The News Review:
- Andrea Mohin/The New York Times
- Should auld acquaintance be forgot?
- Mexico’s other coast: Move over Cancun
- New Zealand Horse Breeding and Racing news updated daily www.thorough…
- Tale of young love glides on ice
- Zimbabwe: Caps Utd Pair in Belgium
Andrea Mohin/The New York Times
New York Times – Dec 22, 2007
Dance appears to be moving these days from product to process and to deconstruction. But “Innaviews” is terrific entertainment beginning with the large graffiti bed designed by Garland Farwell in which Kwik-step and Rokafella wake up at the start of the show. The two dancers ur-hip-hoppers break away from the talk repeatedly to demonstrate some classic moves as they travel together through a good bit of cultural history. Their script is well written and revealing and the family album of projections designed by Ajahne (First Person) Santa Ana is vivid and classy. Dramaturgical attention is often the kiss of death in dance but Rokafella and Kwikstep have chosen the right collaborators in Gamal Chasten who directed the show and Benji Reid and Glenn Gordon who helped develop it. Best of all the two dancers recreate a tender knowing relationship onstage and make a strong case for Full Circle’s brand of hip-hop as their thriving progeny a reassuringly unruly well-tended child.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot?
The Age – Dec 22, 2007
“Oooh Sam how many sleeps until theTattoo? Excited? Got your kilt dry-cleaned and yoursporran de-fleaed? Made your shortbread? Invited all your matescalled Malcolm around?” What I don’t tell him and don’t you gotelling him is that I’m bang up for a bit of mass pipe and drumsaction myself. The only reason I’m telling you this is because I’mdrunk. Fairly soon I’ll start slurring how much I really reallyreally love you and then break out into an interpretative dance setto the music of Enjo. Or is it Enya? The Irish bird not thecleaning products. No matter how hard I attempt to create a veneer of coolsophistication I cannot help but be roused by the sound ofmilitary bands. It’s unexplainable.
Mexico’s other coast: Move over Cancun
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Dec 22, 2007
I got to a window and looked. Two dancers hovered near the floor in a low graceful embrace either in rehearsal or part of a contemporary dance class. The 130-year-old theater has a resident dance company Delfos Contemporanean and a school of contemporary dance. The hall inside which you can see for $2 during the day is a stunning performance venue all red velvet and dark ornate wood. One nearby room housed a small gallery with a long grand piano gleaming beside a window. The performance schedule is busy. I had missed La Boheme a few days earlier and Delfos Contemporanean was to perform that night… I was already worn out from marching around the plaza so I took a pulmonia for $3 and then walked the perimeter of the huge open-air covered market. I passed a newsstand selling novelas and magazines; a vendor of plastic dolls; a stand selling cold drinks; hundreds of people jostling down the sidewalk. I found a break in the crowd and darted in. Off to my right out of the corner of my eye I saw a guy who looked massive or like he was wearing something massive. I turned and saw that he had an entire cow skinned and gutted across his shoulders. I was rendered speechless and staring. I the daughter of a cattle grower finally squeaked out “Vaca?”After I walked past the pig’s heads — ears snouts and all — I hurried away from the produce department and found the bargains I expected: a great Frida Kahlo shopping bag for $4.
New Zealand Horse Breeding and Racing news updated daily www.thorough…
ThoroughbredNews.co.nz – Dec 22, 2007
?She was up against horses that had won 12 or something Group I?s? said a delighted Messara who son Paul trains the mare. Joe Janiak owner and trainer of Takeover Target thought he had been beaten on the line but he was as unperturbed as ever. ?I think that he had just hit it hard with Dance Hero? said Janiak. ?He pushed him all the way and made it home he is a gusty bugger he just not know how to get beat. ?We presumed that Dancer Hero would lead and we would sit behind him but he was fresh and he worked had all the way. ?The second horse ran a good race? he said. Janiak said that Takeover Target was looking for the 1400m of the Group II Villiers Stakes on New Years Day… Then he would need to take Takeover Target to Melbourne at some stage to fly out to Singapore en route to England and another attack on Royal Ascot?s sprints. Takeover Target would contest the $S1 million Group I KrisFlyer International Sprint (1200m) at Kranji on May 18th 2008. ?It is a great way to break the trip up for him and make it easier? he said. The trainer said that he would do some ?more pace work? with Takeover Target before the Villiers Stakes no doubt conscious that with the weight differential in the race he cannot afford to leave the horse short on fitness. ?There is a bit of improvement there yet? he said. Takeover Target an eight-year-old by Celtic Swing out of the Archregent mare Shay Stream has now won 16 of his 30 starts for stakes of $4.
