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LOUISIANA DELTA BALLET-CRAZE FOR DANCE

August 31st, 2010 by soul4dance

The Louisiana Delta Ballet Company’s is going to give a classic performance.

Louisiana Delta Ballet Company’s is one of the quality and high professional company leading in North Louisiana. The main aim of the company to bring excellence in ballet and to edify our youthful people in the pleasure and positive reception of the arts and to motivate the group of people at bulky in the zeal of ballet. The art director Missy Crain said” “We struggle to create an atmosphere of reception and pleasure for dance presentation where such may not yet be refined”.

It is a well qualified company where it consists of pre-professional dancers from a sixteen parish area of North Louisiana. The yearly auditions are seized during the summer workshop and the selected dancers are customary as beginner, subordinate and superior members of the company. The summer program advertises the famous dance teacher John Magnus, Valeri Madonia, Daniel Baudendistel, Davis Robertson and Stacey Calvert.

Missy Crain the art director of Louisiana Delta Ballet Company’s is having an great passion towards the dance. She considered dance as her career and the life she stated her craze towards dance at the age of nine itself.The early preparation began with the Twin City Ballet under the course of Madame Cecelia Kelly and Linda Ford, where she studied and trained under the world’s best ballet instructors Robert Joffrey, Richard Englund, and David Howard. After the well developed experience she danced the main roles of Cinderella, Titania in Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker and Odette in Swan Lake.

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Missy started her teaching and still she is performing, allocating the love for dance have become a entire life commitment. First she started the school of dance at 1984 in Monroe, LA. Really she is a much talented person because within few years she prolonged the school into Oak Grove, Ruston and Calhoun. Mrs. Crain has choreographed for numerous concerns, including Twin City Ballet, Mississippi Metropolitan Ballet, and the Southern Association of Dance Masters.

Later that developed school has become Louisiana Delta Ballet Company’s. She is such a great person. She received the talented Choreographer’s Award in 1984 with her first work permitted Reflections. The Christmas story original ballet entitled Power & Grace – has become the best moment of signature performance for Louisiana Delta Ballet. For more than 27 years she has been training. Now she is going to present her 6th season really it is appraising news for all the peoples, where she wanted the peoples to share the ardor and feel the power of LDB 2010-2011 season.

So we the peoples should encourage her passion, courage and talents.

PALA, BARONA TRIBES SWARN POWWOWS THIS WEEK

August 30th, 2010 by soul4dance

The Indian tribe people who are living in the northeast and south east border are going to celebrate their tradition this week with free consultation that is open to public.

The last day for the Pala Band of Mission Indians’ third annual powwow, titled “Honoring Traditions: A Celebration of Song and Dance. “Will be august 29th..

The festival begins with the great energy, enthusiasm and with the mass dance.Particularly this year there is varieties of dance competitions for all age group people such as.

  • Chicken
  • Jingle
  • Southern straight
  • Southern cloth
  • Traditional
  • Fancy dance

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Not only the competitions are held, many dance styles such as the jingle, grasses as well as drumming displays are demonstrated during the festival. Public are greatly honored to join the festival with the drums to enjoy and lead the performance. The competition is more and more violent and ferocious because more than $55,000 prize money at bet..

  • Festival -8 pm to 5 pm
  • Venue- Pala Rey Youth Camp, 10779 Highway 76.

The three days festival will attribute more than 200 dancers, challenging in traditional and drum dance for the prize money of $60,000.where the performance schedule includes gourd dancing at 6 p.m. Sept. 3 and at 1 and 6 p.m. Sept. 4. There will also be a men’s “fancy dance” competition on September 4.The magnificent opening where groups are dressed in traditional costume from tribes all over the country is schedules at 7 p.m. Sept. 3 and 4. On 4 evening there will be a mass gathering where people sing “49 Songs “which is the combination of America and English. On 5 September there will be a drum contest. And the Barona Band of Mission Indians’ 40th annual Barona Powwow returns from 6 to 11 p.m. Sept. 3, and from 1 to 11 p.m. Sept. 4 and 5..

