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2 February 2012

Please do not mess with Golfo

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Andreas Fussel grabs the audience’s attention as Golfo in Napoli. [...]

1 February 2012

Talent! Joy! Pure pleasure! Thank you Don Cornelius.

The Jackson Five, lip-syncing, hoof it on on Soul Train. [...]

1 February 2012

Jungle boogie

The Soul Train line, a mainstay of my Saturday mornings as a tween. [...]

26 January 2012

Robert Joffrey’s protegees remember him … on film and in person

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Tom Mossbrucker, artistic director of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, considers the influence of Robert Joffrey on his current career. A new documentary on the company screens in Los Angeles next week, and in movie theaters this weekend, Saturday Jan 28. [...]

25 January 2012

Dance preservationist Norton Owen honored with ‘Dance in Focus’ film award

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Dance preservationist Norton Owen honored with ‘Dance in Focus’ film award [...]

25 January 2012

What makes a Balanchine ballerina? Meet Carol Sumner.

Meet a quintessential Balanchine ballerina – short torso, strong straight back, super long legs — Carol Sumner. [...]

22 January 2012

Where industry meets the arts

Two striking photographs from 1928, 1934 bear a similar theme. [...]

20 January 2012

Jack Cole rocks Rita Hayworth’s world in “Tonight and Every Night” (1945)

Rita Hayworth doing her thing nicely enough until a monster dancer enters her realm — Jack Cole. [...]

15 January 2012

Marie Bryant put a bun in Betty Grable’s oven

The jazz dancer, Marie Bryant, claims to have taught 20th Century Fox’s blonde bombshell, Betty Grable, how to shake her thing. The conduit was Jack Cole, for whom Bryant worked as a rehearsal assistant. [...]

12 January 2012

Go postal: use choreographer commemorative stamps

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A good way of going postal .. by attaching an “innovative choreographer” stamp to your mail. [...]