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Britt Stewart
Britt Benae Stewart (born September 21, 1989) is an American professional dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Best known for her appearances on the reality competition program ''Dancing with the Stars'', she is the first African American woman to be cast on the series as a pro. Early life Britt Benae Stewart was born on September 21, 1989, in Aurora, Colorado, and lived in Seattle, Washington for some time after her birth. Both of her parents worked in business and were unfamiliar with dance, but they enrolled her in classes when she was three after a stranger at an outdoor music festival noticed her moving to the music. Stewart's training began with ballet and tap at a local school in Seattle. After her family moved back to Colorado, she continued training at the Artistic Fusion Dance Academy, a competition studio. Despite her extensive dance education, Stewart originally aspired to become a pediatric surgeon. She studied modern and cultural dance styles at the Denver Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurora, Colorado
Aurora (, ) is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Home rule municipality, home rule city located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, Arapahoe, Adams County, Colorado, Adams, and Douglas County, Colorado, Douglas List of counties in Colorado, counties, Colorado, United States. The city's population was 386,261 at the 2020 United States census with 336,035 residing in Arapahoe County, 47,720 residing in Adams County, and 2,506 residing in Douglas County. Aurora is the List of municipalities in Colorado, third-most-populous city in the State of Colorado and the List of United States cities by population, 51st-most-populous city in the United States. Aurora is a principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Centennial, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Denver-Aurora, CO Combined Statistical Area, and a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. History Before European settlement, the land that now makes up Aurora was the territory of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folk Dance
A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region. Not all ethnic dances are folk dances. For example, Ritual, ritual dances or dances of ritual origin are not considered to be folk dances. Ritual dances are usually called "religious dances" because of their purpose. The terms "ethnic" and "traditional" are used when it is required to emphasize the cultural roots of the dance. In this sense, nearly all folk dances are ethnic ones. If some dances, such as polka, cross ethnic boundaries and even cross the boundary between "folk" and "ballroom dance", ethnic differences are often considerable enough to mention. Background Folk dances share some or all of the following attributes: *Dances are usually held at folk dance gatherings or social functions by people with little or no professional training, often to traditional music. *Dances not generally designed for public performance or the stage, though they may later be arranged and set for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Freeform
American cable television, cable and satellite television network Freeform (TV channel), Freeform was originally launched as the CBN Satellite Service on April 29, 1977, and has gone through four different owners and six different name changes during its history. This article details the network's existence from its founding by the Christian Broadcasting Network to its current ownership by The Walt Disney Company, which renamed the network to Freeform on January 12, 2016. CBN Satellite Service (1977–1988) The network was founded by Pat Robertson as the CBN Satellite Service (CBN Satellite Network), an arm of his television ministry, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). When the channel launched on April 29, 1977, it became the first Cable television in the United States#Basic cable, basic cable channel to be transmitted via communications satellite, satellite from its launch and, effectively, the first national basic cable-originated network. Initially, the network offered o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whittier Daily News
The ''Whittier Daily News'' is a paid local daily newspaper for Whittier, California, United States. Coverage area includes Whittier, South Whittier, Pico Rivera, La Habra Heights, Santa Fe Springs and La Mirada. The ''Whittier Daily News'' is a member of Southern California News Group (formerly the Los Angeles Newspaper Group), a division of Digital First Media. It is also part of the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group, along with the '' San Gabriel Valley Tribune'' and the ''Pasadena Star-News''. Digital First Media is owned by Alden Global Capital. Thomson Newspapers purchased the paper in 1982. Thomson sold the ''Daily News'' to William Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group MNG Enterprises, Inc., Trade name, doing business as Digital First Media and MediaNews Group, is a Denver, Colorado, United States–based newspaper publisher owned by Alden Global Capital. As of May 2021, it owns over 100 newspapers and 200 ass ... in 1996. References External links Official we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Orange County Register
''The Orange County Register'' is a paid daily List of newspapers in California, newspaper published in California. The ''Register'', published in Orange County, California, is owned by the private equity firm Alden Global Capital via its Digital First Media News subsidiaries. Freedom Communications owned the newspaper from 1935 to 2016. History The ''Register'' was founded by a consortium as the ''Santa Ana Daily Register'' in 1905. It was sold to J. P. Baumgartner in 1906 and to J. Frank Burke in 1927. In 1935 it was bought by Raymond C. Hoiles, who renamed it the ''Santa Ana Register.'' After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hoiles was one of the few newspaper publishers in the country to oppose the forced relocation of Japanese and Japanese Americans to camps away from the West Coast. Hoiles reorganized his holdings as Freedom Newspapers, Inc. In 1950, the name was changed to Freedom Communications. The paper dropped "Santa Ana" from its title in 1952. In 1956, the ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Capitol Fourth
