The News Review:
- Rubberbandance bends boundaries with flair
- 2 cities reunite as Spoleto dances in
- Creek fest celebrates 20 years: Festival evolved from community creek…
- Tap Dogs from Down Under are here to well tap dance
- Area deaf students step into some cool moves – Pittsburgh Tribune…
- The mob’s gone hip-hop
- Britney Spears goes cruising
Rubberbandance bends boundaries with flair
Charleston Post Courier – May 26, 2007
I was in the hip-hop clubs. ” Quijada’s answer was to meld aspects of classical ballet hip-hop break dance and other types of contemporary movement. “I also started thinking of the way that dance can change lives” he says. “As a young teen I was in my own little Mexican-American world and then I discovered that life is a dance that balances the causes and effects of our actions. “He named his group Rubberbandance because he wanted it to stretch and bend the boundaries of genres of dance he explains. “I was lucky to be in Montreal because the government gives much more support to new arts groups there than in the United States” Quijada says.
2 cities reunite as Spoleto dances in
Charleston Post Courier – May 26, 2007
“To the delight of the crowd baritone John Hancock who performs in the Spoleto opera “Faustus” sang the national anthem of Italy in Italian and then performed “The Star Spangled Banner” in English. Brunini’s speech was delivered in Italian and translated by College of Charleston assistant professor of Italian Giovanna DeLuca. In closing the Rubberbandance Group bounced onto the stage performing a balletic break dance in jeans and sneakers to the elegant music of Verdi’s “The Traviattle” blending the old and the new. Menotti would have loved it.
Creek fest celebrates 20 years: Festival evolved from community creek…
Broomfield Enterprise – Broomfield Enterprise (subscription) – May 26, 2007
at the ponds on the west side of Sixth Street and Canyon Boulevard. Take a break and listen to some storytelling with Kaelin Smith at 2:15 p. at the Kids’ Stage. Get down to the 8traC funk band at 4:30 p… Watch the Airborne Dance Team at 2 p. at the Community Dance Stage. Rock out to The Wendy Woo Trio at 6:30 p.
Tap Dogs from Down Under are here to well tap dance
Ahmedabad Newsline – May 26, 2007
Hailing from the steel town of Newcastle near Sydney founder and industrial machinist Dein Perry and his group of working men started training in a backyard with few opportunities to take up dancing full-time. “Dein and I started under personal tutors since the age of five. Having learned traditional tap dance we made it entirely our own which is heavy and technique based. ur experience at the construction site serves as a backdrop” says Sheldon his brother… js’>After getting a break in Sydney’s 42nd Street Dein started his own company injecting the choreography with industrial themes. The unusual setting and powerhouse performance earned Dein two consecutive livier Awards for Best Choreography in 1995 and 1996. “We call it the 75-minute reinvention of tap. It’s not Riverdance or 42nd Street. It’s a combination of our story and rock ‘n’ roll.
Area deaf students step into some cool moves – Pittsburgh Tribune…
Tribune Review – May 26, 2007
I was really impressed how great they were” said Don Rhoten superintendent of the 207-student school. “When they see ‘Dancing with the Stars’ or ‘So You Think You Can Dance?’ they need to know that they can do it too. About a year ago Emily Erny an instructor at Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Monroeville started volunteering at the school teaching the students some dance moves. story continues below”I didn’t really know what to expect” Erny said. “But they do such a good job. The difficult part is getting all of their attention at once. Erny never had taught a deaf person to dance before and doesn’t speak American Sign Language but she found ways to communicate… Finally the sixth-graders took the stage. Wearing rhinestone-studded jean jackets and baseball caps they followed a choreographed hip-hop with some freestyling. Two boys brought the biggest cheers when they started break dancing with moves that included “The Worm” in which the dancer undulates on the ground much like a wiggling worm. Mike Weber 10 a fourth-grader from Forest Hills said he really enjoyed learning to dance and was excited to perform for his parents. When asked if he liked dancing with the girls Weber made clear that he has a lot in common with his hearing peers. Shrugging his shoulders he hesitated just a little before signing his answer: “No.
The mob’s gone hip-hop
NEWS.com.au – May 26, 2007
Inside looks like organised chaos but the sound coming out has the place jumping. ABC-TV’s Message Stick program is filming youngsters rapping and at the middle of it is Luke ‘Sullivan who looks like a professor-hippie mix with wild hair and beard amid computers and leads and mics. When he finally takes a break the classically trained musician says: "The festival doesn’t just come to town for one day and blow out again. For months kids are taught so they gain a real musical skill. This is the best indigenous music festival in the country. "He said the vital ingredient was ownership. The indigenous community in Inala owns it… " Uncle Kevin who has worked all over Queensland from driving massive coal trucks to working for SEQEB for 25 years praised the Inala elders. "They really have dealt with the politics and obstacles and knockers to make it happen. "We’re sitting talking in the Inala elders centre as a dance troupe called Little Ladeez are polishing their traditional Stylin’ Up routine. Uncle Kevin’s old eyes are shining with delight. "This is why we do it. To give kids some hope. "Then his face softens and the smile disappears briefly.
Britney Spears goes cruising
chinadaily.com.cn – May 26, 2007
The singer enjoyed a 60 minute cruise aboard a yacht with sons Sean Preston and Jayden JamesWith sons Sean Preston and Jayden James in tow Britney dressed in a pink sundress boarded the yacht in California’s Marina Del Rey and soon stripped off to reveal a sexy pink and green polka dot bikini. The recently divorced star who was reported to have handed $1million in a divorce settlement to ex-husband Kevin Federline seemed relaxed as she enjoyed the one hour cruise drinking cocktails and sunbathing as the yacht cruised in Marina Del Rey California.