May 2008
Jun 12, 2008
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Apr 22, 2008
The Back Page: Richard H. Blake, A Broadway Baby Comes of Age
George Balanchine very much admired Fred Astaire. David Howard says that Eleanor Powell was the best dancer ever. Why do two prominent figures in the ballet world speak so highly of tap dancers?
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Apr 22, 2008
Beauty is as Beauty Does: A review of Diana Vishneva “Beauty in Motion” at New York City Center!
Taking a pure cut diamond and placing it in a ten-cent store setting is as much a sacrilege as making a glorious ballerina dance in unworthy choreography.
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Apr 22, 2008
Kansas City Ballet Celebrates 50 Years
Myself a Midwestern transplant, I watched the Kansas City Ballet’s 50th Anniversary program at the Joyce Theater in New York City with pleasure and solidarity.
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Apr 22, 2008
Passing Strange: An autobiographical musical journey traveling from a downtown success to a Broadway rave!
Stew’s relationship with his glasses was one of the mesmerizing features of “Passing Strange,” his upbeat musical that garnered rave reviews in New York after opening at the Belasco Theatre in March.
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Apr 22, 2008
DVD Corner Reviews
There was a time when legendary ballerinas silently gazed up from photographs in the pages of dance history books. Praise and acknowledgement made it easy to know who had outlasted time.
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Apr 22, 2008
The Sous-Sus Chef: All Natural Lean Beef A Great Protein Choice
Protein provides energy for active bodies, is a great brain food, reduces cravings, builds muscles, repairs damaged body tissue and improves mood. It helps regulate body fluids during...
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Apr 22, 2008
Conditioning and Cross-Training for Dancers: Oh, those feet!
Dancers are proud of their good posture – or of what they have been taught is good posture for dancers. Depending on what form their dance expression takes, this can assume widely varying forms.
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Apr 22, 2008
The Contagious Passion of Debbi Dee
In 2002, Oklahoma City University awarded honorary doctorates to nine legendary tap dancers. The “Doctors of Dance”...
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Apr 22, 2008
Chicago, Illinois – Historical and Happening
Chicago, Illinois, like any big city, has its share of famous sites and infamous people, its list of disasters and triumphs. There was the infamous Mafia boss Al Capone, America’s best known gangster
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Apr 22, 2008
Jason Samuels Smith: Tapping Into History
Jason Samuels Smith is a 27-year-old tap dance phenomenon inspired by legends both near and far. Raised in New York City’s Broadway Dance Center, Smith was introduced to dance by...
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Apr 21, 2008
No Rules, Just Dance: The Lombard Twins, Teaching Tap on Their Own Terms
In the 1980s in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a pair of bright-eyed identical twins huddled around a tiny black and white television set. They had to hit it with their fists just to make it work.
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Apr 21, 2008
Crunch
We’re not talking crudités. It’s the economy! And it affects everyone, not just homeowners who are having trouble meeting their mortgage payments. Credit is tighter.
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Apr 21, 2008
Making a Difference Through Dance
As conscionable artists, dancers understand the power of their influence on issues as far-reaching as politics, health, civil rights and prejudice.
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Apr 21, 2008
Teachers Talk: Tap Never Went Anywhere
Just what do you construe from the above title? Do you think I mean that tap never quite made its mark in the dance world? Or perhaps that tap is passé, obsolete, behind the times and down right old-fashioned?
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Apr 21, 2008
Master Class with Anthony Morigerato
“All teachers have a responsibility to keep being students,” explains Anthony Morigerato, one of the most sought after tap teachers on the competition circuit today.
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Apr 21, 2008
On The Record: Twenty-First Century Tap
Mark Yonally admits that, as a young dancer growing up in Kansas City, he was “something of a snob” about his dancing. “As a pure rhythm tapper, my focus was on my sound, not on my presentation,” he says.
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Apr 21, 2008
Lisa La Touche Performs in China with Chicago Human Rhythm Project
Canadian dancer Lisa LaTouche spent three days in Beijing, China doing media promotion for Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s “JUBA! Masters of American Tap” production...
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Apr 21, 2008
Gus Giordano
Founder and Director of Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, author, legendary choreographer and one of the fathers of American jazz dance passed away quietly in Chicago on Sunday, March 9 from pneumonia. He was 84.
