Weather is no problema for Cinco de Mayo parade
"When you have a big core of volunteers, it's going to be more successful"
Gray skies and sporadic rain couldn't stop the 10th annual Cinco de Mayo parade from dancing through the streets of Elgin. via Beep!
The Creative Arts Guild presents "Masquerade"
The Creative Arts Guild and Ballet Dalton will present their spring concert "Masquerade" in the Dalton High School Theater on Friday at 7 p.m., which will include Ballet Dalton, the Guild Dance Ensemble and ... via Daily Citizen
On Cole Porter, dance and the swellness of it all
"I don't know what you guys do, but I really isolate myself."
"Anything Goes" premieres this weekend at Bainbridge High. The day before Bainbridge High School's annual spring musical opened, Katie Donais made an assertion that was funny coming from the mouth of a show ... via Bainbridge Island Review
Actor gets motor running in Braselton
"I've loved motorsports since I was a kid, but I just went pro last year"
Ian Ziering, best known as smooth-talking Steve Sanders on "Beverly Hills 90210" during the 1990s, has joined the ranks of fellow actors Frankie Muniz and Patrick Dempsey and taken on auto racing as a hobby. via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cinco de Mayo Celebration set for Saturday
A Cinco de Mayo celebration is planned from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Tehama District Fairground. via Red Bluff Daily News
Malaysia to host global Odissi dance fest
"This festival will be the most extensive Odissi exposition held in Malaysia - a celebration of the different creative expressions of the traditional dance"
Uzbekistan News.Net Friday 2nd May, 2008 Malaysia will host a month-long Odissi dance festival from May 21 showcasing artists and scholars of the dance form from home and across the world. via Uzbekistan News.net
Madonna returns to her New York club roots
"What a perfect way to spend my birthday"
Madonna is a native Midwesterner who now lives overseas, but on some level, she'll always be a New Yorker. via USA Today
Brazilian capoeira come to Cornwall
Brazilian capoeira come to Cornwall BRAZILIAN capoeira comes to Cornwall on the May 10 with an exciting and unique event. via Falmouth Packet
ART steps out in style with final show
Like the disparate troupe of hoofers who become triumphant tappers in their final show, Antioch Rivertown Theatre put its best foot forward in its swan song, the hugely entertaining dance comedy "Stepping Out." ... via Contra Costa Times
Chicago dance company performs tonight
At 7:30 p.m. tonight at Sentry Theatre, the Sentry Insurance Invitation to the Arts Series will present Hubbard Street 2, a Chicago-based contemporary dance company. via Stevens Point Journal
Dance review: Phoenix Dance Theatre / Sadler's Wells, London
"In memory, everything seems to happen to music"
In the two years that he has been directing Phoenix, Javier de Frutos has rebranded the company in his own exuberantly unpredictable image. via MediaGuardian.co.uk
'Under the Radar' wins 3 'Izzie' dance awards
The production "Under the Radar" by Jess Curtis/Gravity won three of nine Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, known as "the Izzies," at the Bay Area Dance Awards event Monday in San Francisco. via Inside Bay Area
Tamburitzans present spring concert.....
The Holy Resurrection Serbian Tamburitzans will present its spring concert at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Steubenville Catholic Central Auditorium. via Herald Star Online
Strippers can't compete with Internet
"Why would a guy go to a club and pay to sit there if he could get it all for free on his computer at home?"
The number of strippers and strip clubs in Toronto is declining, with former dancers blaming the Internet for putting them out of work. via Daily India
Young dancers invaded the Capital City this weekend to compete in The International Dance Challenge. via KFYR-TV Bismarck
Meadows Dance Ensemble on pointe with student, teacher work
By MARGARET PUTNAM / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News msputnam@sbcglobal.net Margaret Putnam is a Richardson-based writer who covers dance. via Quick
Dancing on air Jack hotfoots his way to the top of Dance.
