HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRED ASTAIRE! Fred Astaire was born on May 10, 1899. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.
Gene Kelly, another major innovator in filmed dance, said that “the history of dance on film begins with Astaire”. Beyond film and television, many classical dancers and choreographers, Rudolf Nureyev, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins among them, also acknowledged his importance and influence.
“Just to see him walk down the street…to me is worth the price of admission” - Sammy Davis, Jr.
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“For Promotional Use Only.” (Los Angeles, CA. 07 May, 2013)
Doubajen Records is pleased to announce the highly anticipated follow-up single to Slim K’s 2012 release You Love It.
May 14, 2013 will see the release of a promo single titled, The Speed of Love, an up-tempo, fun and romantic song performed by Slim K , which will be available for Promotional use ONLY. There are plans for The Speed of Love to hit stores later the year, as part of a project. Further details TBA. Check official web http://tiny.cc/slimk
*The Speed of Love will premiere on Soundcloud (*audio) on Tuesday, May 14(th), and on YouTube (*music video) on Monday, May 20(th), 9 am PST (12 pm EST).
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Award Winning Pole Artist PHOENIX KAZREE (Photography: Brittany Berggren, Make Up: Sarah Lauterbach-Mua — at Vasquez Rocks, California - April, 2013).
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FILM HISTORY: Tunisian Film Pioneer Albert Samama Chikly (1872-1933).
In 1897 Albert Samama Chikly, a Tunisian Jew, together with a photographer named Soler, organized the first screenings of Lumière films in a Tunis shop. The original twelve minute program of films, bolstered by some magic lantern views, included such familiar titles as ‘La Sortie de l’Usines’ and ‘L’Arrivée d’un Train’ (Arrival of the Train). In common with the introduction of film in many non-Western countries, Tunisia was offered its first films from a businessman who also introduced other modern novelties; in Chikly’s case, the bicycle, radio and X-rays. Unusually, Chikly was to persevere in his film interests. He was active as an actuality filmmaker in Tunisia and France, filming over Tunis from a balloon in 1908, and filming for the French army at Verdun during the First World War. He also took Auto-chrome color photographs during the war.
He knew the The Lumière Brothers, Abel Gance and Rex Ingram, who wanted his actress daughter Haydée Chikly to work in Hollywood. Chikly made the first Tunisian fiction film, a short entitled “Zohra” made in 1922, and then the first Tunisian feature film, “Ain el-Ghezal” ou la fille de Carthage (The Girl from Carthage), in 1924, a remarkable achievement when African film-making in general was almost non-existent. Both films starred his daughter, who continued acting in Tunisian films into the 1990s.
His tombstone bears the epitaph: “Tireless in curiosity, reckless in courage, audacious in enterprise, obstinate amidst trials, resigned to misfortune, he leaves his friends.”
http://www.victorian-cinema.net/samama
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Award Winning Pole Artist Phoenix Kazree meets Mr P-Funk himself George Clinton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(musician)
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PHOENIX KAZREE to kick off her first World Tour: E.A.C. 2013
Award Winning Pole Artist PHOENIX KAZREE is kicking off her first-ever World Tour. On the E.A.C Tour (Europe, Africa, Canada), Phoenix will be giving workshops, judging competitions, and performing.
Rotterdam, Netherlands at “Paaldans Academy” - March 14 & 15, 2013
Vienna, Austria at “Pole Dance Vienna” - March 17, 2013
Innsbruck, Austria at “Poledance Playground” - March 21 & 22, 2013
Innsbruck, Austria at “Pole Studio Innsbruck” - March 23 & 24, 2013
Brussles, Belgium at “Sarah Academy” - March 27, 2013
Paris, France at “Pole and Dance” - March 29, 2013
Nice, France at “Studio Pole Play” - March 30, 2013
Palaiseau, France at “Pole Studio Palaiseau” - March 31, 2013
Johannesburg, South Africa at “PFASA Annual Pole Competiton 2013” - April 6, 2013
(Cape Town workshops - dates & locations TBA)
Montreal, Canada at “Studio 409” - April 13, 2013
Montreal, Canada at “Pole Fitness Montreal” - April 14, 2013
Montreal, Canada at “Alternative Fitness” - April 16, 2013
Ottawa, Canada at “Cherry Blossom Pole” - April 19 & 20, 2013
Vancouver, Canada at “Tantra Fitness” - April 21, 2013
Please check Phoenix Kazree Official Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PhoenixKazreePole and Official Website www.phoenixkazree.com for additions/changes to the tour schedule!
