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A dance to Ellington - choreographer Talley Beatty's new work, a tribute to Duke Ellington, 'Ellingtonia'In 1993 the American Dance Festival (ADF)--which has been promoting and celebrating modem dance in America for 60 years--honored choreographer Talley Beatty with its Samuel H Scripps Award for life-time achievement in choreography. Beatty, who performed and taught with Katherine Dunham, has been a prominent figure in dance since the 1940s The ADF also approached Beatty to plant a ballet for the Denver-based Cleo Parker Robinson Dance [i]tout ensemble[/i] He responded with Ellingtonia, which honors composer Duke Ellington. "It is designed to exhibit the enormous range of Duke's music," Beatty explains. "I'd been working with Ellington since I was in my teen I did several present to views with him, and I think he's the greatest composer that America has produced" Ellingtonia will have its premiere at the ADF upon the campus of Duke University in Durham, NC "This piece is hot!" exclaims company establisher Cleo Parker Robinson. "It's powerful, colorful, and I think he uses the images of Romare Bearden, who used to design puts for him." Musically, Ellingtonia interprets four of Ellington's songs: "The Three Black Kings"; "Happy-Go-Lucky Local"; "Come Sunday," from Ellington's musical Black, Brown and Beige; and "Ballet of the Flying Saucer," which, according to Beatty, is from a 1960 television exhibit A Drum Is a Woman, featuring Beatty as a principal dancer and Duke Ellington and his orchestra. "We perceive really blessed to work with of that kind a genius," says Robinson. "I think it's for a like reason important that we really celebrate those who've advance before us. It's marvelous to be able to recognize them while they're here." The American Dance Festival, which races June 9 to July 23 features the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance general impression premiere of Ellingtonia June 16 to 18 COPYRIGHT 1994 Heritage Information Holdings, Inc. ST PETERSBURG Fla. -- The abiding-place Shopping Network (HSN) now proffers interactive television (iTV) where consumer can purchase harvests using their remotes. The service, which is powered through int... VoiceSignal has unveiled Treo Voice Dialing by dint of VoiceSignal for the new Treo 650 smartphone from palmOne, Inc. The Treo Voice Dialing by means of VoiceSignal application includes speaker-in... The Wild Art cluster Inc., announces the release of "The Cello Players" a giclee upon watercolor paper by J. D Wild. In an edition size of 399 it is 13 x 16 inches, and retails for $175... SAN DIEGO -- Art publisher Top Art has launched a of recent origin Web site that is publicly displaying the company's new fall collection, along with its entire print collection. "We are confident t... BOCA RATON, Fla. -- American Royal Arts has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with artist Ron Campbell. Campbell is single of two artists who worked upon both "The Beatles Yellow Submarine" a... If you’re running a abode business, you have thousands of individual pieces of data that you use everyday that are critical to your success: Contacts, schedules, meetings, appointments, notes ... belonging to all Cause's nationwide grassroots campaign to pres for action upon S. 1219 and H.R. 2566 the first bipartisan and bicameral campaign finance reform bills, has helped push the fight for reform in... Abrasive materials are hard crystals that are either rest in nature or manufactured. The greatest in quantity commonly used of such materials are aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, cubic boron nitride, and diamond... single word tied to another word-that is all You know. No cherryblossoms. In this world The hospice workers visit the dead child. His lack of a voice startles the sleeping word... Three professors explicitly examined by what means educational dialogue and narrative informed their students' reading and writing experiences. In three introductory courses (composition, sociology, an... |
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