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My Heart Still Beats in 4/4: Virgin Festival Dance Tent & Blank Artists Review (Aural States)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:37:52 GMT

Electronic Dance Music was not the first music I fell in love with. My first aural affair began at an early age with the music I was playing on the piano and cello—classical (my favorite composer was Bach). As I grew older my taste diversified, though I still maintained a love of art [...]

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Review: booking DANCE FESTIVAL beijing 2008 :: City Weekend Beijing Blog (Chinalyst - China blogs in English)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:22:00 GMT

Date: Aug 20th 2008 10:22p.m. Contributed by: grace2maine Taking a break from the amazing feats of the human body seen on the Olympic Green, audiences at the Chaoyang Culture Center enjoyed another celebration of the human body: dance! The first ever booking DANCE FESTIVAL beijing was held last week at Nine Theater of the CCC. Artists from around Beijing including the National Ballet Company, Beijing...

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Bebe Buell is Overexposed (Shankbone)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:55:00 GMT

Bleach Portrait of Bebe Buell, Tribeca Film Festival, April 2008 This is the second in a series of bleach portraits I call "Overexposed." Bleach portraits happen almost exclusively at major events with a red carpet, and they are often discarded by photographers as unusuable. At large film festivals, premieres and awards shows there are sometimes hundreds of photographers. When a celebrity poses, there...

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Mortal Engine, Edinburgh International Festival Review (The Edinburgh Blog)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:26:08 GMT

Mortal Engine, at the Edinburgh Playhouse, for the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) reviewed by The Edinburgh Blog.

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Fringe Fest's Box Office Glitches Probed (Entertainment - The Post Chronicle)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:26:51 GMT

Two major investigations of the faulty box office system used by the Fringe theater festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, are under way,...

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Christopher Plummer rules the stage (atHome Top Story)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:30:00 GMT

The production of Caesar and Cleopatra that opened at the Festival Theatre last night is a superb example of what our festivals can do at their best.

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Liverpool Arts: City hosts four-day feast of dance (Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk )

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT

MERSEYSIDE Dance Initiative has programmed another high-profile dance festival in the Capital of Culture year.

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Liverpool hosts four-day feast of dance (Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT

MERSEYSIDE Dance Initiative has programmed another high-profile dance festival in the Capital of Culture year.

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Capital of Culture: Liverpool hosts four-day feast of dance (Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk )

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT

MERSEYSIDE Dance Initiative has programmed another high-profile dance festival in the Capital of Culture year.

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Good news for the little Angels (The Herald )

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:36:15 GMT

A young Belgian theatre company and a choir from Africa lent a very youthful flavour to Saturday's presentation of the Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Awards at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre, when actress Jill Gascoine and bank chairman Lord Dennis Stevenson awarded the gilded statuettes at the end of week two of the festival season. Gascoine, who is best known for her many television roles, is playing...

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SummerWorks (It's all about me!)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:26:00 GMT

Gord and I saw a couple plays this afternoon in the SummerWorks Theatre Festival (today's the last day). Both were at the Theatre Passe Muraille (Bathurst/Queen W). Talk Sixty to Me ~ Talk Sixty To Me is a shocking and hilarious verbatim play based on over 100 hours of recorded interviews with sixty-year-olds. From CEOs to refugees, cougars and ladies who lunch, the boomers reveal the truth about sex,...

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Utah dance company is in Beijing for Booking Dance Festival 2008 (Deseret Morning News)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:40:19 GMT

Utah dance company in Beijing for the Olympics art has been sent to Todd. ScottI Chinese Odyssey "It took us a half an hour just to get a cab," Yeager said. "Then we took a subway to Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. Some dignitary was being shown through, and we 'commoners' kept getting yelled at and forced off the main path.

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A penny for your thoughts (Kristine Lowe)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:16:33 GMT

I'm imagining this guy wasn't all too happy to have photographers crawling in front of the stage. The shot is from a recent Secret Garden gig during a festival I covered. I'm going through all my photos this weekend and...

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Athens Photo Festival 08 Call for Entries (Dexigner Design Portal)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:00:01 GMT

The Athens Photo Festival scheduled for autumn 2008 is a natural continuation of the International Photography Month in Athens an event with a twenty-year history that was the major and oldest Greek institution with large-scale events focusing on

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EndWar inspired by Herzog Zwei, Advance Wars, Mario Kart? (xbox360)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:30:00 GMT

Forthcoming Tom Clancy strategy title EndWar may be positioning itself as the game that will revolutionise the console RTS genre, but that doesn't mean that it's a game that hasn't taken significant cues from what's gone before. Speaking at the Edinburgh International Festival, Ubisoft's Shanghai Studio content director Julien Gerighty spoke candidly about the voice-controlled strategy game's inspirations,...

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Pang Khee Teik (Fridae - News Features)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:21:00 GMT

Photographer, actor, writer, arts critic and Arts Programme Director of The Annexe, Central Market � one of Kuala Lumpur's buzziest centre for contemporary arts - Pang Khee Teik is putting together Seksualiti Merdeka, Malaysia's first gay themed festival from Aug 29 � 31.

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2nd Annual Red Hook Film Festival Call for Entries (The Gowanus Lounge)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:00:21 GMT

Local photographer, filmmaker and GL contributor Nate Kensinger is working on the Second Annual Red Hook Film Fest and sense the following email: I am helping to organize the 2nd annual Red Hook Film Festival, which will take place this October 11th and 12th in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The festival will be a venue for [...]

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EIF 2008: EndWar inspired by Herzog Zwei, Advance Wars, Mario Kart? (xbox360)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:30:00 GMT

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ART - GARDEN: Gardening flaunts its artistic side at Loire Valley castle (France24)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:46:03 GMT

The Château de Chaumont, host to the international garden festival, has become a venue for practising contemporary art, a place where architects, sculptors and photographers explore the link between art and nature.

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Harlem Week Activities - August 16th (UPTOWNflavor)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:47:12 GMT

Harlem Week: Uptown Saturday Night Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Outlook Yahoo! Calendar Google Calendar iCal A free outdoor cultural arts, entertainment, and dance festival honoring the grand village of Harlem! Part I: “Dancing in the Streets” Dance Performances Featuring swing, jazz, Latin music, the electric slide, college step show, and the Chicago Step dance demonstrations. Also...

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