DSL Dance Wire
Dance Studio Life magazine is happy to announce the DSL Dance Wire, for all dance-related news.
Send us your press releases about company performances, conferences, seminars, and master classes; new programs and products; significant awards and accomplishments; and other news of widespread interest.
Please note that we can’t commit to running every release we receive, and we reserve the right to edit any that we do use.
Email your news to Karen@rheegold.com and include email and phone contact information so we can follow up if we have questions.
We encourage you to send photos with your release. Please provide the photographer’s name (if known) and some basic information that identifies who is pictured and what the event is. We look forward to receiving your news and sharing it with the dance community. Thanks! Rhee Gold (Publisher)
CHECK OUT THE LATEST DANCE COMMUNITY NEWS . . .
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Rhee Gold has his eye on autumn as well, and is designing three very special DanceLife Retreat Center seminars perfect for both studio owners and teachers....
Read More - NYC Students with Ballet Tech’s Dance-and-Academics Program Present Show
In 1978, choreographer Eliot Feld founded the tuition-free Ballet Tech School with the goal of developing a new generation of dancers drawn from the New York City public school system and whose diversity reflects the full American spectrum....
Read More - Communities Scramble to Help Young Dancers Left in the Lurch by Closing Businesses
Some young girls are unable to dance and their parents are out hundreds of dollars after From The Top School of Dance in Mesquite, Nevada, shut down unexpectedly after the owner of the school collected money for lessons, costumes, and recital tickets....
Read More - Studio Owners Find Camaraderie and Comfort on DL Retreat Center FB Page
The post from studio owner Teri Mangiaratti said it all: “For the record . . . I love this page! Every time I look at it I feel less like a crazy dance studio lady (or at least less like I am the only one!). Thank you all for sharing...
Read More - Parents Protest Policy that Limits where School Team Dancers Can Train
More than a dozen members of the award-winning Maine South Hawkettes dance team told the Township High School District 207 board recently that it was unfair to penalize a coach because of a district policy intended to prevent conflicts of interest, reported the Chicago Tribune....
Read More - Critical Success Doesn’t Translate into Financial Stability for Chicago’s Luna Negra
In a major loss for Chicago’s dance scene, Luna Negra Dance Theater is shutting down....
Read More - Vendors in Full Force at This Summer’s DLTC
The vendor section at the DanceLife Teachers Conference is always a highlight of this four-day event, but this summer promises a virtual overload of dance-centered services and products....
Read More - San Diego 10-year-old Powers through 55 Pirouettes; Sets Guinness Record
On her first attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most consecutive pirouettes/contemporary dance, 10-year-old dance prodigy Sophia Lucia whipped out 47. While that effort broke the record, she tried again—achieving 48 on her second try and a whopping 55 on her third and final attempt. ...
Read More - First N.C. School of the Arts Dance Dean, Robert Lindgren, Dies in NYC
Robert Lindgren, a Canadian-born dancer who appeared with major American ballet companies before becoming the founding dean of the influential dance program at the North Carolina School of the Arts, died on Friday at his home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, reported The New York Times. He was 89....
Read More - National Gallery of Art Exhibit Looks at Relationship between Ballets Russes, Music, and Art
The Ballets Russes—the most innovative dance company of the 20th century—propelled the performing arts to new heights through groundbreaking collaborations between artists, composers, choreographers, dancers, and fashion designers. The relationship between those artists and the ballet is explored in a free exhibit at Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art, “Diaghilev...
Read More - Ballet Lovers Needed to Help USA IBC with Next Year’s 10th Competition
The USA International Ballet Competition, North America’s oldest international ballet competition, has put the call out for competitors, volunteers, and others looking to join in with the upcoming event, set for June 14 to 29, 2014, in Jackson, Mississippi. ...
Read More - Houston Met Shares New Dance Works in Free Outdoor Performance
Houston Metropolitan Dance Company presents a free evening of dance under the stars June 7 at 8:30pm featuring an excerpt of The Vessel, a multi-media dance theater work by Houston Met resident choreographer Kiki Lucas, and Air by Larry Keigwin. ...
Read More - N.J.’s Arts in Motion Academy Lends a Hand to Fundraising Effort
The Arts in Motion Academy in Matawan, New Jersey, will sponsor their fourth annual benefit performance this week for the Andréa Rizzo Foundation’s nationwide fundraising effort Dance Across America....
Read More - Texas Dance Studio Plans Saturday Dance Mob to Help Marathon Bombing Victim
Arthur Murray Dance Studio and Farmers Market in The Woodlands, Texas, have joined together to sponsor a flash mob event to show support and raise funds for Adam and Adrienne Davis on May 18 at 10am in the Grogan’s Mill Center. Adrienne was an Arthur Murray dance instructor in San...
Read More - It’s Back: SYTYCD Returns for Season Number 10
The concept hardly sounds like a hit: a dance contest for unknowns often doing unusual dances, reports News OK. Yet Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance, which launches its 10th season Tuesday and Wednesday, continues to tap into what eludes other dance shows: the purity of the art....
Read More - The DanceLife Retreat Center Experience: Rhee Gold and You
There’s a gorgeous woodland setting, a newly built oversized cabin, fabulous catered food, and friendly colleagues. Even with all that, the main thing that brings studio owners back again and again is the satisfaction of a personalized DanceLife experience. ...
Read More - Free Dance Performances in Central Park Include Ballet to Modern and Beyond
The annual Fall for Dance Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary with two free performances at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, New York City, on September 16 and 17. Both nights will feature New York City Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, and STREB Extreme Action Company,...
Read More - Dance in America Producer/Director Merrill Brockway Dies at Age 90
Merrill Brockway, a director and producer who brought high art to millions of Americans by presenting many of the 20th century’s greatest dancers and choreographers on the PBS television series Dance in America, died on May 2 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, according to The New York Times. He was...
Read More - Teacher Practices What She Preaches by Learning and Growing at Conventions
Michelle Spillman emphasizes to her students that there is always room to grow as dancers and students—and hope that her example of attending this summer’s DanceLife Teacher Conference will help to hammer home that point....
Read More - UI Dance Professor Wins Prestigious Doris Duke Artist Award
University of Illinois dance Professor Tere O’Connor’s selection as a Doris Duke Artist Award winner will bring him an unrestricted $225,000, plus another $25,000 to pay for an audience-development project, and another $25,000 to put toward his retirement....
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