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"Great Old Old Broad" Series: Eartha Kitt
Hartford CourantLast Sunday's screening at New Haven's Lyric Hall of the documentary "Broads,"that features salty, outspoken interviews with actresses of a certain age remind me of some of my own favorite interviews of like-minded dames. I began my "Great Old Broad"...Tags: Snow White (fictional character), Entertainment Events, Ann-Margret, St. Louis Blues, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Dance review: Ronald K. Brown's Evidence at the Ahmanson Theatre
Culture MonsterPacing through his latest work, “On Earth Together,” to the music of Stevie Wonder, Ronald K. Brown's glowing expression made us consider what a grim business most contemporary dance has become. Beauty radiated from the Ahmanson stage, as... -
Jazz Musician Stanley Clarke Teaches Class
Jazz musician and bass afficienado Stanley Clarke did some outreach to some young Lions on Friday at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He performed and held a question and answer session for music students in Katherine Dunham hall.Tags: Jazz (genre), Music Industry
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Dancer Katherine Mary Dunham
KPLR11.comKatherine Mary Dunham was born June 22, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. from the moment she took her first steps, it was apparent she would become dance's "Katherine the Great." In her late teens she took up formal dance but attended the University of...Tags: Chicago, St. Louis, University of Chicago, Haiti, Dance
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Talking with Dance Theatre of Harlem's co-founder Arthur Mitchell
Culture Monster“I didn’t want to be a ballet dancer. My motivation was the musicals,” says Arthur Mitchell, one of the 20th-century’s noblest classical dancers, who grew up in New York City in the 1940s enamored of Broadway. “Vaudeville was incredible. The....... -
Dunham Dance Class For Cancer Patients
KPLR11.comPeople living with cancer need a lot of support emotionally and physically. The The Wellness Community focuses on the patients' needs, not just educational and medical needs but other "life needs" like laughter, exercise and dance. The instructor is...Tags: St. Louis, Dance
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Dancers Converge On The Katherine Dunham Annual Seminar
FOX2now.comDancers across the nation and at least six foreign countries are here for the Katherine Dunham Annual International dance seminar. This is the 27th year it's at Dunham Hall at SIU-Edwardsville. Participants spent nine days learning the Dunham dance...Tags: St. Louis, Dance
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Dancers Head To St. Louis For Annual Katherine Dunham Dance Seminar
FOX2now.comThe air was filled with the sounds of music and dance this week for the annual Katherine Dunham International Dance Seminar. Not even the recession is enough to keep determined dancers from coming here to keep an important tradition alive. They've come...Tags: Dance
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Dale Wasserman dies at 94; playwright best known for 'Man of La Mancha'
Dale Wasserman, a playwright best known for writing the book for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "Man of La Mancha" and the stage version of Ken Kesey's novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," has died. He was 94. Wasserman died Sunday of...Tags: Kirk Douglas, Hospitals and Clinics, Music Theater, Joe Darion, Duke Ellington
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Singer, Actress Eartha Kitt Dies
Zap2It.comConsidering that she was abandoned by her mother at age 3, forced to pick cotton by age 6 and kicked out of the house at 16, Eartha Mae Kitt did not appear destined for global stardom. Yet by her 20s she had willed herself into becoming a singing...Tags: Music Theater, St. Louis Blues, Nat King Cole, Navy Pier, FBI
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Herbert L. Hutner dies at 99; former chairman of President's Advisory Committee on the Arts
Times Staff ReportsHerbert L. Hutner, the Los Angeles private investment banker and lawyer who chaired the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, has died. He was 99. Hutner, a resident of Holmby Hills,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Music Industry, University of California, Los Angeles, Columbia University, New York City
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FOX 2 Celebrates Black History Month
FOX 2 is proud to salute Black History Month in February! In cooperation with the Missouri Historical Society, we are proud to feature some famous St. Louisans and events that have made an impact on black history. Black History Month is presented by:...Tags: History, St. Louis, Minority Groups, Music Theater, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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