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Web Link 20111014 - Slate - Could Beyoncé Get in Trouble for Stealing Dance Moves?
Is it really possible to steal a dance? Evidence surfaced on Monday that Beyoncé may have cribbed dance moves from a Belgian choreographer, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, for her new music video “Countdown.” Certain scenes in the video do appear almost identical to a 1997 film version of de Keersmaeker’s 1983 work “Rosas danst Rosas,” both in terms of movement and design. |
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Web Link 20111010 - USAToday - Dance games step into void left by other genres
When interest in music games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band declined, developers simply sidestepped and took a spin at making dance games. |
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Web Link 20110928 - BBC News - Ballet replaces drugs for Fallen Angels dancers
Fallen Angels Dance Theatre was created to help vulnerable young people and adults who have experienced drug addiction and alcoholism through dance. |
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Web Link 20110814 - SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Winner Melanie Moore Explores Reasons for Her Success
A great article about the extra work it takes to become successful: She attributes it to discipline and work ethic, unsurprisingly. She said she and Marko, her partner for the first half of the season, were the only couple to rent studio space outside of the regular rehearsal space they were given by the show’s producers. She and Marko would go to the studio and rehearse for a few hours after hours at the regular rehearsal space were over. |
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Web Link 20110516 - Reuters - Tap dance syncopates fitness for any age
For fitness outside the box-step of the gym, why not try hoofing it?
Experts say whether you've got rhythm, or just crave it, an extended foray into the purely American art form of tap dance can boost your balance, cardio and core. |
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Web Link 20110426 - NYTimes - A Generation’s Vanity, Heard Through Lyrics
[It's interesting for dancers know the lyrical trend of contemporary music]
Now, after a computer analysis of three decades of hit songs, Dr. DeWall and other psychologists report finding what they were looking for: a statistically significant trend toward narcissism and hostility in popular music. As they hypothesized, the words “I” and “me” appear more frequently along with anger-related words, while there’s been a corresponding decline in “we” and “us” and the expression of positive emotions. |
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Web Link 20110315 - WSJ - City Ballet A-Twitter Over Posts
New York City Ballet is set to become one of the country's first major performing-arts companies to govern its employees' posts on Twitter, Facebook and other social-media outlets. |
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Web Link 20110303 - msnbc - Can't dance? Brain chemical throws off your groove
[Just in case you need an excuse not to improve your dancing]
But my steps aren’t smooth. Those beats and my body never truly connect -- despite what the cocktails tell me. On the dance floor, I'm the male Elaine from "Seinfeld," all kicks, thumbs and no rhythm.
Turns out, it’s all in my head, not my hips or feet. A study, released today by researchers at the University of Oxford in England, claims a tiny messenger in the brain is partly to blame for those among us who struggle to grasp the latest dance moves. |
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Web Link 20110225 - Daily Beast - Butchery at the Ballet
Aronofsky has created a movie [Black Swan] celebrating the failure of a ballerina, and by implication her entire art—disguised, insidiously, as a film about sacrifice and success. |
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Web Link 20110214 - WSJ - Putting the Fun Back into Excercise with a Little Footwork
Kathleen Hagan has one requirement for her workouts: They must be fun. When Ms. Hagan wanted to add a “fun factor” to her winter routine (because “indoor rowing is boring,” she says), she discovered dance.
The class is a mix of beginners from 40 to 80 years old. Ms. Hagan says she started out dancing to slow songs but has now mastered full routines. “It’s very good for memory, because you have to remember all of the dance steps in a sequence. It’s also great balance training,” she says. |
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Web Link 20110210 - LATimes - Prince targets arts education with $250,000 gift to American Ballet Theatre
Prince is moving into arts philanthropy in a big way, with a particular focus on arts programs for the younger generation. Before he performed at New York's Madison Square Garden on Monday, the rock musician was in the arena for the announcement of three major donations, including a $250,000 gift to American Ballet Theatre for its educational programs. |
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Web Link 20110203 - Pointe Magazine - A Ballet Dancer who Taps
Tap dance is an ideal companion to classical ballet training,” says McRae, who grew up studying tap and jazz in his hometown of Sydney, Australia. “Tap is intensely musical, and it teaches coordination and control of footwork. |
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Web Link 20110202 - Pointe Magazine - Married To Normal Folk
Relationships with “civilians,” however, seem more complicated: Figuring out scheduling is stressful, eating habits can differ and one partner probably can’t tell a tendu from a tour jeté. Yet many dancers have found that dating a non-dancer keeps them grounded in the real world. |
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Web Link 20110201 - DanceSpirit - I Do! Real-Life Dancer Love Stories
You know the story: A beautiful young woman meets a charming young man. They eye each other shyly from across the stage. He asks her to dance. She says yes. Three acts of pas de deuxing later, they are getting hitched and the audience is applauding wildly through 10 curtain calls. (Extra points if he’s a prince, of course.)
