09/07/2008
Poland wins Eurovision Dance Contest (UPI)
GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Polish actor Marcin Mroczek and dancer Edyta Herbus earned a first place victory for their country in the Eurovision Dance Contest, officials say.
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09/08/2008
Goings on About Town: Dance (The New Yorker)
DANSCORES BY OFELIA LORET DE MOLA The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s “Sitelines” series comes to a close with “Available Space,” in which the Mexican-born choreographer unleashes her anti-establishment opinions and conventional modern-dance vocabulary on City Hall Park. Mexican punk musicians add to the street-theatre cacophony. (Enter . . .
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09/08/2008
Joan Acocella: Bhutanese dance at the Rubin Museum. (The New Yorker)
All traditional dance suffers by being seen out of context. The Bhutanese cham, or demon-subjugation dances, date back to the eighth century, when Tantric Buddhism spread from Tibet to Bhutan. But to view them in their native monasteries you’d have to get on a plane and go to the . . .
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09/08/2008
Profiles in Dance: Claudia P. Silva (BizJournals)
By day, Claudia Silva works in the corporate finance department of AT&T as a lead financial analyst. To ease the tension from writing programming code and analyzing financial data, she seeks refuge in a little hobby called flamenco dance. The traditional song and dance of the Gypsies of Andalucía in southern Spain, flamenco embodies the heart and soul of San Antonio’s Latino culture with its ...
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09/07/2008
Families celebrate Grandparents Day with crafts and dance (Detroit Free Press)
Families spent this afternoon doing arts and crafts and learning dance steps at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit for Grandparents' Day.
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09/08/2008
Dance: Watch their steps (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Through next June, dozens of works by many of the world's great choreographers will distinguish Philadelphia's dance season. And after a long, dry summer with almost no performances, the local dance community is getting back to the studio - and soon to th
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09/08/2008
Tiger Dance: Onam's traditional and distinct identity (IBN live)
Pulikkali .or the Tiger Dance is performed on the fourth day of Onam.
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09/08/2008
Community Movement: Marking an Anniversary Through Dance (The New York Sun)
Dripping with sweat in the sweltering sun and 90-degree heat last Thursday afternoon, a man and two women crept across one another on the steps of Brooklyn Bridge Park, in DUMBO, froze in emotional tableaus, then silently fell to the ground. The three, dancers of the Silver-Brown Dance Company, were polishing a work to remember the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, "Oasis 5," which they ...
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09/07/2008
Poland waltzes away with Eurovision Dance Contest (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Poland waltzed off with the Eurovision Dance Contest title on Saturday in a glitzy final watched by millions of viewers across the continent.
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09/08/2008
Cavalier dance clinic coming up (The Bay Area Citizen)
The national award-winning Clear Creek High School Cavalier Dance Team will hold their annual Future Cavalier Dance Clinic on Saturday, Sept. 20, ninth grade center. The clinic is open to students in grades kindergarten through ninth grade. Students in ninth grade will receive dance instruction that will help them prepare for the upcoming Spring Cavalier tryouts. The clinic will be held from 9 ...
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