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	The Reed Dance
		The road to the Reed Dance festival runs north from the city of Durban, and winds through the green lushness of the North Coast sugar-belt, skirting through the Kingdom's world-renowed wildlife reserves of Zululand and Maputaland.
		A dignified traditional ceremony, the Reed Dance festival is at same time a vibrant, festive occasion, which depicts the rich cultural heritage of the Kingdom of the Zulu and celebrates the proud origin of the Zulu people.
		The Reed Dance festival is a solemn occasion for the young women, but also an opportunity to show off their singing, dancing and beadwork, the fruits of many months of excitement and preparation.
	www.kzn.org.za /kzn/news/283.xml (841 words)

	American Dance Legends - Leonard Reed - TheatreDance.com
		Reed, with his dance partner, Willie Bryant, invented the shimmy routine as a flashy finale to their dance act in the late 1920's.
		Reed produced shows at the Cotton Club in Chicago and was master of ceremonies for 20 years at the Apollo Theater in New York.
		Both Reed and Louis were good golf players, and Reed is credited with having become the first fl player to have taken part in a PGA tournament when, in San Diego in the mid-1940s, he was accidentally given a tour card by an official who thought he was white.
	www.theatredance.com /legends/reed.html (1351 words)

	Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection - About This Collection - (American Memory from the ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Many of Henry Reed's instrumental tunes have precedents in British tradition dating back to the late eighteenth century — tunes such as "Leather Britches," which began life as a Scottish reel, or "George Booker," which can be traced to a Scottish strathspey.
		For Henry Reed, "fiddle" and "violin" both refer to the modern violin, the basic design of which was developed in Italy in the seventeenth century and had spread throughout Europe and the Americas by the later eighteenth century.
		The reel as a dance was originally a "longways" dance with couples forming facing lines, but the reel as a tune class is used for all sorts of group dances.
	www.bonus.com /contour/Northern_Great_Plains/http@@/lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/reed/hrabout.html (3649 words)

	Rolling Stone : Lou Reed: Biography
		Reed's first solo album, Lou Reed, might have been a fifth Velvets album -- indeed, many of the songs eventually surfaced on outtake albums such as VU -- but the studio pros sounded hollow compared to the band.
		Reed's 1980 marriage to Sylvia Morales was a turning point for him, but what really jump-started his music was renewed interest in playing guitar in a real band, especially one with another ace guitarist, Robert Quine.
		If Reed's early-'80s album streak did anything it was to get him out from under the ever-growing VU legend and establish a new standard for him to fail to meet (but a more benign one).
	www.rollingstone.com /artists/loureed/biography (930 words)

	Playbill News: Leonard Reed, Vaudevillian Who Shim Sham Shimmied, Dead at 97
		Leonard Reed, a tap dancer noted for co-creating the "Shim Sham Shimmy" dance routine, died April 5 in California at the age of 97, according to the Associated Press.
		Reed "invented the shimmy routine as a flashy finale to their dance act in the late 1920s," the wire service reported.
		Reed paired with Bryant in a vaudeville act they called "Brains as Well as Feet." He also produced shows at the Cotton Club in Chicago and was master of ceremonies for 20 years at the Apollo Theater in New York City.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/85494.html (385 words)

	Jimmy Reed
		Reed was one of ten children in a sharecropping family that lived in and around Leland, Mississippi.
		Reed’s crossover appeal peaked during the revival of interest in the blues during the early Sixties, a period that found him playing such hallowed venues as Carnegie Hall and the Apollo Theater.
		Reed continued recording and performing into the Seventies, but his career was hampered by health and drinking problems.
	www.rockhall.com /inductee/jimmy-reed (532 words)

	CD Baby: DENNIS ROGER REED: Cowboy Blues
		Reed's music has a relaxed yet lively feel, his songwriting an immediate appeal, inventive and catchy.
		The balance of the acoustic instruments and Reed's low key and engaging voice are nigh perfect, while some of the harmonies are remeniscent of the Grateful Dead circa their classic Workingman's Dead album.
		Modern folk, roots rock and alt-country are all touched on in bold and gentle strokes, Reed has been around long enough to know when to hold back and how to showcase original themes and concepts within his song framework, while still managing to sound fresh and vibrant.
	www.cdbaby.com /drreed (647 words)

