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#choreography

Taylor Swift paid tribute to The National by playing 'coney island', on which they guested, for the first time on the latest stop of her 'Eras' tour.The song, taken from her 2020 album 'evermore' was played along with 'The Other Side Of The Door' from 'Fearless' as part of the "surprise song" segment of the show, which made a stop last night (April 28) in Atlanta, Georgia.

This season's Broadway revival of Dancin', a revue celebrating the choreography of Bob Fosse, will end its short run on Sunday, May 14, the show's producers announced on Tuesday evening, just hours after receiving zero Tony nominations.The show, with little narrative but virtuosic dance, opened on March 19.

Ask Mark Morris why he chose the music of Burt Bacharach, the legendary songwriter who died on Feb. 8, for his 2022 dance work The Look of Love, and the award-winning choreographer doesn't hesitate.The music's great, obviously, he says during an interview that took place before Bacharach's passing.He's written genius music for many decades.

Eunice Kim, a 57-year-old homemaker in Mission Viejo, has spent $800 buying Lim Young Woong's albums.With other members of a fan club, she has spent six straight hours discussing her favorite singer - his latest appearance on a Korean variety show, the dolls of him they are purchasing from South Korea.

Spoilers: Director Nida Manzoor tells IndieWire why she insisted on including an iconic song her protagonist uses as a distraction during a key sequence.[Editor's note: This story contains spoilers for "Polite Society."]It took everything I had not to yell out loud during " Polite Society."

Dear Diary: I was on a bus going uptown on Madison Avenue from Lower Manhattan.I was in a seat not far back from the driver, which allowed me to observe him as we went along.He was clearly a veteran and was able to identify people waiting at the door at each stop, answer questions and move on without ever taking his eyes off the road and traffic ahead.

As we dip into 60-degree temps, Portland's forecast is looking positively balmy and its music scene decidedly on the up and up.Spring forth into these upcoming shows-featuring a whole lot of Pacific Northwest hip-hop-and a homecoming record release for Latin indie rock star Y La Bamba.MUST-SEE:
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Happy Monday, everyone!Celebrate Valentine's Day with someone special at the Museum of Illusions, or grab a friend and indulge in a number of local Galentine's activities.If you'd rather skip the heart-filled holiday all together, then party outdoors at the Wharf's Mardi Gras Parade.Best Things to Do This Week

"Romeo and Juliet" ballet.

Indeed, now feels like the perfect moment in music for them to return.Seated nonchalantly on stools (a sort of deadpan effortlessness having been their original mode of cool) to deliver 23-year-old debut single Overload, what struck the most is how current the track sounded.Mixed into a dubby outro, before they segued into a cover of Sweet Female Attitude's Flowers, its understated beats shuffled along as both influential and strangely modern proof that the theory of music's 20-year cycle of trends still has legs.

Channing Tatum bids an apparent farewell to the franchise that made him a star in Magic Mike's Last Dance.ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It's been more than a decade since Channing Tatum first starred in "Magic Mike," a comedy based on his own pre-acting stint as a stripper.Audiences showered it with more than $100 million and did that again for a sequel, so Tatum's back with a film called "Magic Mike's Last Dance."

I miss the critics.The theater, music, movie, fashion, book, dance and architectural critics who once populated the nation's media have been systematically eliminated at our beleaguered newspapers.As print circulation and advertising have declined, journalism's new business model has prized clicks over culture.

Frankly, it's not only been a long winter here in San Francisco, but a decidedly cold and wet one as well.But while many of us have been making do with cranky radiator-based heating systems or buying galoshes instead of playing tennis, the SF Ballet has been in the studio tuning up their glorious in-house machinery to prepare for stagings of Cinderella and Romeo & Juliet.

It's shaping up to be a great time for openings, from serious, emotional film installations to private museums by icons of British art, and a hefty dose of abstraction chucked in there too.It's got it all
Art openings in London this month
The Gilbert & George Centre
British art's most iconic duo have decided to open a museum dedicated to themselves, including a gallery space for Gilbert & George art, a screening room for Gilbert & George films and an education centre where you can learn all about, you know, Gilbert & George.

