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All posts tagged "wpas"

  • Athletic Aesthetic

    Ask Moses Pendleton about his dance company Momix’s next show in D.C. and he’ll give you a perfectly lucid description — and then crack wise....

  • Homecoming Dance

    {Return #1 (Photo by Matthew Murphy)} ''My older sister was so clumsy,'' Jenelle Figgins says. ''I guess my mother assumed that she'd be able to...

  • Stringed Along

    ''Germany in general, and specifically Berlin, is a very, very open and diverse place now – a very creative place,'' says classical musician Avi Avital,...

  • Uplifted: Pilobolus

    Nile Russell was all ready to give up dancing. ''In modern dance, there were people freaking out the audience just for the sake of freaking...

  • Joshua Bell at the Kennedy Center

    After helping kick off the National Symphony Orchestra’s season last fall, the classical music superstar Joshua Bell returns to the Kennedy Center for a Washington...

  • Lasting Value

    ''Sometimes I'll look into the audience and I'll see people crying,'' says Suzanne Vega. ''Or I'll talk to someone after the show and they tell...

  • Marriage Singer

    ''I want my child to be able to marry whoever she wants to marry when she grows up, and have the same rights as everyone...

  • Go West

    What's a 10-person modern dance troupe with three gay members -- including its founder -- doing based full-time in Boise, Idaho? ''It's a pretty liberal...

  • Jazz Relativity

    ''If you go to an average 18-year-old and ask him, 'What's on your iPod?''' says Vijay Iyer, ''he'll be like, 'Well, Lil Wayne and Lady...

  • Pianist Sofya Gulyak at the Kennedy Center

    The Washington Performing Arts Society presents Russian pianist Sofya Gulyakin her Kennedy Center debut in a program that includes Schubert, Chopin, Franck and Ravel. It’s...