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• Royal Ballet Adds Lincoln Center to Its American Tour - New York Times (blog)

  15-01-2015 23:56 via artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
  Royal Ballet Adds Lincoln Center to Its American Tour
  New York Times (blog)
  The Royal Ballet and the Joyce Theater Foundation announced Thursday that the company would appear at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center from June 23 to 28, after performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington from June 9 to 14, and at ...
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• Chloe Lukasiak Shares Post-'Dance Moms' Update: How Is She Doing Now? - The Inquisitr

  15-01-2015 23:25
  
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  Chloe Lukasiak Shares Post-'Dance Moms' Update: How Is She Doing Now?
  The Inquisitr
  Chloe Lukasiak has moved on from Abby Lee Miller and Dance Moms and her fans are thrilled for her. While things were rough for her, and her mom Christi, at the end of Season 4, these days she's looking happy and content. Chloe has started a video ...
  'Dance Moms' Season 5, Episode 3 Spoilers: Abby Lee Miller Ignores Team ...International Business Times
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• Utah Attorney General Raps, Does War Dance, Impersonates Elvis - Bloomberg

  15-01-2015 23:03
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  Utah Attorney General Raps, Does War Dance, Impersonates Elvis
  Bloomberg
  Sean Reyes is not your average, dime-a-dozen, sucka MC. In a remarkable interview with "All Due Respect" host Mark Halperin, Utah's Republican Attorney General delivered an astonishing impromptu performance that merged rap, a Maori war dance, and a ...
  
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• Junk Miles: World's Largest Treadmill Dance Party - velonews.competitor.com

  15-01-2015 21:50
  
  Junk Miles: World's Largest Treadmill Dance Party
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  To kick off 2015, treadmill brand NordicTrack released a fun new ad last week showcasing a gigantic treadmill dance party. It's not only the largest treadmill dance party ever organized, but also the most eclectic gathering of treadmillers. Besides the ...
  
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• Long Beach's RhetOracle Dance Company Revives the Lost Art of the Mixtape - Long Beach Post

  15-01-2015 21:17
  
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  Long Beach's RhetOracle Dance Company Revives the Lost Art of the Mixtape
  Long Beach Post
  Rhet4 Long Beach's own RhetOracle Dance Company, well known for its narrative-rich choreography and out-of-the-box approach to controversial subject matter, will present The Great American Mixtape, its first large-scale stage show in two years, ...
  
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• Five things about Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo - Calgary Herald

  15-01-2015 20:32 via calgaryherald.com
  
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  Five things about Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
  Calgary Herald
  Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo blends classical ballet with classical comedy, to present a unique mashup of dance that's as satisfying for the dance newcomer as it is rewarding to lovers of classical ballet. Here's five things you should know ...
  All-male ballet touring Western Canada has small shoes to fillThe Globe and Mail
  
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• BalletBoyz, Sadler's Wells, review: 'hellishly tedious' - Telegraph.co.uk

  15-01-2015 20:20 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  BalletBoyz, Sadler's Wells, review: 'hellishly tedious'
  Telegraph.co.uk
  Throughout Young Men, it is impossible not to think above all back to the focus and emotional kick of English National Ballet's Lest We Forget at the Barbican last year, which had three choreographers – Liam Scarlett, Russell Maliphant and Akram Khan ...
  Ballet Corps: Young Men At Sadler's WellsLondonist
  
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• Auditions for Greenwich Ballet Academy set for Jan. 17 - Greenwich Post

  15-01-2015 19:42 via greenwich-post.com
  
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  Auditions for Greenwich Ballet Academy set for Jan. 17
  Greenwich Post
  Greenwich Ballet Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) institution that nurtures talented dancers, ages 4-21, toward careers in classical ballet and contemporary dance with a unique emphasis on the Russian Vaganova method of instruction. GBA is the ...
  
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• 5 Things To Do This Weekend, Jan. 16-18: Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance ... - Bangor Daily News

  15-01-2015 19:33
  
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  5 Things To Do This Weekend, Jan. 16-18: Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance ...
  Bangor Daily News
  1. January: the ideal time to stay indoors and do something that involves not being outside. This weekend brings the seventh edition of SnowCon, the annual celebration of table top gaming; Friday night there's an opening night dance party and comedy ...
  
