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• Lil Buck, Baryshnikov Dance in Surreal Rag & Bone Ad - Washington Post (blog)

  12-02-2015 23:55
  
  Lil Buck, Baryshnikov Dance in Surreal Rag & Bone Ad
  Washington Post (blog)
  Here's a downbeat video to send your spirit soaring: Rag and Bone's upscale-urban menswear line showcases its edge with an inspired pairing of ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov and Memphis jooker Lil Buck: Gets the blood pumping, doesn't it? Lil Buck's ...
  
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• DANCE REVIEW: 'Unique Voices' by the Joffrey Ballet - Chicago Tribune

  12-02-2015 23:36
  
  Chicago Tribune
  DANCE REVIEW: 'Unique Voices' by the Joffrey Ballet
  Chicago Tribune
  Review: Unique Voices by the Joffrey Ballet is a salute to both the classic and the new. The Joffrey colors way outside the lines in "Unique Voices," a program of three very different Chicago premieres that all bring a childlike freedom and delight to ...
  
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• Review: Martha Graham Dance Revisits a Classic in Gala - New York Times

  12-02-2015 23:15
  New York Times
  Review: Martha Graham Dance Revisits a Classic in Gala
  New York Times
  The Martha Graham Dance Company, founded in 1926, is always searching for ways to stay relevant: cleverly reinventing classics, commissioning new works from trendy choreographers. For its current season at the Joyce Theater, its artistic director ...
  
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• Saturday dance to promote motorcycle awareness - Muncie Star Press

  12-02-2015 23:03
  
  Muncie Star Press
  Saturday dance to promote motorcycle awareness
  Muncie Star Press
  MUNCIE – A dance this Saturday and a motorcycle ride planned for May are intended to increase motorcycle awareness and safety on local roads. The “Look Twice Save a Life” campaign began promoting greater awareness of motorcycles by other drivers ...
  
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• Dance Site Do Androids Dance to Merge with Complex - Billboard

  12-02-2015 22:59
  
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  Dance Site Do Androids Dance to Merge with Complex
  Billboard
  Diplo performs at Billboard Winterfest at Park City Live presented by Citi in partnership with American Airlines and Marshall Headphones on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Park City, Utah. Donald Traill/Invision for Billboard/AP Images. 0 ...
  
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• Dancing in Jaffa review – documentary waltzes and tangoes for peace

  12-02-2015 22:45
  
  Hilla Medalia captures ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine as he uses fancy footwork to bring together Palestinian and Jewish childrenHilla Medalia’s modest, watchable documentary is about Pierre Dulaine, a ballroom dancer and teacher whose work with underprivileged New York schoolchildren was the inspiration for a fiction feature, Take the Lead (2006) starring Antonio Banderas as Pierre. This film is about Dulaine’s return to Jaffa, the city of his birth, and his attempt to set up a new sch
  
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• 15 for your Feb.14: Love songs or an iO square dance - Chicago Tribune

  12-02-2015 22:26
  
  Chicago Tribune
  15 for your Feb.14: Love songs or an iO square dance
  Chicago Tribune
  For your Valentine's Day weekend at iO, the Biograph, Logan Square Auditorium and Newberry Library. Valentine's Day, St. Valentine's Day, the Feast of St. Valentine —whether you embrace it or resist it, it is here this weekend. If you're in need of ...
  
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• Pop Music Marries Ballet in the Alberta Ballet Company's Fumbling Towards ... - Huffington Post

  12-02-2015 20:30 via huffingtonpost.com
  
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  Pop Music Marries Ballet in the Alberta Ballet Company's Fumbling Towards ...
  Huffington Post
  Photo credit: Phil Crozier. I admit I've never been a big fan of ballet. I really didn't understand how dance could tell a story so, although I admired the dancers' talent and flexibility, I just wasn't touched on an emotional level. But a couple of ...
  
