Children ages 8-14 who are enrolled in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program can attend Ballet Idahos first program during summer vacation July 14-18. The program is offered as a creative and educational activity at no charge, targeting kids that might not otherwise have the opportunity. Within a...
By Rachel Meador A local dance company renowned for creating dance in unexpected territory has combined the choreography and vision of classically trained ...
A street cleaner who pops dance moves like Michael Jackson and spins litter into the bin with Fred Astaire-like flair has won himself thousands of intenet ...
Inspired by television hits Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance, Central Floridians are taking to the dance floor for fun and fitness. ...
The Conservatives would give communities more power to block the opening of lap-dancing clubs. Councils should be able to decide whether such venues are ...
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 23, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Board of Trustees of Ballet Oklahoma announced its decision to remain independent from Tulsa ...
“I feel very honored and … really excited to be representing the US for this,” said Wright, who’s been dancing since she was 9 years old and said this will ...
Well, then, maybe you should go dancing. It worked for Janet Carlson. Carlson, the beauty and health director at Town & Country magazine, has written a book ...
What initially drew you and Phoenix Rep to Ionesco and to THE LESSON in particular? AMY WAGNER:Our company was looking to build a repertory within our season and we had already decided that the other half of the rep would be Jean Anouilh’s Antigone. We wanted to create an evening of comical one-acts that would compliment that tragedy, and immediately thought of The Lesson. It seemed a perfect way to celebrate the versatility of French drama in the twentieth century. We were all familiar...
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I’ve been to the launch of ‘Edutainment’ and the National Conference that coincided with the DCMS/Arts Council publication of ‘Our Creative Talent: The voluntary and amateur arts in England.’ I’m not going to tell you everything in this one post though. I’ll break it down into manageable chunks, just like I do with those woofing great big bars of Galaxy …first off though, a few observations noted along the way. Hubby suggested driving in with him, which meant he did the school run with me...
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It’s bright, very bright! Wear sunglasses. I felt like I’d been shrunk and dropped into a packet of Dolly Mixtures! It’s a also an entertaining, fun night out, with awesome vocal talent on show, not just from the leads. With a serious underlying message there’s no preaching but instead some terrific cheeky lines that had us all ROTFLourAO! It appeared to be group booking night and we in the audience couldn’t contain ourselves, whopping and jumping out of our seats on occasion. Just the...
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The plan of action was to hear a few opening speeches from representatives of interested bodies, followed by breakout sessions and finally, a panel discussion, where members of the audience had free reign to quiz the panel. Think ‘The Friday Night Project’, but less comfortable! Mark Robinson, Executive Director of Arts Council England, North East, was very entertaining, as was Robin Simpson, Chief Exec of the Voluntary Arts Network, who incorporated a surprising twist on the Wizard of Oz...
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To coincide with the Olympics, the cultural Olympiad will run from 26th - 28th September 2008 to the end of the 2012 Paralympic Games. It has been created to inspire the UK’s young people to use culture and creativity to fulfil their potential. Underpinned by the core values of ‘Welcoming the World’ ‘Inspiring Young People’ and ‘Delivering a Legacy’, there will be an eight minute handover from Beijing to London on 24th August and this will be marked by events around the country. Among the...
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I follow the sounds of whistle and drums from the car park and am just in time to Samba along the High Street with Bloco Fogo. Lovely to meet up with Marilyn again; haven't seen her for ages, since Weight Watchers coincides with the writing group coffee morning. We wander along to the Capoeira workshop, to offer our support to a friend taking part. There are spaces available but unlike a certain Mr Jones on Blue Peter, I'm not brave enough to take part, so I content myself with taking the...
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It was lovely to meet fellow case studies Penelope, Gil, Stanley and the author of Edutainment, Paul Devlin from Voluntary Arts England. Finding that Penelope and I have mutual acquaintances and with emails being fired back and forth between myself and Paul in the run up to the launch, we were immediately all at ease and chatting like old friends. The evening began with performances from an excellent school group playing the bongos and a drama group – one girl was the spit of Cate Blanchett...
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