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Archive for January 2008

January 31st, 2008

So You Think You Can Teach?

…well, in Mia Michaels‘ case, you’re probably right.
Just had a bit of post-SYTYCD enjoyment reading All About My NYC Dance Auditions blog, where she took a master class from the choreographer and occasionally inappropriately dressed judge. While I’m not surprised to find out that she’s teaching, or that students are lining up around the block […]

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January 30th, 2008

Welcome Back Where You Belong, FoF!

There’s been some rearranging here at B5Media, and I’m very happy to say that the powers-that-be have noticed that my blog tends to focus more on entertainment than arts & crafts. As a result, I’m back amidst the likes of Dancewatcher and Idol Stalker (two great blogs with more in-depth reviews of the performing arts […]

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January 28th, 2008

Follow a Shakespearean Stagehand

If you’re not involved in the Twitter community, don’t become so. It will turn your phone and your computer into a banal and tedious little bird that intermittently interrupts your train of thought or activity with useless facts about people you’ve never met.
Unfortunately, I’m firmly esconced in the twitterverse, which is why I am able […]

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January 28th, 2008

No Jane, but Vaudeville Vixens Triumphant!

Yes, that’s right…she didn’t come to the Roller Derby after all. That does NOT mean that I didn’t find it an amazingly amusing and wonderful experience. I have talked with Hell Kat, one of the founding members of the Vaudeville Vixens, and she has told me that the derby has been making the change from […]

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January 26th, 2008

Roller Derby with Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Gos

OK, this is stretching the “performance art” umbrella a little far, but I don’t get to do as much with the celebrity thing as my fellow bloggers here at B5Media, so I’ll take what I can get.
Tonight I’m going to be running a video camera for the Mad Rollin’ Dolls, the Madison Women’s Flat Track […]

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January 25th, 2008

DANCEWATCHER: A Nicer Reviewer Than Me

My colleague over at B5Media’s “Dancewatcher” is much more friendly about the failings of Dancewar than I have been - she even pledges to try to be positive. Still, “… the whole competition between teams thing still isn’t doing it for me. And about half of the singers (mostly the girls) hit sour notes fairly […]

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January 24th, 2008

DANCEWAR: “…a freaking high school musical.”

Mea culpa, mea culpa. I failed in my responsibility to review Dancewar on Monday. For no good reason, either - it was $1..75 Margarita night at the local Tumbleweeds, and I decided to go there and watch my friends make little ice-castles in their drinks.
Based on the ever-entertaining review of Kristin Sample over at TV […]

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January 24th, 2008

A Body of Work

I’m working today on digitizing a dance performance by Douglas Rosenberg, a scholar and artist in the field of dance for the camera (Great Dance has done some interviews with him, if you’d like to know more about the guy).
The thing is, the performance that I’m digitizing was originally conceived with the dancers wearing long […]

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January 21st, 2008

“That’s 1.5 hours of my life I can’t get back.”

Yes, like many others, I will be tuning into ABC tonight to check out “Dancing with the Stars” I mean, DanceWar. However, like my fellow reviewer over at TV Squad, I was pretty disappointed with this particular show. It sounded interesting, at first, but we’re not really seeing the two leads (Carrie-Ann and Bruno) actually […]

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January 20th, 2008

The Management Whines…

Last night was the Madfest, and we pulled it off again - all it took was 9 hours straight of scrambling to pull together music, light cues, props, stage directions, and then the house was open and then it was full and then we were off and then it was done.
Except for one performer, whose […]

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