Tale of young love glides on ice
Toronto Star – Dec 22, 2007
416-870-8000There’s a definite charm to giving an audience exactly what they expect and that’s one of the best parts about Disney’s High School Musical: The Ice Tour which began a 16-performance run at the Rogers Centre last night. If you’re not familiar with the entertainment juggernaut which has swept North America in the past two years you’d probably have trouble understanding the non-stop cheers that greet this production but if you’re at all clued in to the story of Troy and Gabriella and their buddies at East High you’ll probably find this the perfect staging to take your family to over the holidays. Made up of equal parts of Grease Bye Bye Birdie and old Andy Hardy films High School Musical is the kind of canny package that comes along once in a generation allowing adolescent love to flourish in an atmosphere of freewheeling song and dance. It started as a TV movie became a stage show and now has found its spiritual home on ice. Unlike some other Disney ventures that try to move from celluloid to frozen water this one has made the journey amazingly well. Part of it has to do with the fact that all the cast are allowed to perform without disfiguring character masks and it’s refreshing to encounter so many attractive young people on stage at the same time. The story is also sufficiently loose that one doesn’t mind losing some of the er subtleties of the narrative and characterization in exchange for a lot of high-energy dance routines… The story is also sufficiently loose that one doesn’t mind losing some of the er subtleties of the narrative and characterization in exchange for a lot of high-energy dance routines. Director Jeff Calhoun has decided to put both High School Musical movies on stage in the same night which means that things move along so swiftly that even if you’re stuffed with holiday goodies you still won’t have any trouble paying attention. The plot is the same: basketball jock Troy gets smitten with science brain Gabriella and it all works out for them against the background of the high school musical even though the witchy drama-queen Sharpay does her best to break things up. Act II repeats all this only this time at a summer resort and if you find the law of diminishing returns setting in on a dramatic level you’ll be compensated by some pretty thrilling skating with Jordan Brauninger’s Troy landing leap after leap that had the crowd gasping. There’s some fine evil vamping from Sandy Rucker’s Sharpay and all in all there’s enough entertainment razzle-dazzle to keep anyone happy. If you’re like me you might miss some of the original material’s sweeter moments and its overall theme of accepting everyone for what they are – be they geek or glamour puss. But there’s no denying that Disney’s High School Musical: The Ice Tour is a solid piece of entertainment and one of the slickest ice shows of its sort to play this city in years.
Zimbabwe: Caps Utd Pair in Belgium
AllAfrica.com – Dec 22, 2007
The influential CAPS United pair arrived in Belgium on Monday to start a three-week trial period at Royal Antwerp FC during which they are hoping to impress the Second Division outfit’s technical department and secure contracts. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );CAPS United operations director Farai Jere revealed yesterday that his club had released Mwanjali and Murambadoro – easily the most experienced players at Makepekepe – to try and help them break through into the professional game. Jere said they had sent the players as part of a programme in which CAPS United are reviving their technical co-operation ties with Belgian football. The CAPS United operations director said his club would as part of the deal be required to send two players to Belgium each season and they had chosen two of their best players – Mwanjali and Murambadoro – to kick-start the programme. "The two players arrived in Belgium for trials on Monday and they should be there for at least three weeks. We have re-opened the agreement which we had with the Belgians as you know CAPS United had a good working relationship with Belgians teams… The 2007 Soccer Star of the Year finalist has had an outstanding season for club and country and was captain of the Warriors when the senior side using a locally-based outfit thrashed Malawi 3-1 in an African Cup of Nations Group 12 qualifier at Barbourfields in September. Mwanjali was also one of the better players for Zimbabwe when the Warriors toured Malaysia for the Merdeka Cup tournament in September and in Vietnam for the Agribank Four-nation tournament. But for Murambadoro the trial stint at Antwerp presents the big goalkeeper with a chance to have another dance with the professional game after stints in Israel Belgium and South Africa. In fact it would be Murambadoro’s second visit to the city of Antwerp after the Warriors goalkeeper had a brief flirtation with Germinal Beerschot between June and August 2006 before returning home under a cloud. Although the imminent departure of utility player Mwanjali and Murambadoro will weaken CAPS United Jere said the former Premiership champions had begun looking for replacements. "If they make the grade we will definitely have to look for an experienced goalkeeper because at the moment we only have Tsungi Mudzamiri. "Method is also a talented and experienced player and these are experienced guys whom we will miss but there is nothing we can do life has to go on and we also have to consider the players’ career development".