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☆ The Viral Dances Changing the Way Women Move
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Coralie Kraft | Photographs Malike Sidibe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +10 min

Parris Goebel Is Changing the Way Women Move Her surreal, muscular dances for Rihanna, SZA and other pop stars have made her one of the world’s most in-demand choreographers. As the music gathered momentum, the camera raced through the crowd of scowling dancers until, finally, Rihanna appeared. The choreographer behind this viral performance, 32-year-old Parris Goebel, has established herself as one of the music industry’s most innovative and in-demand artists. There’s something cathartic about watching a group of (mostly) women snarling in lock step, an image of power and indomitability. Rihanna’s representative confirmed that Rihanna and Goebel were shooting something at the palace, though the project is still under wraps.

Persons: Parris Goebel, Rihanna, SZA, “, ”, Cat, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Goebel, Fatima Robinson, Missy Elliott, Britney, Christina Aguilera’s, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Tate McRae, It’s, Tate, McRae, Gene Kelly, growled, choreographing, Jennifer Lopez’s, ” Goebel, Bob Fosse, Justin Bieber’s, —, ” SZA, ” — Parris Goebel, influencer, natalieg, I’m Organizations: Nike, Paris, Nike Paris, YouTube, Urban Dance, Rihanna’s, Samoan rugby, Coachella, intuit, of Mirrors Locations: Auckland, Versailles

☆ Chita Rivera, Tony Award-winning actress and singer, dead at 91
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Chita Rivera, an iconic performer of stage and screen with credits including “Chicago,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and “Sweet Charity,” has died. She was 91. Rivera’s longtime publicist Merle Frimark confirmed the news to CNN on Tuesday, saying Rivera died “peacefully” on Tuesday “in New York after a brief illness.”The recipient of a record 10 Tony Award nominations, and winner of two for “The Rink” and “The Kiss of the Spider Woman,” Rivera’s unparalleled Broadway career spanned decades, from playing Anita in “West Side Story” and opposite Dick Van Dyke in “Bye Bye Birdie” to signature Bob Fosse musicals like “Chicago” and “All That Jazz.”Although she maintained a dizzying stage schedule, Rivera appeared in a number of movies and TV shows as well, including a screen adaptation of “Sweet Charity” as well as “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”The honors Rivera amassed included being a Kennedy Center honoree in 2002 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, presented to her by President Obama in 2009. Frimark included a statement from Rivera’s daughter Lisa Mordente, which mentioned the star’s funeral will be private and that she is survived by her daughter along with siblings Julio, Armando and Lola del Rivero “along with her many nieces, nephews and friends.”This is a developing story and will be updated.

Persons: Chita Rivera, ”, “, Rivera’s, Merle Frimark, Rivera, Tony, Anita, Dick Van Dyke, “ Bye, Birdie ”, Bob Fosse, Obama, Frimark, Lisa Mordente, Julio, Armando, Lola del Rivero Organizations: CNN, Chicago, Broadway, Kennedy Locations: ”, New York, “

☆ The Man in the Sequined Tuxedo Who Built a Dance Community
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Margaret Fuhrer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The Oscar winner Ariana DeBose. Eleven cast members of last year’s Broadway production of “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’.”Those are just a few notable alumni of New York City Dance Alliance, a dance competition and convention celebrating its 30th anniversary this winter. It’s also the kind of name parade that makes Joe Lanteri, the organization’s founder and executive director, uncomfortable. “Of course I’m so proud of all these dancers,” Lanteri said. “But I can’t take credit for their success — for the work that every dance teacher and studio owner did with them in the trenches, for the whole community that helped them.”

Persons: Ariana DeBose, Derek Hough, Catherine Hurlin, Tiler Peck, Taylor Stanley, Bob Fosse’s Dancin, It’s, Joe Lanteri, ” Lanteri, ” Organizations: New York City Dance Alliance

After saying he had not met with Ohtani, Counsell was asked whether anyone in the Cubs front office had. Counsell replied: “I have not.”Japanese pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, another prized free agent, could be sought by the New York Yankees and Mets, who set payroll records this year in their third season under owner Steve Cohen. The Mets' projected final 2023 payroll is about $346 million and their luxury tax roughly $102 million. Political Cartoons View All 1283 Images“I don’t know if anybody can compete with Steve Cohen,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. He's had a lot of success and built an empire which has allowed him to do things like the Mets.

