The News Review:
- Editor-At-Large: So there I was dancing for Liz the biggest by three…
- Spring break is for sharing online.
- Dance Preview: Rhoden premiere embraces jazz vibe
- Breaking away for the week.
- Hip-hop dealing with its bad rap
- Calle cho Breaks Another Guinness Dance Record
- Personal Column: Waiting in the wings
Editor-At-Large: So there I was dancing for Liz the biggest by three…
Independent – Mar 11, 2007
I learnt it was being filmed for the couple’s official wedding magazine and photographed for Hello! which has paid a fortune for the rights to the whole event. I began to get anxious. Not only was I going to be dancing in front of dozens of Indian guests who would have far higher standards than the British contingent but getting everyone together to rehearse in a hotel room in Mumbai was never going to be easy when parties didn’t end till three in the morning and there was sightseeing and shopping to be done. My bra top would have fitted an eight-year-old child and had to be sent back to the tailors. I tripped over my heavily embroidered skirt and nearly knocked out Trinny Woodall by twirling my scarf over my head. The sari I planned to wear to the Mehendi was another problem. The top wouldn’t get past my elbow and so another had to be made… No time to rehearse as I summoned assistance to get me into my sari (which I sewed on to my underwear to prevent embarrassing moments) to attend the Mehendi. By now I was carrying around little scraps of paper in my bag decorated with a series of diagrams my annotations of the routine. Given a break in the conversation I would flap my hands up and down mentally going through the moves. I must have looked like a demented Worzel Gummidge. n the day of the Sangeet I left Jodhpur early for the two-hour drive through the desert to historic Nagaur Fort. Now I had to contend with the reality of a bare stone floor manoeuvring myself around columns and bending to the floor to pick up flower petals. In the sweltering heat we went through our paces for a final hour of practice watched by bemused workmen setting out the tables and rigging up the lighting.
Spring break is for sharing online.
Free with registration – Houston Chronicle – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 11, 2007
2007 is gonna be awesome!! Anyone else going to be in Padre for ‘Texas Week’??” He received more than 130 responses to his post sparking discussions about the best places to stay dance and meet up. n Friday when he left for South Padre his goal was clear: Kick back relax and take lots of pictures and videos to post on social networking sites like MySpace YouTube and Facebook of course.
Dance Preview: Rhoden premiere embraces jazz vibe
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Mar 11, 2007
Rhoden is gaining a grass-roots popularity with ballet companies in the hunt for something different. He made his reputation with Complexions an edgy contemporary ballet group that has its roots in New York. Noted American dancer Desmond Richardson has shared the directorial duties from the start but the company’s cool vibe extends to stars such as Taye Diggs (Broadway’s “Rent” and the NBC series “Day Break”) who recently took a choreographic turn with company plus Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and New York City Ballet. As Rhoden’s reputation grew he added the Joffrey Ballet and Miami City Ballet and became resident choreographer at North Carolina Dance Theatre. The “Smoke ‘n’ Roses” premiere at the Byham Theater this week will be PBT’s fifth Rhoden work to which the company will add his “Carmina Burana” next year the largest Rhoden repertoire of any American company outside his own. “Smoke ‘n’ Roses” will match PBT’s athletic wiles with well-known Pittsburgh songstress Etta Cox. She submitted a list of favorite songs some for which she was known and others for which she would like to be known… Rhoden is gaining a grass-roots popularity with ballet companies in the hunt for something different. He made his reputation with Complexions an edgy contemporary ballet group that has its roots in New York. Noted American dancer Desmond Richardson has shared the directorial duties from the start but the company’s cool vibe extends to stars such as Taye Diggs (Broadway’s “Rent” and the NBC series “Day Break”) who recently took a choreographic turn with company plus Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and New York City Ballet. As Rhoden’s reputation grew he added the Joffrey Ballet and Miami City Ballet and became resident choreographer at North Carolina Dance Theatre. The “Smoke ‘n’ Roses” premiere at the Byham Theater this week will be PBT’s fifth Rhoden work to which the company will add his “Carmina Burana” next year the largest Rhoden repertoire of any American company outside his own. “Smoke ‘n’ Roses” will match PBT’s athletic wiles with well-known Pittsburgh songstress Etta Cox. She submitted a list of favorite songs some for which she was known and others for which she would like to be known.
Breaking away for the week.
Free with registration – Beaumont Enterprise – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 11, 2007
(11-MAR-07) Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont TX). 11–For some teens spring break means a week of alcohol beaches and sex. And while many Southeast Texas high school and college students will make fun in the sun a priori.
Hip-hop dealing with its bad rap
Roanoke Times – Mar 11, 2007
Whatever it is that anti-rap people don’t do. The Associated Press reported that for the first time in its history rap music is on the decline. Sales of rap albums plummeted 21 percent in 2006 far outpacing the overall drop in music sales. No rap album was among the top 10 sellers for the first time since 1994.
Calle cho Breaks Another Guinness Dance Record
CBS 4 – Mar 11, 2007
This year another record was broken—the Zumba record. More than 100000 people participated in the Zumba exercise routine at this year’s Calle cho breaking the world record. Dozens of dance intructors led the crowd of more than 100000 people participating in the routine. The current record is held by the Phillipines with 48000 dancers participating. Zumba is a fitness dance routine inspired by Latin dance founded by Miami-based dancer and choreographer. The name Zumba is derived from a Colombian word meaning to move fast and have funIn 1990 the festival featured the world’s biggest piñata which measured 29 feet and weighing 10000 pounds in 1990 marked in Guinness World Records. The Calle cho Street Party which was started in 1978 by the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana has grown from a small street party with hundreds attending to the expansion of 23 blocks of fun food and music… The Calle cho Street Party which was started in 1978 by the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana has grown from a small street party with hundreds attending to the expansion of 23 blocks of fun food and music. Nowadays more than one million partyers attend the event every year. Next year is the festival’s 30 year anniversary and organizers want to once again break another record with the largest number of couples in a “Rueda Casino” salsa style dance. The current record is 362 people in Singapore. (© MMVII CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Personal Column: Waiting in the wings
Independent – Mar 11, 2007
Understudies have to know the part inside out and it’s difficult because you don’t get as many opportunities to practise on stage. I watched from the side of the stage and tried to remember everything. After about six months the lead hurt her ankle and couldn’t dance and then the first understudy got sick. I was petrified when I was told but so excited. I was amazed when I went on. You can’t see the audience you can just feel them.