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US Postal Service Honors Great Choreographers
Published: 10/20/2011 by Rachel Zagar in Dancing News
In 2012 The U.S. Postal Service will honor four influential choreographers, Isadora Duncan, José Limón, Katherine Dunham and Bob Fosse. Their contributions to the art of dance changed the world of dance as we know it today.
Caravaggio: Exile and Death – review
Published: 11/15/2011 by Luke Jennings in Ballet
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was a dangerous man. Violent and sexually profligate, he murdered a pimp, escaped from prison, and was the victim of a vendetta, dying before he was 40. He was also an artist of penetrating humanity whose mastery...
Baryshnikov Donates His "Whole Life" to the NYPL
Published: 10/24/2011 by dancechanneltv.com in Ballet
Legendary ballet dancer, Mikhail Baryshnikov, has donated 35 boxes containing his personal archives -- video recordings, photos, documents and letters -- to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts...
The English National Ballet is to take up residency at Tate Britain next February, to mark the opening of a new Picasso exhibition.
Bolshoi Scam for Theater Tickets
Published: 10/31/2011 by By Kevin O'Flynn in World Dance
With the Bolshoi Theater’s historic stage opening after restoration Friday, there is huge interest in tickets. But anyone walking past the box office this week would have witnessed an unexpected scene, as one by one a series of men who looked...
360 Project: Ryan Enn Hughes, Artist, Transforms Simple Still Images Of Dancers Into Stunning Film
Published: 11/02/2011 by The Huffington Post in Modern
360 Project: Ryan Enn Hughes, Artist, Transforms Simple Still Images Of Dancers Into Stunning Film
A Brief History of Samba
Published: 10/28/2011 by By Jordan and Lia in Dancing History
Samba is one of the hottest ballroom dance that hit the contemporary scene today. But did you know that samba traces its roots back to Afro-Brazilian culture?
Last spin for retiring ballet doyen - or maybe not
Published: 11/11/2011 by Adam Fulton in Ballet
COLIN PEASLEY danced in the Australian Ballet's first staging of The Merry Widow in 1975 and has been in at least 10 productions of it since.
Dancing around Caravaggio
Published: 11/01/2011 by Evening Standard in World Dance
One thing you won't see in Darshan Singh Bhuller's ballet about Caravaggio is the act of painting.
The Greatest Dance Quotes of All Time
Published: 09/26/2011 by EveryDanceSchool.com in Dancing History
Dance is music made visible. ~ George Balanchine
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Dance is the only art in which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. ~ Ted Shawn
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul. ~ Martha Graham
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