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• Theater, dance and comedy on stage now: Feb. 13-16 - Cincinnati.com

  12-02-2015 20:30
  
  Cincinnati.com
  Theater, dance and comedy on stage now: Feb. 13-16
  Cincinnati.com
  Theater. New this week. CCM Mainstage Drama: The Heidi Chronicles, 8-10 p.m. Friday, 2-4 and 8-10 p.m. Saturday, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati, University Heights. Wendy Wasserstein's groundbreaking and moving ...
  
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• Richmond duo teaches life lessons through dance - wtvr.com

  12-02-2015 20:26
  
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  Richmond duo teaches life lessons through dance
  wtvr.com
  RICHMOND, Va. — The music never stops inside a nondescript brick building off Broad Street in Richmond. But the children at Anoshi Studios on Westwood Avenue learn more than just ways to cut a rug. Studio owners and friends Yoshi Toler and Bre Horne ...
  
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• 'Flowering Tree' is part opera, part dance, all drama - Omaha World-Herald

  12-02-2015 19:54
  
  Omaha World-Herald
  'Flowering Tree' is part opera, part dance, all drama
  Omaha World-Herald
  The Prince (Andrew Staples) is restrained during a full dress rehearsal of "A Flowering Tree" at the Orpheum Theater. A FLOWERING TREE. When: 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Where: Orpheum Theater, 409 S. 16th St. Tickets: $19 to $99.
  
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• Get to know the ballet 'bad boy' in viral video - HLNtv.com

  12-02-2015 19:50 via hlntv.com
  
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  Get to know the ballet 'bad boy' in viral video
  HLNtv.com
  Have you seen the video of a ballet performance set to Hozier's 'Take Me to Church?' It will make you feel all the feels, especially for its star dancer, Sergei Polunin. Sergei Polunin is the star of the viral video that features his incredible ballet ...
  This muscular dancer gyrating to Hozier might turn you into a ballet convertMetro
  Loved the Dance-Filled "Take Me to Church" Video? Here's 5
  
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• dustin yellin infills lincoln center with glass dancers for the NYC ballet - Designboom

  12-02-2015 19:24 via designboom.com
  
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  dustin yellin infills lincoln center with glass dancers for the NYC ballet
  Designboom
  new york city ballet presents the third installation of its art series initiative with a commissioned installation by brooklyn-based artist dustin yellin. coinciding with the company's 2015 winter season, yellin exhibits 15 works created as part of his ...
  
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• The Supreme Dance Dazzlers offers mature dancers an opportunity to perform - The San Gabriel Valley Tribune

  12-02-2015 19:21
  
  The Supreme Dance Dazzlers offers mature dancers an opportunity to perform
  The San Gabriel Valley Tribune
  Traci Hawkins, director of "the Supreme Dance Dazzlers," center, rehearses "old school hip hop" dance moves, with Lenora Dawson, 39, of Rancho Cucamonga, left, and Carolyn Rudder, 37, of Temple City, right, at Studio Elite Dance in Rancho Cucamonga, ...
  
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• Michelle Rodriguez, Healer of the Ballet Elite - Wall Street Journal

  12-02-2015 19:11 via wsj.com
  
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  Michelle Rodriguez, Healer of the Ballet Elite
  Wall Street Journal
  DANCER DAVID HALLBERG winces as he lunges forward and thrusts the handgrips of two pulleys out in front of his chest. “Curl. Now, big yawn,” says Michelle Rodriguez, founder of Manhattan Physio Group, as he reverses the motion in her office space.
  
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• Dance do-over - Traverse City Record Eagle

  12-02-2015 18:59
  
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  Dance do-over
  Traverse City Record Eagle
  Record-Eagle photo/Jan-Michael Stump From left, Brittany Langlois, Shawn Wiitanen, December Lee, Leif Kolt, Loren Wicksall and Amy Otero show off their styles for Right Brain Brewery's Art Bomb Art Prom on Saturday, Feb. 14. Dance do-over. Jan-Michael ...
  
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• 'Dance Lovers' returns with duets at Joe Goode Annex - SFGate

  12-02-2015 18:55
  
  SFGate
  'Dance Lovers' returns with duets at Joe Goode Annex
  SFGate
  If you find the pressure of being solo on Valentine's Day oppressive, never fear. James Graham understands. “I get nervous about putting hearts everywhere and making the front red so it reads Valentine's Day in capital letters,” says the San Francisco ...
  
