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Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino Warms Up New Hampshire

Zach Nugent — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:00:00 +0000

It’s not often you get to hear authentic world music in New Hampshire, especially in the dead of winter. But on February 6^th at the Spaulding Auditorium in Hanover, the southern Italian band Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino will be bringing their high energy pizzica tarantata music and dance. Leading a new wave of young Italian artists reinventing and invigorating traditional Italian music, CGS includes six singers/musicians and a dancer.

I think it would be impossible not to have fun at a show like this:

Capturing Grace

Virginia Prescott — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:10:44 +0000

A few years after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, writer, producer, and Public Radio host Dave Iverson learned that the Mark Morris Dance Group was teaching dance to people with Parkinson's at its Brooklyn headquarters. Dave was touched - and produced a special on the dance group for the PBS Newshour and the PBS series Frontline.

A Homecoming For Alvin Ailey's Artistic Director

Jordan Levin — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:08:00 +0000

The renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is currently on a national tour, and the company has brought Robert Battle, its new artistic director, back to where he started — a public school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Miami.

When Battle attended Northwestern Senior High in the mid-'80s, he'd walk 16 blocks to school through some of Liberty City's roughest neighborhoods. The riot-scarred area was still wracked by drugs, crime and desolation.

Wim Wenders On 'Pina': A Dance Documentary In 3-D

Pat Dowell — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:01:00 +0000

The film Pina is Germany's official entry at the 84th Academy Awards — and a collaboration between two famous Germans of the postwar generation. The filmmaker Wim Wenders captures the groundbreaking modern-dance choreography of the late Pina Bausch, in what many critics are calling a groundbreaking use of 3-D film.

Wenders is best known in the U.S. for such 1980s dramas as Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire.