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21 February 2012

Photog Herb Migdoll captures Eugene Loring’s “Billy the Kid” (1989)

A set of photos taken of dancer Tom Mossbrucker as Billy the Kid in the Eugene Loring ballet dating from 1989. [...]

20 February 2012

Earl Carroll’s beautiful construction site

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The men who built the Earl Carroll theater, which still stands on Sunset Boulevard, had some stern construction oversight. [...]

18 February 2012

Wherefore art thou, o Hollywood choreographer?

i love coming to work at a movie when i can make this stuff up!

Choreographers get a bum deal in Hollywood. So what else is new? Where *aren’t* dancers at the bottom of the rung? [...]

15 February 2012

Turner Classic Movies launches pre-festival nationwide film celebration: The Road to Hollywood

Concerns “The Road to Hollywood,” a classic-film roadshow in ten cities, all free screenings, courtesy of the nice people at Turner Classic Movies. [...]

14 February 2012

The great dance artist, William Forsythe, recognized in the U.S. with Scripps/ADF award

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The 2012 Samuel H. Scripps/ADF Award will go to dance maker William Forsythe. [...]

6 February 2012

Kosloff stages Fokine’s “Les Sylphides” for 80,000-seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

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A photo from 1923 reveals the large-scale ambition of ballet dancer/instructor Theodore Kosloff. [...]

5 February 2012

Cleopatra, CEO, comes to rule Los Angeles

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Concerns the upcoming performances of “Cleopatra, CEO” by Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre. [...]

2 February 2012

Please do not mess with Golfo

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Andreas Fussel grabs the audience’s attention as Golfo in Napoli. [...]

1 February 2012

Talent! Joy! Pure pleasure! Thank you Don Cornelius.

The Jackson Five, lip-syncing, hoof it on on Soul Train. [...]

1 February 2012

Jungle boogie

The Soul Train line, a mainstay of my Saturday mornings as a tween. [...]