3 September 2010

First lady of nation recognizes first lady of dance

Dance gets its rightful due in the recently announced “Dance at the White House” series. Its patron is Michelle Obama. [...]

28 August 2010

Natalia Osipova’s ethereal “Giselle”

I met and briefly interviewed the phenomenal 24-year-old Bolshoi and ABT ballerina Natalia Osipova yesterday, in rehearsal for an upcoming performance in Orange County next January. She struck me as a magnificently moody Russian. [...]

20 August 2010

Jack Cole bangs the drum, but not slowly

Sometimes the drum took as much of a beating as Jack Cole’s dance students did. [...]

18 August 2010

Kyle Abraham makes it or breaks it

I enjoyed Kyle Abraham’s “The Radio Show” at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. The dance commemorates the loss of Pittsburgh’s rhythm-and-blues radio station WAMO. [...]

14 August 2010

arts•meme at the Pillow

arts•meme is enjoying her first-ever visit to Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival [...]

10 August 2010

Kenneth Anger recalls blacklisted Jack Cole dancers

Experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger recalls the impact a group of blacklisted Jack Cole dancers had on his life.

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6 August 2010

Mitzi Gaynor fabulous in Jack Cole’s “I Don’t Care”

I’m loving Jack Cole’s choreography for Mitzi Gaynor in “The I Don’t Care Girl” from 20th Century Fox in 1953.

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2 August 2010

Merce Cunningham’s Beach Birds (1993)

It’s August. Time to go to the beach.

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1 August 2010

Jack Cole to be celebrated at Jacob’s Pillow

An afternoon symposium at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival will remember dancer/choreographer Jack Cole, August 14, 2010. arts·meme will attend.

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24 July 2010

A real city ballet for a real city

Robyn Gardenhire’s Los Angeles City Ballet presented mixed repertoire in an unusual venue: an abandoned banking lobby in downtown Los Angeles

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