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16 March 2011

Marvelous Marvin Hamlisch takes up Pasadena Pops baton

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An afternoon concert with newly appointed Pasadena Pops conductor Marvin Hamlisch. [...]

24 October 2010

Choreographer Kyle Abraham, Pittsburgh homeboy, BESSIE awardee

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Pittsburgh-born choreographer Kyle Abraham shares one of the Steel City’s great qualities: he’s real. [...]

18 August 2010

Kyle Abraham makes it or breaks it

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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. [...]

24 December 2009

Say a dance prayer for Gene Kelly in Pittsburgh

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Gene Kelly, the proud dancing son of Pittsburgh deserves a statue of recognition in the Steel City. Why can’t he get one? [...]

10 December 2009

Mike and Julia

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A personal vignette that connects my father, radio personality Mike Levine, to Julia Childs. [...]

6 July 2009

Twyla, Laura, and me

A personal memoir of the impact of the strong female choreographers Twyla Tharp and Laura Dean on a young dancer in the late 1970s. [...]

1 February 2009

Nijinsky danced in Pittsburgh

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Vaslav Nijinsky and the Ballets Russes danced in Pittsburgh in 1916. [...]

17 June 2008

I met Yves St. Laurent

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A story about meeting Yves St. Laurent in Beijing in the early 1980s and then about visiting Andy Warhol’s grave in Pittsburgh. [...]