29, 2008

'Romeo & Juliet' Gets An Update -- From 1935 (Audio)

Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet -- and the Sergei Prokofiev ballet based on it -- are plenty familiar. But as Fresh Air's classical music critic explains, Mark Morris's new staging of the story has a few new twists ... Fresh Air/NPR

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Blogging as Improv

What's interesting to me, beyond this idea of a blog as a model for movement activity, or vice versa, is how this all relates to my choreography. Sure, in one way it's obvious. The choreography is the subject of the blog. ... Jill Sigman/Dispatches from

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Memo's Report on the Motion-Activated AV Installation (Video)

Well, the festival is over now, and Memo has followed up with a video documenting the project, and some more technical details on his site ... Create Digital Motion

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Remembering Andrea Smith

On July 16, Andrea Edwin Smith, a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, died of AIDS-related illnesses. He was 41 years old ... Culturist

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Dancing with the Stars (Not those stars)

I wanted to highlight one woman's realized dream to create dance in zero-gravity ... Dance Advantage

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Peep Show In Central Park (Pictures)

Saturday night I went to Central Park's Summer Stage to see Israeli choreographer Nimrod Freed's PEEPDANCE, performed by his new company, Tami Dance Company ... Swan Lake Samba Girl

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Capitalism, yellow journalism, and a fragile dream of a lifetime

A few days ago, a rather sensationalistic article was published in the SF Weekly, titled "Blood, Sweat, and Tutus:Tear your knee, wrench your back, pirouette, and bow: dancing at the San Francisco Ballet" ... Saturday Matinee

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A Tenor Masterclass (Video)

This is one of my YouTube favourites. It's a clip from a masterclass by Placido Domingo, in the early eighties. I think it's a brilliant nine-minute tutorial on what "musicality" in a performance actually means ... MsHedgehog

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GOOD NEWS: DANCE+TECH @ Tendu.TV

I would like to announce that dance-tech.net will be producing a DANCE+TECH program for TenduTV starting this fall ... Marlon Barrios Solano/Dance-Tech.net

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Happy Birthday to me! Me as a baby-dancer

My very first performance was a year and four months after I started dancing. It was a group performance at a dance recital organized by my first teacher, Monica ... Bellydance: Experiences

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Alvin Ailey's fiftieth, from the inside out

Though I was never a student or company member, the Ailey studios always felt like home--perhaps not my home, but at least that of a loving godparent ... Theresa Ruth Howard/Foot in Mouth

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July 28, 2008

PeepDance at SummerStage: Everybody Likes to Peep

Central Park's SummerStage became a village of peepers on Saturday night as hundreds of other people and I scurried from one peep cell to the next to peep on the eight dancers of Tami Dance Company in Nimrod Freed's PeepDance ... Dancing Perfectly Free

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Roots of Breakdance?

First of all... how amazing is the dancing in this video? Second of all - it does seem a lot like breakdance style, no? ... Kristin Sloan/The Winger

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DTW Performance Pictures

Well, I have to say I have been enjoying some down time since the big show at DTW last week. The whole project was just amazing! ... First Drop

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New(ish) Theory Meeting Minutes

The November Open Theory meeting covered Dance Forms software and several possible ways that the DNB and notators in general could use it ... DNB Blog

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VICKI Statement

Dance, in academe, is divorced from its roots - creative freedom. Independent artists make art on their own, intuitively. I want to connect this world to the aloof academy ... The VICKI Project

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July 25, 2008

San Francisco Ballet's New Works Festival - some delayed thoughts

On the one hand, the company deserves praise for so enthusiastically embracing new choreography. The new ballets were danced with total commitment and passion from the top to the bottom of the company, and I just love watching the company in action ... Art's Place

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Why I'm happy to be taking a beginner class again

I've been dancing for almost 5 years, but I am not to proud to drill the basics ... Bellydance: Experiences

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Pre-linguistic, embodied, choreographic cognition?

A key problem in the academic field of dance is how to capture and document the incremental development of ideas and their material manifestation in the creative process within practice-led research ... e-Dance project

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Balanchine on prime time

It makes me very pleased to view, (and write) that at this very moment, an excerpt from Balanchine's "Who Cares" is being danced in a prime time slot, on a non-cable channel (FOX), as part of a hugely popular mainstream show, "So You Think You Can Dance" ... The Arts Et al

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What Expert Village Got Wrong About African Dance

OMG!! Ok, so one site, Expert Village, invites world dance artists to teach almost every dance imaginable. A week ago, I successfully learned how to do a break-dance move on the ground. Excited at my find, I searched for African dance videos ... African. Dance. Drum. Life!

