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07/29/10 - artsjournal.com
ABT to Perform in Cuba for First Time in 50 Years
"American Ballet Theater announced Thursday that it will travel to Cuba to dance in the International Ballet Festival of Havana in November. … The upcoming festival is in honor of the Cuban-born dancer Alicia Alonso, the director of the National Ballet of Cuba, who danced with ABT in the 1940s."... Source
07/29/10 - artsjournal.com
ABT to Perform in Cuba for First Time in 50 Years
"American Ballet Theater announced Thursday that it will travel to Cuba to dance in the International Ballet Festival of Havana in November.… The upcoming festival is in honor of the Cuban-born dancer Alicia Alonso, the director of the National Ballet of Cuba, who danced with ABT in the 1940s."... Source
07/29/10 - artsjournal.com
Using Dance Classes to Treat Parkinson's Disease
"The idea is that dance helps ease the symptoms - and some hope might even slow the progression - of [the neurological disorder]. … But just as important, the dance class is an opportunity for joy, creative expression and socializing - an antidote to the depression and isolation that can come with Parkinson's."... Source
07/29/10 - artsjournal.com
Using Dance Classes to Treat Parkinson's Disease
"The idea is that dance helps ease the symptoms - and some hope might even slow the progression - of [the neurological disorder].… But just as important, the dance class is an opportunity for joy, creative expression and socializing - an antidote to the depression and isolation that can come with Parkinson's."... Source
07/29/10 - artsjournal.com
Combining Standup Comedy with Experimental Dance
"'It's important and vibrant,' says comedian Tom Roden, 'resonant and beautiful, rich and strange.' These are not words usually used by comics to describe their work, but then Roden is not your usual comic. Few standups can draw on 15 years' experience in contemporary dance."... Source
07/29/10 - artsjournal.com
Combining Standup Comedy with Experimental Dance
"'It's important and vibrant,' says comedian Tom Roden, 'resonant and beautiful, rich and strange.' These are not words usually used by comics to describe their work, but then Roden is not your usual comic. Few standups can draw on 15 years' experience in contemporary dance."... Source
07/29/10 - sfgate.com
ODC/Dance offers summer sampler
ODC/Dance offers sampler Restaurants are not the only institutions with summer samplers. ODC/Dance in San Francisco is offering a summer sampler of contemporary dance performances with wine and hors d'oeuvres on the side. The kinetic sampler begins 6:30 p.m....
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07/29/10 - sfgate.com
ODC/Dance offers summer sampler
ODC/Dance offers sampler Restaurants are not the only institutions with summer samplers. ODC/Dance in San Francisco is offering a summer sampler of contemporary dance performances with wine and hors d'oeuvres on the side. The kinetic sampler begins 6:30 p.m....
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07/28/10 - artsjournal.com
Nacho Duato to Lead St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Ballet
The renowned choreographer, whose widely-praised term at the head of Spain's Compañía Nacional de Danza ends this month, will be the first foreigner to head a major Russian ballet company since the days of Marius Petipa under the Tsars.... Source
07/28/10 - artsjournal.com
Nacho Duato to Lead St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Ballet
The renowned choreographer, whose widely-praised term at the head of Spain's Compaa Nacional de Danza ends this month, will be the first foreigner to head a major Russian ballet company since the days of Marius Petipa under the Tsars.... Source
07/28/10 - artsjournal.com
NY's Joyce Theater Faces Manhattan Real Estate Dilemma
The New York dance presenter's lease on its 8th Avenue headquarters, with annual rent of $1, expires in 2016. The Joyce had committed to occupying a planned arts center near Ground Zero whose construction seems ever more remote; meanwhile, the 8th Avenue site's landlord, Eliot Feld's Ballet Tech Company, wants to charge rent closer to market rate.... Source
07/28/10 - artsjournal.com
NY's Joyce Theater Faces Manhattan Real Estate Dilemma
The New York dance presenter's lease on its 8th Avenue headquarters, with annual rent of $1, expires in 2016. The Joyce had committed to occupying a planned arts center near Ground Zero whose construction seems ever more remote; meanwhile, the 8th Avenue site's landlord, Eliot Feld's Ballet Tech Company, wants to charge rent closer to market rate.... Source
07/28/10 - artsjournal.com
'Pure, Incomprehensible Perverseness': Rehearsing Romeo and Juliet at La Scala Ballet
"How often has one sat at a first night at the opera or ballet, groaning at missed cues, horrors with costumes, disasters with lighting: one thinks they should surely have got it right by this time? … And what if indeed it is human ineptitude that conspires?" Not to mention the cascading strikes …... Source
07/28/10 - artsjournal.com
'Pure, Incomprehensible Perverseness': Rehearsing Romeo and Juliet at La Scala Ballet
"How often has one sat at a first night at the opera or ballet, groaning at missed cues, horrors with costumes, disasters with lighting: one thinks they should surely have got it right by this time?… And what if indeed it is human ineptitude that conspires?" Not to mention the cascading strikes…... Source
07/28/10 - nytimes.com
North Korean Opera Draws Acclaim in China
The recent Chinese tour of the North Korean Sea of Blood Opera Company, which Kim Jong-il is credited with helping to establish and direct, was met by a veritable media and audience frenzy.
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