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A great lounge act
Special to The Morning CallOn the flickering black-and-white screen, the lights dimmed to a grainy gray, and the camera focused unsteadily on a small stage. The curtain rose. There, revealed to the nation for the first time, stood … a lounge chair. It's impossible to say what...Tags: Death, NBC (tv network), Television, Cartoons, Arts and Culture
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Dance calendar
South Florida Sun-SentinelOCTOBER Today – Stomp, 6:30 p.m. Kravis. Today – Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida. Petrouchka, 3 p.m. Brow-Ctr. 12-14 – Miami City Ballet. Program I: Jewels, 8 p.m. (12, 13), 2 p.m. (14). Carnival. 12, 13 – Ballo Dance Company from Podgorica, Montenegro,...Tags: Festive Events, Dance, Arts and Culture, Sports, Miami City Ballet
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Rosella Hightower, American Indian ballet dancer, dies at 88
Rosella Hightower, a prominent American Indian ballet dancer who rose to an illustrious career in the 1940s and 1950s and later started one of the premier dance schools in Europe, died overnight Nov. 3 at her home in Cannes, in the south of France. She...Tags: Death, Documentary (genre), Music Theater, Native Americans, Dance
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PASSINGS
Madelyn Katz Supporter of UCLA hospital Madelyn "Maddie" Katz, 73, a philanthropist who helped establish a UCLA Medical Center program to provide reconstructive plastic surgery to soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, died Sunday at her Los...Tags: Death, World Series, Dance, Health, Baseball
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Ballet season features contemporary dance, Riverdance and Cleopatra
For South Florida Sun-SentinelA queen is floating our way on a barge full of ballet goodies: monumental sets, glittering costumes, and a score sure to arouse passion. That seductress is none other than the lead in Cleopatra, and if it's big story ballets you like, then this is your...Tags: Elvis Costello, Dance, Peter Martins, Sports, Miami City Ballet
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Mills College, a school without walls
Music CriticFor the last seven decades, Mills College, which will celebrate the renovation of its gorgeous Spanish-style concert hall with a gala concert Feb. 21, has provided a haven for a remarkable number of cutting-edge composers. No matter how academically...Tags: Luciano Berio, Lou Harrison, Leon Kirchner, Music Industry, Employers
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Artist Jennifer Bornstein curates a show at the Hammer Museum
Special to The TimesJennifer Bornstein was a kid in a candy store -- with almost half a year to gorge herself. When Hammer Museum curator Allegra Pesenti asked Bornstein to rummage through the institution's huge collection of graphic work and put together a show of...Tags: New York, Mark Rothko, David Hockney, Man Ray, Arts and Culture
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Los Angeles Ballet delivers a sizzling 'Evangelist'
![Adding a dose of fire and brimstone to its expanding repertory on Friday, Los Angeles Ballet mounted a scorching rendition of "The Evangelist" at UCLA's Freud Playhouse in the first of five Southland performances at four venues.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-04/38210799-27112325.gif "Adding a dose of fire and brimstone to its expanding repertory on Friday, Los Angeles Ballet mounted a scorching rendition of "The Evangelist\" at UCLA's Freud Playhouse in the first of five Southland performances at four venues.")
Special to The TimesAdding a dose of fire and brimstone to its expanding repertory on Friday, Los Angeles Ballet mounted a scorching rendition of "The Evangelist" at UCLA's Freud Playhouse in the first of five Southland performances at four venues. Choreographed in 1992...Tags: Entertainment, Education, Dance, Dancing, Sports
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Marion Scott dies at 86; returned to dancing at 62 , staged performances by aging artists
Marion Scott, a noted dancer, choreographer and teacher who returned to the stage at the age of 62 and in her 80s mounted concerts that displayed the talents of aging artists like herself, died Oct. 5 in Los Angeles. She was 86. The cause of death was...Tags: Death, Dance, Arthritis, Connecticut College, Sports
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Check out the complete Virginia Arts Festival schedule
Daily PressHere is a complete Virginia Arts Festival schedule. Tickets can be purchased at www.vafest.org or by calling 671-8100. Virginia International Tattoo Sneak Peaks. Noon April 14. A pipe band from the Tattoo will perform a half-hour show. Tidewater...Tags: Dance, James City County, Music Industry, College of William and Mary, Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia)
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Remembering Horton Foote
![If one were to choose a single phrase to distill the essence of Horton Foote's distinctive literary grace, the title of the 1983 film for which he won an Academy Award for screenwriting, "Tender Mercies," could hardly be bettered. For it is this quality of loving forbearance that characterizes his relationship to all those everyday eccentrics from Texas backwaters he introduced us to -- that colorful, twangy crew who wear their hearts as well as their foibles on their sleeves.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-03/45398465-04181527.jpg "If one were to choose a single phrase to distill the essence of Horton Foote's distinctive literary grace, the title of the 1983 film for which he won an Academy Award for screenwriting, "Tender Mercies,\" could hardly be bettered. For it is this quality of loving forbearance that characterizes his relationship to all those everyday eccentrics from Texas backwaters he introduced us to -- that colorful, twangy crew who wear their hearts as well as their foibles on their sleeves.")
Theater CriticIf one were to choose a single phrase to distill the essence of Horton Foote's distinctive literary grace, the title of the 1983 film for which he won an Academy Award for screenwriting, "Tender Mercies," could hardly be bettered. For it is this quality...Tags: Death, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Television, New York, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Who rules the musical?
Times Staff WriterDaring storytelling that integrates song and dance is rare. But a few auteurs strive for the elusive formula. Broadway has always prized director-choreographers who could deliver hit musicals with an individual stamp on them — masters such as Jerome...Tags: Danny Elfman, Prince (music artist), Music Theater, Broadway Theater, Harry Connick Jr.
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