Fame or Famine

June 27th, 2008

It’s Never Too Late to Dance

Milia comments: I’m 18 turning 19 and I feel so behind in dancing. I do know I’m not up to date in movements nor technique. But you will see me again - from today on I will practice, practice, and practice.
I feel that - it warms my heart, actually. At age 18 I started on […]

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June 21st, 2008

Guest Blogger Steve Eley on Improv Comedy

Here’s the last donated blog from Steve Eley, creator of the Escape Pod Podcast (among others). I asked him to contribute not because of his expertise in the arts, but because I know he can tell a story. As you will see here…

Being asked by Gray to write a guest post on this blog was […]

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June 20th, 2008

The Possible Treachery Of Signing With An Agency In 2008

By Blog-Off Guest Blogger Michael J. Wallach
© 2008 Michael J. Wallach - Used by Permission of the Author
It used to be simple. You met an agency that you liked and you were presented with an agency contract that you could comfortably sign.  But, it doesn’t work like that anymore. What do I mean by that?  […]

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June 20th, 2008

Guest Blogger JP Tells of Russia’s DEREVO

After working as a stage manager for independent theatre in Toronto for almost a decade, I was lucky enough, in the summer of 2006, to be working at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a show from Volcano. We were performing at the Traverse theatre for the last two weeks of August - one of my […]

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June 19th, 2008

North Korean Singer

A little bit of live singing from across the globe: we don’t get to hear much of the fine arts from North Korea, but I found this particular YouTube Video strangely compelling as the lovely waitress sang.

As part of the blog off, I think this is a good example of the value of the fine […]

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June 17th, 2008

“Thank God…I sucked in my gut!” Says Lin-Manuel Miranda

OK, the show is growing on me. And not only me, obviously other people like it as well - the cast recording of In the Heights debuted at #1, and, well, there is the whole Best Musical thing.
Visit the Heights
Broadway.com has a charming little video where Lin-Manuel Miranda takes you backstage of In the Heights […]

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June 14th, 2008

Coming Soon: The Great Blog-Off!

Here at B5Media, we’re gearing up for a charity drive blogger-style. Specifically, on June 20th we’re going to be running a Blog Off. Various members of both the Entertainment and Business channels will be posting one entry per hour for the full 24 hour day. Along with their normal (ahem, I mean, our normal) entertaining […]

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May 28th, 2008

Audition Call: Li Chiao-Ping Dance June 6

What better way to kick off the start of So You Think You Can Dance tonight but with an announcement of another opportunity to dance with some stars?
Li Chiao-Ping is a choreographer and dancer originally from San Francisco, now living in Wisconsin. Her dance company has toured all over the world, and she has dedicated […]

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May 25th, 2008

Revolutionary Reading: Ratmansky and Acosta

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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May 22nd, 2008

So You Think You Can Dance: Local Version

I had the distinct pleasure recently of dining at the Med Hookah lounge in Madison, WI, which aside from having great Mediterranean food also feature middle eastern dancers (aka bellydancers, though some don’t like that term).
Those Who Can, Teach
One of the performers there is Arielle, a teacher at the Madison Multicultural Dance Center with Mona […]

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