Modern dance songs are slightly tweaked to include "Star Wars" characters or plot points.
In addition, there are guided tours, workshops, seminars, video screenings and even a modern dance performance.
She's not afraid to make contemporary movement that connects to rather than breaks with modern dance technique.
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As if the setting wasn't unique enough, Blue Lagoon has also arranged DJs, circuses and modern dance performers for corporate events.
Merce Cunningham, incontestably the grand master of modern dance, died two and a half years ago, at the age of ninety.
When Martha Graham died in 1991 at the age of 96, she left a body of work that defined modern dance.
We have hosted youth workshops on everything from modern dance to classical music to spoken word poetry and so much more.
Despite a college degree that included art history, Behnke first pursued a career in modern dance and put in time working on films.
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The sports world is no different from the elite world of modern dance in that a whole lot can happen in just a few decades.
Harkness became home to the first faculty of modern dance in the United States, and its ranks over the years have attracted many pioneers in the field.
Jones ranks among America's most articulate exponents of modern dance, or that he simply talks a good game, his company strong and attractive danced with its own kind of panache.
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There is a general principle within elite performance systems, including everything from Scripps National Spelling Bee Championships to world-class modern dance companies, scientific research communities and professional sports.
She started sampling jazz and hip-hop at 18 in her native Japan and moved to the U.S. five years ago for more technical training in modern dance and ballet.
But it boasted little in the way of performing arts until its Music Centre opened in 1964, and even then no ballet to speak of and little modern dance.
In late 2006 he started to work at Kampala Ballet and Modern Dance School's new cafe and the following year joined a barista training course held by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority.
Every year, the Harkness Dance Festival and various performance series bring choreographers and performers at various stages of their careers to Buttenwieser Hall to celebrate the history and future of modern dance.
After a long legal battle over the rights to the late Martha Graham's dances, the company she founded won the rights to the majority of her choreography and will showcase a spectrum of her work, spanning eight decades of modern dance.
Founded in 1973, Cloud Gate (it gets its name from China's oldest dance, dating back 5, 000 years) is on a nonstop voyage through world cultures, fusing tai chi, meditation, Chinese opera, modern dance and ballet into an art form that has captivated international audiences.
By the age of 14, he was studying Chinese opera movement and paying for his first ballet lessons with money earned by writing. (He later published two novels.) The turning point came when Lin studied with modern dance pioneers Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham - influences that could be detected flitting through his early work with Cloud Gate.
Modern German dance, as heralded by Laban and Wigman, has veered towards self-expression and subjectivity.
During Huaconada, the modern huacones dance circumscribed steps around the elders, who have greater freedom to dance improvised movements because of their seniority.
Over a period of seventeen days and nights, Spoleto presents opera, classical and modern music, theater, and dance.
The jaunty founder of the Cloud Gate Dance Theater is part of the modern history of the island and one of its most ardent admirers.
The show centers around flash mobs, the phenomenon when a bunch of seemingly random people in a public place suddenly start putting on a coordinated dance show. (For an example see a clip from Modern Family at the bottom of this post.) Fox will premier the show as a special on March 31st after American Idol.
From tap to ballet to jazz to modern to hip hop and B-Boy styles, there are a million variations of dance that allow performers to express themselves.
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