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• Meet Justin Peck, Ballet?s ?Boy Wonder? - Daily Beast

  12-02-2015 17:42 via thedailybeast.com
  
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  Meet Justin Peck, Ballet?s ?Boy Wonder?
  Daily Beast
  Forget the demented dramas of 'Black Swan.' The New York City Ballet's choreographer has subtler ways to get the best from dancers. It's a bit strange watching Justin Peck at work, choreographing a dance for a troupe of elite dancers from the New York ...
  'Ballet 422' peeks behind curtain at birth of a Justin Peck balletLos Angeles Times
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• Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet ... - The Independent

  12-02-2015 17:03 via independent.co.uk
  
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  Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet ...
  The Independent
  After defecting from the Soviet Union, the ballerina Natalia Makarova looked back on her work with Leonid Yakobson as a turning point in her career. His experimental choreography helped her to "get free of constraints" and open up as an artist. In ...
  
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• Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet hires three new teachers, including a ... - PennLive.com

  12-02-2015 16:56 via pennlive.com
  
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  Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet hires three new teachers, including a ...
  PennLive.com
  L to R: Matthew Powell, Amanda Edge and Simon Ball have joined the staff of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. (Provided by Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet). Print · Julia Hatmaker | [email protected] By Julia Hatmaker ...
  
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• Hypnotize Yourself With a Record-Breaking Traditional Dance - Smithsonian

  12-02-2015 16:36
  Hypnotize Yourself With a Record-Breaking Traditional Dance
  Smithsonian
  From Filipino prisoners to Americans trying to bring the dance from “Thriller” to every corner of the world, the internet has plenty of synchronized dance routines to make you gasp, smile or scratch your head. But it's not every day you see a dance ...
  
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• Ballet Black review – Mark Bruce's mashup of gods and savages - The Guardian

  12-02-2015 16:12 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian
  Ballet Black review – Mark Bruce's mashup of gods and savages
  The Guardian
  Outstanding … Jose Alves and Cira Robinson in Second Coming. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian. Judith Mackrell · @judithmackrell. Thursday 12 February 2015 10.12 EST. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share via Email · Share on ...
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• Ballet Black review – Mark Bruce's mashup of gods and savages

  12-02-2015 16:12
  
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  The Dracula choreographer’s strange and sinuous Second Coming mixes Elgar and Tom Waits in a programme featuring Kit Holder and Will Tuckett
  It’s typical of Ballet Black that this clever, enterprising company should be the first to commission a work from Mark Bruce, in the wake of his award-winning production of Dracula. Typical, too, that the result, Second Coming, shows us such new things about choreographer and dancers alike.Bruce is a singular voice in British danc
  
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• Phoenix hosts U.S. premier of renowned Danish ballet - East Valley Tribune

  12-02-2015 16:02 via eastvalleytribune.com
  
  East Valley Tribune
  Phoenix hosts U.S. premier of renowned Danish ballet
  East Valley Tribune
  There are a few things that are unique to Phoenix — the dry heat, sprawling saguaro-covered mountain ranges, and brilliant sunsets. But this weekend, Phoenix will lay claim to a cultural experience no other city can boast. Phoenix's own Ballet Arizona ...
  Curtain Critic: Ballet Arizona to perform 'Napoli' for first time in USDowntown Devil
  
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• In Fosse's 'Chicago,' dance is in the driving seat - Buffalo.com

  12-02-2015 15:50
  
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  In Fosse's 'Chicago,' dance is in the driving seat
  Buffalo.com
  In Fosse's 'Chicago,' dance is in the driving seat Terra C. MacLeod stars as Velma Kelly in the touring production of “Chicago,” opening Tuesday in Shea's Performing Arts Center. 0. inShare0. By Colin Dabkowski | News Arts Critic | @colindabkowski | ...
  
