The News Review:
- How to : Break-Dance
- Celebs: A royal break up and Posh ‘hitting the dance floor’…
- Sinuous transformations make’It’s All Forgotten Now’ a…
- Celebrities show poise grit
- Giving another face to physical disabilities
- Misses who hope to be hits in Herts
How to : Break-Dance
SU – The Lantern – Apr 17, 2007
Go out on a limb and give it a try. Become the person who steals the attention in a crowded room or practice the moves in the privacy of home – it is a great cardiovascular workout after all. Tips before getting started- Become physically able to break-dance. The strength-to-weight ratio of break-dancers is substantial. – Many books and Web sites are available for extra assistance. Though the moves provided are ranked easy in level of difficulty rehearsing leads to perfection.
Celebs: A royal break up and Posh ‘hitting the dance floor’…
InTheNews.co.uk – Apr 17, 2007
The prime minister Tony Blair is himself a little tired of the blanket coverage telling BBC ne’s Politics Show that the prince and Ms Middleton should be “left alone” to “get on with their lives”. This means that other celebrities such as Victoria Beckham must do more to grab our attention and according to the Sun this means hitting the dance floor. A source at ABC told the paper that they “really want Victoria” for the hit show Dancing With the Stars adding that celeb pals Tom Cruise and Jennifer Lopez might be persuaded to come and watch. Heather Mills has reportedly enjoyed her time on the show and the programme makers are keen to get Posh for the next series. There are reports circulating about a rift between pop sensation Mika and X-Factor chief Simon Cowell. Speaking to Attitude magazine Mika said Cowell had a meeting with him a few years back and was “telling me my songs weren’t very good and that I wasn’t a songwriter”.
Sinuous transformations make’It’s All Forgotten Now’ a…
Boston Globe – Apr 17, 2007
Donovan’s talented dancers who collaboratively created much of the movement alternate between moving in their own circumscribed orbits and coming together as a community. In a couple of sections they slowly respectfully encircle a lone dancer framing her individual journey like some time-honored ritual. In other sections they break into a high-energy flurry of entrances and exits running in circles at near full speed throwing themselves into deep lunges and manic spins spiraling to the floor before sailing off into the wings. The evening’s greatest disappointment is that we don’t see more of Donovan. After the initial solo she has only one other brief intense dance midway. As the work evaporates into darkness at the end I found myself asking “Is that all?”.
Celebrities show poise grit
Canada.com – Apr 17, 2007
inc–>Celebrities show poise gritDance-floor novices refine their skills despite injuries and at least one wardrobe malfunctionGrania LitwinTimes ColonistPublished: Tuesday April 17 2007We’re into the final furlong of the three-month dancing steeplechase that has taken eight untrained unqualified and undeniable beginners and tried to turn them into dancing sensations. In 12 weeks we guinea pigs have been trying to master everything from the tango to the flamenco and that has meant dipping sliding leaping flipping and trying to stay the course despite untold obstacles — such as sprained knees torn muscles crises in confidence — and broken belt buckles. But the show must go on and besides isn’t there an old saying? Break a leg?.
Giving another face to physical disabilities
tonight.co.za – Apr 17, 2007
“It’s a mindset most people think it’s not supposed to be here. Agulhas is the creator of Encounters a dance piece created two years ago for the physically disabled. The show has received full audiences and standing ovations in Pretoria Joburg Durban and overseas in Holland. “It’s an abstract from the whole piece which shows audiences another way to encounter dance with the physically disabled” she explains. “The response was very positive and it’s been so successful. Agulhas is based at Museum- Africa in Joburg and has been working as a choreographer since 1999 but says that this is the work that stimulates her the most… “The response was very positive and it’s been so successful. Agulhas is based at Museum- Africa in Joburg and has been working as a choreographer since 1999 but says that this is the work that stimulates her the most. “It allows me to do so much more break boundaries” she says. Agulhas was inspired by Saturday morning workshops she held at MuseumAfrica which could include disabled people because the building has proper access. “Last year on International Disability Day we opened a show for people to see the possibilities and have a different audience come in” she says. “We want to show that the theatre isn’t only for able bodies and see what more openings we can allow. Agulhas speaks excitedly as the passion for her project resonates through her words top.
Misses who hope to be hits in Herts
Times 24 – Apr 17, 2007
Reporter Steve Creswell discovers that it’s not just a beauty contestTHE thought of donning skimpy hotpants to dance the Hula in front of hundreds of people is enough to make most girls (and blokes) break out in a cold sweat. But this is exactly what five of Times Territory’s budding catwalk queens will be doing in just over a month. Lydia Clarkson Harriet Metzger Sophia Constanti Sheryl Bailey and Harriet Marshall have all made it to the finals of Miss Hertfordshire 2007. All they have to do now is dazzle the panel of judges at Stevenage’s Gordon Craig Theatre on May 28 along with the other 35 finalists.