As the star of cherished Hollywood song-and-dance movies such as Top Hat and The Band Wagon, Fred Astaire appeared to live in ...
Essayist Joseph Epstein paired up with dance critic Elizabeth Kendall on our show today, to discuss Fred Astaire's lasting legacy. The late Fred Astaire lives on as a song-and-dance legend in ...
Ballet isn’t often served with a side of champagne truffles, but Los Angeles-based American Contemporary Ballet invited audiences to enjoy confections, literal and figurative, at weekend performances ...
The dancing partner who made Fred Astaire famous isn’t the one most people remember. Fred, born in 1899, and his sister, Adele, a year his senior, were the children of an Austrian immigrant named ...
Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire teamed up in 1957 for the musical Funny Face. It follows fashion photographer Dick Avery (Astaire) after he meets a shy but beautiful girl named Jo Stockton (Hepburn).
To make matters even more complicated, both actors playing Astaire on the big screen, Jamie Bell and Tom Holland, have played the title role in Billy Elliot in the past. Since it may be confusing to ...
Sequestering is getting old, right? And so are reruns of every sitcom you've ever watched. Maybe it's time to face the music ... and dance, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. They danced America ...