Persons: — Dave Roberts, Shohei, Roberts, Bob Fosse, Ross Atkins, I’m, Craig Counsell, Ohtani, Counsell, “, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Steve Cohen, ”, Brian Cashman, He's, ” Cashman, Juan Soto, Preller, Mike Shildt, Cashman, Alex Verdugo, Greg Weissert, Chris Devenski, Erick Fedde, he’s, Yamamoto, AP Sports Writers Teresa Walker, Jay Cohen, ___ Organizations: Los Angeles Dodgers, Toronto, ” New Chicago Cubs, Cubs, New York Yankees, Mets, ” Yankees, Padres, New Padres, Soto, Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Tampa, NC Dinos, Chicago White Sox, Associated Press, Cleveland, MLB, Dodger, Dodgers, Orix Buffaloes, Lotte Marines, AP Sports Writers Locations: Tenn, ”, San Diego, Miami, South Korea, Japan

☆ Review: ‘Chicago,’ With Nary a Finger Snap
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( A.J. Goldmann | More About A.J. Goldmann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The seedy, culturally vibrant and rapidly modernizing Berlin of the 1920s was nicknamed “Chicago on the Spree.” That moniker sprang to mind recently during the premiere of a masterful and muscular new production of “Chicago,” directed by Barrie Kosky at the Komische Oper Berlin. “Chicago,” a “story of greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery,” to quote the prologue, is the longest-running show currently on Broadway, but it got a very mixed reception when it opened there in 1975. Many of those early audience members were uncomfortable with Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse and John Kander’s use of musical showstoppers in the service of an amoral satire, and the show’s jerky and pastiche-like narrative technique. For his production, Kosky has gone back to the original concept of the show as a musical vaudeville with a heavy dose of bile and a dash of Brechtian alienation, while also embracing burlesque elements. Michael Levine’s dazzling set is outfitted with nearly 7000 light bulbs, which intelligently frame the actors, and the action, in frequently changing configurations that suggest a nightclub, a prison cell and a circus ring.

Persons: ”, Barrie Kosky, Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse, John Kander’s, Kosky, Michael Levine’s Organizations: Oper Locations: Berlin, Chicago, Oper Berlin, “ Chicago, ”

☆ Joey Evans Is Back. This Time He’s a Struggling Artist.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Brian Seibert | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Those ancestors appear in the form of extraordinary tap dancers, including Dormeshia and Glover. And they keep reappearing throughout the show to remind Joey of his authentic self. This Joey, played by Ephraim Sykes, has a soul, and that soul expresses itself in the deeply rooted sound of Savion Glover’s tap dancing. Frank Sinatra played Joey for the sanitized 1957 film. Revivals at City Center in the 1960s starred Bob Fosse, years before he directed shows like “Chicago” that made Joey’s sleaze into a dominant style.

Persons: Joey, Ephraim Sykes, ” Beaty, Ossie Davis, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, ’ ” Glover, Jimmy Slyde, Lon Chaney, Chuck Green, Buster Brown, ”, ‘, Glover, Henry LeTang, “, Slyde, Chaney, ” Glover, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Bob Fosse Organizations: Dormeshia, Hollywood, City Center Locations: Glover, ‘ Da

☆ John Early Brings a Deliriously Over-the-Top Sensibility to Stand-Up
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The key to his persona, I think, can be found in the joke he tells about the always-be-selling vanity of his generation, presenting himself as its avatar. “I don’t know how to do my taxes, but I do know how to be a badass.” Then he clarifies, “A shell of a badass.”That’s the role Early plays here. “If we’re honest,” he says, “Donald Trump is not a sensual person.” It’s the way he says “If we’re honest” that cracks me up. The grainy film stock and chunky red font of this special remind me of a Tarantino movie. In one revealing nostalgic riff, Early yearns for the days of Bob Fosse, when louche choreographers were on talk shows and dance could be “kinky and mysterious.”

Persons: ”, “, Trump, “ Donald Trump, Apple, There’s, Bob Fosse

☆ The iconic Wednesday Addams dance gets a cultural twist from Asian TikTok creators
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Brahmjot Kaur | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

"Wednesday," a comedy horror show and the latest “Addams Family” spinoff, was released on the streaming service last week. It follows daughter Wednesday Addams, played by Jenna Ortega, as she navigates Nevermore Academy, her psychic abilities and a murder mystery. The dance scene, which shows Wednesday ghoulishly grooving at Nevermore Academy’s annual Rave’N dance, has mesmerized thousands on the app. She was also dressed in all black with a Polynesian dancing belt called a hip hei and her hair in a braided crown. The Addams Family consists of mother and father Gomez and Morticia; children Pugsley and Wednesday; butler Lurch; and extended family members Uncle Fester and Grandmama.

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