http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance The latest news brought to you by MySpace! Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:30:55 GMT http://newscdn.myspace.com/web.2.24/content/springwidget/dance.xml http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19054783 Here are the pictures I’ve added to the album thus far, of last night’s two main championships, Professional American Smooth and Amateur Latin. Thomas and Tomas Mielnicki (current national champs in this event) moved with more fluidity and polish, Swan Lake Samba Girl Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:10:18 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19054783 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19054641 my friend Amanda says with admiration about Neil Greenberg's "Really Queer Dance with Harps," which premiered a couple of weeks ago at Dance Theater Workshop. In one of "Really Queer Dance's" several distinct and disparate phrases, one hand grazes the vulnerable crease of the hip where God forced Foot in Mouth Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:43:30 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19054641 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19043106 How to make it possible for disabled dancers to lead? Much of our time, especially when working with a pre-choreographed phrase is spent catching up. Trying to make it look like the work of the other dancers. It was set on nondisabled bodies and taught, at first I thought, with the goal of us Wheelchair Dancer Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:45:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19043106 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19022910 As I’m sure you may all suspect, the life of a B5Media entertainment blogger is filled with fast cars, loose women, and free high-class sushi at the finest restaurants in Vegas. He’s the winner from the first week of the “Happy Dance” Fame or Famine Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:58:22 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19022910 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18923856 Every year one play emerges as the smash hit of the Shaw Festival and sometimes the author is not the notorious George Bernard Shaw. When the Inspector calls armed with a tale of a young woman's suicide that had dealings with every single member of the Birling family, their secrets pour out like Dancehunter Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:11:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18923856 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18972905 Commentators claim that Marin, inspired by Samuel Beckett, considers the actions banal and underlines that quality by reiterating them obsessively. The RÉUNION DES MUSÉES NATIONAUX (The National Museum Association's Photographic Agency) offers a photographic catalogue of some 200,00 holdings of Seeing Things Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:10:20 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18972905 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19044226 Beating even j.t. Thomas and tomas mielnicki. Val & val won amateur latin Beating even j.t. Thomas and tomas mielnicki. Val & val won amateur latin This entry was posted on Saturday, July 5th, 2008 at 1:58 am and is filed under Dance Generally. You Swan Lake Samba Girl Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:58:38 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19044226 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18911338 You can see her solo below; I can see why the judges might not have liked her - in my opinion, while her technique and energy are great, there’s not a real coherence to the solo - instead of having a definable theme or beginning, middle, and end, she Fame or Famine Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:54:56 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18911338 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18846368 Because if you can't have expect stuff from people who live in similar spaces if in the same places, you are gonna be disappointed if you expect stuff from people from the non-disabled world. This is a great institution -- a time and space where disabled people cut loose, enjoy their bodies, and Wheelchair Dancer Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:50:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18846368 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18765094 Irish Classical Theater Company: Nights in the Gardens of Spain and Miss Fozzard Finds her Feet Buffalo's Irish Classical Theater Company paired Nights in the Gardens of Spain and Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet, two pieces from Alan Bennett's “Talking Heads 2” Dancehunter Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:58:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18765094 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18753825 We exit and collapse onto the low, narrow concrete ledge in which the hefty chain-link fence that separates the market from ordinary life has been embedded. Meanwhile, my husband has closed his eyes and retreated into the semi-comatose state of men haplessly Seeing Things Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:27:05 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18753825 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19035724 Anyway, I already wrote a bit about this ballet earlier, and have to get ready for a pre-competition dinner, but I quickly just want to mention a few other tidbits about Jose that make him so great, that I noticed last night. As Julie’s rich widow was dancing with the Pontevedrian men, each Swan Lake Samba Girl Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:40:41 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19035724 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18878051 Apparently researchers in Australia’s University of New England are exploring whether tango can “boost people’s emotions.” “While you’re doing tango you can only be in the present — you really have to focus, concentrate, and it doesn’t allow your thoughts Fame or Famine Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:20:12 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18878051 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18734369 A powerchair and its user can get pretty heavy -- and even though I use a manual chair, such a fragile piece of plastic wouldn't stand up to the kinds of movement I'd wanna do (snark). The sensors attached to your chair translated the movement of your wheels into lines of colour that are projected Wheelchair Dancer Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:56:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18734369 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19042522 And dovolani is a judge, and jonathan roberts has a new partner and is competing in smooth. Very sexy tango!And dovolani is a judge, and jonathan roberts has a new partner and is competing in smooth. Very sexy tango! This entry was posted on Friday, July 4th, 2008 at 10:22 pm and is filed under Swan Lake Samba Girl Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:22:35 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19042522 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18995462 This is a snippet of Maguy Marin's Umvelt, by far the most stunning piece I have seen here at ADF. Here you can read Andres Zambrano's poetic response on Claudia LaRocco's blog. You can get the inside as in backstage and technical scoop at Dance Machine, a blog that was created by Claire Croft, Dancehunter Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:21:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18995462 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19054640 Neil Greenberg's surface unconscious Foot in Mouth Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:43:30 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/19054640 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18828045 Milia comments: I’m 18 turning 19 and I feel so behind in dancing. Ten years later, I have taught ballet to three year olds and the rumba to 70 year olds, worked with world-class dancers like Heidi Latsky, presented before World Dance Symposiums, and danced on stage to “Let’s Get Fame or Famine Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:01:22 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18828045 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18679360 The design phase went well, even though we kept changing our minds about what we wanted (we still have some decisions to make -- appliances, stove/range thing (I don’t cook so I don’t care!), We all spend much of our lives being in limbo -- place limbo, work limbo, disability limbo... I Wheelchair Dancer Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:30:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18679360 http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18769935 As I was going through the slurry of fine arts news that Google sends my way each day, I came across an interesting connecting thread between two very different types of theatre: Spanish. But here’s a twist on it: Romeo y Julieta is a staged reading of Fame or Famine Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:25:11 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/dance/item/18769935