All posts tagged "dance"
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Shawn Short: Truth in Dance
Shawn Short is humbled by the impact of his annual dance event focused on the LGBT experience
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Much Ado About Nothing at Synetic (Review)
Another in Synetic Theater’s Silent Shakespeare series, the dance-musical interpretation of Much Ado About Nothing is a clever, outside-the-box extravaganza. A pastiche of 1950s musical...
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Velocity DC: Movement Based
Dance festival showcases rising local dance talent
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25 Years of Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814
By the mid-80s, it seemed an unlikely prospect at best that Janet, the youngest sibling of the superstar Jackson family, would break through the long...
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Dance: Fall Arts Preview 2014
Now in its sixth year, the Velocity DC Dance Festival, held at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Sidney Harman Hall, has become fall’s leading showcase of...
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Dance: Ballet, Hip Hop, Folk and Contemporary
Dance Place will conclude its season, in which its Brookland home venue has undergone extensive renovations, by presenting performances elsewhere by many of dance's leading...
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Learning To Fly
In 2012, Robert J. Priore made a splash on these very pages. ''That was kind of when I was single, and just trying to put...
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District of Dance
''Our intent,'' says Carla Perlo of Dance Place, ''is to shed light on the fact that yes, we have world-class companies that have chosen to...
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Vampires at the Ballet: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty
Provocative British choreographer Matthew Bourne — best known for his mostly male, Tony-winning version of Swan Lake — returns with his company New Adventures to...
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Dance: Ballet, Modern and Cultural Performances in D.C.
Washington may not be a capital when it comes to the art of dance, but a growing number of nationally known dance companies do call...
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Dance 2012 in DC, MD & VA
Whether you're a longtime movement enthusiast or curious newcomer, the metro area's exploding dance scene is bound to have something – very many things –...
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Review: Come Fly Away
Singing to recorded music signals that you can’t afford live musicians. What Twyla Tharp has done in Come Fly Away, putting a big band onstage...
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Nejla Y. Yatkin/NY2Dance at Dance Place
Oasis: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Middle East But Were Afraid to Dance is a world premiere production by Nejla Y. Yatkin,...
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American Ballet Theatre brings its new Nutcracker to the KenCen
‘Tis the season for ballet companies to perform versions of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. The American Ballet Theatre offers a new version by the company’s Alexei...
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The Great Septime
Septime Webre was drawn to dance early. ''I'm half-Cuban,'' he says, ''and there's an old Cuban saying that Cubans dance before they can walk.'' {Septime...
