The News Review:
- Breaking records: live Dance Theatre honors break-dancing master
- Altec Lansing’s Flagship Products Set Sail
- US stars pushing America to dance to Europe’s beat
- Come out and celebrate life of Michael Jackson in Whittier
- Canadian actor gleeful about Glee
- The Watcher: ‘Dancing With the Stars’ ready to rumba
Breaking records: live Dance Theatre honors break-dancing master
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
When people think of break dancing do they imagine youngsters “battling” in an urban playground? r the professional dancer spinning on his head in a 30-second TV spot?Break dancing is all that — and more. As the annual Shore Dance festival concludes this weekend at Algonquin Arts in Manasquan it will showcase the way break dancing a widely popular dance form is becoming a serious art. Tomorrow the live Dance Theatre from Philadelphia will offer the premiere of “Swift Solos” a multimedia dance-theater piece celebrating the achievements of hip-hop veteran Ken Swift an original member of the pioneering Rock Steady Crew. The program was created with the help of an “American Masterpieces” grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. As break dancing develops into a historical style programs like “Swift Solos” are taking it off the international competition circuit and treating it as a form of theater.
Altec Lansing’s Flagship Products Set Sail
Twice
The iPhone-certified system is also the company’s first portable iPod speaker system to be positioned in name and styling as a digital boombox. It will be promoted through break-dance parties and an online breakdance competition said Bernice Cramer senior VP of product marketing and management. The flagship PC speaker system the $199-suggested MX6021 Expressionist Ultra is priced like its three-way predecessor but adds multiple features including triamplification higher power at 200 watts RMS and a larger subwoofer driver at 6. 5 inches said senior product manager Don Milks.
US stars pushing America to dance to Europe’s beat
Reuters
‘DISGUISING’ DANCE MUSIC In the United States dance music is classified as electronic and accounts for 1 percent of sales according to The NPD Group while in Britain dance music makes up 8 percent of sales according to British music industry group BPI. “In America it’s always difficult for ‘dance’ music to be popular in the mainstream” said Keith Caulfield a music analyst with Billboard. “Songs that are dance orientated have always been popular it’s just that dance often has to be disguised in different kinds of ways for it to break through. “When I look at our current Hot 100 chart there’s a lot of songs that strike me as a dance song but dance has taken different forms in order to reach the masses” he said. singer “Lady Gaga has been so successful and to American ears she is pop dance music.
Come out and celebrate life of Michael Jackson in Whittier
Whittier Daily News
The event will take place a day after Michael Jackson’s birthday and will be a tribute to honor the King of Pop. The show includes 120 dancers 42 different numbers and acts amazing lighting and effects with DJ Stevo of Hispanic Panix Productions. A variety of dances; hip-hop flamenco zuma samba salsa merengue jazz ballet belly dance break dance and show production will be featured along with the performance of a special guest “reggaeton” artist. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at Studio Danza 13015 Bailey St. and at the front door at the Whittier Community Center Theatre. For information call Studio Danza at (562) 777-4944. Advertisement yld_mgr.
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Canadian actor gleeful about Glee
Canada.com
He had a recurring role on Kyle XY and appeared briefly in Smallville Supernatural Flash Gordon and Stargate SG-1. Glee follows the emotional paths of aspiring underdogs trying to better themselves in a high-school dance choir and find their way in life. Glee has alternately been described as High School Musical-meets-Election and a post-modern update of Fame reinvented for the Jonas Brothers age. Monteith has his own original take on one of the fall season’s more talked-about new dramas though: "It’s like High School Musical has been punched in the stomach and had its lunch money stolen" he said. Monteith chatted with a handful of reporters just moments after finishing his final scenes in Glee’s last episode of the season. Although Glee’s season has yet to air — Glee’s official premiere is Wednesday Sept.
The Watcher: ‘Dancing With the Stars’ ready to rumba
CRegister
That also tells us which professional dancers most of whom are now more famous than their “celebrity” partners will be earning $5200 a week this fall. The entire slate of professionals from season eight will be back minus Julianne Hough. Julianne had said earlier that she would be taking a break from “DWTS. ” She had planned to miss season eight too until boyfriend Chuck Wickes was cast as one of the “stars. “Season nine’s extra-long slate of 16 stars demands four additional professionals. ne will be Anna Demidova whom we selected during last season’s contest. The others are familiar faces: Alec Mazo who last appeared in season seven and Louis Van Amstel and Anna Trebunskaya both missing since season six.