Live Performance

What the Heck Is Modern Dance?

Nora Younkin | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Modern Dance, Chicago Dance, Live Performance, Art School, Student Performance, Arts, Contemporary Dance, Performance Art, Chicago Around Town, Columbia College Chicago, College Dance, Degree in Dance, Dance Degree, Chicago News

Sometimes it would seem audiences are afraid of modern dance because it's not evident what it's about. Let me tell you another secret: that's okay. Take chances. See something weird. Talk about it.

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Sufi Pop Rocks the Asia Society (VIDEO)

Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Sufi Music, World Music, COKE Sessions, Alif Allah Chambey Di Booty, Asia Society, Live Performance, Punjabi Music, Doris Duke Foundation, Chimta, Arif Lohar, Asia Society New York, New York Asia Society, NY Arts, NY Around Town, Arts News

Arif Lohar brought his electrified Sufi music to the Asia Society and pretty much tore the place apart. Lohar wooed the audience, and the audience responded in spades.

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East Meets Lower East Side: Shanren Play Mountain Music at Pianos (VIDEO)

Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Live Performance, World Music, Abigail Washburn, Chinese Folkdance, Beijing Music Scene, Pianos Bar, Chinese Music, Industrial Revolution, Shanren, Video, Arts News

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'Cast Party' Triumphantly Returns to L.A.

Josh Getlin | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Cabaret, Billy Stritch, La Around Town, Open Mic, The Coterie, Jim Caruso, Cast Party, Live Performance, Los Angeles News

On its best nights, "Cast Party" feels like a bracing blast of air from Manhattan's theatre district. It fills a gaping hole in Los Angeles, which doesn't have many rooms suitable for such an intimate evening.

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Zaz at GlobalFest: "Je Saute Partout" (Video)

Michal Shapiro | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Adele, Piaf, Chanson, World Music, Live Performance, Apap, Globalfest, Je Saute Partout, Chanteuse, Zaz, Arts News

What this all makes for is a creative, relaxed musician who comfortably mixes it up with her first-rate backup band and whose voice takes her anywhere she wants to go. Where that is, only Zaz knows.

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Kiran Ahluwalia Live At DROM, NYC (VIDEO)

Michal Shapiro | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: World Fusion, World Music, Aam Zameen: Common Ground, Kiran Ahluwalia, South Asian Music, Live Performance, Drom, Najma Akhtar, Rez Abbasi, Qareeb, Arts News

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Grandfather, Grandson, Grandmasters (Video)

Michal Shapiro | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Sharq Taronalari, Jivan Gasparyan, World Music, Live Performance, Armenian Music, Samarkand, Duduk, Registan, Arts News

The name of Jivan Gasparyan (Sr.) has been synonymous with Armenian duduk for over 60 years. Now in his eighties, he had the pleasure of being in the audience during his grandson's award-winning performance.

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A Precursor to the Violin: the Polish Suka

Michal Shapiro | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Sharq Taronalari, Classical Music, Polish Music, Sarangi, Yo-Yo Ma, World Music, Live Performance, Origins of the Violin, Samarkand, Suka, Pomianowska, Arts News

I heard Maria Pomianowska jamming out on the terrace of the Afrasiyob hotel, and immediately knew that I wanted to get her and that unusual instrument of hers alone for a solo videotaping.

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WATCH: The Madagascar Institute: 'Caution, This May Kill You'

Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Video, Art, Ryan O' Connor, Chris Hacket, Brooklyn, Live Performance, The Madagascar Institute, Rides, Machines, Large-Scale Sculptures, Fire, Eric Singer, Guerrilla, Events, Arts News

A trio of friends, Chris Hacket, Ryan O' Connor and Eric Singer founded The Madagascar Institute in 1998. "The idea was to stop doing stuff virtually,...

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The Black Earth Boys at Lincoln Center (Video)

Michal Shapiro | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Ben Mandelson, Live Performance, World Music, Justin Adams, Robert Plant, Juldeh Camara, Folk Music, Les Triaboliques, The Carter Family, Arts News

The repertoire was primarily a melding of American folk and blues with Juldeh Camara bringing the West African flavor.

