Madonna held "epic" auditions for new backing dancers at a New York nightclub.
The 'Celebration' singer is searching for a group of experienced performers to join her on stage during her forthcoming shows, and turned up at the Simyone Lounge club, also known as SL, in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking District to watch them in person.
A source told the New York Post newspaper: "She was looking for new dancers for her upcoming tour. It was pretty epic. Some professionals were doing flips and spins, while the amateurs sort of just stared."
Around 30 dancers took to the floor at the popular night spot, arranged themselves into a circle and held a dance-off.
The 51-year-old pop star - who began her own showbiz career as a professional dancer - watched on with her friend and singer Eve, Italian basketball player Danilo Gallinari, while hip-hop DJ Tony Touch took to the decks.
Madonna finished her epic 'Sweet and Sticky' world tour late last year but is already keen to get back on the road.
Madonna Nominated For 2 International Dance Music Awards
The 25th Annual International Dance Music Awards will take place on February 26th, as part of the Winter Music Conference.
This year, Madonna is nominated in 2 different categories: Best Pop Dance Track (‘Celebration’) and Best Solo Artist.
Votes are now open, so make sure to visit the devoted page before February 26th! Please note that you can only vote once. Multiple submissions will be disqualified.
Madonna will go to the famous carnival parades in Rio de Janeiro on 14 February. The U.S. pop star will enjoy the show on the stage of the governor.
The queen of pop will see the parades Rio de Janeiro’s famous carnival on 14 and 15 February at Avenue Marques de Sapucai.
Madonna, 51, will attend the festival accompanied by her children, David, Lourdes, Rocco and Mercy, and her Brazilian boyfriend, Jesus Luz. She will stay with her children in a luxurious hotel in the beachside suburb of Ipanema.
The Rio carnival started last weekend with massive street parties. This would be Madonna’s third visit to Brazil. Her last visit was in November 2009 to raise funds for her charity foundation in Malawi and she took the opportunity to meet her boyfriend’s family.
Madonna has become a major investor in a company that sells green coconut water.
According to the New York Post the singer invested about $1.5 million in Vita Coco, a beverage sold currently in New York and Los Angeles with national distribution aspirations. Vita Coco is the clear juice from young, green coconuts, not the brown coconuts that have a milky liquid center.
If you've been trendspotting, you could have seen this coming. Coconut water has been moving from inner-city bodegas, selling primarily to immigrants from the Caribbean and Latin America, into the world of the "in-the-know" hipster crowd. Now, if Madonna has her way (doesn't she usually) coconut water could go mainstream.
Coconut water is positioned as a healthy substitute for sports drinks and as a mixer for cocktails. Vita Coco has reportedly a 60% market share. A rival coconut water brand, Zico, last year sold a minority stake to Coca-Cola, and another brand, O.N.E., signed a distribution agreement with Pepsi.
The moment that Madonna and Britney Spears puckered up to each other at the MTV Video Music Awards has been voted the top kiss. The 2003 kiss, which made headlines around the world, tops a list of the most famous kissing moments of the Noughties, compiled by Selfridges.
Tobey Maguire’s upside-down smooch with Kirsten Dunst in Spider-Man came second, followed by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal’s slow-burning snog in Brokeback Mountain. Same sex kisses scored highly in the poll – Scarlett Johansson with Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and Lindsay Lohan with Samantha Ronson outside the Mercer hotel in New York, marking their couple status, both made the list. Jennifer Aniston and Winona Ryder’s liplock on Friends, and Sacha Baron Cohen giving Will Ferrell a big smacker at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, recreating the infamous Madonna and Britney incident, also feature in the top ten.
Romantic screen snogs with rumoured real-life couples completed the list, including Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in Mr And Mrs Smith, and Freida Pinto and Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire.
Here is the top ten of the Top Kiss :
1. Britney Spears / Madonna aux MTV VMA de 2003 2. Tobey Maguire / Kirsten Dunst pour Spider Man (2002) 3. Jake Gyllenhaal / Heath Ledger pour Le Secret de Brokeback Mountain (2005) 4. Robert Pattinson / Kristen Stewart pour Twilight (2008) 5. Scarlett Johansson / Penelope Cruz pour Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) 6. Lindsay Lohan / Samantha Ronson au Mercer Hotel de New York (2008) 7. Angelina Jolie / Brad Pitt pour Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) 8. Freida Pinto / Dev Patel pour Slumdog Millionaire (2009) 9. Sasha Baron Cohen / Will Ferrell aux MTV Movie Awards (2007) 10. Jennifer Aniston / Winona Ryder pour Friends/ (2001)
LOS ANGELES, CA -- January 12, 2009 -- Madonna’s most recent stage extravaganza, the “Sticky & Sweet” concert, will be released on March 30th, it was announced today by Live Nation, the world’s largest live music company. “Sticky & Sweet”, which was produced by Live Nation, was the most successful tour by a solo artist in history and was seen by over 3.5 million fans in 32 countries around the world. The show, which will be distributed by Warner Bros Records, will be available on DVD, Blu-Ray and CD and will include many of the Material Girl’s hits from the course of her unprecedented career including, “4 Minutes,” “Like a Prayer,” “Hung Up” and “Ray of Light”. Filmed in Buenos Aires, over four days to a crowd exceeding 256,000 fans, the concert also includes a show stopping moment when Madonna performs a historic “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” to a thunderous audience response from her Argentine fans. Also included are several hits from the multi-Grammy winner’s most recent CD “Hard Candy” which debuted at No. 1 in 37 countries. The DVD also includes 30 minutes of exclusive footage filmed behind the scenes during the course of the tour. “Part concert, part block party and all fun, there is still only one Madonna,” raved the Oakland Press in their review of the “Sticky & Sweet” Tour. “A night of triumph and defiance… A two hour multi-media juggernaut,” glowed the LA Times. “Our lady of perpetual motion…This may be the best tour she’s ever stitched together,” claimed the NY Post.
Madonna went out to dinner last night in NYC at the St. Regis Hotel with her former husband Sean Penn! M & Sean spent three hours in the restaurant catching up. Here are some images of Madonna arriving and leaving.
Vogue Magazine: "Best Dressed Women of the Decade?"
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Virgin Media: "Best Solo Female?"
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Star Observer Newspaper: "Who would you like to see perform at Mardi Gras party 2010?"
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