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Jazz Dancer Pam Heatherington Performs Wed. Nov. 6th In Cheltenham PA!

Source: Jim Miller
October 15, 2013

The Jazz Bridge first Wednesdays Neighborhood Concerts Series at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts, 439 Ashbourne Road in Cheltenham, PA, presents dancer Pamela Hetherington on Wednesday, November 6th. Show time is 7:30 p.m., tickets are $10/$5 for students, and are only available at the door. For info: 215-517-8337 or visit Jazz Bridge. Pamela Hetherington, accompanied on this performance by pianist/vocalist Dena Underwood, bassist Nicholas Krolak and saxophonist Johnathan Katz, has updated and reinvented what legends like Baby Laurence and ...
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New Album From Blackmore's Night "Dancer And The Moon"

Source: Anne Leighton
May 2, 2013

Blackmore's Night is releasing their brand new album, Dancer and The Moon, on June 11th in North America on Frontiers Records. Dancer and The Moon will be released in 2 editions—as a CD and a digipak deluxe edition with a bonus DVD that includes music videos of “Dancer And The Moon" and of “The Moon Is Shining (Somewhere Over The Sea)," plus an extensive interview with Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night. Anticipated by the digital release of the first single ...
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Tyne Stecklein: The Mysterious Dancer of Jackson Memorial "Hold Me"

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2010

American pop star Michael Jackson had finally selected the 12 dancers who would be backing him during his O2 Arena gigs.

The backing dancers were picked after an X-Factor style competition to discover the most talented movers in the world. As many as 500 potential candidates performed during the three days of intense auditions at the Nokia Theatre LA LIVE in Los Angeles.

Jackson, show director Kenny Ortega, and his dancer from the Dangerous and History tours Travis Payne were ...
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Daniel Nagrin Modern Dancer and Choreographer Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
January 4, 2009

Daniel Nagrin, a choreographer, performer, teacher and writer who was known for intensely dramatic solos that became modern-dance classics, died on Dec. 29 in Tempe, Ariz. He was 91 and lived in Tempe.

For him, jazz was not a finger-popping, torso-twisting genre of self-involvement but a tool to explore character. Don McDonagh --Dance magazine (1997)

Mr. Nagrins choreography and performing were craggily innovative, drawing on jazz movement and music as well as traditional modern dance and classical ...
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Rosella Hightower, American Indian Ballet Dancer, Dies at 88

Source: Michael Ricci
November 9, 2008

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 was 88 and had had several strokes. Hightower was one of five Oklahoma-born American Indians to emerge as world-class ballerinas. The others were Yvonne Chouteau, Moscelyne Larkin and the sisters Maria and Marjorie Tallchief. Their ...
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Cyd Charisse Actress Dancer Dies

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2008

MGM Actress Cyd Charisse dies in Los Angeles at 86

A publicist for Cyd Charisse says the actress-dancer has died in Los Angeles at age 86. Publicist Gene Schwam says Charisse died early today at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after suffering an apparent heart attack on Monday. Charisse was a long-legged Texas beauty who danced with the Ballet Russe as a teenager and starred in MGM musicals with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. She also appeared in dramatic films, but her ...
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Lola Montes Renown Flamenco Spanish Dancer

Source: Michael Ricci
May 21, 2008

Lola Montes, One of the country's most renowned Spanish dancers, frequent Southland performer over a career of more than 70 years, has died at the age of 90.

Montes died at her home in Laguna Woods on Friday of complications from pneumonia, Oscar Nieto, a lead dancer with her company, said.

In 1955, Montes started her own company, the Los Angeles-based Lola Montes and Her Spanish Dancers. The troupe signed with Columbia Artists Management Inc. and toured the country for ...
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Gus Giordano, Dancer Innovator, Emmy Winner, Broadway Performer, Dies at 84

Source: All About Jazz
March 12, 2008

Gus Giordano not only launched his own popular, Evanston-based troupe, but he's one of the originators of the stylistic innovation now known worldwide as jazz dance. The venerable dancer, teacher, choreographer and author -- a gigantic figure in Chicago's dance community for more than half a century -- died early Sunday after a lengthy illness. He was 84. Giordano's many accomplishments include the beginning of the Jazz Dance World Congress, an international convention that regularly brings together troupes from all ...
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Dancer Fayard Nicholas dies at 91

Source: All About Jazz
January 26, 2006

LOS ANGELES -- Fayard Nicholas, the elder half of the show-stopping Nicholas Brothers tap-dancing duo that thrilled audiences during the 1930s and beyond with their elegance and daring athleticism, has died. He was 91.

Nicholas, who had been in failing health since suffering a stroke in November, died of pneumonia Tuesday at his home in the Toluca Lake area of Los Angeles, said Paula Broussard, a friend.

The self-taught Nicholas Brothers -- Fayard and younger brother Harold -- tap-danced their ...
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