First part of a Judith Jamieson interview from January 4 PBS News Hour
JANUARY 6 PBS JUDITH JAMIESON INTERVIEW
Monday's News Hour on PBS featured an interview with Judith Jamieson, director of the Alvin Ailey Dance COnmpany, who has announced that she will be stepping down from her position in 2011.
The PBS interview is broken into several smaller video's and her interview is the first and third videos
(the new content starts around 3 minutes on the 3rd down video). Other videos on this page show clips of Revelations, The Winter in Lisbon and Lettres de Amoue and a 1990 interview with Ms Jamieson.
[Jan 4 Judith Jamieson interviews and Ailey dance clips]
SEPTEMBER 30 DANCE TEACHERS - DON'T BE FOOLED
There's been a dramatic increase in the number of dance teacher scam emails.
If you have received a letter anything like the following....
Good day to you over there, I need a Private dancing Teacher for my wife (Reta) and my son (Jenny) for 3 months. I got your advert while surfing through the internet and I really want them to be taught by you. Reta is 37 year old and and Jenny is 15 years old. Although, I understand you are in U.S.A, but I am working on the arrangement for their accommodation since they are coming on 3 months Vacation Holiday. The both of them are beginners, I just want to fix this to make them busy at times. We are based in London, UK and they will be arriving on 28th of Desamber. Kindly get back to me with.
1.YOUR PRIVATE CLASS CHARGE FOR AN HOUR?
2.TOTAL CHARGES FOR 3 MONTH THAT THEY WILL BE TAUGHT 3 TIMES PER WEEK?
3.FULL NAME AND ADDRESS?
4.YOUR PHONE NUMBER?
Don't hesitate to e-mail with your total charges for the 3 months Private lesson.
Just delete it.
If you have already corresponded with the con artists, do NOT under any circumstances send out a check to them or anyone else. The certified check they will send you is a fraud. [Internet Dance Scammers
Improve Their Techniques]
DECEMBER 5 DANCE STUDIO STATS
Dance Studio Life recently did a survey of 753 dance school owners. The majority of studios had no downswing in enrollment in their 2007/2008 year in fact slightly more than 40% saw an increased enrollment. In addition, now almost 80% of the studios are doing competition. The number of non-competition dance schools continues to drop. [dance studio statistics]
NOVEMBER 29 THE PERFORMING ARTS NEED TO THINK GREEN
"EVERY theatre has a green room, but few are green in the modern sense. With their banks of dazzling stage lights and foyers ablaze nightly, theatres are energy-hungry beasts. Add to that the costs and waste associated with sets and props and the mountains of paper generated with every production and the world of make-believe begins to look grim..."
Down in Australia, they are already working to lessen the performing arts environmental impact. Andrew Upton, who will be co-artistic director (along with Cate Blanchett) of the Sydney Theatre Company, issued the following statement at a forum about the arts and pollution, "Theatre's role in any society is to be in engaged dialogue with the fundamental questions of the day...A person cannot simply talk about climate change, write plays about climate change and have forums about climate change; it's an issue that demands active engagement."
[Enter a greener limelight by Fiona Gruber The Australian 11/29/07]
NOVEMBER 29 WHY THE YOUNG DON'T DANCE
This from an article about the slow demise of polka in the rural west - "It's our generation's fault...When we were growing up, our parents would take us to the dances. We'd fall asleep on the side of the stage, or in the booths. But then when our generation grew up, we got baby sitters."
It does seem as though now social dancing is for adults unencumbered of child for an evening. The Hispanic culture has a tradition of bringing even the babies to dances with the result that by the time their children hit puberty, they are passable to good dancers. Maybe it's time for all dancing parents to start bringing the young ones so they can learn early rather than too late. Spread the wealth! [A rural dance tradition in twilight by Ben Ratliff Herald Tribune 11/29/07]
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