CURRENT ISSUE
February 2010
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Click here to read our January 2009 cover story "The Pioneers: Inside ABT's New Training Program"
Online-only features
- Ballet class with Elizabeth Parkinson at FineLine Theatre Arts
- Marni Thomas teaches Graham contractions
- Ballet class with Summer Lee Rhatigan, director of San Francisco Conservatory of Dance
- Tony Stevens demonstrates jazzy plies
- Mandy Moore's choreography in "Fashion Forward" at the 2009 DT Summit
- Video of Mandy Moore choreographing "Fashion Forward" at the 2009 DT Summit
- DT interviews Kim McSwain about her inspirational life
- Behind-the-scenes interview with Shane Sparks!
- Salsa with Cheryl Burke; a behind-the-scenes look at our October cover shoot!
- Interview with Cheryl Burke
- Dance at University of Michigan in the 1920s, and photos from their recent centennial celebration
- Modern Class with Carolyn Adams and ADF Honors Carolyn Adams, Ruth Andrien and Sharon Kinney
- Aerial Dance: two videos from Nancy Smith's "Frequent Flyer Productions"
- Ballet Class at Juilliard with Lawrence Rhodes
- Tech Rehearsal with Tap City Youth Ensemble
- Inside the NYU/ABT MA program with guest blogger Hannah G.
- Healthy Feet Exercises for Tappers
- Thinking on Their Feet preview
- View youngARTS slideshow
- Behind the Scenes with Urban Bush Women
- On Set with Tyce Diorio
- Behind the Scenes with ABT's Raymond Lukens, Rachel Moore and Franco De Vita
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Keep it disciplined: Gymnasts may be used to chatting with each other throughout practices, so they may need to readjust to back-to-back exercises at the barre.
Winners of the Month!
Chet Walker at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
EDITOR'S BLOG
Dancing for Thomas Jefferson
Jenny Dalzell / Feb 2, 2010
Late at night on the eve of April 12, 2009, 18 people were ordered to leave the Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. on account of disrespecting the monument by silently dancing in celebration of Jefferson’s birthday. After protesting Parks Services’ request to leave numerous times, one dancer, Mary Oberwetter, was arrested. Although her charges were later dropped, Oberwetter sued Parks Services, citing that her right to freedom of expression was violated. Just last week, U.S. District Judge John Bates dropped her case and ruled that the inside of a memorial is not a place to dance,…
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Late at night on the eve of April 12, 2009, 18 people were ordered to leave the Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. on account of disrespecting the monument by silently dancing in celebration of Jefferson’s birthday. After protesting Parks Services’ request to leave numerous times, one dancer, Mary Oberwetter, was arrested. Although her charges were later dropped, Oberwetter sued Parks Services, citing that her right to freedom of expression was violated. Just last week, U.S. District Judge John Bates dropped her case and ruled that the inside of a memorial is not a place to dance,…
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