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...when Robbins and George Balanchine were working, companies such as the Joffrey Ballet and Alvin Ailey were drawing hip new audiences, and stars like Baryshnikov were celeb-magazine fodder. Instead, it has glided into the mass-audience mainstream. Broadway shows like Billy 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...
...that his painful piano lessons never could. We discover later that Vale only took up the piano in hopes of connecting to his dead wife, a classical pianist.The scenes of Vale playing the drums are the strongest in the movie. Tarek introduces him to the music of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, invites him to jazz clubs, and brings him to play with a group of drummers in Central Park. In these scenes, Vale’s reserved, curmudgeonly self gives way, slowly, to a more expressive man.Soon, however, Tarek is arrested in the subway and taken to a detention facility...
...Growing up in a working-class section of Senegal's capital Dakar, Kane listened to European music on the radio and fell in love with the Nigerian Afro-beat pioneer Fela Kuti, whose own music reflected a melee of African and Western styles. As is common in his home country, Kane had trouble finding work. Many young Senegalese dream of making a living abroad, some of whom brave a treacherous journey in the open seas on rickety boats to get to Europe...
...past 60 years. Those who endured the struggle just to survive from one day to the next, or fought against incurable diseases, or tried not to succumb to pain or injuries inflicted by fellow humans - they are also heroes. Hans D. Chi Zurich Afrobeat musician and political activist Fela Kuti was one of only two Nigerians included in your list (the other was novelist Chinua Achebe), and this distinction was no mean achievement. Fela's superhuman energy, his wild and wicked sense of humor and his rebellious attitude revealed a man who refused to let go of his youthful, rebellious...
...Fela Kuti, he’s from Nigeria. He was one of the most energetic performers and band leaders of all time. He had his own genre, I guess you’d call it Afro-beat. That’s what he called...