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Becoming Lola: A Damn Yankees vamp.     When Gwen Verdon debuted as Lola in 1955’s Damn Yankees, a star was born. Her onstage charisma and sassy flair made her—and the role—iconic. Broadway audiences never forgot. Lola has been a challenge for everyone who has attempted the part since. But in the recent Arena Stage […]

Aszure All Over Canadian-born Aszure Barton, 30, has been a practicing choreographer for almost her entire life. Yet for many people she seems to have burst onto the American scene out of the blue. And soon there’ll be no ignoring her.   This month and next, Barton and her flexibly populated group of dance virtuosi, […]

Great reads for the beach, the mountains, or the studio     Dance Anecdotes: Stories from the Worlds of Ballet, Broadway, the Ballroom, and Modern Dance Edited by Mindy Aloft. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 288 pp. Hardcover, $26. Dance usually speaks for itself, but a few well-chosen words are always welcome. This quirky […]

SEEDing Self Esteem Teenage girls study belly dance in Santa Fe When best friends Heather McDonald and Marissa Mathy-Zvaifler were 16, they signed up for a belly dancing workshop. It was an introduction to SEEEDS—Self-Esteem, Expression, Empowerment, and Education through Dance—for teenage girls at Myra Krien’s Pomegranate Studios in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The girls […]

Lisa Shriver gets down home and country in her first outing as a choreographer, Ring of Fire.     The first and only time Lisa Shriver performed in a musical, it was a high-school production of Anything Goes in Colorado Springs. “I wanted Reno Sweeney,” she says. She got a small part instead. But it […]

We seem to be in the middle of a serious debate on whether New York is (or is still) the center of the dance world. Wow! Big stuff! Big argument! But, as first pointed out in these pages by editor Wendy Perron (“Curtain Up,” December 2005), in these days of globalization, one wonders whether such […]

Hawaiian festivals, Aix gets axed, Rainer does Stravinsky, Dance Place’s 25th     The Hawaiian Scene: Grass Skirts and Dancing Geckos Hawaii may be a vacation paradise, but the state is rapidly gaining a reputation for its cultural offerings, too. Among a wide range of dance attractions, hula is still the predominant style, with hundreds […]

Classic Pilates: Down to the Mat     Dancers tend to be flexible, often to their detriment: looseness can make movement harder to control. Weight training tends to focus on one muscle group, and cardio workouts build stamina, not core strength. But Pilates can strengthen your whole body, starting with your core.   “Many dancers […]