Tag Archive: dancers

REDD; first impressions

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REDD by Boy Blue Entertainment; a few impressions

Breakin’ Convention – my review

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The whole piece on Breakin’ Convention as originally written.

Let us keep the dance of rain…

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The quote I’ve chosen this week; ‘Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky’ is from Arnaud (Arna) Wendell Bontemps (1902-1973). He and… Continue reading

The dance is a poem..

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‘The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word’ is attributed to Mata Hari (1876-1917). Margaretha Geertruida “Margreet” MacLeod was a Dutch Frisian exotic dancer who was convicted of being… Continue reading

Dancers, illusion and magicians

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Quote and snippet of history from George Balanchine and a picture from Kidd Pivot’s The Tempest Replica choreographed by Crystal Pite.

Dance should always be delivered back to the people..

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A quote and little about Alvin Ailey and a dance image of ZooNation.

How Bob Hope learned to dance..

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Image of Yorke Dance’s Wordsworth and comedic dance quote by Bob Hope.

No dance has turned out the way I thought..

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Image of Yorke Dance’s Wordsworth and a quote from the choreographer Mark Morris.

See the music, hear the dance.

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Photograph of Fan dancers at the Wam Bam Club and inspirational dance quote by George Balanchine.

Hand in hand, on the edge of the sand

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“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, they danced by the light of the moon” comes from Edward Lear’s ‘The Owl and the Pussy Cat’. I chose it because it… Continue reading