Enter the August Harlequin Floors
Scholarship Contest
Get inspired! Learn new moves! Find new ideas! Enjoy! You can watch more than 65 hours of great dance videos on TheWorldDances.com. Post your video today to enter Harlequin Floors Monthly Video Scholarship Contest. Harlequin Floors awards $1000 every month to deserving dancers. Two viewers' choice winners and two judges' choice winners will each receive $250 in August. This month's winners will be announced Friday, August 29th at 3PM.
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Q&A: Budding Choreographer
Tara Lynch
On August 30 and 31, the Peridance Capezio Center is hosting Faculty and Student Showcases. While the Faculty Showcase affords an opportunity to catch a diverse stylistic blend of work by established artists, the Student Showcase provides an exciting glimpse into the future of NYC's dance scene. For 21 year-old dancer and choreographer Tara Lynch, it represents a vital step in the transition from student to professional. Lynch recently spoke with The World Dances about her work, the role of improv in her creative process, and the challenge of finding choreographic identity and inspiration.
Tara Lynch
Photograph: Stephanie Crousillat
First of all, please tell us about the piece you're doing for the showcase?
I'm showing a duet called Dust and Melon. It's an excerpt of a full-length piece I'm going to be showing in the spring. It's a little whimsical and a little sarcastic. There's a struggle between the two dancers, Holly Sass and Jonathan Matthews. They're trying to figure out how they relate to each other -- working out balance as they go through different lifts and ways they can use and dance in each other's space.
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Holly Sass & Jonathan Matthews
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How did you become interested in choreography?
I actually hated it at first. I studied at South Dayton School of Dance in Ohio. The company has a scholarship audition for choreographers every year. I tried it when I was 13 or 14, and I never wanted anything more to do with it. Then in college I went to NYU Tisch and decided to try it again. NYU was a wonderful environment for exploring and taking risks and it was great to be working with supportive peers. I started making a piece every year after that. I'm still kind of new to it but I really love it.
What does it mean to you, personally and professionally, to be participating in this Showcase?
It's all been really positive. I'm really excited for this opportunity and look forward to hopefully sharing my work more in the future. I think it's great that Peridance is helping budding choreographers to get started and get our feet in the door. It's so promising to be able to do this so early out of school. It's a great beginning for what I want to do in the future. I'm also excited to get feedback, both from the faculty at Peridance and the audience. This will be my first time showing work to an audience where I won't know anyone. I'm looking forward to seeing if the piece is going in the right direction and reaching the audience. I want it to be something that everyone can really relate to.
To read more about what inspired Tara Lynch's Dust and Melon and how she found her choreographic style click here.
By Tamara Johnson
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New Exhibit: America's National Ballet Company� Treasures
American Ballet Theatre, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, has donated its archives to the Library of Congress. A celebratory exhibition
American Ballet Theatre: Touring the Globe for 75 Years is now displayed in the foyer of the Performing Arts Reading Room in the Library's James Madison Memorial Building in Washington, D.C. The exhibit is free and open to the public through January 24, 2015. The exhibit may also be viewed online at www.loc.gov/exhibits/. In March through August 2015, the exhibit will move to L.A. at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
| Souvenir Program cover, 1964. ABT Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress |
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Poster advertising ABT performances in Russia, ca. 1960s. ABT Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
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The Library' of Congress exhibition highlights ABT's vibrant history, focusing on the dance company's early years, national and international touring, embrace of innovative contemporary ballets as well as traditional repertoire, diversity of artists, and the future of the company. The exhibition serves as a small sample of the total 50,000-item large collection. The 43 artifacts on display include priceless photographs, scores, costume sketches, posters and programs. In addition, a five-minute film of selected clips, produced for the exhibition by Ric Burns and Steeplechase Films, is on view.
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Marty Sohl, photographer. Anne Milewski and Misty Copeland in La Bayad�re, 2009. American Ballet Theatre Collection, Library of Congress
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"This is a major and important addition to the Library's dance collections," said Susan Vita, chief of the Library's Music Division. "American Ballet Theatre has historically brought a diverse, classical and uniquely American artistic expression to towns and cities throughout the globe. The ABT archives is unique in that it connects with so many of our major collections of composers, choreographers, set and lighting designers, and orchestrators. It is a thrill to have America's Ballet Company's archives as a centerpiece collection in America's Library."
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Myra Armstrong, photographer. Cynthia Gregory in Swan Lake, 1980s
American Ballet Theatre Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
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Congratulations to all 2014 Princess Grace Award winners!
ABT & Bolshoi principal, David Hallberg, is the Foundations' Princess Grace Statue Award winner.
See the complete list of 2014 winners.
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Try this feel-good Summer recipe. Perfect for a simple Vegetarian, Gluten Free night in or an appetizer to a weekend family BBQ.
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