tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47300863579924258452012-02-16T07:17:23.454-05:00Dance Is The Answer is a collaboration of the region’s dance artists under the umbrella of Dance/MetroDC, the area’s service organization. Our goal is to raise awareness of and participation in the valuable dance offerings we collectively bring to the region. Through low-cost and free performances, open rehearsals, classes, lectures and events throughout the metropolitan DC/VA/MD region, dance IS the answer April 15th through May 2nd, 2011!Dance/Metro DC Forward Fivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15167923725022517199noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4730086357992425845.post-29109317341724167862011-04-27T01:25:00.007-04:002011-04-27T11:21:29.921-04:00

By Helen Gineris “It was never about the classes for me, it was always about the choreography. Much more than working on precise technical detail, it’s that whole process of making something that’s appealing to me,” says Jane Franklin, Artistic Director of Jane Franklin Dance, a company well-known for performing in non-traditional spaces including galleries and the outdoors. Franklin welcomes

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By Helen GinerisIn the Gateway Arts District of Mount Rainier, MD, Dance/Metro DC met up with contributing sponsors Laura Schandelmeier and Stephen Clapp in their thoughtfully decorated and spacious artist loft. Founders and Co-Artistic Directors of Dance Box Theater, Schandelmeier and Clapp delivered a warm welcome, an inviting loft tour, and a cup of tea before telling Dance/Metro DC all about

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Dance Is The Answer 2011 kicks off it's two week celebration with "Tango Your Taxes Off" an opening celebration of dance for the DC metro region. Dancers and enthusiasts took part in an evening of tango demonstrations and lessons by Sharna Fabiano & Isaac Oboka of Tango Mercurio, the unveiling of BOX O’ ART, a traveling visual art and movement installation and became acquainted with all the

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Washington, DC – Over 55 artists, organizations & venues partner with Dance/MetroDC to celebrate Dance Is The Answer 2010. Over 275 dance classes, workshops, lectures, open rehearsals, performances and special events take place across the metro region between April 15 and May 2 – many of them FREE!Dance/MetroDC’s Dance Is The Answer is a collective effort on the part of the region’s dance

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Celebrate Dance Is The Answer by joining everyone at Chief Ike’s Mambo Room in Adams Morgan!Save the Next Dance For Me: Dance Is the Answer Closing Party from 8:30 PM on into the night! Shake your groove thing, dance with me, I want to be your partner, change partners at dance: whatever lyric from whatever era, come state how dance is the answer for you!An opportunity to rub elbows and bump

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By Peter DiMuro and Cheryl SidwellAttempting to preserve the legacies of the NY dance world, Jamie Cunningham and Tina Croll, two stalwarts of that city’s dance scene, created the performance work FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH. The piece thrilled sold-out houses in subsequent versions worldwide while capturing a multiple decade’s eye-view of dance and dancers’ lives—on-stage, off-stage and

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Please share with everyone the performances that you have seen and/or the classes that you have taken?

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by Lotta LundgrenNot for the polished and perfect, for the packaged finished.But for exploration. For searching and researching.For falling flat on you face. And for rising high above.For daring not to know. And for inviting the minds of others, right then! in that shivering moment, when the idea is taken into its first form, its first shape, its first existence.For sharing what we cannot share

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Statement by Prof. Alkis RaftisPresident of the International Dance Council CIDUNESCO, Paris

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By Roxann Morgan RowleyDance On Site kicked off on last week on Friday April 24th with a bang! Twist ! Open! Run! Robot?Sylvana Sandoz, Marissa Guerrero, and Heather Doyle entertained the lunch crowd at noon on Friday in Freedom Plaza. The dancers improvised several sets of structured dances for the crowd to watch. Dancers shouted commands, partnered, jiggled, wiggled and moved their way up and

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By Debra CashMy great-uncle Izzy was a scamp. Just ask his sisters.As a teenager he didn’t wait his turn to leave the Ukrainian shtetl where he was born to join his older sisters in America. Instead, he stole the produce delivery horse and went over the Romanian border, landing in Philadelphia without so much as a by-your-leave or I’

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by Daniel HurstI’m lucky enough to have a friend, Leslie Cooper, who works with the Alabama Ballet. I’ve been pestering her for a while about watching a ballet practice, so she graciously set me up to watch the final dress rehearsal of the Ballet’s upcoming performance. The show - running this weekend only - pairs Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs with award-winning resident choreographer Roger

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Please share with everyone the performances that you have seen and/or the classes that you have taken?

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by John Borstel“So are you a dancer?”I hear the question a lot, usually when I’m out at meetings or presentations wearing my hat as a member the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange administrative staff. And who wouldn’t be flattered by a question like that? But once I’m finished blushing I have to deal with actually answering -- which presents numerous challenges, including the questions of how to define “

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It's just a few "official" days away, but for me, Dance Is The Answer has been a way of life!I can't wait to introduce myself to you all! I have been away for some time, but Deeka Vameed is Back!More this coming week...get ready - Best, Deeka

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