23 April 2012
Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Joan Weill Center for Dance NYC April 2012 By Deborah Searle This April, Ailey II presented a mixed bill of modern and contemporary dance works for 11 nights at the Ailey Citigroup Theater. Audiences could choose from two programs, either Modern Moves or Contemporary Choices. On the evening on April 19 [...]
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06 April 2012
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center March 31 2012 By Leigh Schanfein. When was the last time you went to a school dance performance? When was the last time you even had the inclination to do so? It may have been last week, it may have been a decade since, and chances are it was because [...]
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02 April 2012
By Rebecca Martin. Dancer Stephanie Williams has gone from strength to strength since leaving The Australian Ballet in 2011 and joining Het Nationale Ballet in Amsterdam for six months before settling into her new home of New York where she is one of American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT) newest recruits. Since commencing her ballet training at [...]
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02 April 2012
La Scala dancer fired after speaking out about anorexia. By Rebecca Martin. As a ballet dancer, the pressure is always on. Get your legs up, turn more, jump higher, be thinner, be stronger, turn out, rehearse harder. We look at ourselves in full length mirrors in the studio wearing next to nothing and criticise every [...]
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02 April 2012
By Emily Cook Harrison MS, RD, LD. The Glycemic Index is a tool that gives a numerical value to a specific amount of food based on how it affects your body’s blood sugar and insulin over a specific time period. Foods with lower numbers don’t spike blood sugar as much as ones with higher numbers [...]
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02 April 2012
From “Baby Ballerina” with Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Broadway and musical theatre star, to master teacher and choreographer, Theara Ward is an industry powerhouse across many fields. In February 1982 People Magazine reported: “Theara Ward, 17, has a leg up—way up—on becoming the ballet world’s next Judith Jamison. At 120 pounds and 5’9″ (over [...]
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02 April 2012
New York’s Group Theatre Too (GTT) will honor noted choreographer, Tony Stevens at the fifth anniversary presentation of the Choreographer’s Canvas on May 10th at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center. Mr. Stevens’ choreography has been seen on Broadway and in such films as The Great Gatsby and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. He [...]
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02 April 2012
New York City Ballet’s 2012 Spring Gala on Thursday, May 10 will feature a one-time-only salute to France titled À La Française, and will feature two World Premiere ballets, one by NYCB’s Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins to a score by the French composer Marc-André Dalbavie, and the other by French-born choreographer and former [...]
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02 April 2012
By Stephanie Wolf. Dancers begin their professional careers at young ages, focused solely on the present and success. They push their bodies to extreme measures and, typically, don’t consider the dancer ‘after-life’. But, in reality, the daily grind wears the body down, limiting the longevity of a dancer’s career. What lies beyond a life of [...]
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02 April 2012
By Christine Dion of Mode Dion Even with plenty of practice and an on time arrival back stage, disasters can strike! Be prepared with this handy Check List Of Dance Bag Must Haves. If it ends up that you yourself never needs these items, rest assured that you will save the day for someone else! [...]
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