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Obama confers arts and humanities medals on big names, including Dylan and Eastwood
Culture MonsterAfter deliberating for hours on healthcare in Thursday's summit, President Obama turned to the arts, entertainment, literature and scholarship, conferring the National Medal of Arts -- the nation's highest award in the field -- on 12 recipients and the... -
'My Brother's Keeper' at BET: Fancy footwork, lots of heart in an uneven Nicholas Brothers story
The Theater LoopTHEATER REVIEW: "My Brother's Keeper" ★★½ Open run at Black Ensemble Theater, 4520 N. Beacon St.; Running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes; Tickets: $45 at 773-769-4451 and www.blackensembletheater.org. With Dawn Mitchell, Donald Barnes (back right),... -
Cheryl Holdridge dies at 64; popular Mouseketeer
![Cheryl Holdridge, the beautiful blond actress who first gained fame as a Mouseketeer on TV's "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s, has died. She was 64.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-01/44427204-09101351.jpg "Cheryl Holdridge, the beautiful blond actress who first gained fame as a Mouseketeer on TV's "The Mickey Mouse Club\" in the 1950s, has died. She was 64.")
Cheryl Holdridge, the beautiful blond actress who first gained fame as a Mouseketeer on TV's "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s, has died. She was 64.
Holdridge died Tuesday at her home in Santa Monica after a two-year battle with lung cancer, said...Tags: Celebrities, Bewitched (tv program), Bars and Clubs, Entertainment, Dance
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Kansas City Ballet
Winter Performance: February 19-22, 2009
The 51st season will continue with the Winter Show's presentation of a Kansas City PREMIERE of Ben Stevenson's End of Time, two works rarely seen in Kansas City, George Balanchine's Apollo and Yuri Possokhov's...Tags: Entertainment, Dance, Dancing, Twyla Tharp, Sports
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Levi's video puts dancers in spotlight
![IT STARTED as a simple back flip. Well, maybe it wasn't that simple. Los Angeles dancer-choreographer Jacob "Kujo" Lyons executed the risky move for a video camera -- tumbling through the air from a bouncing seesaw into a pair of blue jeans. The resulting footage, combined with scenes of three other guys athletically donning their dungarees, was conceived and shot by Benzo Theodore as <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=pShf2VuAu_Q">a viral ad for Levi’s</a> and was posted on YouTube on May 5.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-05/39353840-29185558.jpg "IT STARTED as a simple back flip. Well, maybe it wasn't that simple. Los Angeles dancer-choreographer Jacob "Kujo\" Lyons executed the risky move for a video camera -- tumbling through the air from a bouncing seesaw into a pair of blue jeans. The resulting footage, combined with scenes of three other guys athletically donning their dungarees, was conceived and shot by Benzo Theodore as <a href=\"http://youtube.com/watch?v=pShf2VuAu_Q\">a viral ad for Levi’s</a> and was posted on YouTube on May 5.")
Special to The TimesIT STARTED as a simple back flip. Well, maybe it wasn't that simple. Los Angeles dancer-choreographer Jacob "Kujo" Lyons executed the risky move for a video camera -- tumbling through the air from a bouncing seesaw into a pair of blue jeans. The resulting...Tags: Bill Clinton, YouTube, Entertainment, Documentary (genre), Dance
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Karole Armitage fuses the cerebral and the sensual
Karole Armitage is having an intensely busy first week of March, and the stress is showing.
