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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Fifty years ago, a documentary came out that shook up the media. Titicut Follies depicted life in a Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane. It launched filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's Oscar-winning career. Now, it's back as
Singer Songwriter Christina Perri Celebrates Birthday on Stage and Holiday Christina Perri has just ended her first tour, which lasted over two years as opening act for Jason Mraz. One of the highlights of the tour happened in August when she celebra
By Behnam Nateghi Washington, DC 21 November 2006 watch Washington Ballet The Washington Ballet, considered one of the finest ballet companies in the United States, opened its season recently to enthusiastic audiences in the nation's capital. Formed
Washington, DC 12 December 2006 watch Cultural Diplomacy Amid the turmoil generated by U.S. policies in the Middle East, the American diplomatic community is looking for more effective ways to communicate with Arab populations throughout the Middle
Asian Americans in LA Share Tea and Tradition, Bobo Style Welcome to American Mosaic from VOA Learning English. Im June Simms. On the show today, we play music from Daft Punk. We also look at a new movement in theater productions. But first, we visit
Hit Musical 'Rock of Ages' Gets Movie Makeover It's 1987, and the small-town girl is Sherrie. She's wide-eyed and newly arrived in Hollywood, seeking fame and fortune as a singer. Sherrie meets up with Drew, a bartender at a music club on Sunset Stri
AntiGravity Yoga Gains Popularity At first glance, students hanging upside down on hammocks made of silk cloth hanging from the ceiling seems more like acrobatics than yoga. When I first saw people hanging upside down from hammocks and calling it yog
Artists Preview London Cultural Olympiad in New York Participating artists and journalists gathered Wednesday at New Yorks Gramercy Park Hotel to talk about the event. Festival director Ruth Mackenzie said 25,000 artists, representing all 204 countri
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to Paris where audiences are enjoying the first stop of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's European tour. For almost 60 years, the company has been performing modern dance inspired by the African-American experience. (S
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Debbie Reynolds died this week at the age of 84, just after suffering maybe the greatest pain a mother can have - the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher, who was 60. We spoke with Ms. Reynolds in 2013 about her memoir of more tha
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For decades, Merce Cunningham the dancer and choreographer delighted his many fans and perplexed and mystified some others. Merce Cunningham died in 2009 at the age of 90. Now a new exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapoli
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The news here in California happens to be the Oscars, Rachel. They are Sunday. The film to beat is Hollywood's love letter to itself, La La Land, which has 14 nominations. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Yeah, it is a musical for the 21st ce
By Katherine Cole Washington 17 September 2006 Bob Dylan is one of the world's most-acclaimed songwriters and performers. Over the past five decades, he's sold close to 100-million records, and has performed thousands of shows all around the world.
The Forbidden Kingdom is a martial arts family film that features the first-time pairing of the world's most popular martial arts stars, Jackie Chan and Jet Li, their names linked on screen by the letter J like two words on a Scrabble board. The film
By Mohamed Elshinnawi Washington, D.C. 26 December 2007 In a time of war in the Middle East, when scholars study what some call the clash of cultures, there is an American dancer whose career has run counter to that notion. American dancer and choreo
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 05 October 2006 Every October New York renews its cultural life after the sleepy days of summer. This season an exceptionally varied mix of classical and contemporary works will be on stage, in concert halls and on muse
The queen of tango Mora Godoy has brought Argentina's cultural heritage back to Beijing's National Center for the Performing Arts with her amazing dance company. Over one million spectators, one thousand performances and 10 years of non-stop tours ar
By Carolyn Weaver New York City 02 January 2008 Arts and culture account for nearly $21 billion of New Yorks annual economy and provide 160,000 jobs, according to the latest report by the Alliance for the Arts, a private organization. The arts draw m
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Jimmy Awards for high school theater were handed out this week on Broadway. Jeff Lunden followed two of the actors as they got ready to take center stage. JEFF LUNDEN, BYLINE: Think of it as Broadway boot camp. Seventy-four hig
Ninette de Valois 妮内特德瓦卢瓦 Dame Ninette established ballet in a Britain that had no ballet tradition. Her Royal Ballet School became the cradle of an English ballet style, and her dance company evolved into the renowned Royal Ballet of C