Local Led by a current Rockette, the 38-student class is one of the most popular at the performing arts school.BOSTON (AP) - Rhapsody Stiggers has been dancing since she was 2, but the 20-year-old college junior has never taken a dance class quite as challenging as the one she's in now.She is one of 38 students at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee enrolled in the first for-credit college dance class taught by the Radio City Rockettes, the precision dance team famous for its annual high-kicking "Christmas Spectacular," seen by more than 69 million people since 1933.

Rihanna is pregnant with her second child, a representative for the musician confirmed to the Los Angeles Times shortly after this year's Super Bowl halftime show.Many speculated on Sunday that the singer and business mogul was expecting her second child because she briefly rubbed her belly during her Super Bowl set.

Social media has been obsessed with recreating Rihanna's Super Bowl Halftime Show, specifically the booty-popping "Rude Boy" choreography, but no TikToker has come close to North West and Monroe Cannon's rendition.On Feb. 20, Kim Kardashian and Mariah Carey's daughters recreated part of RiRi's Super Bowl spectacle on Kim and North's joint TikTok, complete with matching costumes, making for quite the unexpected crossover.

Meetings have been going on throughout the week between city, state and federal law enforcement agencies in New York City about how to prepare for a possible indictment of former President Donald Trump as early as next week, multiple sources told CNN.Meetings have been held between senior staff members from the Manhattan district attorney's office, the New York State Court Officers who provide security at the state Supreme Court building in lower Manhattan and the New York Police Department, according to law enforcement officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says nothing is off the table' after Ukrainian leader calls for allies to send fighter jets.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the United Kingdom and other Western allies to send combat aircraft to ensure his country's victory in the war with Russia as he began a tour of Europe.

Last November, Jordyn Williams posted a TikTok of an original dance set to a song called No Love by J.K. Mac.The 19-year-old from Birmingham, Ala., thus inadvertently set off a dance challenge that came to be named, for that song, the #NoLoveChallenge.This, in turn, spawned another challenge, the #HerWayChallenge, when the choreography was set to a sped-up version of a PARTYNEXTDOOR song of the same name.

The Light Balance Kids, a Ukrainian youth dance group, wowed viewers with a high-octane performance last month on the first episode of America's Got Talent: All-Stars.The dancers bobbed and wove through an upbeat arcade game-inspired routine, dressed in costumes illuminated by LED lights and acting as players inside a supersized video game.

Tyrel Jackson Williams can't say what exactly helps an influencer strike it big: He calls internet fame a "lightning-in-the-bottle effect."But his character in the revival, Sackson, is chasing that acclaim.One of two new cater-waiters on the team - notably, the only Gen-Z addition - Sackson's area of expertise is foreign to the rest, although the dream- and fame-chasing are core to them all.

The United Ukrainian Ballet is made up of dancers taking refuge in the Netherlands.The company will perform Giselle, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Altin Kaftira/The United Ukrainian Ballet Some 60 Ukrainian dancers are preparing to travel from The Hague, Netherlands, to Washington, D.C., where they will perform Giselle, with choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, at the Kennedy Center.

With high energy, low impact routines set to pumping soundtracks that work your body all over and burn hundreds of cals, it's no wonder people swear by spinning.If you don't mind sweating with a studio full of people but don't know which one to go for, we've picked out some of the best spin classes in London for you to try.

Brazil's players and many of those watching around the world enjoyed the dance routines after each goal the Selecao scored in Monday's 4-1 win over South Korea at the World Cup.But for those who saw them as acts of disrespect toward their beaten opponents, there is some bad news: Brazil are not going to stop.

LOS ANGELES Lady Gaga will be performing at the Oscars after all.A person close to the production with knowledge of the performance confirmed Sunday afternoon that the pop superstar will sing Hold My Hand, the Oscar-nominated original song from Top Gun: Maverick.Producers said just days before that Gaga's schedule on the Joker sequel would keep her from performing, but apparently a change after their remarks allowed the performance's addition to the show.

This enjoyable high-octane action spy movie from India is possibly the most fun you can currently have at the cinema for the first two hours of its running time at least.At the packed London cinema where I watched it on opening night, the crowd erupted with whoops the moment Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan appeared on screen face battered to a pulp, gazing up through a bloody swollen half-shut eye.