Dance

Gotta Dance?

Soviet émigré Sasha Farber's floor-burnin' gig lights up Philly

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Yellow waxy buildup never had a chance against the dripping, streaking sensuality of the dancers who torch the tiles of "Burn the Floor." Or is it all a linoleum litmus test? Doesn't matter; when you're hot, you're hot -- and the dancers who sizzle smoke from mopping the floor with their Fahrenheit 500 don't so much answer "So You Think...

Theater

It's a Wonderful (Leggy) Life

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Michael Elkin

Want a little noodle kugel with that egg nog? On Prancer, on Dasher, on Rudolph, on ... Shmuel? Ho-ho -- oy: Talk about kick-starting your holidays; certainly Rhonda Kaufman Malkin has one leg up on others. Rocket in her pocket? She's got them on her feet as the Jewish Rockette gets set to tap, tap, tap her way to happiness...

Dance

Young Ballet Phenom Turns Back on B'way

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Daphna Berman, JE Feature

Esteban Hernandez could have been a star on Broadway, but when he was offered the role of Billy Elliot in the eponymous hit musical, the 14-year-old ballet whiz declined. "I didn't think I was ready yet," the Mexican-born Jewish dancer said. "I would have been performing all the time, instead of working on my technique." A real-life Jewish Billy Elliot?...

Dance

Inbal on Tap on Two Dates

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Dr. Marcia Bryan Edelman, JE Feature

What do you get when you combine a classically trained dancer and a veteran of the theater? If you are very fortunate, the result is the Inbal Pinto Dance Company, making its first Philadelphia appearance next week in two performances as part of the "Dance Celebration Series" at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The featured work on this...

Lifestyle

Dance, 10; Genes, 3?

New study doesn't tiptoe around differences of those with terpsichorean talent

What makes dancers different than the rest of us? The answer is genetic variants, claims a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In a study in the American journal, Public Library of Science Genetics, Richard P. Ebstein - a professor and head of the Hebrew University psychology department''s Scheinfeld Center for Human Genetics in the Social Sciences - and...