SEVEN LAKES DANCERS WON THE 2009-2010 NATIONAL TITLE

August 27th, 2010 by soul4dance

The home dancers from seven lakes won the national title for the dance competition held on weekend of June 25 in North Wilkesboro at Dance Machine Nationals. The great pride goes to the seven lakes dancers.

Totally they were four sections in the Seven Lakes

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  • Trainee
  • Transitional
  • Subordinate
  • Superior

The four troupes beated more than 20 troupes from North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

Trainee band members-The group members Jones, Alexa, Kennedy and savannah beated the opponent team with the hip hop and tap dance and got a tremendous ranking where they stood sixth place for hip hop and third place in tap dance in the diminutive group allocation. Where the tap dance got award in all mini, diminutive and subordinate level. Great credit goes to the group members where the performance was stunning in the beginning level itself.

Transitional band members- The members of the traditional level performed the awesome tap dance performance where they struggled and won the first place on the whole in the subordinate great group section.

Subordinate band members-The junior people won the overall performance for the tap dance in their level.

Superior band members-The senior level dancers encounter greatly to beat the opponent teams where the hip hop and capella dance helped them to won the platinum fifth place and first place in overall junior level. Also they joined their hands with subordinate members to battle with transitional level members and won the pearly first place and third place in tap dance and jazz dance. It was the delightful performance performed by them.

The ending of the competition is the great title “National Showdown of the Stars Champion”was given to the senior level troupe for their impressive performance in capella tap dance which was named as “quiet”. The senior people have scored the top ranking when compared to all divisions.

All the members from the various sections were chosen from Dance Machine Nationals Dream Team and they were under the control and guidance of Marcie Overcash Milbredt, Lauren Kicklighter, LeAnn Garrison and Katie Ritter.

SEVENTH ANNUAL ABENE AFRICAN DANCE FESTIVAL

August 26th, 2010 by soul4dance

The 7th abene American dance celebration
The Windham Arts Council is going to crowd the African dance celebration going to be held on august 25th to 29th.

The name Abene – place where good will be encountered and it is the name of the village too. The village is located in Senegal, West Africa, where the dance site is conducted. Diallo the famous master conducts the dance site. He is a good performer and has given up the life by teaching dance to West Africa, the U.S., and Europe peoples.

During this festival he will teach totally six African dance classes for all levels, at The Church followed by live drumming Ibrahima Thiokho Diagne, also of Senegal .The people who are interested in his dance are most welcome to visit without charge. This celebration provides him the best opportunity to prove himself in the dance and to esteem his contribution for rousing students with the force, grace, and classiness of his dancing.

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The famous dance carnival is also organized by our beloved dancer and drummer Diallo ,a Senegalese choreographer and escort dancer of the West African dance group. He is a multitalented person who toured with a number of artists in West Africa, Europe, the United States, and with Les Ballet National Du Senegal, African dance troupe in West Africa.

There will be a special guest from Abeneo Elhadji Mamadou who was the performer and leader of Les Ballets Africaine de Sangomare. Mamadou is also a self-motivated, vigorous choreographer and a talented teacher. At present he resides in Burlington.

The festival will crown a gala performance by Diallo, followed by West African dancers and drummers; GaiaRoots, a woman’s globe music collection; and Jamemurrel Stanley & the Drummers of serenity & parity .After the Saturday evening performance, the festival will mass a West African dinner Malian cuisine.

GREAT HONOR FROM SPRING HILL DANCE TEAM

August 25th, 2010 by soul4dance

The spring hill team brings the enormous honor to their country.
Really it is a great and blissful instant for their country.

The Dance America National Championships competition was held on last month in Orlando, where several team took place in this national level championship competition.

Where Sarah Lewandowski won the most excellent senior dancer title. Really it will be a heart rejoicing moments for her when the title was announced. She beated hardly 206 dancers and other solo performers to win this mega title. The title was given based on her wonderful and astonishing performance in the interview, jazz combination test and also her solo performance. Lewandowski was the NO:1 scorer, in addition to the dancer of the year title she won many exciting trophy for the highest scorer in the solo performance and the paramount touching implementation of all the solo performers .

