Modeled after Gelabert’s “Son Amar” dinner-theater show in Majorca, Spain, and housed in a former Toys R Us building that cost $20 million to buy and renovate, Battle of the Dance represents the latest in an increasing number of live dance events, tours and competitions that have sought to capitalize on the art form’s arrival into the zeitgeist.
Tag: 03.10.11
More Video Of NPR Exec
The new video includes recordings of phone conversations between NPR executive Betsy Liley and an activist posing as a member of a phony group with ties to the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. The two discuss the logistics of a potential $5 million donation from the group to NPR and the ways in which it could be kept anonymous and shielded from government scrutiny.
Prima Ballerina Cynthia Gregory On Dancing And Working In Vegas
People would ask me to help them with a role when I stopped dancing. They’d commission me to do that. Teaching has to do with the basics of class and technique. I’m much more interested in helping a ‘finished’ dancer when they’re looking at a role … it’s like finding your voice.
Even Defunded, Republicans Would Still Beat Up On Public Broadcasting
Breaking, as they say in the news business: NPR is always going to be a Republican punching bag. The main claim is its liberal bias, not its funding source.
A History Of Spectacular Broadway Flops
Spider-Man joins a long line of shows that didn’t make it…
Smithsonian Dispatches Curator To Wisconsin Protests
The National Museum of American History, always on the lookout for current materials, has dispatched a curator to Wisconsin to judge whether signs and buttons from the ongoing labor debates are museum-worthy.
If Street Art Is Taken Off The Street Is It Still Street Art?
That’s the question in Detroit after arts is taken out of the place it was created for…
Will English Continue To Be The World’s Language?
The dominance of English today as the language of business, science and popular entertainment appears unassailed and perhaps unassailable. For the linguist David Crystal, it is entirely plausible that “English, in some shape or form, will find itself in the service of the world community for ever”.
The Early Masters Plagiarized… er, Paid Homage To Others
“In truth, then as now, the real issue concerned the quality of the work of art that emerged, which is why we variously refer to such derivations as plagiarism (boo!) or homage (hoorah!).”
Claim: Sydney is Falling Behind In The Arts
Contrary to the boast by Events NSW that Sydney is Australia’s creative capital, arts company chiefs are critical about the state government’s neglect of cultural infrastructure and the lack of a cohesive creative vision.