	Janet Reed and Fancy Free - PNB's "Directors Choice"
		Robbins had first seen Reed dance with Eugene Loring's Dance Players and instantly recognized her talents as a theatrical dancer, capable of giving fine-tuned, highly detailed performances, which is why when she joined Ballet Theatre in 1943 "[he] knew that there was material I wanted to work with.
		Robbins and Reed left the tour in Cincinnati to return to New York and work directly in the studio with Bernstein, who at one point had sent the choreographer the music he had written so far (not orchestrated-played on the piano) on 78 rpm records.
		Reed, in a series of oral history interviews, recalled the rehearsal process for the pas de deux as collaborative.
	www.pnb.org /season/dc-reed.html (1124 words)

	reed \| dance
		emphasizes the Western modern dance tradition because it provides a conceptual framework for investigating many forms of dance and because it allows students to understand current advances in the field.
		Reed dance courses emphasize choreography, but do so from a variety of perspectives--those of the historian, critic, theorist, performer, and anthropologist, as well as that of the choreographer.
		Students are encouraged to draw connections between choreography and analogous processes in other disciplines such as writing, music composition, and the creation of visual art and theater.
	academic.reed.edu /dance (301 words)

	Amazon.com: Lou Reed: Music: Lou Reed (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lou Reed, as was previously stated, recorded this album in between the Velvet Underground's Loaded LP and his own Transformer LP.
		Accordingly, any Lou Reed fan who wants to get their hands on this album is probably going to have to end up shelling out cash for an expensive import copy.
		Reed had temporarily retired from recording for a year's time after his departure from the Velvet Underground in 1970...
	www.amazon.com /Lou-Reed/dp/B00004LCBS (1561 words)

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		A dignified traditional ceremony, the Reed Dance festival is at same time a vibrant, festive occasion, which depicts the rich cultural heritage of the Kingdom of the Zulu and celebrates the proud origin of the Zulu people.
		The Reed Dance is also a celebration of the Zulu nation and performs the essential role of unifying nation and the king, who presides over the ceremony.
		The Reed Dance festival is a solemn occasion for the young women, but also an opportunity to show off their singing, dancing and beadwork, the fruits of many months of excitement and preparation.
	www.africaninsight.co.za /zulusafaris/ReedDanceInfo.htm (1149 words)

	IRIN Africa \| Southern Africa \| Swaziland \| SWAZILAND: The role of women stirs debate at the reed dance \| Gender ...
		In recent years Swaziland's annual reed dance ceremony has become a focal point for criticism of King Mswati III's handling of his country's HIV crisis and the rights of his female subjects.
		Customs like the reed dance have received negative press in light of the crisis, but Mlotshwa asserted that the ritual could have the potential to be a forum for women's empowerment and HIV prevention, were it not for the current King's "abuse" of the event.
		Male chaperones, known as "tindvuna" [NOTE], accompany groups of girls from their villages to the reed dance to protect them from harm but, according to reports in the local press, their presence was not always enough to prevent girls from making the most of their week of relative freedom.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=48834&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa (1468 words)

	Umhlanga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Umhlanga (Reed Dance) is a traditional dance where twenty to thirty thousand of Swaziland's maidens congregate and dance for the public.
		On September 6, 2004, he chose a sixteen-year-old reed dance participant and finalist from Miss Teenage Swaziland as a fiancée, to join his eleven wives and one other fiancée- [THE TIMES OF SWAZILAND,2004].
		King Goodwill Zwelethini kaBhekuzulu, whose Zulu traditions are not far removed from those of Swaziland, revived the Reed Dance tradition in neighbouring KwaZulu-Natal, held annually at his Enyokeni Palace at Nongoma.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Umhlanga (686 words)

