Tag: dance
Strike A Pose
For many Madonna fans the peak of the musical career for the diva and superstar was in the 1990’s about the time when she was traveling the globe with her Blond Ambition World Tour which thrilled the audiences crammed packed into stadiums with the same vehement passion that it was also condemned by The Catholic…
First peek of Sergei Polunin in Dancer
BBC Films have just released the first trailer of ‘Dancer’ a new immensely personal documentary that tells the story of ballet’s bad boy Sergei Polunin who took the dance world by storm and became the Royal Ballet’s youngest ever principal, and then stormed out in a hissy fit when he was just 25 years old. His popularity…
Our Last Tango
The Argentinean couple who are acknowledged as the finest exponents of tango, and who managed over their 40 years of dancing together from the streets of Buenos Aires to the Broadway stage, share two major passions. The first is for the dance that they literally ate, slept and breathed every moment of the day, and…
‘Walk’ : a look back at ‘Voguing’.
As witnessed with the recent Sundance of the stunning documentary Kiki, ‘voguing’ is still very much alive and well in N.Y. The outside world first got to know about it back in 1990 with Jenni Livingston’s Paris Is Burning which became the definitive film about the history of ball-culture, but now another ‘new’ record of…
Kiki
To us non-residents of Harlem the fact that 25 years after Jenni Livingston’s seminal documentary Paris Is Burning, ‘voguing’ is very much alive in the dance clubs and community spaces in this corner of New York is quite a shock. In fact it’s been re-shaped and re-invented to bring it more in line with the needs and…