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Lewandowski didn’t stop her passion, attitude and grace toward the dance. After winning the dancer of the year title. She competed 193 solo performers with her fashionable and stunning performance to her favorite song left and she earned the fourth runner up position at the worldwide dance challenge. Her solo performance was choreographed by instructor Kelli Simpson. She has been dancing at Erin’s Danceworks for 12 years and has been guided, instructed and taught by both Simpson and Erin Messaris.

Other solo performers who brought pride to their country are

  • Taylor Storey (first runner-up)
  • Malia Nicolini and Lauren Alagna (top 12 in senior level)
  • Kelcey Morris (top 12 in junior level).

The spring team brought hardly crown position in 16 dances and various runner-up and assignment awards in the National Championships.
It is glad and bright full news to Lewandowski country. Great honor and pride to Lewandowski

NATIONAL COMPANY FOR MODERN DANCE

August 24th, 2010 by soul4dance

A NATIONAL MODERN DANCE COMPANY FOR THE KOREAN PEOPLE

The national company was founded by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and tourism, seized a ceremony to commemorate its foundation .The venue has been set up as the Arko Arts Theater in Daehangno, central Seoul.

The only accessible dance companies in Korea till now were the Korea National Ballet Company, which is located at the Seoul Arts Center, but now the National Dance Company of Korea at the National Theater of Korea has been founded. For the first season itself the company started to plan, how to make the audience satisfy in a wide range of applause, for this the organization has carefully chosen a list of works to be performed.

Now the national dance company is engaged for the future development. The organization has also started many programs to guide the dancers and choreographers and to encourage competition among artists. Interested person in the dance and thinking dance as the passion and life will be selected through the aggressive round. The selected dancers and choreographers will work only as the apprentices, after the full satisfaction the company will accept them as the permanent employee.


alvin-ailey-dance-theaterThe organization has planned to help the dancers to do their best performances in a firm environment in Seoul or in theaters overseas. The dance company gives assurance that the dancers and choreographers are known for their abilities both inside and outside of Korea; the company will also encourage modern dance academies and act together with international dance companies.

The korea has many dance companies than any other country, most of companies are in unfitted conditions and they are not having enough space to practice,” said Artistic Director Hong Sung-yop, who is also the artistic director of the modern dance company. But the modern dance company will surely prove the effectiveness.

The organization first performance will be held on January 2011 at Seoul Arts Center’s Towol Theater. The curriculum will consist of recreations of Hong’s works, Followed by the local tour to endorse its opening ceremony.

14TH ANNUAL CELEBRATE DANCE FESTIVAL

August 23rd, 2010 by soul4dance

SAN-DIEGO PROCEEDS WITH OUTSIDE PERFORMANCES

Eveoke Dance Theater is producing the free, three-day event, which is expected to illustrate more than 10,000 people are participating in this festival. More than fifty dance troupes are participating next week for the annual celebration at Balboa Park.

The festival is well known for the clock dance performances in Balboa Park’s. The outdoor has had a rocky performance few years ago. When gina and Christopher the foundation of this dance festival moved away in the year 2006.The festival has lost his head. In 2007 the festival was canceled when Eveoke updated. It was really a bad for him, last year also the festival was cancelled for lack of funds. Last year also all the performance was moved inside. But this year hearty and grateful thanks to San Diego Foundation provided both the indoor and outdoor stage.

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  • Casa del Prado will be the indoor venue-august 27 to 29
  • Outdoor fountain stage- august 28 and 29
  • August 27 - eight group
  • August 28 - more than 30 groups
  • August 29 - more than 20 groups
  • August 27 and 28 - Eveoke’s dancers.

This year the performers will be provincial and include 2PlySwing, Flamenco Arana, , San Diego Civic Youth Ballet, Saguaro Belly Dance Company and Urban Tribal Dance Company, Genres include hip-hop, jazz, tango, belly-dancing, classical, modern and ballet.

Dancers are selected only based on their talent. All the groups must be dance-based and 30 minute time limit is given to all the groups she said. Moreover Eveoke will be conducting a free dance classes on Aug. 28 and 29 for anyone interested in learning hip-hop dance.

Come and enjoy the dance festival and cheer their performances.

