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What’s a Dance Theater Without an Audience?
A food pantry or a place to vote — or a place to make dance with different expectations: “What we’ve taken off the table is the pressure of the result.”
New York City Center was pulled into digital dance in a similar fashion. Stanford Makishi, the vice president for programming, said the theater had planned to present its popular Fall for Dance festi… [+1575 chars]
Brian Seibert
2021-02-09 19:18:14
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Dancing for Many Cameras, in the Round: ‘It’s Muybridge on Steroids’
Herman Cornejo is collaborating with the “photo-scientist” Steven Sebring to create an immersive onscreen dance experience.
But because the basic unit in Sebrings system is still photography rather than film, Sebring said, the process is quicker and less expensive than volumetric video. It also means he can have a small t… [+1308 chars]
Marina Harss
2021-01-26 14:27:37
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How to Work Out Quietly So Your Neighbors Won't Want to Kill You
Home workouts are convenient, but they sure can be loud. You can jump and stomp as much as you want in a fitness dance class, or even drop barbells if you’re in the right kind of gym. But at home, your downstairs neighbors or sleeping toddler might not approv…
Home workouts are convenient, but they sure can be loud. You can jump and stomp as much as you want in a fitness dance class, or even drop barbells if youre in the right kind of gym. But at home, you… [+2370 chars]
Beth Skwarecki on Vitals, shared by Beth Skwarecki to Lifehacker
2021-02-16 21:30:00
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Think Twice About 'Twerk Out' Classes
There’s never been a shortage of fad group fitness trends—from TaeBo to Zumba to pole dancing, and everything in between. A newer fad, though, is one you may want to think twice about: twerking, which has evolved from its African roots into a growing exercise…
Theres never been a shortage of fad group fitness trendsfrom TaeBo to Zumba to pole dancing, and everything in between. A newer fad, though, is one you may want to think twice about: twerking, which … [+2475 chars]
Aisha Jordan
2021-02-05 18:00:00
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From Sadler’s Wells, a Sampler of British Dance
The context of the pandemic provides “Dancing Nation” with the common themes of loss, touch and confinement.
When one door closes, another opens. During the pandemic, that maxim has acquired a corollary for concert dance: When theater doors shut, digital portals proliferate. With Britain is in another lockd… [+1403 chars]
Brian Seibert
2021-01-28 20:00:13
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Cicely Tyson’s Harlem: Dance, Jazz, Faith and Waffles
Cicely Tyson, who died in January, was famous all over the world. But her heart was at home, in Harlem.
That was the beginning of three decades of friendship.
We bonded over laughter and food she loved food! Oh, the woman could eat! Mr. Smalls exclaimed. Every bite of anything she took was like the fi… [+806 chars]
Sandra E. Garcia
2021-02-18 18:40:47
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She’s the Dancing Force Behind Nia Dennis’s Viral Gymnastics Routines
Bijoya Das, a former gymnast with a deep relationship to dance, is training U.C.L.A. team members to let their personality light up the mat.
She made the team dance, just as Das does now with her enthralling floor routines, including two viral performances by Dennis. The first, last season, was set to a Beyoncé medley. This years, inspire… [+1434 chars]
Gia Kourlas
2021-02-02 00:20:10
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Finally, Some Fashion Films Worth Watching
Not to mention clothes to wear. As seen on Michael B. Jordan in Coach, Dita Von Teese in Moschino, and a semi-dance party at Prada.
Some of them may be simple information vectors, the close-ups functioning as detail shots to reveal, say, the high plush content of the quilting on a MaxMara bathrobe coat. Some may try to dress them… [+1313 chars]
Vanessa Friedman
2021-02-26 10:00:26
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Sophie, Musician Who Pushed Pop to the Edges, Is Dead at 34
The producer and performer distilled speed, noise, melody and clarity, working simultaneously at the experimental fringes of dance music and the center of pop.
Sophie, a groundbreaking producer and performer whose music distilled speed, noise, melody, clarity and catchiness into what would soon be called hyperpop, died in Athens after an accident on Saturda… [+905 chars]
Jon Pareles
2021-01-30 15:09:39
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A Flamenco Dancer for the YouTube Generation
El Yiyo grew up in Spain’s Roma community. But it was watching Michael Jackson online, he says, that taught him to dance.
