The News Review:
- TV Recap: Dancing With The Stars
- ‘Dancing With the Stars’ results: Who’s out?
- William & Mary students attempt to break Thriller record
- Choreographers Reveal a ‘Last Collaboration’
- NASCAR PETA officials playing a game of chicken
- Spring Break is not a break at all for this parent
TV Recap: Dancing With The Stars
Gay Wired
All of which led me to begin rethinking taking dance classes at that new place in West Hollywood (where Shawn and her partner Mark Ballas practice). Next up Natasha Bedingfield sang Soulmate and I cried like a baby for ten minutes. After the commercial break dancers from an upcoming Broadway show Burn the Floor performed – sort of a Moulin Rouge meets Chicago. Dramatic music and lighting effects saved Chuck and Julianne Melissa and Tony and Shawn and Mark. And we went to a break.
‘Dancing With the Stars’ results: Who’s out?
Baltimore Sun
The reprise of the evening is last night’s group dance of course which was goofy but a lot of fun at the same time. Then there’s a montage about how many calories the stars burn and what they could eat as a result followed by a performance by Natasha Bedingfield. Lacey Schwimmer and Dmitry Chaplin dance during the song and it’s lovely. After the break the Macy’s Stars of Dance performance seems to have begun already. Is it just me or have there been a lot more problems with the cues on these live shows this season? Anyway as a result I have no idea what group this is. Anybody else know?Results! Chuck Wicks and Julianne Hough are safe.
William & Mary students attempt to break Thriller record
William and Mary News
When the final count was announced after the official recording took place the dancers and bystanders roared in excitement. Before they could make history however there was a tremendous amount of work that needed to be done. “You see these videos on the internet of hundreds of people doing the Thriller dance but none of them went through the official procedure to get it listed in the Guinness Book of World Records” Dua explained. “In order for it to count you have to go through their process carefully. ”In addition to keeping a ledger of all participants and making sure no one participated without signing it first volunteers made sure that no dancer left early without first crossing their names off the list. The 242 dancers were divided equally in quadrants and kept in relatively straight lines. Several cameras were set up at different angles around the Sunken Garden to capture each section so that when the Guinness Book of World Records reviews the videos they can remove dancers from the official count they feel didn’t perform Thriller correctly.
Choreographers Reveal a ‘Last Collaboration’
New York Times
We do get snippets of her sensibility. These come mostly through a voice-over reciting her various thoughts on performance and her search to find and then transcend her own way of moving as she assimilated both classical Japanese traditions and the radical postmodern experimentation of Judson Dance Theater in New York. This search is also clear in little dance vignettes whose spare aesthetic combines the pedestrian (walking and jogging for example) and the classical (beautifully curving and controlled arms small steps in which the heel touches first and rocks forward to the toes). Beyond that an individual voice is not so apparent. Nor do the short original dances thrown into the mix and often upstaged by Mr. Wilson’s heavy-handed lighting scheme seem more than incidental glosses in their broad juxtapositions of East and West. Like those strange little videos Ms.
NASCAR PETA officials playing a game of chicken
Greensboro News Record
It’s a showdown of more than a bunch of capital letters. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals want to prevent the crowd at Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway from joining the "Guinness Book of World Records. "Talladega is planning on breaking the world record for the most people to do the chicken dance at the same time. PETA doesn’t have an issue with that. The problem for PETA though is that the attempt is being sponsored by fast-food restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken a nemesis of PETA. PETA President Ingrid Newkirk wrote Guinness officials urging them not to recognize the record-breaking attempt at Talladega. "In the past Guinness has rightly stated that it will ‘not accept records based on the killing or harming of animals’ " Newkirk writes.
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Spring Break is not a break at all for this parent
Gilroy Dispatch
I puncture the basketball and allow all the kids into the house. Afternoon update: Apparently all children in neighborhood are here practicing with the cast of “Stomp the Yard” for a dance off. I now have massive headache and am wondering how much aspirin is too much?Spring Break Day 7: Junior has friend over for play date. Am reminded repeatedly that he is a teenager and I should never say the words “play date” again. Apparently playing basketball watching video games and going to the movies is now boring and there is NTHING T D.