She's a few days away from the opening of an ambitious retrospective -- revivals of several of the barrier-smashing dances that, a generation ago, put her on...Tags: Hair and Nails, Entertainment, David Salle, Michael Jackson, Dance
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Twyla Tharp-Elvis Costello work to open 'Dance at the Music Center'
![The West Coast premiere of a Twyla Tharp collaboration with rock star composer Elvis Costello, "Nightspot," and the return of the Kirov Ballet will highlight the 2008-09 series.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-04/38351558-30143320.jpg "The West Coast premiere of a Twyla Tharp collaboration with rock star composer Elvis Costello, "Nightspot,\" and the return of the Kirov Ballet will highlight the 2008-09 series.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe West Coast premiere of a Twyla Tharp collaboration with rock star composer Elvis Costello, "Nightspot," and the return of the Kirov Ballet will highlight the 2008-09 series. "Nightspot," to be danced by Edward Villella's Miami City Ballet, will...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Entertainment, Igor (movie), Los Angeles Times, Alvin Ailey
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Dance pioneer David Gordon revisits 'Trying Times'
![David Gordon, writer, director and choreographer, acknowledges a practical reason for reworking his 1982 stage piece "Trying Times," this time as "Trying Times (remembered)." The <a href="http://www.nea.gov/">National Endowment for the Arts</a> offered him a grant to do it -- and times are tough when it comes to funding in the arts.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-12/43676197-01132235.jpg "David Gordon, writer, director and choreographer, acknowledges a practical reason for reworking his 1982 stage piece "Trying Times,\" this time as \"Trying Times (remembered).\" The <a href=\"http://www.nea.gov/\">National Endowment for the Arts</a> offered him a grant to do it -- and times are tough when it comes to funding in the arts.")
David Gordon, writer, director and choreographer, acknowledges a practical reason for reworking his 1982 stage piece "Trying Times," this time as "Trying Times (remembered)." The National Endowment for the Arts offered him a grant to do it -- and times...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Entertainment, Lawyers, Dance, England
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Gerald Arpino dies at 85; dancer and choreographer co-founded Joffrey Ballet
Times Staff And Wire ReportsGerald Arpino, who co-founded the acclaimed Joffrey Ballet and oversaw its move from New York to Chicago, died Wednesday at his home in Chicago. He was 85. Arpino, a dancer and choreographer when he established the troupe in 1956 with its namesake, the...Tags: Armed Forces, Entertainment, Dance, Dancing, Joffrey Ballet
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Review: Miami City Ballet performs Twyla Tharp and Elvis Costello's 'Nightspot'
Here's a suggestion: Let's ditch the nightclub as a setting for ballet. No more predictable tales about the trials of courtship or the ballroom as a metaphor for life.
Miami City Ballet, Edward Villella's smart and spirited South Florida company,...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Entertainment, Igor (movie), Music Industry, Dance
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The Trey McIntyre Project begins inaugural tour
![TREY MCINTYRE'S initial experience with ballet did not augur well for a career in dance. "I would skip class a lot. My mom would drop me off, and I would go get a Slurpee next door." Ballet class, to this 11-year-old in Wichita, Kan., "felt so square and confining."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-09/42418183-18181344.jpg "TREY MCINTYRE'S initial experience with ballet did not augur well for a career in dance. "I would skip class a lot. My mom would drop me off, and I would go get a Slurpee next door.\" Ballet class, to this 11-year-old in Wichita, Kan., \"felt so square and confining.\"")
Special to The TimesTREY MCINTYRE'S initial experience with ballet did not augur well for a career in dance. "I would skip class a lot. My mom would drop me off, and I would go get a Slurpee next door." Ballet class, to this 11-year-old in Wichita, Kan., "felt so square...Tags: Companies and Corporations, William Forsythe, Entertainment, Dance, Dancing
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Los Angeles Ballet meets 'The Evangelist'
![In a warehouse space on a no-frills Westside industrial street, Thordal Christensen, co-artistic director of <a href="http://www.losangelesballet.org">Los Angeles Ballet</a>, points to a rickety little table.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-04/38111985-23105315.jpg "In a warehouse space on a no-frills Westside industrial street, Thordal Christensen, co-artistic director of <a href="http://www.losangelesballet.org\">Los Angeles Ballet</a>, points to a rickety little table.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn a warehouse space on a no-frills Westside industrial street, Thordal Christensen, co-artistic director of Los Angeles Ballet, points to a rickety little table. "Welcome to my office," he jokes. "We've been in here four months, so it's still a work...Tags: Charles Ives, University of California, Los Angeles, Companies and Corporations, Entertainment, Los Angeles Times
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