Updates from my website and the world of dance science.

Updates from my website and the World of Dance Science

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Monday, 13 September 2010

Not to miss TV this month

Title: Destino: A Contemporary Dance Story
Broadcast Info: 19 Sep 2010, 16:00 (70 mins)
Channels: Community Channel
Description: Destino: A Contemporary Dance Story

Title: The Royal Ballet Celebrates Kenneth
MacMillan
Broadcast Info: 24 Sep 2010, 21:10 (40 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: The second of a two-part programme
celebrating the genius of choreographer
Kenneth MacMillan in the year in which he
would have turned 80. The Royal Ballet
perform the Judas Tree, the Laurence
Olivier Award-winning ballet which was
MacMillan's last work before his untimely
death of a heart attack at the age of 62.
Set on a building site in Canary Wharf it
is a highly charged ballet of brutal
betrayal and tense sexual violence. Puls
interviews with dancers Carlos Acosta,
Leanne Benjamin and Ed Watson

Title: The Royal Ballet Celebrates Kenneth
MacMillan
Broadcast Info: 24 Sep 2010, 20:00 (70 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: First of a two-part programme celebrating
the genius of choreographer Kenneth
MacMillan in the year in which he would
have turned 80. The three works featured
are danced by the Royal Ballet and they
showcase the beauty and dramatic power of
MacMillan's choreography. Concerto is an
early work danced to the music of
Shostakovich and is followed by Elite
Syncopations, in which brightly-coloured
dancers burst into life to the music of
ragtime. Plus, interviews with dancers
Carlos Acosta, Sarah Lamb and Ed Watson,
and director of the Royal Ballet, Monica
Mason

It's also the last....

Title: Ballet School
Broadcast Info: 14 Sep 2010, 19:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2 Wales
Description: Last in the series following five children
from Wales across a whole year in a premier
vocational ballet school, the Elmhurst
School for Dance in Birmingham. It's the
end of the school year and futures are
being decided - but only two of the five
Welsh pupils will be returning to Elmhurst
for another year

Have no idea if this would be interesting but the series might be worth a look:
Title: Sport Science
Broadcast Info: 12 Sep 2010, 09:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Bravo
Description: Scientists and athletes answer some of the
most interesting questions about sport.
Each episode features a sports star,
hi-tech tests and impressive graphics. The
experts look at the results of a head butt
in football and uncover the physiology
behind a temporarily devastating injury
every man on the planet can relate to: a
hit to the testicles

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