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July 24, 2008

The dancing orphans of Rwanda

Over a recent four weeks, I had the opportunity-- no, the privilege-- of teaching contemporary dance to street kids in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda ... Rebecca Davis/Broad Street Review

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African Dancing While Pregnant, Lordy!

Tonight I took a Sabar class with Babacar at Alvin Ailey and had the huge honor of dancing with an incredibly beautiful mother--several weeks from giving birth ... African. Dance. Drum. Life!

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Giving and Receiving

Yesterday I led dance/movement therapy group on an Alzheimer's unit in a local long term care facility ... Musings of a Dance/Movement Therapist

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Dancing Pregnant

My first son (we did not know it was a boy until it was born) loved for me to dance. He would complain with kicks when the music and movement ended .. The Dance Premier

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Day 1: In NYC at Workshop

I am the only apparently disabled person in the room. And it shows. OMG. It shows. People clearly felt awkward even standing next to me, much less speaking to me ... Wheelchair Dancer

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"Illuminated" - An Excellent Dance Animation (Video)

"Illuminated" is a motion-capture-based dance animation from Western Michigan University's Digital Media in the Performing Arts center ... The Kinetic Interface

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Artist-driven Curating and How it Could Help Galvanize a Screendance Movement

At the Screendance conference at ADF two weeks ago, I presented a paper that put forth an argument for the value of "artist-driven" curating in developing and galvanizing an art form ... Move The Frame

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There Are No Secret Codes

I received an interesting report in the mail this week ["Presenting Dance" by Mindy N. Levine] created in partnership between the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Dance/USA and Jacob's Pillow Dance ... Butts in The Seats

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July 23, 2008

Live Stage: The Special Player

Two dancers, DJ, VJ, drummer and the public will join an immersive show arbitrated by a sophisticated motion tracking environment that will take dance and sound into a complete merge ... Networked Performance

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Nureyev On The Muppets (Video)

As Nigel mentioned this week, ballet icon Rudolf Nureyev tapped on an episode of The Muppets show ... BSYTYCD

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Actually in the middle; somewhat better

...between seeing the final performance of William Forsythe's 1988 work, "Impressing the Czar," at the Lincoln Center Festival, and then reading Gia Kourlas's review of it in The Times, some interesting things come to mind ... CounterCritic

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Performance Today, Fortune Conference in Progress (Video)

The first day of the Fortune Conference has been very engaging. Being a part of the intimate and dynamic conversations has also been a wonderful experience ... Misnomer Dance Theater

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July 22, 2008

Costume Design for Dance

When designing for dance it is important to always be aware of the movement ... Bourgeon

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Under Reconstruction

I usually attend Isadora Duncan programs with a skeptic's eye ... D.C. DanceWatcher, Lisa Traiger

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July 21, 2008

Report on Screendance:State of the Art 2 at ADF

I'm finally home after several weeks on the road, crossing the country and then heading south for the second Screendance: State of the Art conference at the American Dance Festival ... Move the Frame

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Romeo, Juliet, Rabbit and Rogue

I found Mark Morris's modern-dance version of Prokofiev's original version of "Romeo and Juliet" at Bard College thin, reasonably enjoyable, capable of considerable improvement and hardly worth the vituperation its foes have heaped upon it ... Rockwell Matters

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Conversations Concerning Epistemological Kinesthetic Privilege

What do you do when you don't have the Ailey extension? What happens if you can't point your toe like a prima from ABT... You work with what you have ... Behind the Scenes @ Summer Stages Dance

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"Impressing the Czar" is well...impressive

Tonight I saw the Royal Ballet of Flanders perform "Impressing the Czar." It was a beyond awesome performance. And since it's in a limited run and the ballet is hardly performed in the U.S., I'm considering seeing it again tomorrow. ... The Arts et al

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Alternative Reality Olympics (Videos)

Yes, that is a blindfolded young woman RUNNING through a 40-foot wide 7-circuit labyrinth, with the help of her humming teammates ... Avant Game

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Photos of Dancers in New York City

Photographs of professional dancers in New York City ... Richard Calmes

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Adult Classes for the Summer

