The News Review:
- Private dancers – TV & Radio – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- Natalie Bassingthwaighte’s big break
- ‘I have been told you will only get recognition posthumously. Why do…
- Patti LuPone visits Northport en route to ‘Gypsy’
- Hayes Hotel memories – Michigan News Updates Photos & Video |…
- Q&A: HARVEY FIERSTEIN
Private dancers – TV & Radio – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Mar 23, 2008
Or the academic whodrops the footnotes when she becomes a ballroom dancer. Dance mania is sweeping the suburbs of Melbourne fuelled bygrowing numbers of harried workers seeking fun escapism andhot-blooded passion on a shiny floor. Name your style – tap salsaswing jive hip-hop ballroom ballet or break dance – and chancesare you can find a class round the corner. In the past five yearsthe number of Yellow Pages online searches for dance tuition hasmore than doubled. A recent survey by Galaxy Research commissioned by Optus asponsor of Channel Ten’s So You Think You Can Dancereveals that dance classes are enjoying a huge surge in popularityamong 18 to 29-year-olds. Anna Achia the glamorous mistress of Anna’s Go-Go Academy inCollingwood is a firm believer in the cure-all powers of dance.
Natalie Bassingthwaighte’s big break
NEWS.com.au – Mar 23, 2008
article-tools –> March 23 2008 12:00am SHE”s already swung from soap starlet to sassy singer now Natalie Bassingthwaighte has added live TV to the mix. Is there anything this girl can¿t do? Had your working week seen you shuttle between your mid-renovation Melbourne home and your TV-presenting job in Sydney front an internationally successful electro-pop outfit and pen tunes for your solo album (as well as put finishing touches to an inspirational self-help book for teenage girls) you’d be tearing your hair out too. So You Think You Can Dance Australia (SYTYCDA) host Rogue Trader former-Neighbours star and aspiring author Natalie Bassingthwaighte certainly is but not for the reasons you might think. As an exuberant Bassingthwaighte emphasises a particular point she nods her head so vigorously one of her honey-blonde hair extensions detaches and flings itself unceremoniously onto the table. For a nanosecond there’s an embarrassed pause before she shrieks with laughter scoops up the offending artifice and stuffs it into her pocket. “Maybe I can sell it on eBay if times get tough” she jokes. Unlikely given her current profile… Unlikely given her current profile. Having landed this year’s plum role on Australian TV as host of Network Ten’s hugely successful local version of the US reality dance show Bassingthwaighte has added live TV-presenting to her already impressively full résumé. “I’d just moved to LA when I was asked if I’d like to do Dance” she recalls composure regained after her hairstyle malfunction. “I was totally into concentrating on Rogue Traders and trying to line up acting work in the US so I wasn’t sure. Live TV was so far out of my comfort zone but that was part of the appeal. ”Initially concerned that having successfully made the difficult transition from soap to pop star she might be pushing her luck somewhat to add TV host to the mix Bassingthwaighte says “I thought where will this lead? In 10 years will I have my own version of Mornings with Kerri-Anne?Is that what I am now a TV host?”However reassured by the fact SYTYCDA producers didn’t want a typical host but someone who could really connect with the dancers Bassingthwaighte signed on. “I’ve been in their shoes wanting a career in this industry so badly you can’t sleep at night” she recalls.
‘I have been told you will only get recognition posthumously. Why do…
Calcutta Telegraph – Mar 23, 2008
Baba was proud as only fathers can be of their sons getting the first Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1995 at Rashtrapati Bhawan. And Ma was as misty eyed as mothers are wont to be when the President conferred their 59-year-old with the Padma Shri. The only time they told him to take a break from dance was when he went to Mumbai to study economics. “I played along. Then when the urge to dance became a passion I told Baba Na. I had to get out” he says. A performance by the American Murray Lewis Dance Company was his eureka moment marking the beginning of a search for his own method.
Patti LuPone visits Northport en route to ‘Gypsy’
Newsday – Mar 23, 2008
The reversible fur is accessorized with a matching maroon stole and red suede boots. It’s the sort of outfit that would be perfect for a 40th high school reunion if that milestone hadn’t been notched a year or so earlier. A young woman passing by Skipper’s Pub recognizes LuPone who graduated from Northport High School in 1967 and has returned on something of a nostalgia trip to break up a weekend of rehearsals for “Gypsy” which she’ll open Thursday on Broadway. You’re Patti LuPone… In swift fashion tap jazz and ballet classes followed with the Andres Dance Company in Huntington. The Andres turned the LuPone kids into the LuPone Trio booking them to perform at Kiwanis and Rotary clubs across Long Island. These experiences would form the basis for what came later: dance classes with. Orlando LuPone always wanted his kids to become teachers. After his divorce from Patti’s mother in 1961 the kids’ path to a show-business career was opened.
Hayes Hotel memories – Michigan News Updates Photos & Video |…
MLive.com – Mar 23, 2008
Hotel Hayes Development would purchase it for $5000 and renovate it for use by office and retail tenants. As developers walk around the building they break through drywall revealing peeks into the hotel’s history. There’s a grand foyer with gold medallions on the walls marble floor runners and raised detailed paneling and terrazzo floor tiles on the grand staircase. Bruce Inosencio the project’s principal agent said the carpet that now covers the foyer’s marble steps will be removed and the marble polished. “I think it is exciting that we can be apart of bringing that building back to its original luster” Inosencio said. The Ludwigs met in the Drum Room one evening in 1975 Georgia Ludwig said… “I think it is exciting that we can be apart of bringing that building back to its original luster” Inosencio said. The Ludwigs met in the Drum Room one evening in 1975 Georgia Ludwig said. They were both meeting their friends after work for drinks and dancing. “He thought I was really stuck up” she said. “I thought he was a cocky kind of person. “One thing led to another he asked me to dance and we just spent the night talking and dancing. ” They were married in 1977.
Q&A: HARVEY FIERSTEIN
New York Post – Mar 23, 2008
" "You don't grow out of the Mets. They play just well enough to break your heart. They don't play well enough to win – but to get your hopes up so they can break your heart. They're like all men. ""I love a great dance number I love a great production number but empty calories are empty calories. I need something more! Growing up I saw shows like 'The Sound of Music' and 'Oliver. ' As trite as they now seem I was moved.