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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 46, Issue 47)WHEN Frostburg State University officials began planning a retreat for this month focused on the work of Martha Graham, the modern dance pioneer, they never imagined that the event would end up having nothing to do with...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn February 27, 1952, Pauline Koner, an emerging talent in U.S. concert dance, presented a series of solos at New York City's Town Hall. For this occasion, Koner, who was Jewish, premiered Chassidic Song and Dance , in...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 46, Issue 41)IT WAS INEVITABLE. The Martha Graham Dance Company had been in financial straits since well before the death of its founder in 1991 at age 96. Graham's self-appointed savior, Ron Protas, whose background was in...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 54, Issue 10)A Dancer's Journal: Learning to Perform the Dances of Martha Graham. artsedge. kennedy-center.org/marthagraham/index. htm. The Kennedy Center. (Accessed 8/04/08). Gr 5 Up--Dance aficionados can follow Jordy Kandinsky...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 12, Issue 15)Following are the organizations that received grants from the new Ford program: DANCE Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (New York): $1-million, which the organization plans to match by raising $3-million over...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 25, Issue 22)On Oct. 16, 2004, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the only major ballet company in the world composed primarily of Black dancers, shut its doors. It was a move that stunned the New York arts community. "Everything came...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 68, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDance Dance Dance, originally published in Japanese in 1988, is a sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), the work that introduced Haruki Murakami to the West and earned him both critical and popular acclaim when its...
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From:District Administration (Vol. 50, Issue 5)Students at Central Union Elementary School District, located on a military base in Lemoore, Calif., are using 21st-century technology in an unexpected place: gym class. Last fall, the district was awarded a...
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From:Asian Theatre Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMabesa, Antonio O. The Dog Eaters and Other Plays. Review. 7.1 (1990): 118-121. Macduff, William. "Beautiful Boys in No Drama: The Idealization of Homoerotic Desire." Debut Panel Report. 13.2 (1996): 248-258....
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From:International Journal of Computer Games TechnologyPeer-ReviewedDance Dance Revolution is a pioneering exergame which has attracted considerable interest for its potential to promote regular exercise and its associated health benefits. The advent of a range of different consumer...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 39, Issue 1)Before it's too late--neck Grope this life's most beautiful Monsters until all of this disorder Shapes sacred. Until flocks Of balloon animals--thousands Of them--drop from the diamond- Blue sky. Purple hippos &...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 36, Issue 6)Winston-Salem State University associate professor Dr. Stephanie T. Dance-Barnes has been named the recipient of the 2019 UNC System Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dance-Barnes teaches courses...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 23, Issue 14)Byline: Raymund Flandez The process of merging can be a telling fund-raising moment for organizations, since they often have to raise money to cover costs related to the collaboration. It can portend future successes...
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From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 64, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis essay examines a historical process in which a ritual dance event is staged out of its ritual context. It tells the story of an individual folk artist, Durmus Genc, who singled out the dance aspect (namely the...
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From:Early Music (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe 16th-century dances known as the Old Measures can be analyzed from manuscript sources, sufficient for modern reconstruction. There were four dances in pavan style and four dances in almain style, with the measures...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 93, Issue 4)The Goodbye Dance is me on our front porch, doing jazz hands and high cross kicks like some cartoon of a chorus girl and grinning like an idiot. It started when Dana would drive our two daughters, now grown up, to...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 17, Issue 12)Growing up in a segregated Kansas City in the 1950s, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and her sister spent hours making up dances together as they played. Only years later did she realize that what she was doing was...
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From:Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada (Vol. 32, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe always exciting programme at Montreal's Tangente continues its tradition of excellence with a wonderful line-up of spring dance performances. In late February and early March Tangente showcases Latin dance in a...
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From:Journal of Black Studies (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe impact of selective perception on the image-making of traditional African dance has been studied. Ethnocentric biases persist by various processes that are usually not examined. Images of peripheralized groups are...
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From:The Contemporary Pacific (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article discusses Banaban choreography as an expression of historical and postcolonial identities and, more specifically, relations between Banabans and I-Kiribati in terms of what I understand as the Banaban...