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- ut and Aboutski: Do you love me now that I can dance?
- King of the Power Kick
- Concert Preview: Brooklyn dance-punk band Rapture bounces back with…
- … challenges in the dance class: the dynamic atmosphere of…
- Breaking the mould: Video games music come of age
- We’re still in America right?
ut and Aboutski: Do you love me now that I can dance?
stanford.edu – Feb 1, 2007
And that is where my shameful secret comes in: For the past several years I have nursed the cherished ambition that one day I might find myself at another lame frat party sipping my Keystone Light in the corner when all of a sudden the first notes of the hot ?90s jam ?Everybody Dance Now? fill the air. Instantly I drop my cup and to my visible shock my arms shoot out in time with the notes. A circle forms around me as the chorus plays and I with a look of astonishment and delight execute a carefully choreographed series of flips twists turns and possibly a few break-dance staples. I drop to a bow as the music ends then push through the crowd pick up my discarded drink and strut out the front door a hero of the downtrodden and arrhythmic. I?ve actually tried to make this fantasy come true. At a Slav Dom party last year I asked the DJ to spin ?Everybody Dance Now? and surreptitiously sidled off to a corner waiting for my big moment. When the song finally came on I beamed threw out one arm and ? spilled my drink on the guy standing next to me.
King of the Power Kick
TIME – Feb 1, 2007
The new artistic director had opted for a contemporary version of Swan Lake and when a video screen on stage displayed the word begin nothing could have prepared the audience for the dance explosion that ensued as the worlds of ballet and techno music collided. Stewart’s dancers deconstructed the story of Prince Siegfried and his dying swan dette in T shirts wittily printed with words such as doom lust sieg and fried. But more amazing was the way they moved break-dancing from en pointe to contortionism in a choreography that really flew. ver 250 performances later Birdbrain has become a classic of contemporary dance catapulting the company onto the world stage including the hallowed Th?re de la Ville in Paris where last year ADT became the first Australian troupe invited to perform. “Dance in Europe had been dominated by very conceptual work that was physically very minimalist” explains Stewart 44 “and we came crashing through with Birdbrain which is completely maximalist from a movement point of view. 20 at Sadler’s Wells in London the extremely muscular choreographer has the chance to further shift perceptions of the body and how it should move through space when he presents the company’s 2004 work HELD.
Concert Preview: Brooklyn dance-punk band Rapture bounces back with…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Feb 1, 2007
That’s the big challenge for us. The Rapture managed to live up to it with last fall’s “Pieces of the People We Love” a third full-length that smoothed out the sound and pumped up the beat while coming off as less beholden to a bygone era. Unlike “Echoes” you could put this one on at a dance party and keep it rolling through 10 tracks. It’s partly a factor of slicker dance producers (the team of Paul Epworth and Ewan Pearson and Danger Mouse on two tracks) and more songs to choose from. “It wasn’t so much us talking about [the musical direction]” Roccoforte says “but more like having the time to write a lot of songs. We wrote like 30 songs so when it came time to record we had a lot to choose from. With ‘Echoes’ I really like that album but we only had 12 songs written so whatever we had pretty much went on the album.
… challenges in the dance class: the dynamic atmosphere of…
Free with registration – JPERD–The Journal of Physical… – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 1, 2007
–>CPYRIGHT 2007 American Alliance for Health Physical Education Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) Teaching dance can be challenging because of the unique “classroom” management situations that often arise from the dynamic nature of the content. Management is a delicate navigation of advance planning (Franklin 2006); rule setting; the establishment and implementation of daily protocols routines and interventions; and the teacher’s own presentation (Baker Lang & Lawson 2002; Freiberg 2002). In a study by Marzano and Marzano (2003) of all “variables affecting student achievement.
Breaking the mould: Video games music come of age
Livemint – Feb 1, 2007
?You?re creating music that is a huge jigsaw puzzle and its quite a magical experience? Lindsay enthused. ?Getting music to kick in at the right time is a real challenge. ?Big music hits that have come out of video games include the Motown-released B-Boy?The Soundtrack a break-dancing game for PS2 and PSP. Activision the USA?s second largest games publisher is running a listening session at the French Riviera trade fair for the third year running that it said has produced some amazing music in the past. Last year?s winner made it into Tony Hawk?s Project 8 and is also being used in the TV spot for the game.
We’re still in America right?
ESPN – Feb 1, 2007
Because of the Cuban influence no city has better coffee and cigars. Can you think of two better random strengths for a city than cigars and coffee?6. For bachelor party or male bonding purposes not only are the strip clubs supposedly fantastic (I’m basing this on word of mouth — I am now terrified to go to strip joints after a friend told me he got a lap dance from a stripper who had the same name as his baby daughter) but the women here are beautiful and I have now revised my “What I should have done but nobody ever told me to do it” game. Do you ever spend inordinate amounts of time thinking about stuff like “Why didn’t anyone stop me when I decided to spend four years of my life attending an Irish-Catholic college in Massachusetts with 30-degree weather and 20-mph winds?” Well I definitely would have gone to college in Southern California (a place like University of San Diego which even offers a six-week winter break) and I definitely would have lived in Miami for a couple of years. And probably entered alcohol rehab at some point… Can you think of two better random strengths for a city than cigars and coffee?6. For bachelor party or male bonding purposes not only are the strip clubs supposedly fantastic (I’m basing this on word of mouth — I am now terrified to go to strip joints after a friend told me he got a lap dance from a stripper who had the same name as his baby daughter) but the women here are beautiful and I have now revised my “What I should have done but nobody ever told me to do it” game. Do you ever spend inordinate amounts of time thinking about stuff like “Why didn’t anyone stop me when I decided to spend four years of my life attending an Irish-Catholic college in Massachusetts with 30-degree weather and 20-mph winds?” Well I definitely would have gone to college in Southern California (a place like University of San Diego which even offers a six-week winter break) and I definitely would have lived in Miami for a couple of years. And probably entered alcohol rehab at some point. Great shopping and great restaurants.