Onstage, love is a many-splendored thing. But offstage, for some dancers, life is equally as romantic. In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are a few of our favorite real-life love stories. |
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Web Link 20110124 - WSJ - The Lowdown on Arts Downloading
"Thrifty" and "easy" are not usually how the performing arts are described. But thanks to the wonders of modern technology, world-class ballet can be downloaded from iTunes for just $14.99. And with the proliferation of HD broadcasts, the latest European operas are showing up at your local movie theater—for about $25. |
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Web Link 20110123 - SFGate.com - Networkers grab their shot at love just in time
A couple in San Francisco met, fell in love and married...because of ballroom dancing. |
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Web Link 20101217 - Huffington Post - Ballet Is Dying? State Of The Arts
Ballet is dying? Really? With the release of Jennifer Homan's new book Apollo's Angels, it seems this question is a popular topic of discussion. While I agree that, yes, there was a ballet heyday in the 1970's, I think the art form is far from dead. One only has to look at ballet's recent publicity and media focus to see that. |
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Web Link 20101213 - Today Show - Jenifer Ringer Reacts to Critic on The Today Show
In one of the most hurtful reviews I have ever read, Alastair Macaulay of the New York Times said of a dancer in the Nutcracker, “she’d eaten one sugar plum too many”.
It has created a firestorm in the dance world, on blogs, Facebook and Twitter. Here, the dancer, Jenifer Ringer, responds to the critic's review. |
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Web Link 20101206 - NYTimes - Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving
The very idea of doing a crossword or a Sudoku puzzle typically shifts the brain into an open, playful state that is itself a pleasing escape, captivating to people.
To me this was all about the open-mindedness required to have an amazing dance - becoming one with the music and with your partner requires a very open-minded focus. It's almost a contradiction in terms. |
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Web Link 20101108 - First Lady’s Dance Moves Woo Indian Crowds
Not all of the politicians’ wives have danced, though. In India, where everyone from teenage boys to septuagenarian aunts dance at weddings, a reticence to join the dance floor is seen as a troubling sign of a possible character flaw — one that Mrs. Obama certainly does not exhibit. |
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Web Link 20101001 - Washington Ballet will perform without orchestra this season
The Washington Ballet (as in DC) will dance before an empty orchestra pit this season, citing financial constraints in its decision to use recorded music for its upcoming production of "Romeo and Juliet" at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater and, most likely, for "The Nutcracker" at the Warner Theatre. |
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Web Link 20100929 - Science 2.0 - Dancers Are Genetically Different
An examination of 85 dancers and advanced dancing students in Israel found variants of two genes that provide the code for the serotonin transporter and arginine vasopressin receptor 1a. Both genes are involved in the transmission of information between nerve cells. |
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Web Link 20100923 - NYTimes - Ballet’s Costumes Take Center Stage
An important part of history intertwining dance and fashion: “It was all very scattered,” said Jane Pritchard, a curator of “Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929,” which opens on Saturday at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
The museum has reassembled about 60 outfits, many of them purchased decades ago at Sotheby’s auctions. The curators had to decide which ones would be strong enough to exhibit, and conservators have repaired rips and sweat damage, straightened bent flaps and reinforced shoulders for draping on mannequins. |
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Web Link 20100927 - Arts - 5 Reasons Ballroom Dancing Is A Good Idea
There are men who believe that ballroom dancing is primarily an activity for women. How ever there have been some pretty manly men prove that they can dance with the best of them on hit TV shows like “Dancing with the Stars”. |
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Web Link 20100919 - US ballet companies to perform in Cuba
The American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet will perform in Cuba for the first time in half a century in November in homage to former prima ballerina Alicia Alonso on her 90th birthday |
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Web Link 20100914 - People - Patrick Swayze Inspired Jennifer Grey to Try Dancing With the Stars
A year after her Dirty Dancing costar's death from pancreatic cancer, Jennifer Grey says she wouldn't be competing on Dancing With the Stars if it weren't for Patrick Swayze – and the example he set of living life to the fullest in the face of any daunting challenge. |
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Web Link 20100908 - CNN - Scientists identify dance moves that attract women
The scientists filmed 19 men dancing, then mapped their moves onto featureless avatars using technology similar to the computer animation used in making animated movies.
Then they had 35 heterosexual women rate the attractiveness of the dancing, without the distraction of whether the dancer himself was good-looking. |
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Web Link 20090709 - Dunbar Lab - Performing Arts and the Brain
Our early work suggest that performing arts students show more extensive activation in areas of the brain associated with the abstract qualities of a situation, We are now using an extensive battery of screening tests, DNA genotyping, and fMRI to uncover the effects of a performing arts education on the brain. |
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