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Greg Kot: What to expect at Electric Daisy Carnival


As Bill Graham was to rock, Pasquale Rotella is to dance music ¿ a diehard promoter with staying power in a field overrun for years with quick-buck hustlers, many of whom aren't around anymore. Rotella is still here and more powerful than ever; in many ways, he is the godfather of live-event promotion in the North American DJ and electronic-music scene. On May 24-26, he takes another big step when his Los Angeles-based company, Insomniac Events, expands its Electric Daisy Carnival brand to the Midwest for the first time at the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill.

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Dance Review: ‘The Spectators’ at New York Live Arts


Pam Tanowitz’s “Spectators” is an intense and complex work that borrows from ballet.

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I'm Sorry For The Dance World


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A ‘Winter’s Tale’ for all seasons


If only life offered the second chance Shakespeare so magnanimously grants the monstrously miscalculating Leontes of his late-career romance “The Winter’s Tale.” Sixteen years of penitential loneliness — for making the false accusations that stop his family’s hearts — result for Leontes in redemption of a fantastical order, the sort that we all know can only happen in a play.

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WATCH: Groundbreaking New Film Tackles HIV/AIDS In The World Of Dance


Test, a film set in San Francisco during the height of the AIDS crisis in 1985, focuses on a prestigious dance company dealing with the spread of HIV ...

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LOOK: Dancing In A Dream


Photographer and former dancer Ingrid Endel completely transforms herself in a series of bewitching self-portraits below. The photographer juxtaposes ...

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Choreographer/dance maker Minna Harri interviews fellow Finnish citizen and master artist Alpo Aaltoskis


Here are some of the discussions we had, translated from Finnish. (I take responsibility for any errors in translation.) M: I looked at the “Deep” trailer online and paid attention to the difference between the live dance and the video. The video is much older, made in the 90s as... Source

Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater


It’s a rare event to have New York City Ballet perform an entire program of Peter Martins’s shorter works.

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Dance Review: ‘Onegin’ From American Ballet Theater


American Ballet Theater’s “Onegin” stars Julie Kent and Robert Bolle.

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Daft Punk Gets Human With a New Album


The French dance-music duo known for its synthetic dazzle has made its new album a flashback to the era of live musicianship.

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Chicago's Luna Negra Dance Theater, Out Of Money, Shuts Down


Chicago Business Journal 05/14/13 Source

Florence's Opera House To Shut Down Ballet Company


Gramilano (Milan) 05/14/13 Source

Aging English Ex-Ballerina Grouses About Royal Ballet 'Infiltrated' By Foreigners


The Telegraph (UK) 05/14/13 Source

Robert Lindgren, 89, Ballet Dancer and College Dean, Is Dead


Mr. Lindgren appeared with major American ballet companies before becoming the founding dean of the influential dance program at the North Carolina School of the Arts.

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Dance Listings for May 10-16


A selected guide to dance performances in the New York area.

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Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Gala at the Met Opera House


American Ballet Theater’s opening-night gala at the Metropolitan Opera House included two full works, along with the usual star-studded cast and snippets of dance.

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Lauren Warnecke: Learning From Luna Negra


If nothing else, the announcement today that Luna Negra Dance Theatre is "ceasing opperations... due to financial constraints" is a lesson to the Chicago Dance Community to never take things for granted.

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Heads Up: 7 must-see concerts this week


Astronaut Chris Hadfield, floating in space.
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This video has been floating around of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield floating in space, slowly turning inside his vessel, playing the acoustic guitar and singing Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie (“Space Oddity,” naturally). It’s an arresting image, melding science, sound, nerd culture, and pop culture together in the coolest of ways. And it was his goodbye love letter to space, as he returned back down to earth yesterday.

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Bringing Back Social Ballroom Dancing


Does anyone remember the days when a band played at a music hall, dinner, gala or event and everyone in the room would get up and casually tango dance, foxtrot or waltz about the dance floor?  A time when ballroom dancing wasn’t dominated by competitive Dancesport or Dancing With the Stars extravagance? A time when (pretty much) everyone could dance?

I got to experience this three times in my life:  once at Atomic Ballroom’s Saturday night dance, once at a private Milonga (tango party) and once at Alpine Village in Torrance  where orchestras still strike up a waltz and (mostly senior) couples flood the floor.  And it was pretty cool!  There is a unified rise and fall as everyone in the room moves with similar rhythms and steps, casually leading or following basic figures.  Ah, social ballroom.

Around the turn of the 20th century, many society individuals were pressured into... More

Symphonic Variations


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