When I threw myself into an tap class at Steps on Broadway in NYC, I was nervous. I hadn’t danced in a while and the classes are challenging. That afternoon I was meeting with an old friend, and figured this was a good time take the plunge. It had been at least five years since […]
I’ve wanted to see world music vocalist and five-time Grammy winner, Angélique Kidjo, ever since I heard her album Eve in 2014 and started using her music in my Global Rhythms Dance programs. I danced joyously with hundreds of families to rousing “M’Baamba” (Kenyan Song). We rested with her lullaby “Blewu.” Saturday night I got
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The piece begins with a single dancer running frantically and fearfully on the stage. She is running from something. We don’t know what. “Darkness—Dancing to Pieces,” performed by the Philly-based Koresh Dance Company this past weekend (March 14-16) at FringeArts, is “dedicated to all the victims of the Nova
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