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Carroll County Dance Center is home base for 'Nutcracker'
Just a few days before their live performances of "The Nutcracker," the intensity and concentration were evident on the faces of the teenage performers at the Carroll County Dance Center in Sykesville. Each of the cast members at this rehearsal had...
Tags: Holidays, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Joffrey Ballet, Moscow (Russia)
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'So You Think You Can Dance' recap: Who gets saved?
Cat's looking even more beautiful than usual (which I didn't think was possible) as she welcomes us to tonight's episode with 16 dancers still left in the competition. The opening number has all the dancers dressed like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp and...
Tags: Whitney Houston, Mary Murphy, Nigel Lythgoe, Entertainment Events, Music
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A festive season of color and movement
Dust off the tuxedos, pull out the pearls and get ready to celebrate a new dance season with anniversaries, reunions, holiday performances and a masked ball here in Howard County. Around this time of year, Kathi Ferguson puts on a seasonal dance show for...
Tags: Holidays, Teaching and Learning, Arts, Halloween, Students
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Pliés and push-ups
On the second floor of the Sudbrook Arts Centre in Pikesville, Tim Fox snapped his fingers to live piano music as he watched his three teenage ballet students move elegantly through their growing repertoire of ballet positions.
"This is not brain...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Teaching and Learning, Television Industry, College Sports, Arts
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Baltimore theater companies in a building boom
Vincent Lancisi stands in a pile of rubble sweating under his hard hat, while all around him — board by board, pipe by pipe and hammer blow by hammer blow — a theater is taking shape.
It's still nearly eight months until the opening of...Tags: Artists, Broadway Theater, Arts, Entertainment Events, Music
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Marriottsville/Sykesville/Woodstock: Marriotts Ridge music department hauls in 38 awards at Fiesta-Val
Last month, the Marriotts Ridge High School music department competed against high schools from across the country in the Fiesta-Val Music Festival in Myrtle Beach, S.C. They returned home with a record 38 awards! Following is a list of the ensemble...Tags: Preakness Stakes, Mother's Day, High Schools, Joffrey Ballet, Anglicanism
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Baltimore dancer steps into role with prestigious Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre
Gifted with a mother's second sight, Catherine Johnson knew her daughter Jacqueline Green better than the child knew herself.
In 2004, the eighth-grader insisted she had absolutely zero desire to study dance. "Oh, Mom," she said, rolling her eyes. "Why...Tags: Colleges and Universities, The Hunt (movie), Judith Jamison, Arts, Entertainment Events
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PBS treats Baltimore's Cab Calloway as an American Master
It's not often in judging the biography of a great artist that you can just pick up the phone and call one of the people who knew him best — and remains a principal keeper of the historical flame.
But that is exactly the case with Cab Calloway, the...Tags: John Belushi, Music Theater, John Landis, Coppin State University, PBS (tv network)
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Graf was still off the charts when ranking dance stars
In mid-December, we caught Columbia's Alicia Graf in a premiere program presented by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City. Seeing her back performing with Ailey as part of the company's 50th anniversary celebrations was definitely a...Tags: Merce Cunningham, Suzanne Farrell, Festive Events, Hippodrome Theatre, American Red Cross
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Following the steps for another fabulous season
Dance companies see winter coming long before the rest of us. Many of their performance dates have been booked since May, and their season brochures have long since gone to the printers for distribution to potential subscribers.
The Washington Ballet was...Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Suzanne Farrell, George Balanchine, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Artists
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Best week ever: Baltimore events, music, movies and more
MOVIES OPENING (Friday)
I Don’t Know How She Does It
Drive
The Lion King 3-D
Straw Dogs
NOTABLE TV
Monday:
Anderson (talk-show premiere; syndicated)
Monday Night Football: New England at Miami (season premiere; 7 p.m.; ESPN)
Bachelor Pad...Tags: Animal Planet (tv network), HGTV (tv network), Museums, The Drums (music group), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
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Chinese ballet finds 'Art' on a more modern footing
Someone once said that ballet and modern dance would merge when a contemporary dancer donned toe shoes and ballerinas went barefoot. Well, that did happen in an Alvin Ailey piece years ago, and it was evident again last week in the dance kickoff of...Tags: 2016 Olympic Games, Suzanne Farrell, Academy Awards, Dance, Companies and Corporations
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