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Shenandoah University launches certificate program in Performing Arts Medicine.
This program focuses on preventing and managing injuries/disorders of dancers, musicians, and vocalists.
This program has two tracks:
Track I: For licensed health care professionals
Track II: Open to those individuals who are instructors of one of the performing arts.
Track I was launched July 2011 and Track II is launching July 1st, 2012. The 18 credit program is a hybrid of online instruction with once a semester weekend on campus seminar.
For more information, please click here.
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Degas's Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint
October 1, 2011–January 8, 2012
The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-387-2151
This exhibition uncovers the history behind Edgar Degas' (1834–1917) late masterpiece, Dancers at the Barre. A rich selection of works in various media reveal the complex process of this timeless painting, capturing a great sense of movement. For additional information.
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Adopted from birth, I lost my father at 7 and my mother, from an untreated disease, at 25. Orphaned again, I sought love promiscuously. Soon I was diagnosed with HIV. My destiny is to fight this disease! Dance is life, and LIFE became more important than ever before! I began sharing my life and dancing with the disabled. Opening a whole new world, this brings the freedom of self-expression that every human should feel. ~ Chace C.
Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre to Premiere New Work
World AIDS Day
December 1, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011, World AIDS Day, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will premiere Home, a new hip-hop dance choreographed by Rennie Harris and inspired by personal stories, photos, and essays of ten people impacted by HIV: the winners of the "Fight HIV Your Way" contest. Chace C., quoted above, is one of these winners.
This is the first time Ailey will present an original dance to recognize the continued HIV epidemic. The poignancy of the day – December 1 – is also symbolic in that it is both World AIDS Day and the day that the Company's founder, Alvin Ailey, passed away from the disease in 1989.
Home will premiere as part of Ailey's New York City Center season and will be performed across the country on the Company's 2012 U.S. Tour.
To view the inspirational stories behind the creation of Home, visit: http://www.fighthivyourway.com/winners.aspx
See footage from Home rehearsal
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GANSU DANCE THEATER PRESENTS US PREMIERE OF SILK ROAD
Award-Winning Classical Chinese Dance Drama Inspired by Magnificent Dunhuang Frescoes
Chinese Performing Artists of America (CPAA) Productions, Ltd. presents Gansu Dance Theatre's Silk Road in the Eisenhower Theater of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, December 9 & 10.
Inspired by classical Dunhuang frescoes, the production weaves song and dance to tell the story of friendship forged between peoples of various countries along the Silk Road during the Tang Dynasty. The lives of the main characters, master fresco painter Zhang, his daughter Yingniang and Persian merchant Yunus, are intertwined throughout.
Gansu Dance Theatre, one of the key art performing groups of the State Culture Ministry of China, was established in 1960 and is made up of the Dance Company, Symphony Orchestra and Vocal Opera Ensemble, Stage Working Department, Costume Design Studio, Music Studio, Video-audio Studio, and Art Studio. The performance is presented by the China Performing Arts Agency, the cultural exchange institution under the Ministry of Culture.
For more information, visit www.kennedy-center.org.
re:AB Pilates Open Houses
Pilates expert and New York Times bestselling author Brooke Siler and her Manhattan-based Pilates studio, re:AB, are offering an innovative Teacher Training Program like no other in the Pilates world!
The concept is "Quality over Quantity", and re:AB is devoted to providing Pilates students with the highest quality of authentic teacher training. Taught in "systems" and categorized by hours and experience level, the program is taught by Brooke and 30-year Pilates veteran, Cary Regan, along with a family of instructors all certified by Joseph Pilates' protégée Romana Kryzanowska or Brooke Siler herself.
Limited enrollment, unparalleled equipment and unrivaled resources make re:AB's Teacher Training Program the ultimate destination for Pilates students across the country.
re:AB is now offering an open house for all dancers! Dancers can find answers to questions about Teacher Training Program plus free mat classes and Q&A. Every 3rd Thursday from 1-2 PM.
Upcoming open house dates:
Dec 15th 1 – 2pm
For more information please visit the re:AB Pilates website.
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Take Dance Company and Pulse Composers Collaborate in FIVE POINTS
Featuring Five World Premieres
What: FIVE POINTS - Take Dance Company+Pulse Composers: Part II
Where: Merce Cunningham Dance Studios, 55 Bethune Street, Train 1/2/3/A/C/E to 14th Street
When: December 15-16 @ 9:00PM, December 17th @ 8:00PM
Tickets: $20/$15 Students & Seniors.
To purchase tickets