The Queen watched cultural dancers before entering De Montfort University, where she attended a fashion parade with the Duchess of Cambridge.
Dancer, cultural anthropologist, and historian Nzinga Metzger will look at another kinetic angle — "Dancing in Love and Devotion for Òrìsà" — during an afternoon arts roundtable.
Tacita Dean The five Americans featured in Tacita Dean's survey of films and photographs on the third floor are all cultural innovators: the dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham, the painter Cy Twombly, the Pop sculptor Claes Oldenburg, the art historian Leo Steinberg and the younger quasi-abstract painter Julie Mehretu.
Chinatown welcomed the Lunar New Year on Monday with a firecracker ceremony and cultural festival featuring dancers and other performers, colorful costumes and delighted spectators.
In recent years the State Department has relied on performing artists to act as cultural ambassadors, sending dancers and musicians around the world to show people that America is more than just Hollywood movies, McEverything and two drawn-out wars.
Often referred to as one of the first existentialist philosophers along with Søren Kierkegaard (1813 1855), Nietzsche's revitalizing philosophy has inspired leading figures in all walks of cultural life, including dancers, poets, novelists, painters, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists and social revolutionaries.
His name is Norodom Sihamoni, a self-effacing 49-year-old dancer and cultural ambassador who is one of the king's many sons and one of the many candidates to succeed him.
One contributor notes that "Madonna, as the subject of critical analysis, seems to require the elaborate conjuncture of a whole host of grandiose themes". A 2003 doctoral thesis actually placed her cultural significance as a dancer on a par with Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham.
As part of a 2005 economic conference in Turkey he attended a cultural ceremony featuring female dancers.
Ambiguous in his humor, Mr. Ruckert is a serious artist synthesizing ideas from various cultural streams to explore dancer-viewer relationships.
