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- UA dean helps kids break away from India’s sex trade
- Four Local Teens Will Star as Clara in the Washington Ballet’s …
- ‘Planet B-Boy’ documents the globalization of break dancing
- Dance Bochette holding winter event
UA dean helps kids break away from India’s sex trade
Tucson Citizen AZ
cfmANOTHER TUCSON WINNER Last year Gene Jones a 92-year-old decorated World War II bomber pilot was awarded a Purpose Prize for spearheading the Opening Minds though the Arts (OMA) program at Tucson Unified School District. He was awarded one of five $100000 awards given in 2007. OMA said director Joan Ashcraft has local professional artists teaching elementary and middle school students opera dance costume design and music. The program has been linked to improved academic achievement and has been studied as a model by groups across the nation including the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Ashcraft said OMA connects dance to math opera to language arts and instrumental music to science. More by RenÉe Schafer Horton.
Four Local Teens Will Star as Clara in the Washington Ballet’s …
Washington Post United States
area the holidays may mean no school but they definitely don’t mean rest. "I don’t think a lot of people understand ballet is really quite difficult. It is a lot of hard work and effort" said Isha McLennan 14 of Bethesda who will dance the lead role of Clara for the first time in the. In the show Clara receives for Christmas a nutcracker doll that comes to life and defends her against an army of mice. The Nutcracker then turns into a prince and travels with Clara to the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
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‘Planet B-Boy’ documents the globalization of break dancing
Oklahoma Gazette OK
Throw in evangelical missionaries the Bush years and EuroDisney and it?s easy to understand why many across the ponds are a bit tired of our crap. CORPORATE BRANDING EXPLOITATION2005 BATTLE OF THE YEARBut while many of our cultural exports are the result of aggressive persuasion through marketing and other means there are some things that cross borders and spontaneously spread more through a shared spirit of goodwill and common interest than a desire to funnel foreign currency back to the Land of Mickey Mouse. ?Planet B-Boy? a documentary about the evolution of break dancing tells the story of one such grassroots adoption of a distinctly American art form and how it has come to belong more to the world than the country that created it. The film screens Friday through Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The story centers on the Battle of the Year an annual break dancing competition held in Austria of all places. It seems odd given the capsulated history of break dancing at the front of the film. In the mid- to late 1970s disco James Brown and boredom came together in Brooklyn N.
Dance Bochette holding winter event
Florida Weekly FL
The 57-year-old downtown Fort Myers fixture has added some new courses to the standard ballet jazz tap and modern dance repertoire and will put the results on display on Saturday Dec. 13 at the winter performance. Joining the studio this year are African dance instructor Rachel Pearl and breakdance artist Ismael “Ish” Coira. Their unique styles and choreography promise to lend a new energy to this year’s show. The performance also features the ballet “Les Patineurs” (The Skaters) an old-fashioned skating party that features the school’s children dancing alongside its advanced and faculty performers. Dancers will also jump back in time for a World War II era tap number “In the Mood. ” And of course the 4-year-old baby ballerinas will pull on their tutus and delight the audience.
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