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• Salt Lake City's Repertory Dance Theatre presents a program of diverse ... - Bellingham Herald

  15-01-2015 19:21
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  Salt Lake City's Repertory Dance Theatre presents a program of diverse ...
  Bellingham Herald
  For those who've not been to a contemporary dance performance, Smith says that “an audience wants to be “moved'; they want to experience something new but they don't necessarily want to be threatened or completely mystified. I just tell people that ...
  
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• Elite Dance and Theatre Co. presents The Shoe Room - KRQE News 13

  15-01-2015 19:03
  
  Elite Dance and Theatre Co. presents The Shoe Room
  KRQE News 13
  The Shoe Room, a play directed and written by Cheri Costales of Elite Dance and Theatre Company, will take theatre-goers back to the end of World War II and give the audience a look into a liberated concentration camp, where thousands and thousands of ...
  
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• WATCH: Miguel Angel Jimenez makes ace, does dance in Abu Dhabi - CBSSports.com

  15-01-2015 18:38
  
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  WATCH: Miguel Angel Jimenez makes ace, does dance in Abu Dhabi
  CBSSports.com
  Miguel Angel Jimenez made an ace and did a dance at the Abu Dhabi Championship on Thursday and man, Miguel Angel Jimenez is just the greatest, isn't he? The hole-in-one for Jimenez came on the 15th hole in Abu Dhabi and was part of a first-round 72 ...
  Miguel Angel Jimenez makes hole-in-one, blows kisses, starts dancingGolfDigest.com (blog)
  Video: Miguel Angel Jimenez Makes an Ace, Does a Little
  
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• Dance: BC Ballet is flying high - Montreal Gazette

  15-01-2015 18:34 via montrealgazette.com
  
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  Dance: BC Ballet is flying high
  Montreal Gazette
  Business students who want to learn about how to turn a failing company around can take a page from Ballet B.C.'s artistic director, Emily Molnar. Molnar seems to have done everything right since her appointment in 2009. Before her arrival, the company ...
  
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• Weekend Planner: Ballet on screen this Sunday - Albert Lea Tribune

  15-01-2015 18:01 via albertleatribune.com
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  Weekend Planner: Ballet on screen this Sunday
  Albert Lea Tribune
  A story of secret and impossible love will come to Albert Lea this weekend with Bolshoi Ballet's “La Bayadére.” The ballet will be at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Marion Ross Performing Arts Center, 147 N. Broadway. In “La Bayadére,” the dancer Nikiya and the ...
  
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• Fik-Shun Shows The World How It's Done With Eye-Popping Dance Moves - Huffington Post

  15-01-2015 17:32
  
  Fik-Shun Shows The World How It's Done With Eye-Popping Dance Moves
  Huffington Post
  Watch the former "So You Think You Can Dance" winner take an amazing turn at December's World of Dance event in Las Vegas. More than a million viewers already have -- and with good reason. Blessed with eye-popping body control, Fik-Shun, whose ...
  
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• Joffrey Ballet Presents UNIQUE VOICES Contemporary Program, 2/11 - Broadway World

  15-01-2015 16:56 via broadwayworld.com
  
  Joffrey Ballet Presents UNIQUE VOICES Contemporary Program, 2/11
  Broadway World
  On the proverbial heels of its recent record-breaking engagement of Robert Joffrey's The Nutcracker, The Joffrey Ballet continues its 2014-15 season with "Unique Voices," a winter program of three contemporary ballets including the U.S. Premiere of ...
  
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• Why salsa dancing is one of the best things I've ever done | Carter - NJ.com

  15-01-2015 16:54
  
  Why salsa dancing is one of the best things I've ever done | Carter
  NJ.com
  Five years ago, I wrote a column about people who love to dance salsa and why they can't get it out of their system. The music stirs them to no end, leaving them spent and wanting more. Dancing in sync with someone you've just met is a crazy, powerful ...
  