	The Velvet Underground
		Reed and Morrison were busy and angular and inventive and contributed to the band’s wall-of-sound glory by playing away from the lead guitar theatrics in favor of rhythmic chordal variations that added dissonance, drone and punch.
		Reed often is depicting someone else’s experience rather than his own, but the points-of-view are seldom strong enough to take you along with them, stuck as they are in the literary world.
		Reed avoids sentimentality on a subject that could use some and his poetic mysticism, like so much of his poetic conceit, is pretty shallow.
	www.crecon.com /davidwomack/velvetunderground.htm (1333 words)

	Art Department (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The history and theory classes (Dance 321, 322, and 330) are lecture/conference courses that examine the development of the Western concert dance tradition as well as the critical theory that has developed in the dance field since the nineteenth century.
		Although a dance major is only available as an interdisciplinary major in combination with other subjects, graduates in such diverse majors as classics, biology, psychology, anthropology, and mathematics have entered graduate programs in dance, many with fellowships and grants.
		Well-known performing artists and dance companies come to Portland for workshops and performances, and Reed students are encouraged to include them as part of their education.
	www.reed.edu /academic/catalog/71.html (1217 words)

	Excite - News
		Lined up in rows, the maidens danced topless before the king for three hours, undeterred by blustery winds or last year's controversy surrounding Mswati's choice of three teenage reed dancers as his latest queens.
		Controversy swirled after last year's reed dance, when the mother of one dancer charged that her daughter was later abducted from a schoolyard by palace aides and forced to join the royal household.
		The case threw a spotlight on the reed dance as a place where young women might find royal favor, and on Friday tens of thousands showed up with their own Cinderella dreams.
	news.excite.com /odd/article/id/352358\|oddlyenough\|09-05-2003::14:44\|reuters.html (449 words)

	Washington State Arts Commission
		Reed shows how the elements are interrelated and how they are integral parts of movement.
		Reed blends his work with the curriculum so that the dance projects are an integrated part of the studies.
		Reed began teaching elementary age children in 1977 with the National Endowment for the Arts Artists-In-Schools Program through which he served residencies in Ohio, South Dakota, and California.
	www.arts.wa.gov /progaie/roster/dancers/danReedG.html (564 words)

	It's good to be the king
		Lined up in rows, the maidens danced topless before the king for three hours, undeterred by blustery winds or last year's controversy surrounding Mswati's choice of three teenage reed dancers as his latest queens.
		Controversy swirled after last year's reed dance, when the mother of one dancer charged that her daughter was later abducted from a schoolyard by palace aides and forced to join the royal household.
		The case threw a spotlight on the reed dance as a place where young women might find royal favor, and Saturday tens of thousands showed up with their own Cinderella dreams.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2003-09/08/content_262247.htm (437 words)

	News from The Independent Traveller
		A dignified traditional ceremony, the Reed Dance Festival is also a vibrant, festive occasion, which depicts the rich cultural heritage of the Kingdom of the Zulu and celebrates the proud origin of the Zulu people.
		It is a great honour for the young women to be invited to take part in the Reed Dance ceremony, and it is also a source of great dignity and pride for their families and communities.
		The people of the Zulu nation are world famous for their impressive dancing and singing skills, and the dancing of the young women who perform for the King at the Reed Dance festival is both graceful and powerful.
	www.independentraveller.co.uk /news.aspx?newsitemid=4 (1164 words)

	'Unmasquing' the Dance: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Not just any dance, the morris was a vigorous dance involving jumps and leaps, emphasised by bells tied to the dancer's legs and the movement of long sleeves on the morris coat or handkerchiefs held in the hands.
		As the dance manual is focused at a courtly, or at least court-focused, audience, the dances in The English Dancing Master are more indicative of dance trends in the court than in the countryside.
		The oft-cited combination of drinking and dancing, for example, may not be representative of Early Modern dancing as much as it is representative of the kind of dance event most likely to attract negative attention from authorities.
	individual.utoronto.ca /winerock/shakespeareandance/papers/ma_thesis/intro.html (2326 words)

