Archive for April, 2009

Jersey City dance company performs in New York tonight, tomorrow (The Jersey Journal)

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

The Kennedy Dancers of Jersey City will perform “La Dolce Vita” and other works tonight and tomorrow at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. The Kennedy Dancers Professional Company and the Kennedy Dancers Inner City Youth Junior Dance Company…

Animals Shown To "Dance" To Music (CBS News)

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

After studying a cockatoo that grooves to the Backstreet Boys and about 1,000 YouTube videos, scientists say they’ve documented for the first time that some animals “dance” to a musical beat.

Boogie birdie: Animals shown to ‘dance’ to music (AP via Yahoo! News)

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

They wouldn’t blow away the competition on “Dancing with the Stars,” but it turns out that some birds got rhythm. After studying a cockatoo that grooves to the Backstreet Boys and about 1,000 YouTube videos, scientists say they’ve documented for the first time that some animals “dance” to a musical beat.

Towson Dance Team Takes Home 11th National Title (CBS 13 Baltimore)

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Towson University takes home another dance championship for the 11th year in a row.

Birds Can Dance, Experts (and Zany Videos) Reveal (National Geographic)

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

His tastes may be sooo ten years ago, but the Backstreet Boys’ smallest fan has helped scientists make an all-new discovery: Birds can dance. With videos.

Boogie Birdie: Animals Shown To ‘Dance’ To Music (WGAL 8 Susquehanna Valley)

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

After studying a cockatoo that grooves to the Backstreet Boys and about 1,000 YouTube videos, scientists say some animals appear to “dance” to a musical beat.

Dance, Dance Revolution: From Michael Jackson to Hammer (Vibe Magazine)

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Dance, Dance Revolution: From Michael Jackson to Hammer Presenting an A to Z breakdown of hip hop’s most memorable moves

Parrots Join Humans On The Dance Floor (NPR)

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

So you think you can dance? Maybe. But Snowball, a Backstreet Boys-loving cockatoo, certainly can, scientists say. Parrots are perhaps one of only three kinds of animal species that can truly move to a beat.

Boogie birdie: Animals shown to `dance’ to music (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

They wouldn’t blow away the competition on “Dancing with the Stars,” but it turns out that some birds got rhythm. After studying a cockatoo that grooves to the Backstreet Boys and about 1,000 YouTube videos, scientists say they’ve documented for the first time that some animals “dance” to a musical beat. The results support a theory for why the human brain is wired for dancing. In lab studies of …

A Triumphant Return as a Woman With a Fatal Need to Dance (New York Times)

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Alina Cojocaru?s ?Giselle? was one of the great dance renditions of our time, one of those moments when the evanescence of live performance seems unbearably poignant.