Lil Wayne has postponed his forthcoming European shows, expected to kick off in Paris on Thursday, due to illness.
The rap star was set to play seven dates in Europe over the next 10 days, including the Roskilde Festival in Denmark and two dates in London.
An official statement said the musician had been forced to cancel the concerts due to “doctor-mandated rest”. More…
It’s hard not to notice Saidah Fishenden and Kimberly Gipson. The defined biceps, streamlined physiques and the way they seem to float rather than walk —- even in four-inch heels —- have a way of attracting attention.
This year, the two Atlanta dancers are getting some of the best attention possible. All the world is a stage for Fishenden and Gipson, who perform several nights a week as backup dancers on Beyonce’s “I AM…” global tour, which kicked off its U.S. leg last week and hits Philips Arena on Wednesday. Read more…
Dance Canvas is pleased to announce the 2009-10 search for the NEXT GENERATION of choreographers. If you are innovative, creative, and have an inspired choreographic point of view, we want to feature you in our 2009 Performance Series at the Woodruff Arts Center’s 14th Street Playhouse. Selected Choreographers will receive More …
The associate choreographer for Michael Jackson’s comeback tour says that the 50-year-old performer “was at his best” before his sudden death last week. “He really was in good shape, he was moving well,” Stacy Walker tells EW. Walker worked with choreographer Travis Payne on the “This Is It” tour that Jackson would have headlined in London this summer. “I don’t know what he was feeling on the inside but he certainly looked good on the outside. He was very, very up and happy. We all know he wasn’t a big guy. He was always very lean. Oddly enough, his best rehearsals were his last two on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. That’s where all the magic happened. We were all like, ‘Wow!’ It was stunning and ironic that he was at his best, right before he left us.”
Walker says she and Payne were rehearsing the show’s 11 dancers at Staples Center in Los Angeles when they heard the news about Jackson. “We were waiting for Michael to come,” Walker recalls. “None of us believed it. You know, there’s so much craziness around Michael’s life, so we are pretty good at sticking with the truth. We didn’t truly believe anything until our director Kenny Ortega got an official call.” More…
XCEL Talent Agency choreographer Jamie Lane is shooting a promo in Orlando with Faith Hill for Sunday Night Football. The promo will air during the NFL season. More…
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A few weeks back, I got to see Rasta Thomas‘ all male ballet company, Bad Boys of Dance, at Wolf Trap, and they were some bad boys (and bad girls, too). All were amazing dancers, and like Thomas, not only were they exceptional ballet dancers, but they excellent at modern, hip-hop and tap. I do not think there is anything that they can not do. Read what was missing here…
FROM MTV.COM:Yesterday morning, I watched a grown man dance down Hollywood Boulevard in a string bikini, singing Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It).” And the weird part is, I really enjoyed it.
But not nearly as much as “Twilight” star Peter Facinelli, who devised the devious dance as punishment for his friend Rob DeFranco — an entrepreneur who bet the man otherwise known as Dr. Carlisle Cullen that he couldn’t get half a million followers on Twitter. With help from his 500,000 best friends, Facinelli won — and this morning, shrieking Twilighters came from far and wide to watch DeFranco shake his tail feather. More…
If Len Goodman appeared to be struggling to award 10s to Dancing With the Stars finalists Shawn Johnson, Gilles Marini and Melissa Rycroft, the fault may not have been entirely in the dancing. The center judge himself was in the midst of a much headier battle than the one for the disco ball trophy. More…
Despite the ethereal swans and sylphs she’s played on stage, superstar ballerina Nina Ananiashvili has regularly shown her iron will off of it. Among the first Soviet-era ballerinas to dance freely in the West without defecting, the former Bolshoi prima was not afraid to publicly denounce Russia’s military action in Georgia last summer.
The Tbilisi-born dancer joined American Ballet Theatre 16 years ago and these days also heads the State Ballet of Georgia, where she lives with her young daughter, Helene, and her husband, Gregory, Georgia’s Foreign Minister. With her husband taking a more prominent role on the political stage, Ananiashvili is retiring this week from ABT to devote more time to her family and troupe. On Saturday night, the 46-year-old dancer gives her final performance, in Swan Lake. The dual role of Odette/Odile is equal parts fragile creature and ballsy vixen and few can muster the goods to deliver superbly on both counts. Ananiashvili is among them and it’s bound to be an emotional night. As she prepared for her final bow, the dance diva talked to W. Read interviw here…
