What compels people to dance? What fuels the choreographer’s creative vision? Why do most dancers devote their entire lives to this art form? Many artists refer to a spirit within that defines and drives their need to move, to create, to dance.
Road work // The State Highway Administration is working to relieve congestion and improve safety along Route 32 at Burntwoods Road by constructing a $30 million interchange that will require lane closings. The interchange will remove two traffic signals at Burntwoods and Ten Oaks roads and relocate several private driveways and local roads that intersect [...]
By the 1990s, the center of the house music and dance industry had shifted from Chicago to New York. From there it was exported to youth culture scenes in most of the major cities of Europe and Asia. “Although there was a strong house music scene throughout the ’90s,” Freeman says, “it was a [...]
Movements dance company began their opening night at the Little Theatre in a sombre mood on Thursday. The first piece they performed was entitled Tears of War. Samuel Barber’s classic Adagio For Strings created an immediately grave and sorrowful atmosphere, emphasised by dark, brooding lighting. Cloaked figures then entered the stage with two male [...]
On Nov. 10, the College of Creative Arts will host the 29th annual “World Culture Dance and Music Celebration” in McKenna Theatre, showcasing a mix of Afro-Puerto Rican, Hungarian, Filipino, Haitian, Peruvian and Polynesian dances.
Paul Taylor s new De Sue os Que se Repiten does not just complement and inform its companion piece introduced earlier this year, De Sue os, it completes it. Local residents saw history made Friday at the Carlsen Center as the new piece ( Of Recurring Dreams in English) received its world premiere, together with [...]
Wow, I get pretty effusive, sometimes. Anyway, ContraDance is recreational dance, like Square Dance, it is descended from the European set dances that white settlers brought with them.
” I’m Mrs. ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’/You want a piece of me/I’m Mrs. ‘Oh my God, that Britney’s Shameless’/You want a piece of me, ” Spears sings, asserting that the caricature in the gossip columns isn’t the “real” Britney. The trouble is none of that sounds too exaggerated. And anyone who does [...]
Vampires Rock will be at the theatre tonight. Billed as the Rocky Horror Show” meets “We Will Rock You”, the show combines some of rock music’s favourite anthems with dazzling pyrotechnics, garish costumes and seductive dancers. The story is set in New York in 2030, where the undead walk among us.
While “Idol” hauls in the headlines and hoopla, “Dance” has become a summer powerhouse of its own, the top-ranked summer program among 18- to 49-year-olds. Fox Broadcasting Co. (ENLARGE) This season’s top 10 finishers on Fox s reality television show ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ will perform tonight at the Gwinnett Arena. The [...]