XCEL TALENT AGENCY booked dancers Sora Connor, Erin Perez, Neta Thurman, and actors Marc Comar, Justin Jamar, Desiree Angelic and Gentlehart Acres to shoot a commercial for GA Lottery today in Atlanta, GA. More…
“Incarnation” is the abstract journey of the soul of creation as told through music, movement, and imagery. One hundred Dance 101 students, in collaboration with special guests Zoetic Dance Ensemble, Lauri Stallings, Spelman Dance Theater, Project 7, and Cici Kelley, take the stage July 31st and August 1st at the Alliance Theater, Woodruff Arts Center [...]
Some people talk with their hands. Robert Hoffman talks with his fingers extending from the hands, flowing from the arms and the trunk. But the classically trained dancer, award-winning hip-hop choreographer and rubber-boned scene stealer of “Aliens in the Attic” isn’t waxing balletic with those dexterous digits; he’s describing prank videos in which he scares [...]
By now, you’ve probably seen the wedding entrance dance video that became an overnight internet sensation, thanks to YouTube and countless media outlets. But— have you seen what happens six months later? More…
A two-hour installment of “So You Think You Can Dance” helped Fox edge past NBC to lead the network television ratings in prime time on Wednesday. According to Nielsen’s estimates, an average of 7.6 million viewers tuned in to the dancing competition on Fox from 8 to 10 p.m. Although that was less than the [...]
Although he choreographed the final dance “Jai Ho” for the Oscar-winning movie “Slumdog Millionaire,” Longinus Fernandes was left out of the credits. (Director Danny Boyle acknowledged the oversight during the Academy Awards.) For the IFC three-part mini-series “Bollywood Hero,” the Mumbai-based Mr. Fernandes takes a more visible role—he produced a half-dozen original dance numbers. “Bollywood [...]
Thursday night’s “So You Think You Can Dance” results show opened with the top six dancing to “Send In The Clowns,” but the song proved to be most meaningful to 29-year-old ballerina Melissa Sandvig and contemporary dancer Ade Obayomi, who the ones eliminated from the competition by the end of the tense hour. More…
TV producer Nigel Lythgoe has defended Katie Holmes’ dancing after her recent performance on “So You Think You Can Dance” was dubbed “amateurish.” The actress appeared on the show’s July 23 season finale and performed a singing-and- dancing tribute to Judy Garland. While many experts praised her rendition, others were more critical and members of [...]
Allow me to be crabby (or crabbier than usual) for an evening. I’ve struggled to find the same emotional connection to ”So You Think You Can Dance” this season that I had with last season, when I was rooting for so many dancers: Twitch Boss, Joshua Allen, Katee Shean, Gev Manoukian, Mark Kanemura, Chelsie Hightower — I loved [...]
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