The News Review:
- Baker meets the hip-hop era
- Hip Hop classes
- WMUD on Your Chandler Dial
- Brigid wraps up her spring break in paradise
- Stomp the Yard – Film Reviews – Film – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- Bethel Park’s Prime Time program for adults gives caregivers a…
- Emotions run raw in Dance Alloy’s ‘Fragile’
Baker meets the hip-hop era
Toronto Star – Apr 12, 2007
Moses enlisted her friends for Que Sera each of them a dancer with whom she’s danced or taken classes at studios such as DLM Do Dat and Street Dance Academy: Liana Lewis Kay Ann Ward Miranda Liverpool Monique Armstrong and Gigi Semajuste. She asked both Ward and Semajuste to contribute some choreography. Moses’ favourite dance style right now is House a form harks back to ’70s disco dancing and contains elements of Latin dance break-dance hip hop and gymnastics. The Banana Dance addresses issues raised in Que Sera. Moses has Baker regarding life today. "I make comments about little girls looking at BET culture saying `I don’t care if my breasts are real and my booty’s real. Nobody really cares about that nowadays as long as they’re big.
Hip Hop classes
nwipp-newspapers.com – Apr 12, 2007
Caron 18 said they have been influenced by previous dance instructors and local break dancers at the centre. However the girls took matters into their own hands and feet when the tutors left by deciding to start their own classes. “Some people were finding the break dance moves too difficult” said Caron “but they have found the hip hop brand of dancing we teach more accessible and more fun. “Caron said she finds hip hop dancing “very expressive” drawing inspiration for new moves from a variety of sources such as MTV. Her sister Maud 19 has taken her love of dancing further by studying a diploma in performing arts in Derry. The sisters stress their classes are strictly for fun but the children can showcase their skills on opportunites such as prize nights in the Station Centre. Classes for primary children aged 1-4 and 5-7 take place on Friday.
WMUD on Your Chandler Dial
Herald of Randolph – Apr 12, 2007
We’ll have country and Irish fiddle tunes" says Chandler’s Betsy Cantlin. "We won’t have break-dance but we will have a snake dance! And clogging Broadway drumming and more. Guest performers are from many area towns as well as far-reaching Burlington Washington Middlebury and Wilder. Come see and hear what this cast of 50 has prepared for you! With acts ranging in age from seven to ‘sixty-ish’ this is great entertainment for the entire family!" The Mud Season Variety Show continues to be a volunteer production that raises important funds for future Chandler programming. Sponsors are Bethel Mills Champ Radio ERA Home Town Realty Randolph Area Chamber of Commerce and Richburg Builders. Reserved seat tickets are available now by calling 728-6464 between 36 p.
Brigid wraps up her spring break in paradise
SI.com – Apr 12, 2007
Alright so although most of what happens on spring break is supposed to stay on spring break I have a few things that I’d like to leave you with. Girls are luckier than guys simply because we have the opportunity to win money for being in dance and bikini contests. Now I know that may sound like a benefit for all of the burly men in the audience but in reality with first place prizes of $150 every night and 14 hotties we could pretty much rig which of us got to win every night (and we did)! 2. You may think that a certain empire that has made its fortune on girls going crazy (wink) is awesome… Alright so although most of what happens on spring break is supposed to stay on spring break I have a few things that I’d like to leave you with. Girls are luckier than guys simply because we have the opportunity to win money for being in dance and bikini contests. Now I know that may sound like a benefit for all of the burly men in the audience but in reality with first place prizes of $150 every night and 14 hotties we could pretty much rig which of us got to win every night (and we did)! 2. You may think that a certain empire that has made its fortune on girls going crazy (wink) is awesome.
Stomp the Yard – Film Reviews – Film – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Apr 12, 2007
In 2004 we were graced with You Got Serveda tough-talking film that involved a heated dance competition. Also a lot of the sequences in Stomp look a lot like themusic video for the Run-DMC song It’s Like That where tworival dance troupes face off in a warehouse. Yet for all its cliches laboured storytelling and very straightface – can’t these stern-faced hip-hop-rapper-krumpers lighten upjust a bit? – the main thing Stomp the Yard has going forit are a stack of energetic dance sequences. It’s here directorSylvain White lets his cast truly break loose and do theirthing. [an error occurred while processing this directive].
Bethel Park’s Prime Time program for adults gives caregivers a…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Apr 12, 2007
Clair said she was able to continue working because she could trust Prime Time to help with her husband Michael 90 who needed care. Without Prime Time Mary Kulha of Bethel Park said she would have had to put her husband Michael 78 who has a form of dementia into a nursing home “much sooner than I did. ” She said her husband a retired Bethel Park teacher loved to dance and sing at Prime Time. Director Mary Ann Weber said that according to 2000 census data there were an estimated 49309 people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia in Allegheny County. The Alzheimer’s Association recently reported that more than 5 million Americans have the disease which is characterized by among other things progressive loss of memory. Prime Time is open from 8 a.
Emotions run raw in Dance Alloy’s ‘Fragile’
pittsburghlive.com – Apr 12, 2007
The program features two world premieres: Tony Award winner Donald Byrd’s “No Consolation” inspired by the 1996 death of Central Catholic High School student Brendan Foley; and artistic director Beth Corning’s “Flight” inspired by a prose poem by Norwegian Dag Straumsvag. Susan Marshall’s “Arms” completes the program. Although both premieres have points of inspiration Corning says dance is best appreciated viscerally and metaphorically. She quotes painter Francis Bacon as saying that the moment you tell a story with the painting the painting becomes boring. “Metaphor is definitely important. I don’t want to be told everything” Corning says. “You want to let these works wash over you… Byrd who won a Tony Award for “The Color Purple” was unavailable for interview. “Flight” is a stylistic departure for Corning. It was inspired by Straumsvag’s poem “Accidents” which begins “Hundreds of birds suddenly break out of a hole in the sky. “I’ve tried to make a landscape not character figures” she says. “I’ve always worked from a much more human palette of emotions. This one is surreal about balancing one’s existence between being a part of a group and ultimately what a lonely journey life is for each of us. Dance Alloy Theater’s “Fragile” presentations will be enhanced by what the company is calling “The 5-Step Program to a Healthy Dance Addiction.