El Yiyo said he was proud of Roma culture, but that flamenco had also long been enriched by artists who were not Gypsies, like the guitarist Paco de Lucía, who also helped turn a six-sided Peruvian b… [+1330 chars]
Raphael Minder
2021-02-09 14:03:09
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Myanmar coup: Fitness instructor unwittingly films video as takeover unfolds
Recording her dance routine, Khing Hnin Wai had no idea she was filming a military takeover.
image copyrightKhing Hnin Wai on Facebook
image captionKhing Hnin Wai filmed the video on a roundabout near Myanmar's parliament complex in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw
Pumping her arms back and forth,… [+2352 chars]
https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews
2021-02-02 15:22:24
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Lego's Vidiyo is a do-it-yourself music video maker for kids
Lego and Universal Music Group (UMG) are teaming up for Vidiyo, a new set to empower kids aged seven and ten to make their own music videos. It’s a bunch of figures and blocks that, when scanned into the app, will make those characters burst into song and dan…
Lego and Universal Music Group (UMG) are teaming up for Vidiyo, a new set to empower kids aged seven and ten to make their own music videos. It’s a bunch of figures and blocks that, when scanned into… [+614 chars]
Daniel Cooper
2021-01-26 11:00:28
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Black History Month Is a Good Excuse for Delving Into Our Art
An African-American studies professor suggests ways to mark the month, from David Driskell’s paintings and Dance Theater of Harlem’s streamed performances to the rollicking return of “Queen Sugar.”
This concert series from the Boston-based collective Castle of Our Skins taking its name from Nikki Giovannis Poem (for Nina), i.e. Nina Simone will feature works by two renowned African-American com… [+1700 chars]
Salamishah Tillet
2021-02-19 06:04:18
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Rapper known for the Nae Nae dance is charged with murdering his cousin
Silentó, the Atlanta rapper known for the hit single and viral dance "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)," was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of his cousin, authorities said.
(CNN)Silentó, the Atlanta rapper known for the hit single and viral dance "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)," was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of his cousin, authorities said.
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Harmeet Kaur, CNN
2021-02-02 18:48:04
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5 Things to Do This Weekend
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually.
The classical Indian dance form Odissi is a ravishment of curves. It can seem to take the sinuous sculptures of Indian temples and animate them, deepening the bends in motion, pressing more beauty fr… [+708 chars]
2021-02-11 19:04:23
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GoT alums among announced cast for Netflix Sandman adaptation
Gwendoline Christie and Charles Dance join Tom Sturridge as Morpheus.
Enlarge/ Tom Sturridge has snagged the coveted role of Dream, aka Morpheus, in the Netflix adaptation of The Sandman.
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At long last, Netflix has announced several cast… [+6129 chars]
Jennifer Ouellette
2021-01-28 18:10:04
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Lego’s Vidiyo music video creator is silly fun, and I love it
Vidiyo is Lego’s do-it-yourself music video maker, aimed at kids between the ages of seven and ten. It was created in collaboration with Universal Music Group, which has offered up around 60-second samples of big pop hits. Essentially, you buy minifigures whi…
Vidiyo is Legos do-it-yourself music video maker, aimed at kids between the ages of seven and ten. It was created in collaboration with Universal Music Group, which has offered up around 60-second sa… [+3250 chars]
Engadget
2021-02-16 12:00:06
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'Dance will prevail' as top ballet competition goes virtual - Reuters
In a normal year, the dozens of teenaged ballet dancers eyeing the prestigious Prix de Lausanne award would leap in from all across the world to the Swiss city to compete beneath the bright lights of the theatre.
LAUSANNE (Reuters) - In a normal year, the dozens of teenaged ballet dancers eyeing the prestigious Prix de Lausanne award would leap in from all across the world to the Swiss city to compete beneath… [+1780 chars]
Denis Balibouse, Cecile Mantovani
2021-02-03 09:07:00
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Review: Seeking a Date but Finding Hypocrisy in ‘Hi, Are You Single?’
All Ryan J. Haddad wants is a boyfriend. But his pride — or is it his prospects’ prejudice? — keeps getting in the way.
I wish Hi, Are You Single? spent more time dramatizing that universal dating knot: How do you know whats categorical prejudice and whats a simple lack of attraction? I also wish the production itself… [+1183 chars]
Jesse Green
2021-02-01 02:00:05
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