The News Review:
- Volunteer Helps Raise Funds With Singing; Not Ringing
- For tweens it’s back-to-school night as Disney phenomenon hits…
- Young Dance Collective: budding dancer-choreographers with a fresh…
- His dances are drawn from spiritual voyages
- Leap of faith takes ‘Nutcracker’ dancer from car wreck to…
- Nutcracker’s delectable divertissements: Arabian Coffee Chinese…
- True brit: Wayne Eagling takes charge.(English National Ballet…
Volunteer Helps Raise Funds With Singing; Not Ringing
KCCI.com – Dec 1, 2006
Burrell persuaded high school students to join her near Target’s mall entrance. They would sing with me and then they would break dance. Then they would sing with me” she said. Burrell said she’s the one who gets the real gift by volunteering. “It makes my day” Burrell said. Anyone who would like to listen to Burrell sing can do so from 10 a.
For tweens it’s back-to-school night as Disney phenomenon hits…
San Francisco Chronicle – Dec 1, 2006
Disney’s lock on preteens began in 2000 when seeing that a vast market was too old for Nickelodeon and too young for MTV — the company launched teen queen Hilary Duff in her hit TV show “Lizzie McGuire. ” Further successes like “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody” launched Disney to top viewership in the 9- to 14-year-old market and shows like “The Cheetah Girls” and this year’s “Hannah Montana” have rolled music into the program mix turning TV watchers into music buyers. But “High School Musical” was the Disney Channel’s first shift from movies that featured music into what Marsh calls “the next step: a full break-into-song-and-dance musical. ” And its appeal he says was simplicity: “It’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ meets ‘Grease. ‘ But we said let’s set it in contemporary times. ” Director and choreographer Kenny rtega saw the potential appeal right away though he underestimated the phenomenon “High School Musical” would become — he thought of the $5 million production as “a little project to get me going in long-form film again. ” A Redwood City native who danced in the San Francisco production of “Hair” before going on to choreograph movies like “Pretty in Pink” and most famously “Dirty Dancing” rtega jumped on “High School Musical” because he related to the story line… ” Director and choreographer Kenny rtega saw the potential appeal right away though he underestimated the phenomenon “High School Musical” would become — he thought of the $5 million production as “a little project to get me going in long-form film again. ” A Redwood City native who danced in the San Francisco production of “Hair” before going on to choreograph movies like “Pretty in Pink” and most famously “Dirty Dancing” rtega jumped on “High School Musical” because he related to the story line. “I was an athlete who was torn between track and dance” he says. “I was a kid who was bullied. I saw this character Troy looking for the courage to step forward and be fearless and say ‘I’m this too’ and that really hit home. ” For “High School Musical” this former choreographer for Madonna kept the moves absolutely age-appropriate. “There were people who were concerned about whether I could pull back” he says.
Young Dance Collective: budding dancer-choreographers with a fresh…
Free with registration – Dance Magazine – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 1, 2006
Under a warm evening sky last summer a group of petite dancers dressed in white moved over the cracked concrete bottom of New York City’s long-abandoned McCarren Park swimming pool. Like ghosts of swimmers past they danced with fluid gentleness amidst an ensemble of adult performers. All members of the Young Dance Collective they had been invited by postmodern choreographer Noemie Lafrance to perform their signature work Be There For Me within her site-specific performance piece Agora. Their youthful exuberance infused the whole production leading dance critic Deborah Jowitt of The Village Voice to single them out in her review and Lafrance to invite them to be more involved in this year’s Agora. CPYRIGHT 2006 Dance Magazine Inc.
His dances are drawn from spiritual voyages
Boston Globe – Dec 1, 2006
It’s kind of a plea to God saying how much we want our words and actions to be filled with love. Q I understand that “Walking ut the Dark” was inspired by a rite-of-passage ceremony you witnessed in Burkina Faso in which young men are buried underground overnight. How does that figure in your piece?A It’s about struggling to break free from your fears and inhibitions to become your highest self. “Grace” on the other hand is more of a wide-stroke dance. It’s simple like the definition of grace: getting another chance when you really don’t deserve it. Q How would you like audiences to respond to these dances?A I want them to leave feeling a sense of joy and possibility. Q What would you do if you didn’t dance and choreograph?A I might have a health food store or perhaps sell oranges — sliced in a bag — on the street… Q I understand that “Walking ut the Dark” was inspired by a rite-of-passage ceremony you witnessed in Burkina Faso in which young men are buried underground overnight. How does that figure in your piece?A It’s about struggling to break free from your fears and inhibitions to become your highest self. “Grace” on the other hand is more of a wide-stroke dance. It’s simple like the definition of grace: getting another chance when you really don’t deserve it. Q How would you like audiences to respond to these dances?A I want them to leave feeling a sense of joy and possibility. Q What would you do if you didn’t dance and choreograph?A I might have a health food store or perhaps sell oranges — sliced in a bag — on the street. I could also do massage therapy.
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Leap of faith takes ‘Nutcracker’ dancer from car wreck to…
Atlanta Journal Constitution – Dec 1, 2006
She broke her neck pelvis tailbone left foot and suffered a delated lung. Jones has come back to dance after several months off… The wreck punctured her lung lacerated her liver and broke Jones’ pelvis left foot ribs and most ominously a vertebra in her neck. Jones’ father Harvey said that doctors told the family the injury was similar to the one that paralyzed actor Christopher Reeve. “It’s a really bad place to break it” Whitney Sue said. Family and friends from the studio soon flooded Jones’ room at Gwinnett Medical Center. Jones put up a brave front _ perhaps a little dazed from medication she told Sheppard Robson that she hoped to be back by Sunday _ but inwardly hurt. “I guess it was just disappointing” she said.
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Nutcracker’s delectable divertissements: Arabian Coffee Chinese…
Free with registration – Dance Magazine – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 1, 2006
(01-DEC-06) Dance Magazine. Though little girls everywhere dream of dancing those roles hundreds of dancers are having a blast and jacking up crowds in The Nutcrackers second-act delig.
True brit: Wayne Eagling takes charge.(English National Ballet…
Free with registration – Dance Magazine – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 1, 2006
(English National Ballet Company) –>CPYRIGHT 2006 Dance Magazine Inc. When Wayne Eagling was dancing at The Royal Ballet his statement “Ballet in Britain is boring” made headlines and lost friends. Now he can put his skills where his candor is. After directing Amsterdam’s Dutch National Ballet for 13 years Eagling has come back home to London to take the helm at English National Ballet. He succeeds Matz Skoog who quit last year because of budget disputes. Born in Canada raised in San Francisco and trained at The Royal Ballet School.