Step Lively!NATIONAL DANCE WEEK IS APRIL April: see month. 20-29 A colorful parade in San Francisco, a record-challenging kickline in Pittsburgh and a statewide dance performance in Colorado are just a few of the highlights of-National Dance Week, April 20-29. What began as a poster contest in the 1950s has grown into a weeklong nationwide celebration. San Francisco celebrates the week with over 125 dance companies, including San Francisco Ballet San Francisco Ballet, or SFB, is a San Francisco, USA based ballet company, founded in 1933 as part of San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, where it is directed by Helgi Tomasson. , Joe Goode Performance Group, Alonzo King's Lines Ballet and Liss Fain fain adv. 1. Happily; gladly: "I would fain improve every opportunity to wonder and worship, as a sunflower welcomes the light" Henry David Thoreau. 2. Dance, in more than 300 planned performances under the theme of Xtreme Dance. The kickoff begins at noon April 20 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Gardens with a colorful parade featuring hundreds of Bay Area dancers, stilt stilt, common name for some members of the family Recurvirostridae, shore birds including the avocet. Stilts, as their name implies, have the longest legs of any bird except the flamingo. walkers, giant puppets and musicians. A community-wide program called Open Dance Studios is central to the ten-day celebration, and the week finishes with the annual Planetary Dance on April 29, led by choreographer Anna Halprin. Performed on six continents simultaneously and open to one and all, the ritual dance begins at 11 A.M. at Santos Meadow on Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County. In Los Angeles, the annual Kickoff Celebration for NDW NDW Naval District Washington NDW Ne'er-Do-Well NDW Nevada Department of Wildlife NDW National Data Warehouse NDW Normal Distance Weighting (geostatistics) NDW Navigation Decision Workstation (US Navy) starts at 2 P.M. April 22 in an outdoor theater created for local dancers in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . This festival of performance is emceed by Joe Giamalva, a director, dancer and choreographer, and is host to more than seventeen studios. In Hawaii, a statewide televised event is scheduled to include live performances by Tilt Dance Company, Sun Moon and Stars Middle Eastern dance The Middle East (Near East, Southwest Asia) has a rich and varied tradition of dance, spanning all of the Arab world, Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Balkans, and also much of Central Asia and South Asia. and Village Pulse African Dance. The St. Louis Ballet, Atrek Dance Theater and Diadie Bathily are expected to perform April 28 at Union Station in St. Louis, Missouri. Megan Kelly and Trisha Hileman will join forces in rallying the Pittsburgh school district to form what they hope will be the longest kickline ever. And in Colorado, the entire Denver school district is expected to perform simultaneously a work called "You Can Dance." For information on events in your area, log on to www.nationaldanceweek.org. |
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