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UI student dancers will perform Saturday to benefit Dance Without Limits, a Des Moines nonprofit serving kids with special needs

by Julieta Ortiz

The Dance Club at the University of Iowa will have their 16th annual Benefit Show on Saturday, April 11 at 5 p.m. at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts. Proceeds from ticket sales and donations will go towards various community nonprofits and UI student groups — including the Des Moines nonprofit Dance Without Limits, […]

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The rise, fall and meteoric resurgence of Brazil’s ‘forbidden dance’ is inspiring Iowans to Zouk

by Chuy Renteria

One of the most popular contemporary partner dances was almost stifled out of existence at the end of the 20th century. “When people say Lambada, people think, ‘Oh, the forbidden dance?’ That is the first thing that comes to mind for people. And that’s a very wrong idea, actually, because it’s a sensual dance, but […]

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‘I love collaboration, I eat it up’: Lex Leto to help launch Englert’s new Track Zero series with Emily Wells on Wednesday

by Sid Peterson

If multi-instrumentalist and composer Lex Letourneau (Leto) isn’t on Iowa City music fans’ radars just yet, they’re bound to make a few blips by the end of autumn. A Georgia native, Leto started grad school at the University of Iowa in 2019 to study with flute professor Nicole Esposito. Experimental, contemporary music, specifically “weird flute […]

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