June 8th, 2008
It may finally happen. I may be able to go and see a performance of a dance piece I’m writing about. Best of all, it features my homeboy, Ethan Steifel, who started his stellar career right down the road from me at the Monona Academy of Dance.
Twyla’s Interpretation of Heaven & Hell
Ethan works with Herman […]
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May 25th, 2008
A couple of fascinating literary works have come out - one journalistic, one autobiographical - that serve to really highlight how much the world has moved on from the days of Rudolph Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov leaping over airport turnstiles to defect to the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Alexei Ratmansky
In […]
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April 2nd, 2008
This blog is a bit of a balancing act. I try to cover general performing arts, and that’s a wide spectrum; so you end up with one day me talking about plays in London, another day about popular culture like Dancing with the Stars, and another day about the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre celebrating its […]
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February 28th, 2008
I’ve written before about how the real training for an action star should be in dance. The new Batman? Christian Bale, a trained dancer. Jackie Chan? Dancer in the Chinese Opera. And if, like me, you were in love with Joss Whedon’s Firefly, you thrilled to see Serenity, where Summer Glau gave more than a […]
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January 13th, 2008
Doug Fox writes about a new event (and wonders “…how come nobody else has done this before?) where the Cedar Lake Ballet invited several dance bloggers to munch on wine and cheese and see a dress rehearsal along with a post-performance talk. He notes that this is a big departure from the traditional methods of […]
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January 10th, 2008
The general consensus seems to be that DanceWar is a bust. Swan Lake Samba Girl put it this way
“…I’ve never in my life seen more people with less dance training seeking to become “stars.” They sang their hearts out and wiggled their butts and seemed in all honesty to have no clue that ass wiggling […]
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November 19th, 2007
NOTE: the following blog entry is a review of the stage show “Fashionistas” which is based on the adult film of the same name. While not explicit, it deals with adult themes of sexuality and alternative lifestyles. If this offends you, please skip this blog entry.
Fact is, it was a ballet.
Really. Complete with the libretto […]
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April 22nd, 2007
starting rehearsals for UW’s 80th anniversary gala (as stage mgr) . I’ll be setting up flickr tonight so that we can fotoblog it with my treo. Should be funj
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April 8th, 2007
While getting coffee at Escape Coffee House, there was a young woman in line in front of me who looked vaguely familiar. When you’ve lived in a town as small as Madison for as long as I have, that’s an easy thing to have happen, but I couldn’t place her, until she recognized me and […]
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