Search Results for 'Dance'

Eastleigh dance duo star in Britain’s got Talent!

Fans of ITV’s ‘Britain’s got Talent’ will be glued to their screens tonight to see if local teenagers Kai Widdrington and Natalia Javed can get down to the last 40 contestants in this year’s popular talent sh [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

Athens ‘stars’ dance for charity

One dollar at a time, “Dancing with the Athens Stars” is working to raise money for local non-profit organization Project Safe. The fifth annual dance competition will benefit Project Safe, which provides aid to domestic abuse [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Virtue and Moir reclaim ice dance crown

When the Maple Leaf went up marking their return to the top of the ice dancing world, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Canada's Olympic champions reclaimed their world title on Thursday, edgi [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

Vintage dance craze in full swing

ENTERING the upstairs room of Fitzroy's Copacabana Restaurant on a Tuesday night is like taking a trip back through the decades, to a time when women behaved like ladies and men behaved like … well, men. Under the low ligh [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

First American world champion ice dancers face familiar foes

An impressive streak ended last month for Canton-based ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White when they placed second behind training partners Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada at the Four Continents Championships. Davis and W [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Day of Dance aiming to get Pine Belt moving toward better he...

Pine Belt residents are invited to get moving toward better heart health at the eighth annual Day of Dance, hosted by Forrest General's Spirit of Women. Each year, this free interactive community event brings the Pine Belt together [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Orlando Ballet dancers: 'Billy Elliot' more truth than ficti...

The title character of Broadway musical"Billy Elliot"is a young British boy who takes ballet lessons in secret, fearful of what friends and family might think. The Broadway touring production of the show, with music by Elton Joh [...]

Posted On : Feb, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

A dance pioneer, hailed and hated

Not long before his 80th birthday in 1999 the choreographer Merce Cunningham was asked by his brother: "When are you going to make something the public likes?" A month later at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley, California, Cunni [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

EastEnder 'Mo' set to Dance On Ice

EastEnders star Laila Morse is putting Albert Square on ice while she gets in training for reality television success. The actress, who plays Mo Harris in the soap, is one of 15 celebrities set to compete in the new series of ITV1's D [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Dance Review: Ballet de Monte Carlo

Jean Christophe Maillot, artistic director of the illustrious Ballet de Monte Carlo, had taken the iconic 19th-century ballet Swan Lake, set to Tchaikovsky’s score, and proposed his own rendition in Lac, a highly dramatic, rather si [...]

Posted On : Jan, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Prima dancers explore life's journey

Life is a journey. We are all in the same boat, no matter who we are. Dancers from the nation's top three troupes ? Korea National Ballet, Universal Ballet and The National Dance Company of Korea ? will be on a boat, literally, to dep [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Dance India Dance to come up with season 3

A flash mob of over 50 people began dancing at the Rajouri Garden market in west Delhi. Be it college-goers, shopkeepers or residents from nearby areas, lots of people joined in the flash mob and danced to popular Bollywood chartbusters, [...]

Posted On : Dec, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Gotta Dance? Swing on Over

THERE are swinging parties in Manhattan nearly every night. The trick is in knowing where to find them. Take a recent Thursday: Sandwiched between a Blarney Stone and a liquor shop on Eighth Avenue just south of Penn Station and up four f [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Kristina Rihanoff: I learned how to dance listening to Stric...

Strictly’s Kristina Rihanoff is excited. As she prepares for Saturday’s final, she is finally in with a chance of waltzing off with the glitterball. None of her partners of previous years – Goldie, the unforgettabl [...]