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Arts Advocacy Day: Back to the Future

Guest blogger Danielle Marie Georgiou is a Dance Lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington where she serves as the Assistant Director of the UT Arlington’s Dance Ensemble. She is also a member of Muscle Memory Dance Theatre – a modern dance collective. Danielle is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities at [...]

Wednesday Morning Roundup

METROPOLITAN SHORTENS SEASON: The Metropolitan Classical Ballet has announced that is is canceling its three Bass Hall shows for this season. That leaves The Nutcracker as the only performance for the Arlington-based group. MCB’s board president Frank Hill tells the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that the cost of performing at Bass was just too high. CHRISTMAS [...]

Dallas Black Dance Theatre Announces 2009-10 Season

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Dallas Black Dance Theatre has dubbed its 33rd season “TranscenDANCE,” a fitting title as the company finds a new home in the Wyly Theatre this year. The other big change this season is an expansion from two to five performances per week, running from the group’s Wine down Wednesdays through a Sunday matinee at 2:30 [...]

Putting At-Risk Teens to Work — as Artists

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Seven weeks and 68 teens, one gallery exhibition and a musical theater show. Add it up, and you have a national award-winning program that tries to impart life skills to kids in trouble. The Creative Solutions summer camp finds juvenile probation officers working with Big Thought, the creative learning organization. Jerome Weeks reports on this year’s program at Southern Methodist University.

Monday Morning Roundup

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WEEKEND REVIEWS: Jubilee Theatre’s Sam Shade: A Detective Musical is a, “ rollicking, intermittently entertaining mess,” according to Manuel Mendoza (dallasnews.com) … Chris Shull calls Contemporary Dance Fort Worth’s new piece at this weekend’s Modern Dance Festival, “a fascinating kaleidoscope of sound and movement.” (dfw.com) … Art&Seek guest blogger Danielle Georgiou gets props for her, “wonderful [...]

Teaching Romeo and Juliet to Dance at Dallas Hub Theater

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Guest blogger Danielle Marie Georgiou is a Dance Lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington where she serves as the Assistant Director of the UT Arlington’s Dance Ensemble. She is also a member of Muscle Memory Dance Theatre – a modern dance collective. Danielle is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities at [...]

Dallas and South Africa: Teaching Art to Children

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Guest blogger Danielle Marie Georgiou is a Dance Lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington where she serves as the Assistant Director of the UT Arlington’s Dance Ensemble. She is also a member of Muscle Memory Dance Theatre – a modern dance collective. Danielle is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities at [...]

Modern Dance's Maverick Dies

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Guest blogger Danielle Marie Georgiou is a Dance Lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington where she serves as the Assistant Director of the UT Arlington’s Dance Ensemble. She is also a member of Muscle Memory Dance Theatre – a modern dance collective. Danielle is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities at [...]

Saturday Spotlight (7/18): Modern Dance Festival

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In the Saturday Spotlight, we’re attending the 6th Annual Modern Dance Festival in Fort Worth.

Take 5 with A Chorus Line alum – Baayork Lee

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There’s only a handful of performances left of A Chorus Line, presented by Dallas Summer Musicals at Fair Park. The ‘singular sensation’ leaves town after Sunday’s final 2:00 pm matinee show and heads off to Tokyo. We caught up with original cast member and the revival choreographer for the show, Baayork Lee, who made a quickie stop at the [...]

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