Group fights laws that ban breaking it down From NYU Washington Square News Tisch senior Chelsea Bonosky, a dance major, said she was once told by a cop in a bar that she could not dance there because the bar did not have a dancing license. Last year, in an effort to bring awareness and appreciation of dance to the people of New York, the first annual Dance Parade twisted and tangoed down Broadway, ending at Washington Square Park. Bitar said they are taking as many volunteers as possible to help out as "spacers" between floats in the parade or as "dance police" who...

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Around the Corner … From cabaretduo.wordpress.com Last night Dean and I were both at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) for the first rehearsal of CHAWbaret III, which will be performed April 18-19. We worked out some technical details last night while we were there - where to place the piano, for instance, so that our Musical Director, Elisa, can see us and play at the same time.

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Clotworthy Arts Centre gets jazzed up From Antrim Times Her jazz cabaret shows and music gigs have played to packed houses all over Ireland, Europe, and throughout the UK and the USA, highlighting the most engaging qualities of Maria's music - her wide audience appeal and powerful live performances. Acting runs in tandem with music in this versatile performer's life and Maria is regularly invited to work in Irish and UK theatre, television, and film and in the past has worked with the likes of Jim Sheridan, the Abbey Theatre, BBC, and ITV.

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Police on trial for wedding day shooting From Guardian Unlimited The shots from the three officers that led to the death of Sean Bell, 23, on November 25 2006 reopened wounds between the New York police department and black communities and led to accusations of excessive police force. The senior prosecutor, Charles Testagrossa, said one of the three detectives had failed to show his police badge visibly to Bell and had gone on to confront the victim and two of his friends outside the Kalua Cabaret strip club in Queens without waiting to call for back-up.

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(Intl. City Theater; 300 seats; $45 top) From Variety Christopher Carothers is the American visitor and Erin Bennett the neurotic artist in Intl. City Theater presentation of a musical in two acts with book by Joe Masteroff, based on "Berlin Stories" by Christopher Isherwood. Every new "Cabaret" seems to strain harder to invest the Kander and Ebb musicalization of Christopher Isherwood's "Berlin Stories" with a profound statement about the Third Reich and/or universal evil in a quasi-Brechtian style. With selected patrons seated at cafe tables...

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