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Arts fundraising shifts gears in a perilous economy
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterUnprecedented spending is the Bush administration's plan to avoid the worst or something like it in the American economy. But many arts organizations can quip that they were way ahead in the rush to embrace Mother Necessity in hopes of begetting...Tags: So You Think You Can Dance, Government, Dance, National Government, Dancing With the Stars
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Dance schedule
September Sept. 8 Metro DC Dance Awards, Kennedy Sept. 8-29 Roadhouse, Kennedy Sept. 11 Break! The Urban Funk Spectacular, AACC Sept. 11-12 Witness, Kennedy Sept. 13 Pure, Dance Sept. 18-19 Drift, Kennedy Sept. 18-20 The Break/s, Kennedy Sept. 20-21 Eiko...Tags: Mark Morris, Joffrey Ballet, Dance, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey
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NYC PICKS: DANCE
You'll get a kick from these two festivals. BEST FEET FORWARD WHAT At the annual Fall for Dance Festival, national and international dance companies strut their stuff at the New York City Center until Sept. 27. Some of the performers tonight include...Tags: Festive Event, Dance, Dancing
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Steps toward a national presence
Special to the Chicago TribuneWith just two ventures, the Harris Theater signaled the dance world it would honor that Chicago dictum to make no small plans. In 2006, it brought back the New York City Ballet after a 26-year absence, and this week it hosts the San Francisco Ballet's...Tags: Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris, Paul Taylor, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Government
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DANCE
Among the dance highlights this season: The Kirov Ballet, now more than 250 years old, will visit the Southland twice before year's end. Other season highlights:
'Ocean'
Before his death, John Cage planned to write a score for a large orchestra deployed...Tags: John Cage, Mark Morris, Pina Bausch, Paul Taylor, Trisha Brown
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Dance: 9 shows to see
steve.parks@newsday.com; JUDY RAIAFall for Dance Festival (Sept. 17-27, City Center, 130 W. 56th St., Manhattan). First-rate dance at cut-rate prices - just $10 a performance - starting with the National Ballet of Canada and including the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Les Ballet Jazz de...Tags: Natural Science, Suzanne Farrell, Paul Taylor, Culture, Wynton Marsalis
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From transplant to L.A.'s heart and soul
Special to The TimesMEG WOLFE had good reason to be professionally depressed when she moved to Los Angeles for love in 2003. Fresh from 12 years as a well-known performer and choreographer on New York's downtown experimental dance scene, she arrived here knowing "no one, and...Tags: Natural Science, Riots, Colleges and Universities, Dancing, Dance
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Artist mixed paint, sculpture, cast-offs
Times Art CriticRobert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and the early 1970s, died Monday night, according to New...Tags: John Cage, Trisha Brown, Christopher Knight, Barnett Newman, Robert Rauschenberg
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Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg dead at 82
zachary.dowdy@newsday.comRobert Rauschenberg, a major American pop artist who produced some of his work at a small Long Island studio that has drawn formidable talent for decades, died Monday of heart failure, a representative said. He was 82. Rauschenberg's death was...Tags: Roy Lichtenstein, John Cage, John F. Kennedy, Guggenheim Museum, Josef Albers
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Basel begins
With so many nightclub parties, gallery openings and celebrity-hosted happenings scheduled to coincide with this weekend's Art Basel Miami Beach, a person could easily get overwhelmed by the sheer size and scope of it all. Not to worry, though, as we've...Tags: Family, Philosophy, Miami Art Museum, Fashion Trends, Tourism and Leisure
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A Colorful Life
Sun reporterWhen Grace Hartigan was a little girl, she was bewitched by gypsies. In the 1930s, the Travelers still roamed the countryside in nomadic caravans, and young Grace would shinny up the apple tree in her parents' backyard in Newark, N.J., to spy on them....Tags: Family, John Cage, Larry Rivers, Robert Motherwell, Fire Island
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Fall Arts: Dance calendar
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Andrea Del Conte Danza Espana. "Flamenco!" with Marco De Ana, Thalia Spanish Theatre, $30, $27 seniors and students, $25 Fridays. Through Oct. 8
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New Ballet Choreographers. Newly commissioned ballets by emerging choreographers Tom...Tags: Mark Morris, James Earl Jones, Trisha Brown, Doris Humphrey, Imperial and Royal Matters
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