Posts Tagged: Dance
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How'd You Get There, Dancer Audrey Ellis?

| May 7th, 2012

Audrey Ellis grew up on a fruit farm in western New York dreaming of being a dancer. She moved to Brooklyn five years ago after graduating from Goucher College with a degree in dance and philosophy, and joined a dance company while also working as a freelance instructor. She enjoyed the cycle of performing and teaching, performing and teaching, but something was missing. Enter the farm. A few years back, Ellis and her friend Sarah Capua formed a dance company called A+S Works and decided to host a weekend-long dance festival on Ellis' family's land. The first event was a success, as was the second, and so the festival [...]

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Willi Dorner's Wall Street Dance Project

| September 27th, 2010

This is pretty awesome. (via)

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Merce Cunningham, 1919-2009

| July 27th, 2009

Choreographer Merce Cunningham, who "ranks with Isadora Duncan, Serge Diaghilev, Martha Graham and George Balanchine in making people rethink the essence of dance," died yesterday at the age of 90. "Until 1989, when he reached the age of 70, he appeared in every single performance given by his company, Merce Cunningham Dance Company; in 1999, at 80, though frail and holding onto a barre, he danced a duet with Mikhail Baryshnikov at the New York State Theater. And in 2009, even after observing his 90th birthday with the world premiere of the 90-minute 'Nearly Ninety,' at the Brooklyn Academy of Music he went on choreographing for his dancers, [...]