The News Review:
- MoTown in Action: ‘Legend’ enjoys break dancing homecoming.
- ‘A one and a two’ Polka!
- n their toes: Mayfield Senior School dance troupe
- Prime Partner: Winning dancer says she loves hitting the the road…
- ‘Lost’ won’t fall by wayside ABC says
- Arditti Quartet Wigmore Hall London
- Blues Cross accelerate up the league
MoTown in Action: ‘Legend’ enjoys break dancing homecoming.
Free with registration – Modesto Bee – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 26, 2007
26–Modesto native Ivan "Urban Action Figure" Manriquez doesn’t stay in one place for long. He tours the world for eight months a year — break dancing at festivals acting.
‘A one and a two’ Polka!
St. Petersburg Times – Jan 26, 2007
"You can dance to a record but a live polka band really gets you going" she said. "Besides a good band can play a variety of music – polkas waltzes and fox trots and mix up the music. "Some of the more endearing moments of the annual dance come when the hired band takes a break and gives up the stage to amateur musicians. In the past as many as 20 musicians have gathered for the impromptu jam sessions. In addition to offering folks a chance to dance the event also champions home-style Slovenian cooking which is created and served up by club members. Proceeds from the sale of food and alcohol go toward upkeep on the hall and to the club's scholarship fund. Although turnout for the winter polka dances has been fairly good in recent years Gombocs admits attendance hasn't matched what it was in its heyday some 15 years ago when tickets were sold out well in advance.
n their toes: Mayfield Senior School dance troupe
The Tidings – Jan 26, 2007
Given the nature of dance performance Shapiro has managed to arrange for various “in-house field trips” as she calls them when professionals — like from Lineage and Alvin Ailey — drop by for questions presentations and workshops. “You get to see the outside dance world” says senior Marisa Plescia taking a break in between warm-ups. Plescia says that her background was more ballet based so when the troupe was exposed to the free-flowing forms of Lineage she felt like she was seeing a new world. “That experience really helped to expand my resume” she says. Still with all the lessons rehearsals and workshops many of the Mayfield girls say that the biggest draw to participate is the friendships that often cross grades. “I feel like I belong here and have lots of friends who are different ages from me” says Plescia.
Prime Partner: Winning dancer says she loves hitting the the road…
Free with registration – Winston-Salem Journal – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 26, 2007
“I can sleep anywhere” she said. “Sleeping on a bus is as good as sleeping in a hotel room. ” Burke has become a familiar face to dance fans as the partner to the past two winners of TV’s Dancing With the Stars. She will bring her sparkle sass and sizzling dance moves to the Greensboro Coliseum on Saturday night as part of “Dancing With the Stars — The Tour”. Burke will once again team with Drew.
‘Lost’ won’t fall by wayside ABC says
News & bserver – Jan 26, 2007
The network has been criticized by fans for running six “Lost” episodes last fall then breaking for almost three months before resuming the series next month for 16 straight weeks. McPherson said he believes that the next season will run for 22 consecutive weeks either in the fall of 2007 or the spring of 2008. Production requirements and scheduling necessities caused ABC to break up the series this season he said. ABC also said it will present a fourth season of “Dancing With the Stars” its hit ballroom-dance competition on Monday nights beginning March 19. The network decided not to schedule the competition installments of the series directly against “American Idol” which runs on Tuesday nights although the results show for “Dancing” will be seen at 9 p. on Tuesday going up against at least a portion of “Idol” on some nights… McPherson said he believes that the next season will run for 22 consecutive weeks either in the fall of 2007 or the spring of 2008. Production requirements and scheduling necessities caused ABC to break up the series this season he said. ABC also said it will present a fourth season of “Dancing With the Stars” its hit ballroom-dance competition on Monday nights beginning March 19. The network decided not to schedule the competition installments of the series directly against “American Idol” which runs on Tuesday nights although the results show for “Dancing” will be seen at 9 p. on Tuesday going up against at least a portion of “Idol” on some nights. As for future serial shows McPherson said that the experience of the network’s current season with several bad showings for new serials indicated that audiences have a limited ability to absorb such shows.
Arditti Quartet Wigmore Hall London
guardian.co.uk – Jan 26, 2007
Dusapin’s work (a UK premiere) was inspired by Beckett’s early novel Mercier et Camier and is as expansive and ruminative as the Ferneyhough is terse and tense. Starting out with a dreamy dialogue between top and bottom the two violins against the viola and cello it never really goes anywhere but does so in a rewarding pleasantly discursive way. Luca Francesconi’s fourth quartet I Voli di Niccolo (another UK premiere) buries fragments of Paganini in virtuoso writing that constantly seems about to break into rustic dance. In the context of this programme Gyorgy Kurtag’s Moments Musicaux still less than two years old took on the status of a classic. The Arditti played the six little pieces with fabulous concentration making every silence speak volumes but then their command of every challenge this programme threw at them was astonishing.
Blues Cross accelerate up the league
Bedford Today – Jan 26, 2007
It all started to go wrong for Cranfield on 12 minutes when Vasco Diaz retaliated to a bad tackle and was sent off after aggressively pushing the culprit away. Ten-man Cranfield held on until the 32nd minute when Ian Thorne tapped in at the back post. Three more goals followed before the break with Louis Lee Lee Downham and Bobby Dance all netting with two looking suspiciously off-side. Cranfield put up little resistance in the second half with further goals coming from Simon Drury on 57 minutes Ryan Nicholl 60 Dance 73 Adrian Hemmell 80 and Daniel Pomeroy 84.