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• Meet Giorgio Moroder, the Godfather of Modern Dance Music - TIME

  12-02-2015 15:31
  
  TIME
  Meet Giorgio Moroder, the Godfather of Modern Dance Music
  TIME
  Giorgio Moroder is obsessed with the mechanical, magical, and melodic — the man-machine duality that floods his sensual, driving electronic sound. The Italian-born producer, composer and DJ is known lovingly these days as the godfather of modern dance ...
  
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• Sergei Polunin dances with his demons to Hozier's Take Me to Church

  12-02-2015 15:11
  
  David LaChapelle captures the Ukrainian dancer’s battle to make peace with his talent – and in another viral video, Baryshnikov partners Lil BuckWhen Take Me to Church was released in 2013, with Brendan Canty and Conal Thomson’s graphically angry protest video, Hozier’s hit song span off into a worldwide anthem for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Ballet 422' peeks behind curtain at birth of a Justin Peck ballet - Los Angeles Times

  12-02-2015 15:01 via latimes.com
  
  Los Angeles Times
  'Ballet 422' peeks behind curtain at birth of a Justin Peck ballet
  Los Angeles Times
  All eyes are on Justin Peck. Only 27, the gifted New York City Ballet soloist has already choreographed 15 ballets for that company as well as the Miami City Ballet and the L.A. Dance Project since 2009. Last year, he was named resident choreographer ...
  
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• Ballet plans intimate evening - News Sentinel

  12-02-2015 14:39 via news-sentinel.com
  Ballet plans intimate evening
  News Sentinel
  WHAT: The Fort Wayne Ballet presents “Love Dance,” a performance of six dances depicting various forms of love. WHEN: 7:30 and 9 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Parkview Physicians Group ArtsLab theater, Auer Center for Arts and Culture, 300 E. Main St.
  
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• Reports: Officer saved unconscious girl at GHS dance - Springfield News-Leader

  12-02-2015 13:28
  
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  Reports: Officer saved unconscious girl at GHS dance
  Springfield News-Leader
  A Springfield school police officer alerted to possible underage drinking outside a Glendale dance became alarmed when he saw a girl on the limousine's floorboard in a "fetal-type position." Officer Ramon Seelye climbed inside and approached the ...
  Police: Teens went to Glendale HS dance drunk, in limo filled with beer, liquorKY3
  
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• Washington Ballet's 'Sleepy Hollow' finds nightmarish inspiration in US ... - Washington Post

  12-02-2015 12:31 via washingtonpost.com
  
  Washington Post
  Washington Ballet's 'Sleepy Hollow' finds nightmarish inspiration in US ...
  Washington Post
  “When I realized I could handle a ballet about erectile dysfunction, I knew I could handle anything,” Septime Webre says. The artistic director of the Washington Ballet hasn't started choreographing Viagra commercials. He's referring to his 2013 ...
  How Works from the American Art Museum Inspired the Sleepy Hollow BalletWashington City Paper (blog)
  
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• Festival a moving collection of films about the art of dance - Columbus Dispatch

  12-02-2015 11:54
  
  Festival a moving collection of films about the art of dance
  Columbus Dispatch
  The Dispatch app features breaking news, sports, weather, videos, movie times, traffic updates, a flight tracker and much more. Download apps for your: *iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch · * Android. By Terry Mikesell The Columbus Dispatch • Thursday February ...
  
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• Prepare to fall in love with the Nashville Ballet's Attitude - Nashville Scene

  12-02-2015 11:07 via nashvillescene.com
  Prepare to fall in love with the Nashville Ballet's Attitude
  Nashville Scene
  The Nashville Ballet always delivers a program of adventurous, thought-provoking and often devastatingly beautiful works in their popular Attitude series, which appropriately falls around Valentine's Day each year. Guided by artistic director Paul ...
  
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• Characters abound in COPA's latest Ballet Workshop - Burlington Times News

  12-02-2015 09:21 via thetimesnews.com
  Burlington Times News
  Characters abound in COPA's latest Ballet Workshop
  Burlington Times News
  The Centre of Performing Arts (COPA) will present its fifth annual Ballet Workshop at 12:30 p,m. and 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Paramount Theater, 128 E. Front St., Burlington. Admission is $5 with a canned food donation for Allied Churches of Alamance ...
  