	Epochtimes English Edition-
		The Reed Dance is one of the most spectacular and well-known of Swaziland's cultural traditions.
		The girls cut and deliver reeds to her royal residence in order to symbolically re-build part of it after a long winter.
		Seventeen-year-old Nobahle Sihlongonyane enjoys the Reed Dance, she says, because it is a colorful ceremony and she likes the traditional woolen tassels and beads that the girls wear.
	en.epochtimes.com /news/3-9-12/5354.html (1113 words)

	Online Personal Albums by tompt - VirtualTourist.com
		The Reed Dance festival has been celebrated by countless generations, and attracts thousands of visitors from throughout the country and from across the world.
		The Reed Dance is also a celebration of the Zulu nation and performs the essential role of unifying nation and the king, who presides over the ceremony.
		The Reed Dance festival is a solemn occasion for the young women, but also an opportunity to show off their singing, dancing and beadwork.
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		The Reed Dance is a Zulu tradition which dates beck to ancestral times undertaken by virgin maidens who gather reeds for the Royal monarch symbolizing their purity.
		Although this dance, which encompasses a variety of well choreographed routines passed from generation to generation, is well-know throughout the Zulu nation it is unknown to other nations.
		Matinee performances of 'Umhlanga - The Reed Dance' will be performed at the Dockyard Theatre at the Point Waterfront on Saturday 15 April, Sunday 16 April and Monday 17 April at 2pm.
	www.artzone.co.za /template_level2.asp?parentseq=385 (199 words)

	Events at Reed College
		If you are planning on attending an event at Reed, and have special-access needs, please call the conference and events planning office, 503/777-7522, or send an email.
		During the nineteenth century it was held to be fully equal to Mozart's Requiem, and it was performed at Beethoven's funeral.
		Reed’s alumni & parent relations invites alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and friends to the annual alumni holiday party.
	events.reed.edu (1825 words)

	Lou Reed
		Lou Reed has never been one to do the obvious, so the ambitious nature of this cutting-edge rock icon's latest endeavor shouldn't be surprising.
		Reed - whose most recent rock album, Ecstacy, was released in 2000 - admits that he was initially skeptical when Wilson approached him with the idea for a theatrical piece based on Poe's works.
		Reed and producer Hal Willner have also been working on an album of the songs from POEtry, which is slated to include guest appearances by David Bowie, Ornette Coleman, The Blind Boys of Alabama, and actors Elizabeth Ashley, Steve Buscemi and Willem Dafoe.
	www.bmi.com /affiliate/rss/C638 (1563 words)

	Norwalk Native To Dance On Broadway - Entertainment
		Reed's been dancing in the same studio since she was 3.
		Dancing in "Sweet Charity" may be Reed's first appearance on Broadway, but she is confident it won't be her last.
		Reed is flying to New York City Friday, and she will dance Saturday night.
	www.kcci.com /entertainment/5546379/detail.html?rss=des&psp=news (374 words)

	OCU Dance & Arts Management - Robert L. Reed
		Reed is a protege of the late Maceo Anderson of the famous Four Step Brothers.
		Reed also performed with the famed choreographer Michael Peters in Rome and was a featured performer in Nagoya, Japan; Frankfurt, Germany; Monte Carlo; Switzerland; and New Zealand.
		Reed was again honored when August 3, 2000, was designated "Robert L. Reed Tap Heritage Day" in St. Louis by the Honorable Mayor Clarence Harmon.
	www.okcu.edu /dance_amgt/robertlreed.html (224 words)

	Rolling Stone : Lou Reed: Lou Reed Live : Music Reviews
		Perhaps the fact that Lou Reed's curious career continues is more important than what he does with it at this particular stage.
		The message is that urban life is tough stuff—it will kill you; Reed, the poet of destruction, knows it but never looks away and somehow finds holiness as well as perversity in both his sinners and his quest.
		As it happens, I had seen Reed and a mediocre pickup band at Lincoln Center some months earlier in his first New York non-Velvets appearance and he was tragic in every sense of the word.
	www.rollingstone.com /artists/loureed/albums/album/322506/review/5944631/lou_reed_live (444 words)

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