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Ten Ballets You Should Know

Blog Editor — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:23:05 +0000

Quiz: name and describe ten of history’s most famous ballets.

A Selection of This Week’s Dance Events

Blog Editor — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:51:53 +0000

Here’s a small sampling of this week’s dance events. If you’re in the right place at the right time, check these out.

How Well Do You Watch?

Blog Editor — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:15:51 +0000

We talk a lot about the time you spend on stage and the time you spend in the studio. But we should also think about our contributions to dance, not as dancers or as dance makers or as dance teachers, but as paying audience members.

Dancer Examined: Interview

Blog Editor — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:27:48 +0000

Guest blogger Will lets us into his life as a dancer and candidly answers some of the questions he often gets.

A Selection of This Week’s Dance Events

Blog Editor — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:00:16 +0000

Here’s a small sampling of this week’s dance events. If you’re in the right place at the right time, check these out.

Halloween Dance Events

Blog Editor — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:11:38 +0000

Slasher movies and ghost stories are the obvious choices of entertainment during the Halloween season. But if you want to enjoy the holiday without quite so much blood, gore, and horror, check out some of these Halloween dance events.

Background in Belly Dance

Blog Editor — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:17:25 +0000

Along with tango and Bollywood, belly dancing is one genre that has snared a lot of dance newcomers. And while this art has long interested Americans, many dancers are investigating the beginnings of belly dancing in an attempt to revive this art in a more original form.

Your Brain on Dance

Blog Editor — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:03:54 +0000

The best way to practice dance is to dance. The next best way to practice dance: watch.

New Generation of “Fame”

Blog Editor — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:13:05 +0000

For all the kids who grew up with the 1980s versions of Coco, Raul, Montgomery, and Doris, it's time to claim their own "Fame."

Teaching the New Arts Audience

Blog Editor — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:02:49 +0000

Without the real promotion of arts in college, will society replenish the shrinking, "graying audience?"