Dance

Terrance Calvert found his passion in dance. And through his patient tutelage, he was able to inspire the same passion in others, especially the kids who came within his purview. He had a knack for giving them the same self-confidence and purpose that he discovered through dance. "Once he found dance, he found his passion," said his mother, Linda Calvert. "A passion for dance and for life. " A future in entertainment seemed assured for this talented young man, who had already auditioned in New York City for road tours.

Ralph Macchio, Lord of the Dance. Bet you didn't see that one coming. I always get a little disoriented when a kid from TV's misty past (Macchio was on Eight Is Enough ) pops up as an adult. Scott Baio, Rick Schroder, Butch Patrick, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Cassidy, Mindy Cohn - they all give me a slight case of the whirlies when I see the ravages of time etched on their faces. (I've built up an immunity to Neil Patrick Harris.) But who would have thought Macchio would foxtrot to the top of the leaderboard on the season debut of Dancing With the Stars ?

A dragon dances to bring good luck to the home of Bint Wu as Chinatown celebrates the completion of the Hing Wah Yuen housing development, a 51-unit townhouse development on Callowhill Street near 8th. The name of the development means "Prosperous Chinese Garden. " Built by the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation, the $7-million project is the culmination of more than eight years of work. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was followed by a Chinese New Year banquet at Joy Tsin Lau restaurant.

The table-setting for full-blown negotations in South Africa continued apace last week, most dramatically with President F.W. de Klerk's lifting of a state of emergency under which some 50,000 blacks have been detained without charges for up to three years. The move came as his ex-prisoner, Nelson Mandela, toured Western Europe, urging that economic sanctions remain in effect against Pretoria pending more fundamental reform. Even though emergency laws have been lifted (except in the province of Natal)

Imagine that José Garces and Stephen Starr joined forces. Now imagine that instead of building a new facility lined with exotic decor and a model-pretty staff, these celebrity chefs used the partnership to develop their own culinary aesthetic, and put the pursuit of cuisine ahead of a restaurant's sustainability. A merger of similar stature and quality took place in the Philadelphia dance community recently, when dancer-choreographer Kate Watson-Wallace and choreographer-poet-impresario Jaamil Kosoko rechristened anonymous bodies, Watson-Wallace's company, as a joint collaborative for the pair's work.

Philadelphia's dance-centric Q102-FM has realized that one ball (the Jingle Ball, presented during the Christmas season) isn't enough. So all hail the rhythmic rite of spring it calls the Springle Ball. This year's sold out the Wells Fargo Center on Tuesday to a crowd mostly of teenage girls, whose knees were visibly scuffed after standing on — and falling through — the arena's folding chairs. Veterans of various Q Balls — the sturdily melodic Train, or Flo Rida, hip-hop's catchiest sampler — headlined Springle with their individual brands of swagger.

Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina A Biohistory of American Performance By Brenda Dixon Gottschild Palgrave Macmillan. 370 pp. $27 This is a Philadelphia story that rivals Rocky in blood, sweat, and tears, not to mention fabulous footwork. Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope for the Black Ballerina is, of course, about the visionary founder and artistic director of Philadanco, the internationally renowned dance troupe that is still going strong after 40 years and that embodies the spirit of Philadelphia.

The life and legacy of the Armenian people was portrayed in dance Sunday afternoon at Archbishop Carroll High School in Radnor, as the Sayat Nova Dance Company performed in native costume. The dance company of 40 men and women is named after an 18th-century troubadour.

Ah, Valentine's Day and a chance to dance. And so they did during the Valentine's dance sponsored by the Hometown Senior Citizens Center of Media. The dance was held Saturday at the Redwood Playhouse in Upland.

At Overbrook School for the Blind, students teamed up with dancers from the Philadelphia Civic Ballet for "Dance Happens. " Forty students, ages 5 to 18, performed ballet, jazz and tap for yesterday's show, which was financed by a grant from Arco Chemical Co.

Philadelphia's dance-centric Q102-FM has realized that one ball (the Jingle Ball, presented during the Christmas season) isn't enough. So all hail the rhythmic rite of spring it calls the Springle Ball. This year's sold out the Wells Fargo Center on Tuesday to a crowd mostly of teenage girls, whose knees were visibly scuffed after standing on — and falling through — the arena's folding chairs. Veterans of various Q Balls — the sturdily melodic Train, or Flo Rida, hip-hop's catchiest sampler — headlined Springle with their individual brands of swagger.

