Movement Museum: National Ballet School

Friday, July 23, 2010

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Our show from July 22, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth and Bettina Forget review The Ballet Class: A history of Canada's national ballet school 1959 - 2009 by Norma Sue Fisher-Stitt, discuss methods and tools useful for reviewing dance [pdf alert] and contemplate the silly season.

The theme song is Chris Toynton's version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Isadora Duncan Dancing by Louis Untermeyer, and the music played during the show is from disc three of Oscar Peterson's Dimensions.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Toronto's National Ballet School celebrates International Dance Day

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Apparently it is a law in Toronto that if you go to the mall you absolutely must bring your video camera with you. Back at the end of April, the National Ballet School over there decided that they were going to organize something they call a Flash Mob (I would strongly disagree with their definition, but I digress) to do a dance in public at the Eaton Centre in order to raise public awareness about International Dance Day. Cool enough, if not terribly original, but what elevates this particular event, is that if you go trolling for it on YouTube, there are nine (9) completely different videos of the same thing. Talk about gaining a different perspective!!

The Official We Want this to be Viral Video done by the National Ballet School