Yesterday, the Dallas Morning News ran a story about how DISD feels it must make significant cuts in the number of employment positions at the city’s vanguard and magnet schools — including 13 positions at the Booker T Washington Arts Magnet alone and even more at the TAG magnet. But relatively little follow-up has happened [...]
Readers of the Art&Seek blog may recall that last year there was a sudden trendlet of tongue-in-cheek, public “performance art” pieces including a mass freezing in Grand Central Station and an outbreak of a musical comedy virus in an LA food court. Now the plague has gone international with “Do Re Mi” cropping up in [...]
Today in the Art&Seek Saturday Spotlight, we feature the Dallas Swing Dance Society’s 10th Anniversary celebration.
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 [...]
Ballet’s business: The Dallas Morning News takes a long look at Texas Ballet Theater. The good news: ballet officials say the company is emerging from the financial crisis that forced the company to back away from plans to perform in China. The eyebrow raisers: The DMN reports its review of TBT’s IRS records found that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Right. So how’s the movie? It’s a low-budget-but-n0t-cheap-looking musical set in America with all of the happy-happy Bollywood conventions intact, sub-category: the struggling young dancer with a dream. Raj (the charming Sachin Bhatt) wants to dance professionally, but he can’t get a gig, his dad doesn’t understand why he doesn’t find a real job and his girlfriend dumps him. An older Indian woman (Dubey) has a suggestion: Why not start a dance class for Indian women?
The South Dallas Cultural Center (SDCC) will wrap up its celebration of Black Women’s Month on Saturday with the debut of Evolution, a new dance/theater work by its own Michelle Gibson. Gibson has been a gifted addition to the Dallas dance community and is one of the “not to be missed” dancers in the area. [...]