I've been taking open adult classes around the city. I decided that instead of going to a ballet intensive for the 13th year in a row (6 of them away from home) that this summer both my body and my mind needed a bit of a break ... Off Center

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July 20, 2008

The Right Kind of Buzz? (Video)

Okay, cue the YouTube video....I was confused. If I hadn't read all of the pitch set-up, I wouldn't have understood anything about the dance or what it meant. And, if they found nectar -- why did the bees die at the end? ... MarketingProfs

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Aliens Discuss Embodied Experiences

"Outside of dance world, nobody has a clue what an embodied experience is -- except if it has to do with being abducted by a martian" ... Quodlibet

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Agriculture Gone Electronica, in TRACTOR (Video)

The audiovisual narrative in place characterizes the behavior cycle of Tractor which can be metaphorically compared to the behavior of a Wasp...its organic and non-linear changes in speed, rotation and movement ... Create Digital Motion

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Motion Graphics Effects, Re-interpreted on Trampoline (Video)

If you've been staring at After Effects too long, you'll really love this one: common motion effects, painstakingly recreated by real people -- jumping on trampolines ... Create Digital Motion

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July 18, 2008

Contorted Bodies as Art - Figure Studies by Bill Durgin

Bill Durgin's incredible 'Figure Studies' series transcends traditional photography into sculpting a piece of art with one's camera ... TrendHunter

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Under-score 2008 (Video)

D-flesh improvisational performance based on custom generative and interactive software ... Armando Menicacci/Dance-Tech.net

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Introducing the Funkasaurus, My 1st Spore creature (Video)

Here's my "Funkasaurus" animal I created using the Spore Creature Creator. Funkasaurus is a fun-loving, hip-hop listening, b-boying vegetarian ... The Click Heard Round the World

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Tito Puente "Rey Del Timbal" - Interesting Era Videos (Videos)

Since we have started a new routine based on Tito Puete's Cuban Nightmare song, I decided to post a few videos of the late Tito Puente showcasing some of his live performances with his orchestra ... addicted2Salsa

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The Dance of Life

In one of his other book, The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time, [Eward T.] Hall explores the way humans are intrinsically linked to the rhythm of life, how being unsynchronized can disturb them and even bring them into depression! ... Architectradure

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HandJabber (Video)

Hand Jabber is an interactive art installation [that allows] allows two people to shape and mold different sounds and lights by manipulating the way in which they relate to each other ... Jessica Mumford/Dance-Tech.net

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DanceJam Partners With Evolution Of Dance Guy, Weezer And Janet Jackson

DanceJam, a dance-focused social network that launched in March, has announced several major partnerships and features today ... TechCrunch

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July 17, 2008

Camp Jitterbug Video Round-Up (Videos)

Here's the final video round-up of this years Camp Jitterbug out in Seattle ... Carl's Dance Blog

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Video Excerpts from EyeWash at Dance New Amsterdam (Video)

Last Friday was the first Eyewash/Forward Motion Theater at DNA and this video presents highlights of the evening collaborations in realtime of dance, video and sound ... Marlon Barrios Solano/Dance-Tech.net

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Dancing

In many ways "Dancing" is an almost perfect piece of Internet art: it's short, pleasingly weird and so minimal in its content that it's open to a multitude of interpretations ... Da...nce

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Dancefloor generates electricity at London's first eco-disco!

The Club4Climate project is London's first taste of eco-friendly clubbing, making clubbers happy in the knowledge that their organic beverage-induced booty shaking can generate 60% of the energy needed to run the club ...Inhabitat

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Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company: The Legacy Project

The project celebrated Ms. Dorfman's Eastern European-Jewish roots and closely examined themes such as community, survival, and grief ... Dancing Perfectly Free

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July 16, 2008

Radiohead Makes House of Cards Video with 3D Plotting, Processing; Gives You the Data (Videos)

Who would have imagined seeing a music video on Google Code? Welcome to the new age of data visualization ... Create Digital Motion

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Left or Right Brain? Should I Care? Part 2

The spinning dancer works because it doesn't provide complete information. ... The Unlikely Salsero - Don Baarns

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Cyd Charisse - Frankie and Johnny (Video)

Recently the great dancer Cyd Charisse passed away. Cyd Charisse was one of the stars in the era of movie musicals in the 1940's and 1950's ... Swing, jazz and blues - Dance to the music

