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Dance News

Date Location News Source
23 Nov 2009 Los Angeles
USA
Rippling Muscles on TV Dance Shows Are a Pigment of Your Imagination

In the world of television, Fiona Locke is a special-effects expert. She doesn't blow up buildings or choreograph car crashes. Ms. Locke wields an airbrush gun filled with a brown liquid. She makes people tan and fit-looking.

The Wall Street Journal
22 Nov 2009 Washington, DC
USA
Breaking Pointe

Come the twilight of the year, the deathless "Nutcracker" begins its march across American stages, bearing tidings of comfort and joy.

The Washington Post
19 Nov 2009
UK
Dancing About Illness, the Debate that Never Dies

In the U.K. next month, a dance artist who has epilepsy will attempt to induce a seizure on stage. Rita Marcalo has stopped taking her medication ahead of the event at the Bradford Playhouse, according to the BBC News. "If she has a seizure, an alarm will sound and the audience will be invited to film on their mobile phones," said the report.

Los Angeles Times
18 Nov 2009 Vancouver
Canada
The Moulin Rouge, the Cancan, and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet

It’s still there, at 82 Boulevard de Clichy in Paris’s Pigalle district. Upwards of 130 euros a show buys you a seat in the fin de siecle house, where you can watch clowns, jugglers, ventriloquists and, the main attraction, dancers perform as they have in one way or another for the past 120 years.

The Vancouver Sun
18 Nov 2009 Los Angeles
USA
Daniel Day-Lewis Says he Avoided Dancing in 'Nine'

The promotional juggernaut behind the movie "Nine" shifted into high gear today when cast members of the film -- including Daniel Day-Lewis -- appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to discuss their work on the movie musical.

Los Angeles Times
16 Nov 2009 New York
USA
Dancing with the Stars: The Semi-Finals Preview

This Monday on Dancing with the Stars three dances per couple will be performed. For the semi-finals, each couple will have to do a Ballroom and Latin routine they haven't done yet. The third dance for each couple will be the Dance-Off routines they prepared for the double elimination shows but never got to perform.

TV Grapevine
12 Nov 2009 Vancouver
Canada
Surfacing Keeps Ballet BC Above Water

The fates have not always been kind to Ballet British Columbia. Over the past 23 years, Vancouver's only ballet company has had its share of down-turns, losing directors to other, grander companies, to illness, to choreographic stagnation.

The Vancouver Sun
12 Nov 2009
UK
Designer Withdraws Riverdance Damages Claim

A former costume designer for Riverdance, who had sued the hit show for damages of €820,000, alleging breach of contract, has now withdrawn his claim, the Irish High Court was told this week.

The Stage
10 Nov 2009 Los Angeles
USA
'So You Think You Can Dance': The Luck of the Draw

Not all the performances were great tonight, but it felt like the first episode of the season where the partnerships felt solid, not new, which I enjoyed -- it was "I wonder how they'll attack this" instead of "Oh, I forgot they're together."

Los Angeles Times
8 Nov 2009 New York
USA
Winona Ryder & Vincent Cassel Cast in Aronofsky's Black Swan

Some casting news for Darren Aronofsky's next project. SlashFilm has announced that Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder, and Barbara Hershey have all joined the cast of Black Swan.

Firstshowing.net
5 Nov 2009 Los Angeles
USA
Griffin to Host Comedic Dance Show

U.S. comedian and television personality Kathy Griffin has been tapped to serve as host of "Let's Dance," a new comedic dance program, ABC said.

UPI
4 Nov 2009 New York
USA
Light, Birds, Action! Cunningham and Company in Rehearsal

Most of the dancers in the ballet paintings of Degas aren’t dancing. They’re stretching, resting, recovering, waiting, watching; and in several paintings there is a white-haired old man in charge, a ballet master whose name, Jules Perrot, remains bigger than those of any of the performers he is supervising.

The New York Times
4 Nov 2009
USA
Creating Dialogue From Body Language

In “La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet,” his 36th documentary in more than 40 years, Frederick Wiseman takes his camera into the stately and elegant Palais Garnier in Paris, observing rehearsals, staff meetings and, finally, performances of seven dances...

The New York Times
3 Nov 2009 Los Angeles
USA
'So You Think You Can Dance': Tapping out

As much as tonight's cut might have hurt Nigel Lythgoe personally, I think it made sense and frankly I'm not surprised that tonight's eliminated dancers went home.

Los Angeles Times
31 Oct 2009
USA
Thrill the World Michael Jackson Tribute Sets Global Record

The 2009 Thrill the World event was held on Saturday, October 25. Six Flags Great America joined the effort to set a world wide record for the most people dancing like zombies to the music of Michael Jackson at the same time. According to an announcement on the Thrill the World website, the world record was set.

Examiner.com
29 Oct 2009 New York
USA
Merce Cunningham Memorial 'Events' in New York

Wednesday afternoon and evening, dozens of dancers young and old, leading lights of American avant garde music and a large milling public invaded New York's Park Avenue Armory to remember Merce Cunningham.

Los Angeles Times
29 Oct 2009
USA
'This Is It' Film: Equal Parts Thriller, Off the Wall, HIStory

When Sony Pictures announced that it would release a Michael Jackson film culled from tapes of rehearsals for concerts that he would never get to perform, some hearts surely jumped at the prospect of seeing one of pop's most exuberantly talented entertainers back in peak form.

USA Today
27 Oct 2009 Los Angeles
USA
Finalist Billy Bell Has Left 'So You Think You Can Dance' Due to Illness

Top 20 dancer Billy Bell has left SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE due to illness and will be replaced by Brandon Dumlao, 21, a Hip Hop dancer from Concord, CA.

Fox
27 Oct 2009
UK
Where are All the Great Female Choreographers?

The dance scene is booming right now. So why are male choreographers getting all the attention?

Guardian.co.uk
27 Oct 2009 London
UK
An Urban Dance Degree Was the Right Move for UEL

East London's urban dance degree is booming in popularity, despite the criticisms of purists.

Guardian.co.uk
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