"I'll guess I'll see you at Broadway some time"
Jack Chambers with the other finalists. Photo: Helen Nezdropa So You Think You Can Dance winner Jack Chambers wants to crack Broadway, and if his idol Hugh Jackman's opinion is anything to go by, he's on his ... via The Age
S.F. Ballet's New Works Festival doesn't take chances
It may be the end of the 2008 San Francisco Ballet 75th anniversary season, but it felt Tuesday night that the year's festivities have just begun. via Contra Costa Times
NY City Ballet sues UK firm over exercise videos
The New York City Ballet, flexing its legal muscles, sued a British production company on Friday, saying it owed the famed dance troupe some $600,000 in royalties for exercise DVDs. via Reuters
Horsemen to join Cinco de Mayo parade
"It is a Mexican festival, but we don't turn people away"
The seventh annual Cinco de Mayo festival in downtown Yakima will add something new this year: a parade featuring two dozen charros, Mexican horsemen in colorful traditional dress. via Yakima Herald-Republic
Letter: 'Music Man' a wonderful production
If you missed the first performances of "The Music Man" at the State Theatre, I would encourage you to find time to see it this coming weekend. via Mercury-Register
Closeup: Sring time, dance time
"Fame"). - Amanda Dyslin If you go What "THERMOfusion"
The annual spring dance collection concert at Minnesota State University is based on the theme of diverse weather systems mixing together, resulting in an "expression" of precipitation and energy, such as ... via Free Press
Artists staging ballet to help revive Indian classical dance
"Today it is hip-hop, yesterday it was salsa, but the art which is seeing audiences dwindle with regularity is classical dance. Somewhere down the line everyone of us is responsible for trivialising each and every aspect of our life."
By Prabhat Sharan, Mumbai, April 25: Seven performing artists, among them TV actresses Sudha Chandran and Rajeshwari Sachdev-Badola, will showcase the sheer energy and rhythm of Indian classical dance through a ... via Newkerala.com
Slain dancer Estee was not raped
"I am the Lord, do not be afraid"
Dancer's murder: police need help The day she was murdered, 19-year-old dancer Estee van Rensburg was given a way of telling everyone through her death that they were at the right place and time in this ... via Daily News
Performance pays tribute to Ballet Russe
"It's gentler on the body than playing football, which I also did."
Natasha Middleton, artistic director of Media City Ballet of Burbank, likens the heightened expressions of Sunday's season-opening program, "Ballet Russe Remembered," to those of a silent film. via Pasadena Star-News
Chinese pressure costly for show
"Our managing director has received implicit instruction for full cooperation from Wi Xinjian, Consul General of [the] Chinese Consulate"
The producers of Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular says the Chinese government is bullying groups in Alberta from sponsoring its show. via National Post
Great Russian Nutcracker Coming to Zanes ...
A high scale performance is coming to Zanesville at the end of this year and it's already time to think about getting tickets. via Whiznews.com
Mesmerising Spanish dance performance in capital
They thumped their heels, clapped in rhythm and swirled their mantillas to music with distinctly Indian overtones. via India Gazette
Doug Varone and Dancers head straight for poetry
Doug Varone knows his way around a circle. The New York-based choreographer, whose company Doug Varone and Dancers performed at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for a woefully brief run last weekend, also knows ... via Inside Bay Area
2008 Raiderette Squad Announced
"The level of abilities that the girls have in the competition is much higher than in the previous years and we are very pleased with the turnout"
Last week, over 300 candidates checked in for their shot at becoming part of the highly admired squad. via The Professional Cheerleader Blog
Marlee Matlin is eliminated from `Dancing With the Stars'
"What you do here is a plus for the show"
For the third consecutive week, a last-place finish has led to elimination on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
This week's celebrity casualty was Marlee Matlin, who came into Tuesday's results show with 21 out of 30 points. The actress, who is deaf, lost her timing at various points during her mambo Monday with professional partner Fabian Sanchez, and the judges took note.
