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Dancing like the pros

When you're in the middle of dance class and the instructor asks, "How many of you have ever had whipped cream on your butt?" you can be pretty sure you're in for an interesting experience.In fact, the master class on the style of Bob Fosse that I attended at Pineapple Studios in London was probably the most intriguing ? and certainly the most inspiring ? dance class I've ever taken.Taught by Chet Walker ? one of Fosse's original students and the creator of the hit Broadway show "Fosse" ? and attended by dancers from the London productions of "Fosse" and "Chicago," the class was two hours of insight into the workings of Bob Fosse's very strange, creative mind.When I saw the sign advertising Chet's class (he insisted we call him Chet, but then again, he also insisted we shout out random things while we were dancing), I was incredibly excited.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

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Mixed melodies

Billy Joel once said that music "is an explosive expression of humanity. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."Indeed, music is the universal language.

NEWS | 11/29/2000

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Aleta Hayes, through her own lens

Nothing about Aleta Hayes is stagnant, least of all the way she gives an interview.Before we get started, the professor-choreographer-dancer-singer-actor informs me that she has a few things to do at 185 Nassau before the office closes and asks if I would mind talking as we walk and completing the interview there.

NEWS | 11/29/2000

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Is 'Hedda Gabler' past its prime?

Love, loss, money, fear, fame and betrayal come together with fatal consequences in "Hedda Gabler." Theatre-Intime's current production of Henrik Ibsen's late 19th-century drama, directed by Jennie Klein '01 ? while as good an interpretation as possible of this often predictable play ? is unable to generate the energy and excitement inherent in a truly memorable theatrical experience.Set in Norway in 1890, the play revolves around Hedda (Katie Flynn '02), a manipulative and disgruntled newlywed.

NEWS | 11/15/2000

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The glamorous life of a playwright

As I stared at the peeling purple-painted walls of the Aladdin Hotel, I realized that Young Playwrights Inc. wasn't kidding when it said it would give eight winning playwrights the New York City theater experience.Five people to a bedroom, a bathroom door always half an inch ajar, a non-functioning heater and German models shrieking with laughter down the hall ? ah, yes, the artist's life.

NEWS | 11/15/2000