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Contagion

Contagion: is an interactive work by Gina Czarnecki that tracks then visually maps participants as clouds of colour projected ... slightlymoving

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Sagittaria trifolia (Video)

Kyoteizinc (video mix) (2008) - visual direction:hiroshi kisu, dancer: masako yasumoto ... quodlibet

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Steps on Broadway

Last night I had the opportunity to attend tap class with Derick Grant of Steps on Broadway here in NYC ... Carl's Dance Blog

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My First Musical, Part III: Learning the choreography

...our big dance number for the show was taught to us in its entirety in the space of two hours. No doubt this is how the pros do it, but I'm most definitely an amateur and I quickly realized I was going to have to up my game ... A Time to Dance

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July 15, 2008

Artists emergent and urgent

Nice, nice show at Dance Theater Workshop last night--Emerging Artists ... InfiniteBody

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Close Up Shop

Last night marked the official end of my four-year career with American Ballet Theatre. There were no balloons, no speeches, no tears, and ultimately no closure ... Matt Murphy/The Winger

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Wolf Trap Summit on Arts and the Environment

Yesterday and today, a summit has been convened at Wolf Trap to discuss the integration of environmentally friendly practices into the arts ... A Time to Dance

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Edwaard Liang Interview (Video)

Choreographer Edwaard Liang speaks about his new work that he is creating for the Joffrey Ballet. Enjoy! ... j-Point

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Happy Blog Anniversary!

One year ago today I started this blog, and what a whirlwind of a year it has been ... Off Center

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Romeo and Juliet with a Happy Ending

Later that week, I put on my favorite dress and accompanied my dad to American Ballet Theater's Romeo and Juliet at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in L.A ... Reflections on Dance

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New Salsa Documentary: Intro to the Dance (Video)

A few months ago I was asked to film a short interview for a Salsa documentary being produced by an LA film producer named Kate Thomas. It's called "A Gozar (To Enjoy): An Introduction to Salsa Dancing" ... The Unlikely Salsero - Don Baarns

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Rags to Riches

So, I can't imagine that there were too many cheers of joy from artists at the news that David H. Koch has given $100 million to the capital campaign for the State Theater ... Culturist

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Your participation please

Today I came across a fantastic conversation on WNYC's Culturist blog about audience behavior at performances ... Seen Performance

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July 13, 2008

A Cycle Completed: Deca Dance in Israel

Now - 4 years after I last saw Deca Dance, 9 and 1/2 months after landing in Israel, 2 days after finishing the term of my Fulbright grant, and 90-some dance concerts later - I feel I have come to the end of a cycle. ... Deborah Friedes/The Winger

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Brains and Buns?

Amanda and Sara share their thoughts about dancing while preparing for college ... Anaheim Ballet: More Than Dance...

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July 10, 2008

iPod Tango (Video)

Here's the deal; two people wire themselves into one ipod, and they dance, in silence, for an audience of bemused commuters ... MsHedgehog

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Tap Dance Video of Savion Glover at the White House (Video)

I've had this clip on VHS for years and am thrilled to be able to share it with you all here thanks to YouTube ... The Tap Dance Blog

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space

We began this final session (prior to the outdoor performance/walk) considering space. No contact. In awareness of inner and outer space ... skellis

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Bjork + Misnomer : Behind-the-Scenes (Video)

We went behind the scenes of Bjork's new 3-D music video "Wanderlust" to catch Misnomer in action during filming ... Misnomer Dance Theater

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Embodying Media: interview with Holly Daggers and Eric Dunlap (Video)

Marlon Barrios Solano interviews Forward Motion Theater instigators Holly daggers and Eric Dunlap ... Marlon Barrios Solano/Dance-Tech.Net

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July 9, 2008

Push-Ups Get Political: Obamaerobics

Last night I attended my second Obamaerobics class, an intense one-hour aerobic workout to support the Obama campaign ... Dancing Perfectly Free

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Harlem drum drama: Ok, here's my take

I'm still digesting the Harlem African drumming controversy and primarily because I'm not sure if I all-together support my fellow artists' total freedom to bang their hearts out in Marcus Garvey Park ... African.Dance.Drum.Life!

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Culture & Conflict Studies Online

People from all over the globe rely on the power of art and culture to preserve, heal, reconcile and peace-build ... APInews

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Will You Love Me If I'm Cheap?

