November 6, 2009 at 4:53 pm by Wyatt Williams
The 2009 fall perfamance series of Dance Canvas kicks off this weekend at the 14th Street Playhouse. Now entering the second year, Dance Canvas features pieces from 10 up-and-coming choreographers. Over 30 professional dancers from Atlanta will perform in the series.
This year’s choreographers include:
Juel Lane- (NYC/Atlanta) Ron K. Brown/Evidence; North Carolina School for the Arts
John-Mark Owen- (NYC) American Repertory Ballet, Nashville Ballet
Jennifer Davis- (Atlanta) Florida State Dance Dept.
Jelani Jones- (Atlanta) Jelani Jones Dance Theater (Artistic Director)
Ray Hall- (Atlanta)
Kristin Clay- (Atlanta) The Georgia Ballet
Sarah Boies- (Baton Rouge, LA) The Georgia Ballet
Terry Slade- (Atlanta) Redemption Dance Theater (Artistic Director)
Lonnie Davis- (Atlanta) Royal Caribbean Productions, Refuge Dance Co. resident choreographer
Performances begin tonight at 8 p.m. and continue into the weekend. Visit Dance Canvas for more details.
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August 31, 2009 at 12:15 am by Amber Robinson
1) Midtown Restaurant Week continues.
2) The Medicine Showdown closes at 14th Street Playhouse.
3) Everest and Cirque du Soleil Journey of Man open at Fernbank Museum’s IMAX Film Festival.
4) Brian Lavelle plays Star Bar.
5) Taking Woodstock continues at area theaters.
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(Photo by Heidi Geldhauser)
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August 24, 2009 at 3:38 pm by Curt Holman
POTION CONTROL: Dr. Eggerton (Jay Allan, left) and Legs Benedict (Khalid Hill)
No one can sell health care like Dr. Arthur Eggerton. In the Flying Carpet Theatre Co.’s The Medicine Showdown, Dr. Eggerton (Jay Allan) commands the kind of traveling medicine show that toured America in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Eggerton frequently launches into flamboyant spiels about the healing properties of his elixir, “a tonic of roots, barks and herbs” that’s good for whatever ails you.
Modern audiences can chuckle at Eggerton’s gobbledygook about how the elixir “re-ionizes the animolecules of your blood” and combats arrhythmia, the source of all disease. We can also recognize how Eggerton’s clientele might be swayed by the impressive-sounding jargon: It’s not that much of a leap to consider modern-day medical lingo and how little you may actually understand of your doctor’s diagnosis or the scientific explanations of pharmaceuticals on TV commercials. In the midst of a national debate over health care reform and worries about the H1N1 flu, The Medicine Showdown’s medical anxieties arrive like a perfectly timed prescription.
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(Photo by David Gochfeld)
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