The spotlight clicks on and glares down onto your face, immediately creating sweat beads along your hairline. Your music cues up, and your heart beats in your ears. You take one last breath before that final intro eight-count, and then you’re off. Like you’ve practiced so many times before, your feet move solidly and confidently, […]
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Come on, Pilgrim
Since it doesn’t matter, let’s all dress up in headdresses and build tepees, then have a group of white people dressed like colonialists come and bash up crap, leaving the land wrecked and ravaged. Sounds like a party, no? Oklahoma City electro-collective Dance Robots, Dance! recently promoted a Nov. 23 “Special Pilgrims & Indians Theme […]
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Shimmy show
When Soraya Al Musri turned her back on the Royal Ballet School in London to begin a family in America, she knew she wouldn’t be able to return. “I knew I wanted to dance still, since I’d always danced, but you can’t go to a ballet company at 30 years old. It just doesn’t happen,” […]
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Dance this
With modern choreography and innovative performances, the state’s largest dance fest will feature more than 30 local dancers at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Oklahoma City Community College’s Bruce Owen Theatre, 7777 S. May. Tickets are $10-$18. Visit perpetualmotiondance.com. Friday-Saturday
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Limitless movement
For many, the passion to learn dance comes from seeing dance. When ballet dancers float upon their toes as their arms sway through the air, their fluidity can seem magical. But the children, teens and adults at City Arts Center’s Movement Without Limitations ballet classes have never really seen dancing at all. Many have seen […]
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Dancing king
In fact, his latest endeavor, a film that he wrote, produced and stars in, proves that it’s “Never Too Late.” Felix, who has taught dance for more than 40 years, found himself in that world by accident. After stumbling upon an ad in the newspapers asking for dance teachers, he applied, despite never having taken […]
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PR BS
— “Watonga Trout Derby” — “Hazmat Training Critical to Avoiding Fines for Violation of 2011 Rules” —“Submersible pumps banned on Tulsa District lakes” —“Married OSU researchers expand work through grants” —“Dating advice song for Valentines day – ‘Wear a Condom!’” —“Shell’s Lazare and Petrohawk’s Stoneburner Join DUG™ Keynotes, Enterprise’s Creel to Provide Midstream Spotlight” —“QEP […]
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Masterful moves
Oklahoma City Ballet presents a showcase of four pieces in “Masters and Moderns.” The show includes two masterworks from two of the 20th century’s most influential choreographers, plus two world premieres from two artists making a name for themselves in 21stcentury dance. “Masters and Moderns” came about out of a desire to be able to […]