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• Dance legend Bill T. Jones invites UW-Madison students to 'Play' - Madison.com

  12-02-2015 05:23
  
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  Dance legend Bill T. Jones invites UW-Madison students to 'Play'
  Madison.com
  2015-02-11T12:00:00Z Dance legend Bill T. Jones invites UW-Madison students to 'Play'LINDSAY CHRISTIANS | The Capital Times | [email protected] | @LindsayC77 madison.com. 22 hours ago • By Lindsay Christians | The Capital Times ...
  
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• Preview: The Dazzling Miami City Ballet Comes to Vancouver - seattlepi.com (blog)

  12-02-2015 05:07 via blog.seattlepi.com
  
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  Preview: The Dazzling Miami City Ballet Comes to Vancouver
  seattlepi.com (blog)
  Balletomanes in the Northwest are in for a treat when Miami City Ballet (MCB) performs an all-Balanchine program in Vancouver later this month. It's been many years since the company has appeared in our region – the last time in Olympia in 2001 and ...
  BWW Reviews: NEW YORK CITY BALLET Stuns in All Bach EveningBroadway World
  Miami City Ballet rekindles the magic of George BalanchineSt
  
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• Ballet Dancer Sergei Polunin Simply Slays Hozier's 'Take Me To Church' - Huffington Post

  12-02-2015 01:48 via huffingtonpost.com
  
  Us Magazine
  Ballet Dancer Sergei Polunin Simply Slays Hozier's 'Take Me To Church'
  Huffington Post
  What happens when you combine the talents of Russia's ballet bad boy Sergei Polunin, Irish gospel luminary Hozier and photography pop wizard David LaChapelle? Apparently, a whole lot of angsty, sexy, beautiful dancing ensues. <object id="flash-object" ...
  This Ballet Routine Set to Hozier's 'Take Me To Church' Will Leave You EnrapturedPeople Magazine
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• DSL NewsWire: Tale of NBA’s First Senior Hip-Hop Team To Be Told in New Musical

  12-02-2015 00:47
  Gotta Dance, a new stage musical based on the critically acclaimed 2008 documentary of the same name, will have its pre-Broadway world premiere at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre beginning December 13, reported the Chicago Sun-Times. Continue reading
  
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• DSL NewsWire: Carolina Ballet Dancer Brings Tutu School Franchise to East Coast

  12-02-2015 00:42
  Lara O’Brien, a principal dancer with Carolina Ballet, has signed an agreement to open the first Tutu School franchise outside of California with a new location opening in downtown Raleigh in the spring. Continue reading
  
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• Review: For Atlanta Ballet's seductive “Roméo et Juliette,” the second time ... - ArtsATL

  12-02-2015 00:42 via artsatl.com
  
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  Review: For Atlanta Ballet's seductive “Roméo et Juliette,” the second time ...
  ArtsATL
  Alessa Rogers, John Welker (in black) and Christian Clark in Roméo et Juliette's wedding scene. (Photo by Charlie McCullers). Easily the best thing showing on stage or screen in Atlanta this weekend, Atlanta Ballet's production of Jean-Christophe ...
  Atlanta Ballet to host 'Romeo et Juliette'NeighborNewspapers.com
  
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• DSL DanceWire: Former National Dance Week Executive Director, Patti Goulding, Dies

  12-02-2015 00:35
  Patricia “Patti” Goulding, 76, of Green Tree, Pennsylvania, former executive director of National Dance Week, passed away Monday, February 9. Continue reading
  
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• This Ballet Video For Hozier's "Take Me To Church" Is Just Beautiful - Refinery29

  12-02-2015 00:01 via refinery29.com
  
  This Ballet Video For Hozier's "Take Me To Church" Is Just Beautiful
  Refinery29
  Photographer David LaChapelle has put his unique spin on Hozier's Grammy nominated song and enlisted "ballet's bad boy" Sergei Polunin to literally spin around for it. The result is nothing short of stunning. Polunin and all his tattooed glory defies ...
  
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