| 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 |