PUTTING PASSION CENTER STAGE. Finding ways to connect with the emotional themes of a lyrical number can be a big challenge, especially if you’re dancing about situations or ideas that you’ve never experienced. Here’s how you can find your passionate self onstage, and give a moving and authentic performance. Find age-appropriate music. Life experiences influence [...]
I CLIMBED THE steep stairs to the attic, where my mother liked to work. Loolie and Beth, my ball and chain, followed. In fact, Loolie had hooked her fingers into the back of my belt, and Beth was a couple of stairs behind. I turned around. “Let go,” I said. “Let go. You’re hurting me.” [...]
Abel Delgado is changing lives by putting instruments in the hands of some of L.A.’s poorest kids For much of his childhood Abel Delgado felt like a nobody. Growing up poor-the son of Mexican immigrants-on the outskirts of an affluent Houston neighborhood, Delgado couldn’t afford the Tommy Hilfiger polo shirts that would help him fit [...]
By Tel Asiado This is an excerpt from my tribute to Mozart on his birthday. The shortest but close to this category. Recently, a friend’s question took me by surprise. “What’s your favorite Mozart music?” She knows how I feel about Mozart, the only composer I consider “immortal.” In fact, I’ve loved the master’s music [...]
By Emma L. Willey One day at a garage sale, I rummaged through some junk and spotted an old paring knife. “Wait a minute,” I muttered to myself. “This knife looks vaguely familiar.” I picked if up, turned it over and over in my hand. Where had I seen this knife before? It had a [...]
By Paul Francis Mc Cann I decided to go busking around the country and after three years my journey was almost at an end . Each town I had been had so far brought me the funds I needed to continue . I had met many people along the way . This Last City was [...]
By Emma L. Willey One day at a garage sale, I rummaged through some junk and spotted an old paring knife. “Wait a minute,” I muttered to myself. “This knife looks vaguely familiar.” I picked if up, turned it over and over in my hand. Where had I seen this knife before? It had a [...]