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Arts fundraising shifts gears in a perilous economy
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterUnprecedented spending is the Bush administration's plan to avoid the worst or something like it in the American economy. But many arts organizations can quip that they were way ahead in the rush to embrace Mother Necessity in hopes of begetting...Tags: Local Authority, Metal and Mineral, Dancing, Television Industry, Music
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NYC PICKS: DANCE
You'll get a kick from these two festivals. BEST FEET FORWARD WHAT At the annual Fall for Dance Festival, national and international dance companies strut their stuff at the New York City Center until Sept. 27. Some of the performers tonight include...Tags: Dancing, Dance, Festive Event
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Steps toward a national presence
Special to the Chicago TribuneWith just two ventures, the Harris Theater signaled the dance world it would honor that Chicago dictum to make no small plans. In 2006, it brought back the New York City Ballet after a 26-year absence, and this week it hosts the San Francisco Ballet's...Tags: Paul Taylor, Mikhail Baryshnikov, National Government, Dancing, Twyla Tharp
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DANCE
Among the dance highlights this season: The Kirov Ballet, now more than 250 years old, will visit the Southland twice before year's end. Other season highlights:
'Ocean'
Before his death, John Cage planned to write a score for a large orchestra deployed...Tags: Paul Taylor, Dancing, George Balanchine, Janet Jackson, Mark Morris
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Dance: 9 shows to see
steve.parks@newsday.com; JUDY RAIAFall for Dance Festival (Sept. 17-27, City Center, 130 W. 56th St., Manhattan). First-rate dance at cut-rate prices - just $10 a performance - starting with the National Ballet of Canada and including the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Les Ballet Jazz de...Tags: Paul Taylor, Natural Science, Dancing, Wynton Marsalis, Alvin Ailey
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Dance schedule
September Sept. 8 Metro DC Dance Awards, Kennedy Sept. 8-29 Roadhouse, Kennedy Sept. 11 Break! The Urban Funk Spectacular, AACC Sept. 11-12 Witness, Kennedy Sept. 13 Pure, Dance Sept. 18-19 Drift, Kennedy Sept. 18-20 The Break/s, Kennedy Sept. 20-21 Eiko...Tags: Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Dancing, Mark Morris, Suzanne Farrell, Music
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From transplant to L.A.'s heart and soul
Special to The TimesMEG WOLFE had good reason to be professionally depressed when she moved to Los Angeles for love in 2003. Fresh from 12 years as a well-known performer and choreographer on New York's downtown experimental dance scene, she arrived here knowing "no one, and...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Natural Science, Dancing, Theater, State University of New York
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Artist mixed paint, sculpture, cast-offs
Times Art CriticRobert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and the early 1970s, died Monday night, according to New...Tags: Paul Taylor, Plymouth, Willem de Kooning, Death and Dying, Armed Forces
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Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg dead at 82
zachary.dowdy@newsday.comRobert Rauschenberg, a major American pop artist who produced some of his work at a small Long Island studio that has drawn formidable talent for decades, died Monday of heart failure, a representative said. He was 82. Rauschenberg's death was...Tags: Jasper Johns, Los Angeles, Death and Dying, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Josef Albers
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Basel begins
With so many nightclub parties, gallery openings and celebrity-hosted happenings scheduled to coincide with this weekend's Art Basel Miami Beach, a person could easily get overwhelmed by the sheer size and scope of it all. Not to worry, though, as we've...Tags: Madonna, Tourism and Leisure, Beach Vacations, Television Industry, Natural Resources
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Fall Arts: Dance calendar
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Andrea Del Conte Danza Espana. "Flamenco!" with Marco De Ana, Thalia Spanish Theatre, $30, $27 seniors and students, $25 Fridays. Through Oct. 8
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New Ballet Choreographers. Newly commissioned ballets by emerging choreographers Tom...Tags: Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, Music, Music Theater, Pina Bausch
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Random acts of dance
Special to NewsdayWhen choreographer Merce Cunningham's "eyeSpace" opens Tuesday, the Joyce Theater will be handing out iPods. The eclectic score is a stream of guitar-plucked song, glimmers of bossa nova, prepared-piano glissandos, electronic burbles and enigmatic verse,...Tags: Jasper Johns, Dancing, Theater, Arts, Music Industry
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