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Metro DC Dance Awards at the Kennedy Center

This year’s Metro DC Dance Awards honored the best of the city’s dancers, choreographers, and companies on Monday night at the Kennedy Center. As evidence of the flourishing dance hub Washington is consistently becoming, it was standing room only for ...

From MEGHAN WELSH, DCist,  10 Sep 2008
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CorbinDances at Dance Place this Weekend

CorbinDances dance company performs at Dance Place this weekend. Photo by Lois Greenfield, courtesy of CorbinDances. A great dancer does not a choreographer make, but area native Patrick Corbin has proven otherwise with his company CorbinDances. Fresh ...

From MEGHAN WELSH, DCist,  1 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Paul Taylor,  Nelly

Paul Taylor Dance Company @ Wolf Trap

In sweltering humidity, took the stage at Wolf Trap’s open air theater on Tuesday night for an evening of modern dance. The only thing unpleasant about the two hour performance was the temperature, and even that was easy to ignore as Taylor’s dancers ...

From MEGHAN WELSH, DCist,  11 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Paul Taylor

Preview: Paul Taylor Dance Company at Wolf Trap

If you haven’t made the trek out to Wolf Trap lately, consider heading down to Vienna tomorrow night to see the modern dance performed by . Many have called Paul Taylor the greatest living American choreographer, and the works his company will perform ...

From MEGHAN WELSH, DCist,  7 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Paul Taylor,  Alex Katz

CityDance Ensemble Finishes Season With Songwriters

Area dance company CityDance Ensemble wraps up a busy season tonight with The Songwriters, a tribute to some of America’s greatest songwriters including Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry, and Bruce Springsteen. While CityDance consistently puts on a great ...

From MEGHAN WELSH, DCist,  13 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Woody Guthrie,  Bruce Springsteen

Dancers to Perform on Stilts in Columbus Circle

Starting this morning and continuing until Saturday evening, the Start with the Arts Family Festival is holding performances and kids workshops in Columbus Circle, in front of Union Station. VSA Arts, which is throwing the celebration, is an ...

From MEGHAN WELSH, DCist,  30 May 2008

Hurray for Bollywood

If National Dance Week got your blood pumping, consider heading over to Joy of Motion’s Bethesda Studios this Sunday afternoon for Hurray for BOLLYWOOD! The adult workshop class invites all levels and styles of dancers to come and explore Indian dance. ...

From MEGHAN WELSH, DCist,  2 May 2008
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Dance Is The Answer in D.C. This Week

If fears of that $100 fill-up forced you to cut your weekly flamenco lesson, you might want to take advantage of Dance/MetroDC’s second annual event in honor of National Dance Week. National Dance Week was organized in 1981 and has been an annual ...

From MEGHAN WELSH, DCist,  25 Apr 2008

Don't Forget Your iPod...

Most of us take our iPods everywhere nowadays, and it’s not uncommon to see people wearing them in unusual places. In restaurants. In the grocery store. There are even gizmos that allow you to bring your iPod in the shower with you now. But when is the ...

From MEGHAN WELSH, DCist,  28 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Merce Cunningham,  Billy Joel,  Kanye West,  Britney Spears

Shen Wei Dance Arts at The Kennedy Center

There are dozens of galleries and performance spaces in the Washington, D.C. area, but few actually allow you to observe as an original work is created each night. In performances of Connect Transfer by Shen Wei Dance Arts in the Kennedy Center ...

From MEGHAN WELSH, DCist,  21 Mar 2008

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