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What: The Harvard Ballroom Dance Team brings you Just Dance! For all the ballroom dancing beginners and experts. You can dance "a fiery tango, a flirtatious chacha, an elegant waltz, and of course the very hot salsa!" A special performance with admissions fee of $5. No experience or partner necessary...
...Gershwin on Sunday nights. As a teenager, he was sent to the principal’s office in Roxbury Memorial High for drumming incessantly on his desk. At 20 years of age, he collected a letter inviting him to join Luis Russell’s band at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. He accepted. “The rest,” said Haynes, fresh from his 85th birthday just two weeks ago, “is history...
...Elliot and Fela! (the Afrobeat musical choreographed by Bill T. Jones) put dance front and center. The ballet-like triple axels of Olympic figure skaters drew huge ratings at the Winter Games. And TV hits like Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance have given ballroom dancing a cachet it hasn't had since Fred Astaire hung...
Tharp confesses she's never seen either show--she hasn't got a TV set, she says, and doesn't "know squat about ballroom dancing"--but cheers the trend. "It's great. I'm all in favor of it." And why not? Tharp has spent most of her career striving to expand dance's vocabulary and audience. "People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.' I'm very, very interested in how people who come to my shows with...
...Jessica Parker and Spike Lee. In an episode of the NBC show, Kudrow goes to Belarus to find the grave of her great-grandmother who was killed in the Holocaust and meets a family member who survived. It's fascinating, but probably only because she's a celebrity. Even ballroom dancing is interesting if there are celebrities involved. (See the top 10 reality TV shows...