Monthly Archives: August 2012

• Dudes on the Dancefloor!

  Posted on August 22, 2012 by lauraet in Linktastic.

  Tweet Michael Kaiser of the Huffington Post makes a sweet and compelling argument for men’s involvement in dance just in time for WRWR’s coverage of Academy of Dance’s new All Guys Hip-Hop class (that’s the studio where Daniel works! woohoo!).  And really, who wouldn’t want to follow in the dancing footsteps of the late, great […]

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• Links are your friends!

  Posted on August 20, 2012 by lauraet in Linktastic.

  Tweet Once again I’ve been compiling (for values of “compiling” including “happening across”) lots of good dance stuff online lately: Are Americans too cool for ballet?  I don’t necessarily buy this article’s conclusion, but I buy its premise: that most young Americans are no longer attracted either to the prospect of self-sacrifice for art or […]

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• What I Did on my Summer Vacation

  Posted on August 5, 2012 by lauraet in in other news, Uncategorized.

  Tweet Greetings from DLDancers HQ where I have returned after 5 weeks in Columbia, Missouri at the National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar “Jane Austen and her Contemporaries.” I went expecting a dance-free summer: I did not even take any dance shoes or dance clothes, planning to focus on fitness and conditioning (read “go […]

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