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• Muslim man earns PhD in Indian dance for Hindu woman - New York Post

  15-01-2015 16:11
  
  New York Post
  Muslim man earns PhD in Indian dance for Hindu woman
  New York Post
  Mohiniyattam, which in the regional Malayalam language means “dance of the enchantress”, depicts Hindu deity Vishnu assuming the form of ethereal beauty Mohini to seduce demons and win the nectar of immortality for the gods. Other storylines and ...
  
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• Martini Lounge Dance for Trails: Step in front of the velvet ropes this Saturday - The Delaware County Daily Times

  15-01-2015 15:34
  
  Martini Lounge Dance for Trails: Step in front of the velvet ropes this Saturday
  The Delaware County Daily Times
  Submitted Photo The MARTINI LOUNGE RADIO DANCE is a production of Kelly Music for Life, improving lives and communities through music and is sponsored by the Haverford Township Civic Council, iRadioPhilly, Swiss Farms and the Haverford Area ...
  Martini Lounge Dance For Trails: Step in Front of the Velvet Ropes On Saturdayiradiophilly.com
  
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• Northwest Michigan Ballet Performance - MyNorth.com

  15-01-2015 15:24 via mynorth.com
  
  Northwest Michigan Ballet Performance
  MyNorth.com
  The ballet version of Whither Thou Goest: The Story of Ruth, will be performed by the 24-member youth ballet students of Northwest Michigan Ballet Theatre on Saturday, February 7, 2015 at Milliken Auditorium in Traverse City. In addition to the ...
  
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• BalletBoyz review – Young Men pushes dancers to highest physical level

  15-01-2015 12:55
  
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  Junior company The Talent comes of age in a performance of real power and inventiveness, which falls just short of being a direct hitAs BalletBoyz’ The Talent enter their fifth year, with their first full-length production, Young Men, it’s very clear that what started out as a nursery company for young male dancers has proudly come of age.Iván Pérez’s war-themed piece takes its cast (11 men and two women) to the highest physical level. A battlefield v
  
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• Gary Kemp tells how Spandau Ballet patched up differences - SFGate

  15-01-2015 09:46 via sfgate.com
  
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  Gary Kemp tells how Spandau Ballet patched up differences
  SFGate
  Spandau Ballet kicks off its first American tour in three decades at the Warfield this week. With all five original members back on board after an acrimonious split in 1990, the British blue-eyed soul band is ready to revive the hits that defined the ...
  Spandau Ballet - Spandau Ballet Star Never Got His Stolen Shirt BackContactmusic.com
  Spandau Ballet 'moved on' from legal spatU.TV
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• The Middle: “A Quarry Story” - A.V. Club Milwaukee

  15-01-2015 09:09
  
  A.V. Club Milwaukee
  The Middle: “A Quarry Story”
  A.V. Club Milwaukee
  The reason “The Darryl Dawkins Dance” proves to be almost as emotionally satisfying as the aforementioned installment is that both of its predominant storylines have, in their way, been going on for quite some time now. Barry's been swooning over ...
  
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• Russian ballet group brings folktale to life - News Sentinel

  15-01-2015 06:03 via news-sentinel.com
  
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  Russian ballet group brings folktale to life
  News Sentinel
  The classical ballet follows Prince Siegfried as he tries to free a beautiful swan maiden, Odette, from an evil spell that makes her a graceful swan by day and a young woman by night. The production is under the direction of award-winning dancer and ...
  Russian National Ballet Theatre to perform Swan LakeUpperMichigansSource.com
  ENB's Swan Lake: the rights and wrongs of ballet thighsSpectator.co.uk
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• DSL NewsWire: Former NYCB Principal Damian Woetzel to Receive 2015 Harvard Arts Medal

  15-01-2015 04:59
  Damian Woetzel, a 2007 Harvard University graduate whose career spanned nearly two decades as a principal dancer at New York City Ballet, is the 2015 Harvard Arts Medalist, the Office for the Arts announced in Harvard Magazine. Continue reading
  
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• How Taylor Swift used Utah's Ballet West to 'Shake it Off' - Standard-Examiner

  15-01-2015 04:57 via standard.net
  
  How Taylor Swift used Utah's Ballet West to 'Shake it Off'
  Standard-Examiner
  But it was Ballet West's Founder, Willam Christensen, born in Brigham City, who brought the first production of Swan Lake to America. That was with the San Francisco Ballet before he founded the internationally-acclaimed Ballet West. With over 50 ...
  
