#choreography

#choreography

By the time Dua Lipa announced that there would be a Latin American leg of her Future Nostalgia tour, Will Laura Schmidt, who lives in Peru, had already bought plane tickets to Europe so he could attend the singer's concert in Munich in May.Mr. Schmidt, 25, had been watching online clips from her tour, recorded by fans who attended a show.

It was the day after Christmas in 1991, and as a young journalist, I received quite a gift: my first byline in The New York Times.There was one and only one downside: They misspelled my name.I use they because as I leave The Times's Sports desk this month to become a full-time author, I still don't know who got it wrong or how the mix-up happened.

I never venture too far from a theater, but when I did have some time away from New York stages, I was watching TV and movies.In so many of my favorites of 2022, there's a sense of humanity to the work, whether that means it featured people connecting or simply being honest with themselves and others.

Armies have been storming trench lines for more than a hundred years, but for all the advances in military technology, it is no less harrowing now than it was when soldiers were crossing the muddy battlefields of World War I. Assaults can be stealthy and surgical, employing surprise, or launched with overwhelming force, using drone strikes, or tanks and artillery.

Sprinkle the sequins and pump up the volume: The 67th Eurovision Song Contest reaches its climax on Saturday with a grand final broadcast live from Liverpool.There will be catchy choruses, a kaleidoscope of costumes and tributes to the spirit of Ukraine in a competition that for seven decades has captured the changing zeitgeist of a continent.

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.

What better way to celebrate Halloween than by watching Rina Sawayama tear through "Frankenstein" on Late Night With Seth Meyers?The 32-year-old pop sensation appeared in a  Bride of Frankenstein-inspired hairdo, with a high top and vivid white streaks along the sides.She and her backup dancers performed in fog up to their knees, with choreography inspired by Boris Karloff and "Monster Mash."

Laure Calamy certainly makes a jaunty entrance.She's somewhere out of sight in the kitchen of her Paris flat, and all I can see on my laptop is a vividly coloured glass partition a Mondrian pattern of rectangles in rich shades of red and orange.Then suddenly the French actor comes into view, greeting me with a big All-ooo!, so perkily singsong that the English equivalent would have to be Coo-eee!

Renowned choreographer Dougie Squires, who formed the television dance group The Young Generation, has died at the age of 91, it has been announced.Squires formed the group, one of the first onscreen dancing troupes to feature both boys and girls, in the late 1960s, and later followed up with The Second Generation.

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."

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.

There was Rui Costa and there was Marco Materazzi.Beauty and the brawn.The elegant Portuguese shouldering the weight of his grizzled opponent's elbow.Tranquillity amid the chaos as a pair of footballing rivals paused to ponder a hazy wall of red smoke and simmering flares."Everyone was focused on the flares, on the smoke," photographer Stefano Rellandini, who captured that iconic image 18 years ago, tells BBC Sport.

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.

TikTok users might dismiss the platform's often misconstrued label of "a dancing app" but every so often a dance comes along that's so catchy it may make you want to go back to the early days of your FYP.Combine that sort of nostalgia with a trending Taylor Swift song and you've got yourself viral gold.

Rhapsody Stiggers has been dancing since she was two, 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 show in New York, seen by more than 69 million people since 1933.

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.

The dates and line-up for the 2023 tour of Strictly Come Dancing have been announced.Strictly finalists Karen Hauer and Gorka Marquez and 11-time Italian Latin American Champion Vito Coppola will be among those performing in glamorous costumes live for audiences across England, Wales and Scotland.Other Strictly performers in the line-up include top competitors Dianne Buswell, Carlos Gu, Neil Jones, Nikita Kuzmin, Luba Mushtuk, Jowita Przystal and Nancy Xu.