Album Review, Kylie Minogue, Boombox
May 19, 2010 · Posted by Movmnt Magazine ·
Kylie Minogue Boombox
Australian pop princess Kylie Minogue has maintained one of the most enduring careers in pop music. With twenty years in the industry, ten albums under her belt, and over forty million albums sold world wide, it seems all the more shocking that she has had such limited stateside success. Despite this, Minogue has amassed a slew of hits overseas that have, over the years, been remixed, reworked, and reconfigured by some of the industry’s hottest names. With sixteen tracks all taken from her post-comeback period (2000 – 2008), Boombox offers a non-stop night out at the club ...
Music Review – A Fine Frenzy, One Cell in the Sea
April 18, 2010 · Posted by Movmnt Magazine ·
A Fine Frenzy
A Fine Frenzy is 22-year-old Alison Sudol, a gently melancholy songstress who offers whispered pleas for mercy on her debut album, One Cell in the Sea. The album is comprised of 14 tracks ranging from alternative pop to indie soul. Accompanied by her piano, Sudol gives the listener a faint-of-heart account of her trials thus far in life.
The opening track, “Come On, Come Out” creates dreamscapes with its electronic pulses and unwavering keys: “Watching the sky, you’re watching a painting / coming to life, shifting and shaping / staying inside, it all goes all goes by.” This ...
British Beat poet on Beeb
April 7, 2010 · Posted by BELLYBLOG ·
Michael Horovitz: (Beat) poet, publisher, performer, initiator, rebel, maverick, experimentalist, nonconformist and all that jazz.
What’s in a name, Interview with T.I.
March 17, 2010 · Posted by Movmnt Magazine ·
What's In A Name
T.I.’s love for music started when he was just a child of nine years old, after he began writing rhymes and rapping, drawing inspiration from hip-hop institutions like N.W.A, LL Cool J, Rakim, and the Ghetto Boys to impress his friends. He scored his first record deal ten years later with Arista subsidiary LaFace Records, and shortened the nickname, T.I.P., bequeathed by his great-grandfather, to T.I., out of respect for new label mate and hip-hop legend Q-Tip, of A Tribe Called Quest fame. After the lackluster label support of his first album, 2001’s I’m Serious, he ...
Misnomer Dance Theater, Connecting People
February 26, 2010 · Posted by Movmnt Magazine ·
Connecting People, Misnomer Dance Theater
Christopher Elam jumps. A 50-foot wall shoots out from his feet. Misnomer Dance Theater’s Director has the ground spinning beneath him. Structural forms emerge from his every movement, building a city through physical inspiration.
In the motion capture technology world, the rules bend. “In some ways it’s similar to what one might envision in their body while dancing. But the beautiful irony for a dancer is that you’re very much rooted in the reality of space: the length of muscles, how far you can jump. Only in our minds [can] we extend those concepts,” explains Christopher ...
Yumiko, A Ballerina With Style
February 1, 2010 · Posted by Movmnt Magazine ·
In the piece, choreographed by Dresden SemperOper Ballet’s resident choreographer, David Dawson, principal dancers Yumiko Takeshima and Raphael Coumes-Marquet made a memorable impression, not just because of flawless pirouettes, arabesques, and grand jeté’s, but because of Yumiko’s design of sleek fitting costumes that made every muscle stand out.
The Japanese native began her design career with the determination to construct an outfit a dancer wouldn’t have to pull, tug, or adjust during a rehearsal or performance. She traded a toaster for a sewing machine and started sketching different designs of leotards in her spare time, experimenting with a variety of ...
Meet RE: Movmnt’s Refillable Trendy Aluminium Bottle
January 17, 2010 · Posted by Movmnt Magazine ·
REFRESH, REFILL, RECYCLE
We urge you to join the REvolution, a movmnt for the REgeneration. Movmnt Magazine is launching a new campaign in partnership with dance studios, conventions, competitions, and festivals to help bring awareness to our daily habits that pollute the Earth. Habits that can easily be changed by each and every one of us. As members of the artistic community, we have the duty to lead by example and stop using plastic bottles like kleenexes. We can refresh ourselves and recycle with one simple gesture: refill our own bottle.
Movmnt introduces re:, an aluminium bottle that will not only save the environment, ...
In Confidence: Teddy Forance
December 23, 2009 · Posted by Movmnt Magazine ·
Here with Janet Jackson, Meet a rare and brillant dancer: Teddy Forance
We first encountered Teddy Forance when Mia Michaels selected him to act as her muse for Movmnt’s “In Bed with Mia” Feature, photographed by Koury Angelo. Ever since, Teddy has spread his wings and continues to perform with outstanding artists like Janet Jackson as one of her lead dancers on tour, and has been a successful dancer working for various productions like Shrek Goes 4th. His roster is ever expanding. Movmnt had the opportunity to snag a conversation with this talented young dancer ...
The Reality of Broadway, column by Frank Conway*
December 8, 2009 · Posted by Movmnt Magazine ·
I have to admit that I am not a fan of American Idol. In fact, I call it American Yodel. No one ever sings just one note. They warble and wail and riff all around it. I thought it was a fad that would fade away, but I was wrong. The country is fixated on American Idol, and Broadway has taken notice.
When Frenchie Davis was kicked off of Idol for appearing on an adult website she got an offer to join the cast of Rent, then in its 7th year. People knew her name and came to see her, as ...
Album Review: ‘Snowflake Midnight’ by Mercury Rev
October 24, 2009 · Posted by Movmnt Magazine ·
Almost twenty years into their turbulent career, Mercury Rev has outdone itself even by its own standards with the bands latest offering, Snowflake Midnight. Beamed down from space and into your speakers, Snowflake Midnight’s nine songs all possess an otherworldly sense of transience made all the more numinous by singer/guitarist Jonathan Donahue’s trebly, ethereal vocals. Tracks like the paradoxical “Snowflake in a Hot World” ruminate on transformations within nature, and the delicate state of elements in crystallized stasis.
While the epic “People Are So Unpredictable (There’s No Bliss Like Home)” observes that even in our most uncertain moments, there is ...