Terrance Calvert found his passion in dance. And through his patient tutelage, he was able to inspire the same passion in others, especially the kids who came within his purview. He had a knack for giving them the same self-confidence and purpose that he discovered through dance. "Once he found dance, he found his passion," said his mother, Linda Calvert. "A passion for dance and for life. " A future in entertainment seemed assured for this talented young man, who had already auditioned in New York City for road tours.

Many in Philadelphia's dance community were stunned in November when former Martha Graham principal dancer Jeanne Ruddy announced plans to disband her modern dance company. But Janet Pilla, a dancer with the company since 2001 and one of its two associate artistic directors, was less taken aback. She'd been through this before — three times, in fact. "The truth is I'm never surprised about things like that," she said, "because I've danced with a lot of dance companies.

James Cameron has got the blues. The "Avatar" blues. The "Titanic" director, told the New York Times, "I've divided my time over the last 16 years over deep ocean exploration and filmmaking. I've made two movies in 16 years, and I've done eight expeditions. Last year I basically completely disbanded my production company's development arm. So I'm not interested in developing anything. I'm in the ‘Avatar' business. Period. That's it. I'm making ‘Avatar 2,' ‘Avatar 3,' maybe ‘Avatar 4,' and I'm not going to produce other people's movies for them.

After years of making more conceptual work and implementing teaching projects, the triumvirate that makes up Headlong Dance Theater — Amy Smith, David Brick, and Andrew Simonet — came together again over the weekend at the Performance Garage to dance. Their new work, directed by Swarthmore College professor K. Elizabeth Stevens, is called Desire. For what, it doesn't say. But all it made me want to do was cry. It was all about onions, you see. There were four huge laundry hampers full of big, juicy golden onions that pretty soon got dumped, rolling all over the stage for these actor/dancers to mash pell-mell with their bare feet — and bodies, too, once the juices started oozing and they slipped on them.

It's all about music, theater, and dance on Friday and Saturday during the 2012 Philadelphia International Children's Festival at the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts. Programming begins at 10 a.m. both days with activities in the Children's Fun Zone and special performances throughout the day. The audience can take a trip to the moon as actor Andrew Dawson recreates the Apollo 11 landing using his hands, arms, and upper torso during his one-man Space Panorama show. Former circus entertainer John Hadfield and his imaginary friends will provide comedy in the House show.

Hello there In August 2003, Leah, who works in IT for an international pharmaceutical company with local offices, persuaded her employer to send her to London for nine months. The move was her second trip outside North America. About eight weeks later, she and a friend went to a cheesy dance club in West London. Leah had had just about enough of the place when across the dance floor, she saw a handsome man who also looked like he'd rather be somewhere else. Jonathan danced up to Leah and introduced himself.

Sacks Playground, in South Philly, erupted in a festival of colors, ranchera music and dance Sunday as hundreds gathered to celebrate Mexican immigrants and culture as part of the San Mateo Carnavalero festival. The highlight of the daylong festivities came when a parade of people in colorful costumes and hats — representing indigenous Indians and Mexican, French and Turkish soldiers — entered the playground on Washington Avenue near 4th Street, dancing to the sounds of cymbals and drums.

The  fidget space is on North Mascher Street just above Cecil B. Moore Avenue, in a little niche of the arts neighborhood around the corner from Mascher Space and between Crane Arts on American Street and Pig Iron's school on North Second Street. Dancer/choreographer Megan Bridge and composer/videographer Peter Price opened the walk-up loft at the top of the building in 2009 as a research laboratory for dance, and many local and out-of-town artists have worked in the space. On Thursday, Bridge, Zornitsa Stoyanova, and Annie Wilson danced while performance artist Mauri Walton sketched and drew words backward on the freshly painted white walls.

What modern choreographer doesn't want to sink his teeth into making a new Bolero? Sure, everybody's done it. But Roni Koresh really made a quirky new one for Koresh Dance Company's spring opener Thursday night at its home base, the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. Koresh titled the evening's four works "Out/Line," which also was the name of the first of three world premieres on the bill. But it was his fresh take on Bolero that outshone all the other works. Bronislawa Nijinska choreographed the first Bolero, which was commissioned by Ida Rubenstein in 1928.