Jose Limon News

Repertory Dance Theatre invites the public to a formal workshop showing of Summerdance 2013: THEN & NOW June 28th at 6:00 pm at the Rose Wagner. At this in-depth dance workshop, June 17-29, RDT is hosting over 30 intermediate/advanced dancers from across the country for an intensive that explores modern dance history as well as composition. Workshop guest artists are Nina Watt from the Jose Limon Dance Company and Kurt Koegel of Moving Research.

Kimiye Corwin and Anderson Matthews will headline Shakespeare Festival St. Louis' production of 'Twelfth Night' tonight, May 24 through June 16 at Shakespeare Glen in Forest Park. Both Corwin and Matthews were last seen in SFSTL's production of 'Hamlet' as Ophelia and Polonius, respectively, in 2010. Preview performances are scheduled for May 22-23. Rick Dildine, executive director of Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, will direct.

On Friday, May 17, 2015, choreographers, dancers, and dance enthusiasts-old and young-gathered together at the 92nd Street Y to remember the elegant maverick of modern dance, Pauline Koner. The afternoon featured four reconstructions of Koner's choreography, along with a 1949 video of her dancing To complete the celebration, Koner's students, dancers, music composers, and tour managers spoke briefly about her life and the wisdom she passed down to them.

Third year at Juilliard marked the beginning of my "Morning Pages". My close friends and family know that I've spent almost every morning for the past two years with my green smoothie, tea and journal. Julia Cameron's book, "The Artist's Way", taught me morning pages, which are three pages stream of thought to begin the day. This has been my tool for creativity, my weapon against my ego and my mirror reflecting my soul. I came back from summer holidays feeling good, and I wanted to protect the confidence I had gained, not letting the pressures of school take over again. I was much more in touch with my heart and I wanted to continue hearing myself clearly.

The Joyce Theater (Linda Shelton, Executive Director), the United States' foremost dance venue, announced today programming for its 2013-2014 Fall & Winter Season featuring extraordinary companies, both international and local - several making their Joyce debuts - and loaded with highly anticipated premieres, including The Royal Ballet's production of Kafka's The Metamorphosis, choreographed by Arthur Pita especially for Royal Ballet Principal Edward Watson.

The result of several years of planning, Dance Speaks Out: Lynchtown/Thistown is a multi- faceted project that brings Nimbus Dance Works into collaboration with The Charles Weidman Dance Foundation to present a rare staging of Weidman's classic work, Lynchtown (1936).

Pace Performing Arts presents 'Dance Out Loud 2013,' featuring the piece 'Dance in a Straight Line' by choreographer Mandy Moore from 'So You Think You Can Dance' April 26 and 27 at Pace's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts.

The result of several years of planning, Dance Speaks Out: Lynchtown/Thistown is a multi- faceted project that brings Nimbus Dance Works into collaboration with The Charles Weidman Dance Foundation to present a rare staging of Weidman's classic work, Lynchtown (1936).

Making Books Sing (MBS), the critically acclaimed New York-based nonprofit that promotes children's literacy and social development through professional Theater Productions and arts-in-education programs, presents its second and final production of the 2012-2013 season WANDA'S MONSTER The Musical, with music & lyrics by kindie rock sensation Laurie Berkner ('The Laurie Berkner Band') and book by Barbara Zinn Krieger (THE BUTTERFLY), based on Eileen Spinelli's book 'Wanda's Monster,' from today, April 19 through May 12 at the company's new Off-Broadway home - Theater 3 (311 West 43rd Street) in Manhattan.

One of America's most versatile, popular and highly acclaimed choreographers, Lar Lubovitch leads the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in New York City, which he founded 44 years ago. Lubovitch's dances are renowned for their musicality, rhapsodic style and sophisticated formal structures.

The Department of Theater & Dance at UCSB continues its 2012-2013 season of drama and dance with the Spring Dance Concert - Blood, Thought, Muscle & Grace, under the direction of UCSB Theater & Dance faculty member Mira Kingsley. The Spring Dance concert performs April 12-14, 2013 at 8:00 pm in the Hatlen Theater on the UCSB campus.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced this year's recipients for the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. This year's awards will be presented to Bernard 'Bernie' Gersten, Executive Producer of Lincoln Center Theater; Scenic Designer Ming Cho Lee and Paul Libin, Executive Vice President of Jujamcyn Theatres.

Producers Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter, Will & Jada Pinkett Smith and Ruth & Stephen Hendel previously announced that Grammy Award-winning recording artist and former member of Destiny's Child Michelle Williams would star in the national tour of the award-winning Broadway musical Fela!, coming to Miami's Ziff Ballet Opera House at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts from tonight, March 19 - 24.

Dance Currents Inc. is presenting "Chaos or Connection: Living the Legacy of Modern Dance." This event is designed to pique your interest in the preservation, use and future adaptability of Modern Dance Repertory. We will be presenting scenes from a movie in the making, "Living the Legacy of Modern Dance," historical and current repertory and a panel discussion on the current and future state of Modern Dance.

MARENA PEREZ, principal dancer of the Balleteatro Nacional de Puerto, and DANIEL RAMIREZ, principal soloist of the Balleteatro Nacional de Puerto Rico, will be members of the faculty for the Greater York Dance Center for Education's Summer Intensive from July 29-August 2, 2013 in York, Pennsylvania.