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• Review: Heidi Latsky Dance at Montclair State University - New York Times

  17-04-2015 23:39
  New York Times
  Review: Heidi Latsky Dance at Montclair State University
  New York Times
  MONTCLAIR, N.J. — For the choreographer Heidi Latsky, there are no unbeautiful bodies and no bodies incapable of dancing. In what some might call disability, she finds possibility. In “Triptych,” which opened at the Alexander Kasser Theater at ...
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• Paul Taylor Dance review: Open your arms to these daring dancers - SFGate

  17-04-2015 23:01
  
  SFGate
  Paul Taylor Dance review: Open your arms to these daring dancers
  SFGate
  During the week that the Paul Taylor Dance Company comes to town, the world seems a better (or, at least, more negotiable) place. Throughout these biennial San Francisco Performances-sponsored visits, the 16-member Taylor troupe reaffirms the intense ...and more »
  
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• Students Plan Inclusive Dance for Special Needs Peers - WBAY

  17-04-2015 22:30
  
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  Students Plan Inclusive Dance for Special Needs Peers
  WBAY
  A couple of high school students in the Fox Valley are making their school dances more inclusive for their peers with special needs. When Grace Phillip and Hannah Powell, freshmen at Oshkosh West High School, went to their first high school dance, the ...
  
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• Barre none: Wheelchair no barrier for dance teacher Jackie Heinz - Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier

  17-04-2015 22:08
  
  Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
  Barre none: Wheelchair no barrier for dance teacher Jackie Heinz
  Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
  CEDAR FALLS | Visitors entering Heinz Academy for the Performing Arts are greeted with the normal trappings of a dance studio. Various sizes of leotards hang on a bar, ballet slippers dangle from hooks on the wall and a top shelf holds an assortment of ...
  
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• Congressman Lou Barletta recognizes Carlisle ballet students - FOX43.com

  17-04-2015 21:58 via fox43.com
  
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  Congressman Lou Barletta recognizes Carlisle ballet students
  FOX43.com
  Congressman Lou Barletta recognized three students during the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet School's “Performance Day” held at the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg. Dancers Abby DeAngelo, Zachary Boresow, and Kayla Hallman received awards for ...
  
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• Ballet Star David Hallberg Unites Five International Ballet Companies for One ... - Vogue.com

  17-04-2015 21:45 via vogue.com
  
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  Ballet Star David Hallberg Unites Five International Ballet Companies for One ...
  Vogue.com
  It turns out that bringing together members of five leading international ballet companies hardly requires introducing them to each other. According to ballet star David Hallberg, who should know, most of the world's best dancers already know each other.
  David Hallberg: The International Ballet Star as ImpresarioBLOUIN ARTINFO
  Ballet Star David Hallberg Presents LEGACY at Lincoln Center Ton
  
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• Wichita Grand Opera's 15th season opens with family-friendly 'Cinderella' ballet - Wichita Eagle

  17-04-2015 21:18 via kansas.com
  
  Wichita Eagle
  Wichita Grand Opera's 15th season opens with family-friendly 'Cinderella' ballet
  Wichita Eagle
  For many, a mention of Cinderella brings to mind images from the 1950 Disney animated feature. More recently, audiences have been enjoying the 2015 live-action movie release that tells the quintessential rags-to-riches tale. Actually, notes Parvan ...
  
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• Celtic Woman, New World students, Ballet Memphis ready to dance - Miami Herald

  17-04-2015 20:40 via miamiherald.com
  
  Miami Herald
  Celtic Woman, New World students, Ballet Memphis ready to dance
  Miami Herald
  Three dance events on tap in South Florida next week, one a lavish show propelled by Irish music and dance, offer eclectic choices for fans of the art form. ▫ Dance and music are on the menu for the Irish group Celtic Woman, now celebrating its 10th ...
  
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• Pittsburgh Ballet Announces Public Campaign to Expand Campus and ... - 90.5 WESA

  17-04-2015 19:58 via wesa.fm
  
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  Pittsburgh Ballet Announces Public Campaign to Expand Campus and ...
  90.5 WESA
  As the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre announced Thursday it would be entering the public phase of a $20 million school expansion project as it prepares to end its 45th season. So far, PBT has raised $13.6 million in an effort to expand its campus in the ...
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• Lyon Opera Ballet dances program full of challenges, passion - The Seattle Times

  17-04-2015 19:56 via seattletimes.com
  
  The Seattle Times
  Lyon Opera Ballet dances program full of challenges, passion
  The Seattle Times
  A review of Thursday night's performance by Lyon Opera Ballet, which treated the audience to compelling works by William Forsythe and Benjamin Millepied. The troupe performs again at Meany Hall on April 17-18. By Alice Kaderlin. Special to The Seattle ...
  
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• Student DJ Tambat looks to energize crowd at Dance Marathon - Daily Bruin

  17-04-2015 19:20
  
  Daily Bruin
  Student DJ Tambat looks to energize crowd at Dance Marathon
  Daily Bruin
  In three years, DJ Tambat has taken a momentous leap from quietly mixing songs in his bedroom to the lively setting of Pauley Pavilion. Back in community college, fourth-year mechanical engineering student Shan Tambat studied the basics of song mixing ...
  
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• AVA Ballet brings 60-year ballet veteran to Reno - Reno Gazette Journal

  17-04-2015 19:17 via rgj.com
  
  Reno Gazette Journal
  AVA Ballet brings 60-year ballet veteran to Reno
  Reno Gazette Journal
  One of the missions at A.V.A. Ballet Theatre is to provide our audiences with the best in professional ballet. To do this, we bring in guest principal dancers to perform alongside the local dancers from our own company. Over the years, more than 50 of ...
  