''A Capitol Fourth'' is an annual Independence Day concert special broadcast by PBS. It is presented from the west lawn of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., and is also simulcast by NPR and the American Forces Network. The concert typically features performances by guest musicians, as well as the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), the United States Army Presidential Salute Guns Battery, the U.S. Army Band (Pershing's Own), the National Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Lundy and The Ministers of Music, U.S. Army Herald Trumpets and the Choral Arts Society of Washington."''Motown The Musical'' Cast Performs on PBS's ''A Capitol Fourth'' Broadwayworld.com, July 8, 2013 One journalist described the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunheads
''Bunheads '' is an American comedy drama television series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and Lamar Damon that aired on ABC Family from June 11, 2012, to February 25, 2013. Starring Sutton Foster, the show centers on a Las Vegas showgirl who gets married on a whim and winds up teaching alongside her new mother-in-law at her ballet school. On July 22, 2013, ABC Family canceled the series after one season. Premise ''Bunheads'' is the tale of Michelle Simms, a former 'bunhead' (slang for ballerina) who wound up as a Las Vegas showgirl. Seeing her life and career at a dead end, she impulsively takes up the offer of marriage from her persistent admirer, Hubbell Flowers, and moves to his sleepy coastal town, the fictional town of Paradise, California, halfway between Ojai and Oxnard (unlike the real-world town by that name). Once there, Hubbell is killed in a car accident and Michelle struggles to adjust to life in a small town and teaching alongside her mother-in-law, Fanny Flowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Idol
''American Idol'' is an American Music competition, singing competition television series created by Simon Fuller, produced by Fremantle (company), Fremantle North America and 19 Entertainment, and distributed by Fremantle North America. It aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox from June 11, 2002, to April 7, 2016, for 15 seasons. It was on hiatus until March 11, 2018, when a revival of the series began airing on American Broadcasting Company, ABC. It started as an addition to the ''Idol (franchise), Idol'' format that was based on ''Pop Idol'' from British television, in which the programme's Pop Idol series 1, first series, which was won by Will Young, ended over four months before the show began, as it later became one of the most successful shows in the history of Television in the United States, American television. The concept of the series involves discovering recording stars from unsigned singing talents, with the winner determined by American viewers using phones, In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teen Beach Movie
''Teen Beach Movie'' is a 2013 American musical teen romantic comedy film released as a Disney Channel Original Movie. Directed by Jeffrey Hornaday and written by Vince Marcello, Mark Landry, Robert Horn, it was filmed in Puerto Rico. The movie premiered on July 19, 2013, on Disney Channel and stars Ross Lynch and Maia Mitchell. ''Teen Beach Movie'' was the only Disney Channel Original Movie to premiere in 2013. A sequel, '' Teen Beach 2'', premiered on June 26, 2015. Plot Brady and McKenzie (Mack) are surfing near her grandfather's beach hut in Waikiki. Mack then walks in on her grandfather and Brady watching their favorite film, a 1960s musical titled ''Wet Side Story'', where surfers and motorcycle bikers battle for the privilege to hang out at Big Momma's beachside restaurant. When Mack's aunt comes by, she explains to Brady that before her mother died, Mack's aunt promised Mack's mom that Mack would attend a private school, and she is leaving the next day. Mack asserts t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Strings Attached (film)
''No Strings Attached'' is a 2011 American romantic comedy film directed and co-produced by Ivan Reitman. Starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher, the film is about two friends who decide to make a pact to have a " no strings attached" relationship, without falling in love with each other. The film was released in the United States on January 21, 2011 to mixed reviews, with praise for the lead pair's performances and chemistry, but criticism for its direction and screenplay. Plot After first meeting at a summer camp together with their parents, Emma Kurtzman and Adam Franklin run into each other a few times but never keep in touch. Emma is a doctor in Los Angeles, and Adam is a production assistant for a musical television show. Soon, Adam finds out that his father Alvin, the well-known star of a former hit television comedy series, has begun a romance with his ex-girlfriend, Vanessa. Devastated, a drunken Adam calls all his female contacts to hook up. The next morning, he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fame (2009 Film)
''Fame'' is a 2009 American teen film, teen musical film, musical drama film directed by Kevin Tancharoen from a screenplay by Allison Burnett. It is a remake of the 1980 film Fame (1980 film), of the same name. The film follows talented high school students attending High School of Performing Arts, The High School of Performing Arts in New York City, where students get specialized training that often leads to success in the entertainment industry. Debbie Allen, who portrays the school principal Angela Simms, is the only person to appear in the original film, the subsequent Fame (1982 TV series), television series (in the film and the series she played the role of dance teacher Lydia Grant), and the remake. ''Fame'' premiered at The Grove Theatre in Los Angeles, California on September 23, 2009, and was released in the United States on September 25, by MGM Distribution Co. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, but was moderately successful, grossing $77.2 mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Principal Dancer
A principal dancer (often shortened to principal) is a dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company. A principal may be either gender. The position is similar to that of ''Soloist (ballet), soloist''; however, principals regularly perform not only solo (dance), solos, but also pas de deux as well as headlining performances they participate in. Principal dancers can be hired into a dance company or can also be a company dancer that is a Corps de ballet, corps de ballet dancer that gets promoted from within the company. That process can take multiple performance seasons or even years to achieve based on skill level and company interest. It is a coveted position in the company and the most prominent position a dancer can receive. The term is used mostly in ballet but can be used in other forms as well, such as modern dance. They are usually the star of the ballet. The term ''senior principal dancer'' is sometimes used as well. Synon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