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• DSL NewsWire: Colorado Studio Dances the Day Away in Support of Andréa Rizzo

  15-01-2015 04:55
  Live Love Dance of Broomfield, Colorado, will hold a dance-a-thon in support of the Andréa Rizzo Foundation’s nationwide fundraising effort “Dance Across America” on February 7 from 1 to 6pm at the Live Love Dance and Arts Center. Continue reading
  
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• DSL NewsWire: North Carolina Dancer Winner of Top Costume Gallery Scholarship

  15-01-2015 04:49
  Dancer Cheyenne Watts from Studio M Danceworks in Selma, North Carolina, was chosen by Costume Gallery as the recipient of a $1,000 award from the company’s Beverly Miller Scholarship Fund. Continue reading
  
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• Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown presents 'Complexions ... - NJ.com

  15-01-2015 04:36 via nj.com
  
  Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown presents 'Complexions ...
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  New York City-based Complexions Contemporary Ballet performs Innervisions, an upbeat modern dance tribute to the music of Stevie Wonder, as well as other works, when it takes the stage at Mayo Performing Arts Center on Saturday, Feb. 7, at 8 p.m. ...
  
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• Meet Mira Calix, who puts wasps on stage and her audience in a maze

  15-01-2015 04:00
  
  The artist and composer on getting music out of stones, building palaces out of paper, training insects as a string quartet and why art is 49% problem-solvingIn 2003, Mira Calix premiered her groundbreaking musical composition Nunu in London. On stage at the Royal Festival Hall were an orchestra (no surprises there), Calix (playing electronics), and then the insects – both live and recorded. The piece revolved around wasps. Calix used them like a string quartet.Their songs were taped in an ane
  
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• International ballet competition heads to SD - U-T San Diego

  15-01-2015 03:30 via utsandiego.com
  
  U-T San Diego
  International ballet competition heads to SD
  U-T San Diego
  Anyone who saw the 2011 ballet documentary “First Position” already knows about the Youth America Grand Prix, the largest student ballet scholarship competition in the world. “If you look at any ballet company in the world, you can find YAGP winners ...
  
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• Russian National Ballet Theatre to perform Swan Lake - UpperMichigansSource.com

  15-01-2015 01:51 via uppermichiganssource.com
  Standard-Examiner
  Russian National Ballet Theatre to perform Swan Lake
  UpperMichigansSource.com
  HOUGHTON -- The Rozsa Center lobby may have looked empty if you passed through Wednesday, but Thursday and Friday night it will be packed with people waiting to see the Russian National Ballet Theatre perform Swan Lake. "Beautiful music, beautiful ...
  Russian ballet group brings folktale to lifeNews Sentinel
  How Taylor Swift used Utah's Ballet West to 'Shake it Off'Standard-Exam
  
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• The Royal Ballet: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Times Higher Education

  15-01-2015 01:01 via timeshighereducation.co.uk
  
  Times Higher Education
  The Royal Ballet: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  Times Higher Education
  The live broadcast of the Royal Ballet's excellent Alice's Adventures in Wonderland from the Royal Opera House reminded me why I love live broadcasting: I can sit in my favourite cinema – the 100-year-old Alhambra in Keswick – and have the cream of ...
  Is watching opera in the cinema just as good?BBC News
  
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• Plano Metropolitan Ballet to continue 'Beauty and the Beast' - Star Local Media

  15-01-2015 00:39 via starlocalmedia.com
  
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  Plano Metropolitan Ballet to continue 'Beauty and the Beast'
  Star Local Media
  Under the artistic direction of Cindi Hanson, Plano Metropolitan Ballet will continue its performances of “Beauty and the Beast.” The preparation for this ballet began over five months prior to its first show on Jan. 3. “We do a different fairy tale ...
  
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