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UPDATE: Once again selected as a semi finalist for International Pole Championship 2013 http://polechampionship.com/competitors-semifinals/phoenix-kazree/
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New Rules for the Leading Man: Movies + TV: GQ
Most of the so-called professional actors these days, are just overrated & overpaid hacks. For example, let’s look at the contemporary “actors”, they simply lack depth, can’t act their way out of a wet paper bag but because they just look nice [have nice faces] they get parts, but no sense of emotion nor heart (just like the movies in general being made today).
I’m worried of what movie “acting” [a joke already] is going to be like in 10 years from now, when all you’ve got is scatterbrained actors and actresses, empty pretty shells who either blubber like idiots or scream like retards cause they can’t act, and rely to much on special effects and technology to look decent on screen. Just watch the old classics, you’ll see the difference and understand!
They can’t get into character in the ways that the old actors could.
PS: same goes for Music!! http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201303/the-new-and-improved-leading-man-march-2013
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Today 30 years ago: “Beat It” reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (February 26, 1983). It is the third single from the singer’s sixth solo album, Thriller (1982). Eddie Van Halen was hired to add the song’s distinctive overdriven guitar solo, but was prevented by his record label from appearing in the music video.
A Platinum-certified 45, “Beat It” was awarded two Grammy Awards and two American Music Awards and was inducted into the Music Video Producers Hall of Fame. “Beat It” (along with the song’s music video) propelled Thriller into becoming the best-selling album of all time. The single was certified platinum in 1989. Rolling Stone magazine placed “Beat It” in the 344th spot on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. “Beat It” was also ranked No. 81 in Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time”.
The music video for “Beat It” helped establish Jackson as an international pop icon. The video was Jackson’s first treatment of black youth and the streets. Both “Beat It” and “Thriller” are notable for their “mass choreography” of synchronized dancers, a Jackson trademark.
The video, which cost Jackson $150,000 to create after CBS refused to finance it, was filmed on Los Angeles’ Skid Row—mainly on locations on East 5th Street —around March 9, 1983.
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WOW, This is just amazing!! I was never ever impressed by Beyoncé, and heres another reason why! When I found this video of the 1960’s superstar contemporary dancer Gwen Verdon, it strangely reminded me of something… Then I put Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”, and suddenly it seemed obvious.. Don’t you think?
Beyoncé’s Copycat of Bob Fosse choreography. http://vimeo.com/16331452
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Phoenix Kazree Workshops in Santa Ana (CA) / Feb 15, 2013
LISTEN UP!! Anyone in Orange County area, Award Winning Pole Artist Phoenix Kazree will be teaching her signature tricks workshop (int/adv.) at Smoke & Mirrors Pole Fitness on Friday February 15th from 7:30-8:30 pm. $65 / incl 2nd workshop Kazree Flow (all levels) - Focus on pole “dancing”.
Learn Phoenix’s style of floor work and pole choreography. Open your mind and body to new types of movement on, off and around the pole. 8:30-9:30 pm $65
Sign up online at https://preview.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/adm/home.asp?studioid=20032
Is “Titanic” on your list of pole moves to accomplish? Phoenix Kazree’s Signature Tricks and Transitions is where you will learn all four versions of it. Along with floor to pole transitions, more signature tricks, creative ways to enter and exit classic tricks, and so much more.
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Look Boys & Girls, on the left, we have a Legend, the name’s TINA TURNER, decades ago. (Never mind the copycat from last Sunday on the right).
This goes to show its all been done one time or another.
No one in contemporary “music” is presenting anything new and fresh whatsoever, no one!! The moral of the story, be unique, you can be talented and get inspired by heroes of the past, but don’t “copy and paste it”, be inspired and re-invent it in your own unique ways.
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The Super Bowl yesterday was fun.. real cute, but nothing can beat Michael Jackson’s Halftime Show, in this video you can see what last night was tried but failed to achieve, especially the toaster pop up effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR-3E6o3OYs
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The Reflex- The Reflex- Fle-fle-fle-flex!!! Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran frontman), 1984
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What I’ve learnt: Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran)
Awesome new interview by Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon. ‘Angry young man is quite cool. Angry young man becomes a grumpy old git isn’t so attractive’
I live by a few basic maxims. Never complain, never explain, never say would have, should have or could have, always judge a book by its cover and never mix your drinks.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/magazine/article3657158.ece
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