Monday evenings, a group called the Tartan & Thistle Scottish Country Dancers keeps this traditional dance form alive in Ann Arbor. Photographer Jeffrey Smith captured these images last week; for information on the group—beginners are welcome—see the group's website.
Yo Yo Ma The University Musical Society today announces its 2012-13 season, featuring a host of big names including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Martha Graham Dance Co., the National Theatre of Scotland, Dianne Reeves, Angelique Kidjo, and Yo-Yo Ma. The season will also celebrate the 100th anniversary of Hill ...
Angelin Preljocaj’s “Snow White” opens with a thunderous crack and the curtain rising on a midnight stage and a black-robed woman staggering forward, halting again and again to arch her back in labor pains. She gives birth to a baby girl—whisked away to be raised by her kingly father (and ...
Snow White is suddenly the fairest of them all, all over again. No fewer than two films this year—Tarsem Singh’s “Mirror Mirror,” now playing at a theater near you; and Rupert Sanders’ “Snow White and the Hunstman,” set for a June 1 release—bring the fairy-tale heroine, lips red as blood, ...
The Ann Arbor Summer Festival, now celebrating its 29th season, today announced the headlining indoor lineup for its 2012 season, running from June 15 to July 8.
The company may be called Random Dance, but those were no random dancers on the stage of Power Center Saturday evening. Catarina Carvalho. Benjamin Ord. Davide Di Pretoro. Michael-John Harper. Paolo Mangiola. Daniela Neugebauer. Anna Nowak. Fukiko Takase. Alexander Whitley. Jessica Wright. Legs with the tensile strength of steel, shooting ...
Wayne McGregor, resident choreographer of the Royal Ballet and artistic director of his own company, Wayne McGregor/Random Dance, the resident company of London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre, is English. But the motto of this globe-trotting, polymath choreographer might well be the title of that very American Cole Porter song, “Don’t Fence ...
If your interest in dance skews “strictly ballroom,” you might want to check out the 12th annual University of Michigan Ballroom Dance Competition, happening all day Saturday, Feb. 11 at Saline Middle School. 428 competitors from 23 different schools - including Purdue, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Northwestern, and Michigan ...
Married for 27 years, Judy Maynard and her husband Mike know that marriage is not always chocolate and roses. Taking a page from experience, they're on a mission to use what they've learned to help others reconnect and strengthen their relationships — and sometimes that takes a good date night. ...
"Dancelucent" continues through Sunday “Dancelucent 2012” isn’t the easiest program title to parse. But by the end of the University of Michigan Dance Department’s annual Power Center show, which opened Thursday evening and runs through Sunday, the clarity of the student dancing and the luminosity of the dances elucidate everything. ...
Did you miss “Einstein on the Beach,” the Robert Wilson-Philip Glass opera, with choreography by Lucinda Childs? Did you see the remounted opera at Power Center this month and long for more of Childs’ thrilling choreography to music of Glass? Either way, you’re in luck. Childs’ “Dance #1,” which Childs ...
On Saturday, Jan. 28 at 6:30 p.m., the University of Michigan Raas Association will hold its 11th annual intercollegiate Raas Competition, known as Dandia Dhamaka, at the Michigan Theater. Raas is a traditional and powerful form of Indian folk dance that expresses the richness of Indian culture in a colorful ...
The dance company Step Afrika! will perform at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre on Thursday, Jan. 19 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the University of Michigan’s 25th annual MLK Symposium. Admission is free. Step Afrika! is the first professional company in the world dedicated to the tradition of stepping, where ...
Health officials received confirmation this week that a skunk found on Ann Arbor's west side in late November had rabies.
University of Michigan Thurnau Professor of Dance Peter Sparling screens a selection of his dance works made specifically for video in a program on Wednesday. As a professional dancer/choreographer, Sparling has made more than 130 works for stages all over the world. During his decade-long foray into screendance, he has ...
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