ART OF DANCE

August 20th, 2010 by soul4dance

Dream Team launches ‘THE TALENT OF DANCE”

The dream team - Trinidad’s premier force celebration launches the production for carnival 2011

The dream team is going to start their production celebration 2011; the talent of dance tomorrow. This celebration mainly focuses on the most electrifying dances universally. Only the dream team can able to arrest the Trinidad celebration with the variety of cultural background

Director of the Troup Mr. Sumadh said that the Trinidad celebration is now becoming the leading audiences universally. Hence it is significant to highlight it because the dance being the passion of many peoples in the world,additionaly he explained that dance has been favorite for the youth of TT, because there is a completion compared to other talents

SECTION OF DANCE

  • SALSA
  • SOUKOUSS
  • BELLY DANCE
  • RIO RIO
  • CARRIBEAN
  • CHINA

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Totally there will be twelve sections in the celebration 2011

The gang is being hosted with the luxurious costume production tomorrow at UWI social club.Mr. Sumadh said that he is more happy that 50 percent of people comes from all over from the world .so he had decided the ““level of playing field” to locate the places more suitable for all of them.

The dream team has number of people’s participation from UWI, COSTATT, UTT, the Mount Hope Medical Faculty and ROYTEC. Students from these academy are permitted to enter the event before 11pm, using their identification cards. All the previous dream team members can collect the ticket today from the section leader at the band today between 3pm to 6pm

Advance booking

Female-$80

Male-$100

So surely the dream team is going to rock tomorrow!

U.S BALLET TROUP DANCE IS BACK

August 19th, 2010 by soul4dance

THE GREAT UNITED STATES BALLET TROUP DANCERS ARE GOING TO DANCE IN CUBA AFTER 50 YEARS ON NOVEMBER 5 AND 6

The U.S classical dance company –the American ballet theater will perform in Cuba this year for the first time after 50 years .It’s great news to all Cuba people. The New York company first visit to the island since 1960, where the company now eagerly waiting to participate in this event.

Moore said” We trust in the rule of arts to bond people and change lives”. Main dancers from the famous company will be the supplementary performance in Havana on November 5 and 6. Mr. Moor believes that the trip to Cuba will be the connection between U.S.A and CUBA.

>After the planning of this dance a sudden rumor came that US management is considering the cold war-era nemesis.US media reports said that this week the management is having some constraint on voyage to Cuba and other approval subsequent to Havana’s promise to free prisoner.

After the final conclusion made that the main motivation of this troop is to expand the didactic and cultural visit to broader the people.
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Alicia Alonso - Cuba’s most outstanding ballerina and the head of its national ballet company has been rewarded as the ambassador of the 1959 Cuban revolution, she was the grateful guest at a June 3 tribute at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House for her life’s achievements in ballet.

Alonso started her career with the American Ballet Theater, where she danced the most important role in Giselle in a critically performance in 1943.That was the stunning performance that changed her life entirely.

Although she is almost canopy and harassed to walk, she still actively directs the countrywide ballet dance because still she loves her dance and the passion towards dance.

5TH BEIJING PARK FESTIVAL STARTED

August 18th, 2010 by soul4dance

Autumn is regarded as one of the best times to hang out Beijing’s park festival, and this autumn is something special .

The 5th Beijing Park Festival started at the biggest royal garden palace today, which skin texture the majestic precincts. Beijing is worthy in its cultural heritage, among its entire culture Beijing stands only for its city culture this was the main reason the royal garden was chosen this year specially said city official Niu Youcheng.

He said during the three-month occasion, a extensive collection of actions will take place in this park festival, including cultural exchange activities. The festival is mainly aimed to wider the culture

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OPENING CEREMONY

The executive committee member of the International Relics Council Angela Rojas said, “narration of precincts show us that, even when misunderstanding and horrible aggressions have been occurred, we can take into explanation fine influences and interchanges among diverse cultures.”

A glorious peeking opera dace talented by folk music was staged at the openinng ceremony. Following this opera dance the costume exhibition were conducted.

The citizen and outside members can take part in the various cultural activities while enjoying the autumn throughout the month of October.

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