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A Ballerina Should Always Look Up, Even If She Can’t See
Looking at the Stars is a USC Thesis Documentary about the first and only ballet school for the blind located in São Paulo, Brazil. The filmmakers have launched a Kickstarter campaign so they can shoot this summer; they need to raise $16,000 by February 5, 2013.
"Always look up and do what you love": that’s the lesson that Fernanda Bianchini More...
Day of the Dead Dance
Mexico and Haiti are two countries that celebrate their dead each year with a traditional holiday – reflecting their relationship with death in a celebration full of color, energy and vigor, almost reminding death itself that it cannot kill the vitality of their spirit and wonderful culture.
Choreographers Leilani Maciel and Ashley Meeder and More...
Bicycle Ballet
Just accept you're going to watch an Remington shaver ad - without corporate sponsors, we wouldn't have anything like this video. Danny MacAskill, Scottish street trials pro, takes on the streets of San Francisco with grace, fearlessness and, yes, a rather profound sense of his art. More...Steve Aoki Triple Play
DJ and musician Steve Aoki is electro house royalty. Three new videos have premiered this week, two from OneBeat, and the third from director Warren Pereira.
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Best. Flashmob. Ever.
With bravado, gymnastics, synchronicity, choreography, crazy Russian energy and unbridled joy, this Moscow flashmob performs Irving Berlin's classic "Puttin' on the Ritz." As more and more people join in, and the staging (not to mention the camera work) becomes more and more elaborate, you'll probably agree with us: This is the Best. Flashmob. Eve More...The 3 Reasons Entrepreneurs and Artists Are the Same
by Adam Leipzig
I’ve been doing trainings for mixed groups recently – mixing entrepreneurs with artists and other creative people.
While it’s true that artists have much to learn from entrepreneurs, and vice versa, one other fact has also become abundantly clear: entrepreneurs and creatives are, at root, the same. They share three fundame More...
How Entrepreneurs and Creatives Can Change the World
by Adam Leipzig
There are 60 million creatives and entrepreneurs in America. They are the innovators and the artists, and the intra-preneurs who work inside big companies; collectively, they are the key to re-energizing our country, economically and culturally. Creative-Entrepreneurs create things and bring them into the world; they bring about change, because More...Dancing With Light
Quixotic, conceived by founder Anthony Magliano, is an ensemble of artists from various disciplines including aerial acrobatics, dance, fashion, film, music and visual effects. They performed at the TED Conference in February.
You may start to wonder how they do it. Don't... just watch and be amazed.
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Theatre of Place and Time
by Adam Leipzig
What is it about outdoor cultural events that attracts fly-overs by police helicopters?
Concern about masses of people gathering? Making sure artists don’t step out of bounds? Maybe LA’s Finest just want a closer look.
Certainly many people want to take a look when work is site-specific and, for that reason, fleeting, as were two perf More...
LA Blooms & Threads Its Way
As cherry blossom celebrations take place around the world this year, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center is taking advantage of the natural momentum for change and growth by hosting a 9-day festival that will bring together traditional and contemporary forms of art, music, and performance.
Mare Nubium (an ocean of clouds), the op More...
