All posts tagged "dance"
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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...
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We’ll take a Royal Danish with that jete, please
Led by artistic director Nikolaj HΓΖΓβΓβΓΒΌbbe, the world-renowned Royal Danish Ballet returns to the Kennedy Center for the first time since 2004 to offer new...
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Hot Pick: Dakshina at Dance Place
For its annual Dance Place performance, the Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company presents a mixed program of dance, including Anna Sokolow’s solo pieces Kaddish and...
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Do It! with Justin: Ep. 4 – Moves [video]
In the latest installment of our bi-weekly series, Metro Weekly's Justin Stewart attends dance class given by the popular gay dance troupe, the DC Cowboys....
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Dance
ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 1333 H St. NE202-399-7993atlasarts.org Classical Repertory Dance Theatre -- Program includes world premieres of What We Leave Behind by Miya Hisaka...
