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...refiner. Tap dancing had traditionally been all legwork, with the upper body stationary (think Gene Kelly). Astaire, as his teacher Ned Wayburn noted, "was the first American tap dancer to consciously employ the full resources of his arms, hands and torso for visual ornamentation." Then he integrated ballet and ballroom dance into his style. He wasn't grounded, in the old tap fashion; he floated, soared like Nijinsky. The mood of his dances also went beyond the comic energy of tap; his were stories of romance won and lost. Add to this his gorgeous poise and his teeming ingenuity...
...show was slated to start at 8 p.m. At 8:15 p.m., the stagehands started bringing instruments on stage. They weren’t quite through until just before 9 p.m. Last Tuesday, in Avalon’s smoky, dimly lit Ballroom, 1,300 fans waited and watched good-naturedly as several guitars, African talking drums, maracas, a penny whistle, Tibetan finger cymbals, a mandolin, a Cajun washboard, a djembe and a myriad of other instruments appeared onstage. Mellow Beatles covers provided background noise as excited groupies mulled about, unruffled by the delay and fraught with anticipation. When the band...
Undeterred by the fact that Boston had the misfortune to have its Icicle Ball cancelled, I ventured to the somewhat hallowed halls of New York city’s Hammerstein Ballroom, which was not so unlucky. Artist Direct’s Snocore mini-festivals have two different tours that run concurrently. The rock tour, which this year featured Alien Ant Farm and The Apex Theory, caters for the harder-headed listeners, while the romantically named Icicle Ball presents an eclectic mix of artists tending towards the more adventurous. This year’s Ball even featured poet Saul Williams...
Hammerstein Ballroom...
...like DJs, if you like hip hop, if you like funk, if you like rock’n’roll...then Scratch Tour 2002 is your musical dream. No, Scratch Tour 2002, which hit Boston at the Avalon Ballroom on March 19, is your sound utopia and your DJ nirvana. Avalon was equipped with a row of turn-tables running the length of the stage, a jam-packed crowd of fans, a small break-dancing circle and a big screen running everything from live feed of the DJs’ hands close up, to the bouncing crowd to unrelated...