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Why Kanye West Could Never Be Fela Kuti

Derek Beres | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bill T Jones, Broadway, Modern Dance, Nigeria, Kanye West, Fela Kuti, Afrobeat, Entertainment News
Derek Beres

While Kanye West's admitted disdain for books is well known, I reflected on his recent comments while at the Eugene O'Neill Theater watching Fela!, the production based on the life Fela Kuti.

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Why I Worry About Modern Dance

Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Arts, Modern Dance, Dance, Merce Cunningham, Kennedy Center, Alvin Ailey, Entertainment News
Michael Kaiser

Virtually every great modern dance company was founded more than 40 years ago. Where is the current, not to mention next, generation of great modern dance companies to carry the torch?

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Spotlight on the Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater

Jim Luce | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Harkness Foundation for Dance, James Cobb, Luis Montes, Jim Luce, Modern Dance, Mexican-American, Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, Maxine Steinman, Matthew Ferry, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Fund for Creative Communities, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Youtube, Dance Education, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Agdt, Joseph Papp's Latin Festival, Max Lifchitz, Elisenda De FáBregas, Carnegie Hall, Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater, Jennifer Downing, Annabella Gonzalez, Latin Classicism, New York-New York, Entertainment News
Jim Luce

Annabella is known for having an eye for movement that conveys the essence of emotional situations. This shines through in "Primavera."

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Dancing With the Stars Needs to Do Something Other than Add Social Dances and a Non-Ballroom Judge to Spice Up the Show

Tonya Plank | Posted 11.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Ballroom, Michael Flatley, Reality TV, Yulia Zagoruychenko, Hanna Karttunen, Breaking Entertainment News, Latin Dance, Riccardo Cocchi, Mimulus Dance Company, Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Modern Dance, Jerome Robbins, Julianne Hough, Keigwin and Company, Alvin Ailey, Slavik Kryklyvyy, Misty Copeland, Twyla Tharp, Marcelo Gomes, Cody Linley, Dancing With the Stars, Len Goodman, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

Is it just me or is this the most boring season thus far of Dancing With the Stars?

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So You Think You Can Dance Round 4 Eliminations

Tonya Plank | Posted 07.15.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Benji Schwimmer, So You Think You Can Dance, Reality TV, Nigel Lythgoe, Ballet, Hip Hop, Breaking Entertainment News, Dance on TV, Jazz, Contemporary Dance, Mia Michaels, Jazz Funk, Modern Dance, Dance, Popping, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

I thought this was Courtney and Gev's best week so far. I'm kind of glad they were in the bottom three, because otherwise we would not have been able to see that wicked Hip Hop routine!

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