One of the things I am wondering is if people will look for entertainment closer to home if they have decided not to travel or if they will simply look for entertainment at home on the 72 inch television they wisely purchased when times were better ... Butts in the Seats

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July 8, 2008

My First Musical, Part II

I wasn't expecting to make it past the first round, and then I really wasn't expecting to make it past callbacks (this being my first theatrical audition ever) ... A Time to Dance

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Drumming drama in Harlem raises myriad concerns

For the past 30 years, a group of black drum enthusiasts have led a drum circle in Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park ... African.Dance.Drum.Life!

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Come on, Boris, get London dancing

Boris Johnson has made the right noises about dance and has launched this year's Big Dance event ... Judith Mackrell

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"boringly lovely"?

I can't think of a worse thing to be called in a review than, "boringly lovely." What an odd half compliment Alastair gave one of Mark Morris' dancers in today's review of his new "Romeo & Juliet" ... Off Center

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July 7, 2008

Tether

creativity/artistry isn't easy, and requires a different set of skills from scholarship (theory) and education ... quodlibet

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July 6, 2008

Interactivos workshop: Immodesty multicam system

When it comes to exploring image technologies in a striking and poetical way, i'd say that Karolina Sobeka is certainly one of the most talented artists i've ever met ... We Make Money Not Art

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July 5, 2008

Kidz Connect on News 10 Tampa (Video)

Video education program bringing kids together over the Internet and in SecondLife for dance/arts program ... Marlon Barrios Solano/Dance-Tech.Net

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Sergio Ulhoa Demo (Video)

Video by Sergio Ulhoa ... Dance-Tech.Net

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Ready (Video)

A short film by David Corbet and Paea Leach. Screening this week at Cinedans (for those who can't make it!) ... Dance-Tech.Net

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Live Stage: True [sg Singapore] (Video)

True is a new sound, light and dance performance that explores the relationship between the brain and the reality we face ... Networked Performance

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Rwanda Remembered (Video)

Please visit the Genocide Intervention Network ... Anaheim Ballet: More Than Dance...

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So, danced any good jokes lately?

Right. So these two choreographers walk into a barre... American Dance Festival 2008

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Behind the Women of Giwayen Mata

After the show I questioned the perception of empowerment when women replace drum roles conventionally held by men ... African.Dance.Drum.Life!

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Olympic Dancer (Video)

I'm at Kalaloch Campground in Olympic National Park, going through my routine early in the morning ... Clare Byrne's Weekly Rites

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Report from ADF: Maguy Marin

This is a snippet of Maguy Marin's Umvelt, by far the most stunning piece I have seen here at ADF ... Dancehunter

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New York City Ballet: Dancers' Choice Program

The New York State Theater was packed on Friday night, and not just with the typical crowd of New York City Ballet devotees. Young people, too ... Dancing Perfectly Free

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Evaluations = cause for celebration?

For the first time in 20 years (yes, I turn 20 four weeks from today...) I received something other than "satisfactory/needs improvement" on BOTH turnout and feet ... Off Center

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Interference pattern

«x-dance» uses the slit-scan technique in a screendance context. the tx-transform implementation of slit-scan is explained in the tx-transform trailer ... quodlibet

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Overload

The dance profession, and we're generalising here, can only be in a state of complete confusion then when it comes to trying to handle the sheer volume of audio/visual media coming their way from people like us ... The Evil Imp Blog

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Of matinées, motherships and making Joisey natives mad

And I love the weird mishaps with technology, like one incomparable Merce Cunningham Dance Company show at the Joyce Theater in which the audience was meant to listen to the score for one piece via iPods ... Culturist

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Implementing a Grassroots Strategy for the Performing Arts

Today, I would like to propose specific approaches that the performing arts community can pursue to implement grassroots strategy ... The Kinetic Inerface

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Day Eleven: Rejecting the Idea of a "Simple Piece"

When i was younger, i was always instructed to not think too much about the audience. That, if i was to make good work, i needed to follow my heart and really craft what i wanted to make from my heart to your (the audience's) eyes ... The Urgent Artist

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CMAs Look at Presidential Candidates

he New Yorker recently published a short article about the body language and movement styles of presidential candidates as observed by people who really know what they're observing: Certified Movement Analysts ... DNBlog (Dance Notation Bureau)

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