The News Review:
- Riding the Seoul Train
- Dance star defends lessons
- CALENDAR – New York Times
Riding the Seoul Train
Washington Post – Nov 26, 2006
“So on a recent balmy Sunday afternoon Alice is among about 200 hopefuls who show up at SM Entertainment’s talent auditions at the Don Quixote bar and club in Alexandria. Parents pull up to the peeling facade of the two-story Latin dance club in their Honda dysseys dropping off sons and daughters — perhaps the next Beyonces and Ushers of Korea. Five friends in knit caps and trucker hats practice break-dance moves in the parking lot fine-tuning their footwork and robot-sharp turns. A dozen contestants are gathered around a parked minivan that is playing Korean music videos on two drop-down DVD screens. Inside the Don Quixote talent scout Jung Ah Kang of SM Entertainment sits behind a folding table on the dance floor as contestants come before her in groups of five. They each take turns singing a cappella for Kang “Idol”-style. There’s a silver disco ball overhead and Spanish-language beer posters on the walls.
Dance star defends lessons
NEWS.com.au – Nov 26, 2006
Caoili said she was confused by McKenney’s attack and said he’d "forgotten we are doing this for charity". Caoili’s quest to raise money for burns survivor Sophie Delezio’s charity Day f Difference could be impacted by the controversy. Arianne’s mother Annette also attacked McKenney for trying to break her daughter’s spirit and defended the childhood ballet lessons. "She was just a six-year-old with no teeth doing ballet after school and then we were living in a suitcase travelling the international chess circuit for the next eight years. "How do you turn that into professional dancing?"Rio Rhythmics owner and dance instructor Tarcisio Teatini-Climaco said Caoili attended three of his beginner social classes at Southport in January this year. "She had natural talent but she didn’t stand out as someone who had trained professionally" he said. Sayers Dance Centre principal Vivianne Sayers – a Brisbane ballet instructor for 31 years – said Caoili’s ballet experience "gave her no advantage whatsoever".
CALENDAR – New York Times
New York Times – Nov 26, 2006
Performing Arts Center 735 Anderson Hill Road. \n\nWhite Plains ”Hip Hop Field Report” documentary by Erika Muhammad; with panel discussion and breakdance demonstration. Arts Exchange 31 Mamaroneck Avenue… Tarrytown Music Hall 13 Main Street. \n\nYonkers Saeko Ichinohe Dance Company. Titsworth Lecture Hall 1 Mead Way.