I was lucky to experience Alicia Keyes’ Hell’s Kitchen this week on Broadway while visiting my friend Jane in Brooklyn. Semi-autobiographical, it tells the story of a young girl, Ally, who as a teenager has to deal with a lot of heartache and struggle. “Do something with that anger,” her piano teacher tells her. “Sit. […]
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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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