ALVIN AILEY DANCERS GET IT DONE !

“I feel like a leading lady. I’m not trying to mimic other dancers anymore. I feel like I’ve stepped into my own,” she said. Stamatiou lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children. Here’s how she gets it done.
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more murder on the dancefloor for SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR

But the way that “Murder on the Dancefloor” has delighted people is, I think, a mark of what great pop music can do
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BRILLIANT BALLET BRINGS BLISS

As a distraction from all that we talked all the way home of the ´bendiness´ of the ballet dancers, the lightness of the leaps and how the lithe dancing of the adult members suddenly became delightful carefree skipping of the young dancers.
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SOUND ROOTS sounds right

Whilst there are limits to what a single organisation can do, what English Folk Expo, now Sound Roots, delivers is impressive. They have continually responded to what artists need in changing circumstances. The reality perhaps doesn’t match the expressed aspiration every time – as with diverse and non-English cultures in the festival – and there is an overemphasis on support for artists to work abroad. Still, a whole layer of folk artists and industry people have benefitted in multiple ways from their work
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BLACK LIVES IN MUSIC

Black Lives in Music stand for equal opportunities for Black, Asian and ethnically diverse people to be able to work successfully in the UK music industry without being the subject of discrimination.

SKIP TO MY LOU my darling.

The fella in the center begins to decide which girl he’d like to dance with, continuing his singing, “I’ll get another one just like you!” When he reaches out for the hand of his chosen lass, the girl’s partner moves to the center of the ring, taking the first’s place.
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PASS IT ON: Weekend Walkabout volume 10

Today we have news to share on just about every art form you could think. So, whether you go tell it on the mountain and shout it to the sky, or down to the river toi skim it across to the other side please feel free to PASS IT ON
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A NIGHT AT THE THEATRE

Ailey said that one of America’s richest treasures was the African-American cultural heritage—“sometimes sorrowful, sometimes jubilant, but always hopeful.”

FROM BARROW- BOY TO THE BALLROOM

"You've heard the expression I could've danced for joy?" Len Goodman once wrote. "Well, I have and still do."

gliding serenely over SWAN LAKE

The International Ballet, though, had delivered  of excellence that I´m sure that the ballet-buffs in the audience would have admired but even for we, who usually listen to the Beatles and The Byrds And The Beach Boys humming,  this was a wonderful, unforgettable evening.