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June 6

Ballet fined $3,500 for panda suit fall
Remember back in December when that girl fell in the orchestra pit during the Nutcracker? Looks like that will cost Atlanta Ballet about $3500 in fines. The ballet will contest the citation.

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Cedar Lake Blog discount
Cedar Lake is offering a “steep” discount to blog readers. If you use the code “blog15” you can get 50% off a ($15 ticket).

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Morphoses.org

Not bad. Lame flash intro though. Why make me wait 15 seconds just to zoom in on the logo? The blog RSS feeds in the blog don’t seem to be working either…

via Oberon’s grove

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Are bloggers "Criticasters"?

Criticaster [kri-ti-KAS-ter]: a minor, incompetent critic.

Some are. Some are not.

June 1

nath:

These photographs are from Hyper, part of Denis Darzacq remarkable series of people floating in mid-air (see also La Chute, Biarritz and Nanterre). For ‘La Chute’ (The fall) he directed street dancers and athletes to create the perception of people free falling on desolate city streets.

They are all quite surrealistic/dreamlike.

May 30

Pixdaus: Popular Today Pics - no description

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DRA - Dancing at the Crossroads

Dancers Responding to AIDS, in association with the Times Square Alliance, presents Dancing at the Crossroads, a free performance, June 8, 4:30-6:30PM.

Times Square Alliance
Dancers Responding to AIDS

Staged on Military Island in Times Square, where Broadway meets 7th Avenue at 44th Street, the program will feature over 200 dancers from 20 dance companies.

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Hearsay: pass it on...

Notes in Motion’s Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre presents its Eighth Annual Performance Season: the premiere of an evening-length work entitled Hearsay.

Hearsay takes sound and language into the body and pursues the soul of both the message and the messenger. By playing with images of call and response, follow the leader, self-reflection, social evolution, oral story, and the voice of a crowd, Hearsay playfully maps out a moving language of subtle and not-so-subtle social paradigms of the changing modes of communication.

Thursday, June 5 – Saturday, June 7 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 8 at 3 p.m. Dance New Amsterdam – 280 Broadway with entrance on Chambers. Subway: R/W to City Hall; 6 to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall.

Tickets: $20 available at www.ticketcentral.com (212) 279-4200. Thursday night gala $75.

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RETTOCAMME at work

Rettocamme has their last ‘every Saturday in May’ performance this weekend at the Jonathan Shorr gallery.

This week dancers include Marcia Brooks, Emma Cotter, Elisa LaBelle, Kimberly Lantz and Rebecca Whitehurst. Live music by Jordan McLean.

You can check out photos of the past performances on their Crush3r page.

May 29

“ Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should try harder. The surprising thing is how different these messages can be. New York tells you, above all: you should make more money.
-Paul Graham in “Cities and Ambition” New York attracts so many ambitious and hardworking dancers and choreographers which is what feeds our community. You feel the ambition when you talk to one of five hundred dancers auditioning for one role.

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Jacob's Pillow is auctioning off a day with Wendy Whelan

1. It begins with lunch for you and 3 guests at the sumptuous Danny Meyer restaurant Tabla, where you’ll be joined by David Michalek and his wife Wendy Whelan.

2. After lunch head to the New York State Theatre for your VIP seats at a performance by the famed New York City Ballet.

3. At the end of the day you’ll take home an original large-format signed still image of Wendy Whelan from “Slow Dancing.”

Apparently that’s worth about $5,000.

Check out everything they are selling inluding Cocktails with Rasta Thomas (the value is listed as “priceless” but the leading bid is $100) and Nina Ananiashvili’s Signed Pointe Shoes which are also “priceless” but going for about $50 right now.

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Muna Tseng at LA MAMA

Muna Tseng’s Water, Water is being reset after 24 years as part of La Mama Moves festival. Miki Orihara talks about her part in the original cast on the Winger.

May 28

Choreographer hotline?

In last week’s newsletter Cedar Lake introduced a phone number that you can call and hear the choreographers talk about their pieces in the season. Right now it looks like you can only hear from two of them, (Angelin Preljocaj and Nicolo Fonte). It sounds like a shorten version of these videos.

212.244.1150

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Armitage Gone! at the Guggenheim

Fri and Sat, May 30 and 31, 7:30 pm

Inspired by physicist Brian Greene’s bestselling book, The Elegant Universe, director/choreographer Karole Armitage sets music, dance, text, and real-time projected imagery at play to create a visceral portrait of the universe as revealed by cutting-edge physics. The program offers wondrous insights of string theory. As part of the World Science Festival, collaborator and composer Lukas Ligeti will join Armitage and Greene to discuss how artists transform scientific concepts into aesthetic expression.

[Tickets]

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