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Taylor's Embarrassing Moment On Stage!

Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Taylor Swift Video, Wardrobe Malfunction, Live Performance, Taylor Swift Wardrobe Malfunction, Music, Taylor Swift Concert, Video, Taylor Swift, Funny Videos, Taylor Swift Music, Celebrity Skin, Taylor Swift Speak Now, Taylor Swift Live, Celebrities, Celebrity News

Oh, Taylor, it happens to everyone. Looks like fans at the Taylor Swift concert in St. Louis on Saturday got a little more for their money than th...

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Pistolera: Taking Life by the Teeth

Michal Shapiro | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Live Performance, Immigration, World Music, El Desierto Y La Ciudad, Mexican American Music, Vieja, Pistolera, Arts News

Pistolera's leader and main composer Sandra Velasquez has created a melange culled from her musical memories growing up in San Diego and her singer-songwriter sensibilities.

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EXCLUSIVE: David Lynch's 'Red Button Man' Comes Alive With Interpol Track

HuffingtonPost.com | Gazelle Emami | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: David Lynch Red Button Man, Red Button Man Video, Alternative Music, David Lynch Interpol Collaboration, Video, Interpol, Live Performance, David Lynch, Coachella, Interpol Band, Film, Music, David Lynch Interpol, Indie Bands, I Touch a Red Button Man, Culture News

This is the first in an occasional series, Strange Bedfellows, in which we highlight unexpected collaborations between artists. From their first fo...

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Neil Pearlman Finds the Clavé in a Scottish Jig (Video)

Michal Shapiro | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Scottish Music, Latin Music, Coffee & the Mojo Hat, World Music, Neil Pearlman, Piano Music, Cafe Vivaldi, Live Performance, Rock Paper Scissors, Celtic Music, Arts News

On this night, Neil Pearlman brought his ensemble and proceeded to expand the palette of Scottish music with healthy injections of Jazz harmonies and Latin rhythms.

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An Environmental Experience: Electric Kulintang at the Atrium (VIDEO)

Michal Shapiro | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Song of the Bird King, Susie Ibarra, Filipino Music, Philippino Music, World Music, Ecology, Drum Codes, Live Performance, Lincoln Center, Rubenstein Atrium, Electric Kulintang, Earth Day, Electronica, Roberto Rodriguez, Target Free Thursday, Arts News

Electronica, as Rodriguez composes it, contains an invitation to trance that is an appropriate matrix for the shamanistic meditations inspired by the Kulintang.

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WATCH: Cold War Kids Live At Third Man Studios!

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jack White, Cold War Kids Third Man Studios, Live Performance, Cold War Kids Live Performance, Third Man Studios, Cold War Kids Live, Cold War Kids, Conan O'Brien, Video, Entertainment News

Jack White's Third Man Records is something of a mad scientist's musical laboratory. The label headquarters in Nashville doubles as a combination reco...

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Mollie O'Brien: New CD, Saintly Sinnin' Sound

Sharon Glassman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sinners & Saints, Live Performance, Broadway Music, Music, CD Release, Denver, New York City, Tom Waits, Mollie O'Brien, Ophelia String Band, Tim O'Brien, Rich Moore, Swing Music, Family Life, Swallow Hil, Americana Music, Denver News

Denver-based, nationally adored Americana singer Mollie O'Brien's big musical "Yes" started with a big New York City "No."

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Mighty Movie Podcast Exclusive: Spike Lee & Stew on Passing Strange: The Movie

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amsterdam, South Central LA, Live Performance, Broadway, Theater, Broadway Musicals, Digital Film, Spike Lee, Musicals, Interview, Exclusive, Germany, Public Theater, Berkeley, Sundance 2009, Stew, Rock and Roll, Entertainment News

I got a chance to sit down with Spike Lee and singer/songwriter Stew to discuss the New York musical hit, Passing Strange.

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