'You guys looked like you were forcing and struggling,' said judge Carrie Ann Inaba, who noted that the mambo is more rhythm-dependent than other ballroom dances and she expected it to be most difficult for Matlin. Read more
'Mohiniattam' lecture-demo in Dhaka
Dhaka, April 23: Bangladeshi lovers of classical dance have been treated to a lecture-demonstration by renowned Indian artiste Pallavi Krishnan as part of a cultural exchange programme between the two ... via Newkerala.com
Underage stripper spurs national interest
"We think with these types of events - these horrible acts have occurred - that people now, not only from a state perspective, but nationally are interested"
Clubs caught using underage strippers may have had their last dance. After a 12-year-old girl was caught stripping at a Dallas club and there were no laws in place to shut the business down, outrage has spread. via KVUE
Broadway Finds Its Billy Elliots
The three young boys who will alternate in the title role of Billy Elliot-The Musical have been found. via Playbill
"These are weekly classes for all ages and abilities. They are enjoyed both socially, for the benefits the physical exercise brings and for the satisfaction of performing a skill in the art of dance."
Dancers pass exams STUDENTS of the Margaret Hancock Stage School in Falmouth have been awarded for their perfect pirouettes and their terrific tap this week. via Falmouth Packet
Interdisciplinary art class at UWSP to perform
Sculpture, percussion and dance students from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will present collaborative works at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 27, in Michelsen Hall in the Noel Fine Arts Center. via Stevens Point Journal
"I was looking for something, something that could cheer me up. "It's almost like God sent me looking for this card. "It was very comforting and appreciated, even though she is gone. It was beautiful"
By Lesego Masemola It's been a long and painful three weeks for dancers of the KMAD dance company since the murder of fellow dancer Estee Van Rensburg. via Pretoria News
Great Performances: Dance in America
"Face of America," an initiative of the nonprofit Wolf Trap foundation for the Performing Arts, celebrates the diversity of America's cultural and natural landscapes by commissioning new works by the country's ... via WETA-TV Arlington
Shag fest attendees enjoy festivities
Jamie Cribb and his father, Donnie, work to pack up about 50 pounds of fresh barbecue the family made for the 20th Annual Hemingway BBQ and Shag Festival on Saturday. via Morning News
"I feel lucky because I have a lot and other kids don't so it's nice to help other kids"
They're young healthy kids doing what they love and dancing their hearts out. This weekend that's helping out less fortunate kids. via WTNH
Story, photo gallery: Spartans dance team members work with youth
"She's nice and she knows what to do and what she wants us to do"
Inside Franklin Elementary School's small gym, local girls performed their last plie, practiced pirouettes and presented their parents with proper port de bras. via Oshkosh Northwestern
Going head over heels for BREAKDANCING
"I grew up around hip-hop. It was the culture I grew up with. It's in a totally new light now."
From the streets of New York, Joey Perez brought a dance form here that's booming across the country. via Valley Morning Star
Regis Philbin kicks off Center for the Homeless dance marathon
"As I recall it used to be Gilbert's Men's Store years and years ago. So I've been involved and watched it grow over the years and I'm proud to be a part of the whole, the whole growth"
The Center for the Homeless in South Bend provides food and shelter to about 200 people a day. via WSBT
UWGB brings new life to opera 'L'Orfeo'
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Opera Studio production of 'L'Orfeo' is a fascinating, two-stage time capsule. via WisInfo
THIS spring, Birmingham Hippodrome and DanceXchange proudly present the first International Dance Festival Birmingham featuring everything from contemporary to classical dance, and from Bollywood to Salsa. via Bromsgrove Advertiser
Moving Arts Dance hosts weekend festival
"Nannette Brody is a big fan of the choreographer Alwin Nikolais, whose work was very theatrical. And Kenneth Balint submitted a beautiful duet. I'm thrilled to find other small companies out there working in a contemporary vein."
Concord's Moving Arts Dance and its artistic director, Anandha Ray, have never produced a dance event like the one coming up this weekend and next: a festival hosting 18 professional and student dance ... via Contra Costa Times