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So you think you can…tell me what contemporary dance is?
Who can give me the exact definition of contemporary dance? Anybody? No? Because these days the whole of the UK seems to think, ‘contemporary dance is all about telling a story’, thanks to Arlene Phillip on So You Think You … Continue reading
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Tagged angles, audience, ballet, budget, camera, choreography, contemporary, contemporary dance, dance, dance film competition, dancers, experience, linstra, london, money, music video, music videos, new, opportunity, performance, photos, rehearsal, sarah linstra, shoot, technique, the company, trailer
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The Place special offer; Just a FIVER for a dance class!
As you may have read on the blog, apart from being a freelance dancer and choreographer I teach. Mostly contemporary dance and creative workshops at several UK schools. One of them the Adult Evening Classes at The Place. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged adult evening dance, ballet, contemporary, contemporary dance, courses, creative workshops, dance, dance gear, dance lovers, dancers, evening classes, fanatics, fiver, improve, interest, linstra, live music, london, meet people, musicians, network, opportunity, professional, sarah linstra, share, special offer, stay in shape, teachers, technique, the place, UK schools, weekly schedule
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Another selection of dance-music-videos
Another selection of delightful bundles of creativeness. Music videos using dance they never get boring. This one below in particularly is a really beautiful example of using an edit to co- create a choreography on screen. The famous Robbie Williams … Continue reading
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Tagged alice in wonderland, ballet, beirut, Black Swan, body double, camera man, childhood, contemporary dance, directing, edit, elephant gun, fantasy, job, music videos, robbie williams, screen, tim burton
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Money money money….not so funny
And there they were; the long awaited for CUTS. As some may say; ‘The cuts are just not cutting it”. Many discussions and articles about how this came about. The ones that are being let ‘free’ into the world of … Continue reading
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Tagged ACE, art cuts, arts council, ballet, budget, channel4 news, choreography, contemporary, cuts, dance, dance companies, dr steve davies, funding, investment, jon snow, kenneth Tharp, linstra, money, opportunity, performance, petition, sarah linstra, tax, the place
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Hollywood does dance pt.2….
Music videos are something I have come to understand a little bit better in the past few years. My partner was a music video director for a while and through him I got to work on quite a few of … Continue reading
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Tagged 3 words, adele, atmosphere, ballet, balloons, ballroom, bonobo, budget, can't get you out of my head, cheryl cole, choreography, cinedans, contemporary, dance, dance film, dave ma, delphic, director, edit, expert, eyes down, famous, flynn production, flynn productions, foals, halcyon, hip hop, jennifer white, kate bush, kyle minoque, linstra, london, love at first sight, monitor, movement, music video, music videos, pop dance, producer, production company, promise this, pulse films, rafael bonachela, rehearsal, robin schmidt, rolling in the deep, running up that hill, sam brown, sarah linstra, shoot, short pieces, shotlist, story line, trailer, versatility, vision, will.I.am
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Cinedans 2010
For the 8th edition this year, the only Dutch dance film festival. Showing dance films, dance on screen, installations, visual multimedia performances and more Cinedans Festival is the centre of dance on film. From the 9th-12th December in Amsterdam, Holland:
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A little blast from the past…
As the snow is falling down and covers London in a thick layer of white powder, all the trains are cancelled and delayed, the airports are closing down, midwives are taxied to the hospital in tractors and the people in … Continue reading
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Tagged amsterdam, andrea leine, ballet, choreography, contemporary, dance, dance company, dans, ederson rodriques xavier, harijono roebana, heather ware, leine en roebana, lia poole, linstra, london, rehearsal, sarah linstra, the company, theatre, tim persent, ty boomershine
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DANCE ON CAMERA: SOME THOUGHTS FOR MAKING IT BETTER (guest blog)
As a filmmaker I’ve become completely obsessed with dance. Sarah has shown me a world of meaning and emotion that lives completely separate from the spoken word and that really excites me. Cinema is at its most powerful when we … Continue reading
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Save the arts
Radical cuts to current levels of arts funding will decimate what has been one of the UK’s chief success stories over the past 20 years, and will bring an end to the UK’s reign as a global capital for culture. … Continue reading
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Tagged appeal, arts organisations, arts venues, attraction, audience, ballet, benefits, britain, budgets, choreography, contemporary, culture, cutting, dance, economic, global capital, london, long term, national achievments, new, opportunity, performance, petition, rehearsal, risk, sarah linstra, social, the company, tourism
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Things you HAVE TO see…
Christmas time is coming up and the theatre’s are filling up with season audiences. With so many dance shows, opera’s, theatre productions, exhibitions, films and musicals it’s sometimes hard to know where to go. You don’t want to miss that … Continue reading →