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• Royal Ballet: La Fille Mal Gardée review – a unique fusion of camp comedy and ... - The Guardian

  17-04-2015 18:20 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian
  Royal Ballet: La Fille Mal Gardée review – a unique fusion of camp comedy and ...
  The Guardian
  Tender human observation … Vadim Muntagirov and Laura Morera in La Fille mal gardee. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian. Judith Mackrell · @judithmackrell. Friday 17 April 2015 12.20 EDT Last modified on Friday 17 April 2015 12.21 EDT.and more »
  
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• Royal Ballet: La Fille Mal Gardée review – a unique fusion of camp comedy and classical dance

  17-04-2015 18:20
  
  Royal Opera House, London
  Vadim Muntagirov and Laura Morera fizz, spark and rise to moments of transcendence in Frederick Ashton’s tale of wayward children and their parentsIt looked such an unlikely pairing: the elegantly refined but emotionally reticent Vadim Muntagirov dancing Colas to Laura Morera’s bouncy Lise. Yet Frederick Ashton’s Fille can bring out surprising qualities in dancers: its unique fusion of camp comedy, pure classical dance and tender human observation somehow encourag
  
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• Alvin Ailey at Dorothy Chandler: Brutality chic in modern dance - Los Angeles Times

  17-04-2015 18:19
  
  Los Angeles Times
  Alvin Ailey at Dorothy Chandler: Brutality chic in modern dance
  Los Angeles Times
  From its first performances in 1958, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has championed overlapping social and creative agendas. Not all of them were evident in the four-part “Power of Ailey” program Wednesday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, but ...and more »
  
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• Ballet tells story of WWII hero - WOODTV.com

  17-04-2015 18:16 via woodtv.com
  
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  Ballet tells story of WWII hero
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  This week's Connecting with Community Award finalist is working to end violence and assault against everyone. Maggie, a 6-month-old dog up for adoption at the Kent County · KCAS pets of the week: Emma and Maggie. April 17, 2015. Meet this week's pets ...and more »
  
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• Joy Womack: 'American ballet is really like a baby of Russian ballet' - Russia Beyond the Headlines

  17-04-2015 18:13 via rbth.com
  
  Joy Womack: 'American ballet is really like a baby of Russian ballet'
  Russia Beyond the Headlines
  In 2009, at the age of 15, Joy Womack became the first American ever to be accepted into a Russian ballet company, training with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. After the high-profile internal conflict at the Bolshoi Theater in 2013, she decided to remain ...and more »
  
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• WATCH: This Crazy Viral Video Of A Russian Dance School Act Sparked A ... - Western Journalism

  17-04-2015 17:27
  
  Western Journalism
  WATCH: This Crazy Viral Video Of A Russian Dance School Act Sparked A ...
  Western Journalism
  Singer Miley Cyrus has gained quite a bit of notoriety for “her role as the new twerk queen,” as she's described in an article on MTV News. For better or for worse, it's a reign that began for the outlandish performer with her controversial dance ...and more »
  
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• Why Grand Rapids Ballet's retiring Stephen Sanford spent 14 seasons with ... - MLive.com

  17-04-2015 17:05 via mlive.com
  
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  Why Grand Rapids Ballet's retiring Stephen Sanford spent 14 seasons with ...
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  Grand Rapids Ballet's Stephen Sanford, dancing with Cassidy Isaacson in Jose Limon's 'The Moor's Pavane' in February 2013, will retire in May 2015 after 14 years with the company. (Chris Clark | MLive.com). Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk | [email protected].
  
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• Giants Are Small: how we brought Petrushka to life

  17-04-2015 17:02
  
  New York’s Giants Are Small have been hailed as ‘the future of the American orchestra’ for their performances mixing film, puppets and classical music. They bring their version of Petrushka to the Barbican for its European premierePetrushka is a work with universal appeal. Stravinsky’s 1911 ballet is charged with irresistible music that speaks directly to the soul, whatever your age. The story is about three puppets – Petrushka (the Russian version of Mr Punch), a ballerina named Colum
  
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• Shine and Inspire to host annual Care to Dance fundraiser at Hamilton's ... - NJ.com

  17-04-2015 17:01
  
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  Shine and Inspire to host annual Care to Dance fundraiser at Hamilton's ...
  NJ.com
  HAMILTON-- The Mercer County nonprofit that urges people to step up and pay it forward is now also urging people to step up and dance during the ninth annual Care to Dance fundraiser event. Care to Dance has benefited Shine and Inspire for the past two ...
  
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• Virtual reality stole my dance with Bjork - Engadget

  17-04-2015 17:00
  
  Engadget
  Virtual reality stole my dance with Bjork
  Engadget
  Maximum Bjorkness! That's what I came in expecting at MoMA PS1, the Museum of Modern Art's Queens-based offshoot, where the famous musician/distressing fashionista's new virtual reality exhibit is on display. "Stonemilker," a lilting, melancholy track ...
  
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• Tiny dancers: New York children audition at ballet academy – in pictures

  17-04-2015 16:53
  
  Agence France Presse photographer Timothy A Clary went to the The School of American Ballet to photograph boys and girls ages six and seven as they try out for the Winter Term, in New York’s Chinatown. The School of American Ballet was established in 1934 and is one of the premier ballet academies in the US Continue reading...
  
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• Ballet 180 Unites with Composer Leonardo Le San and WRTI Host Jack Moore ... - The Dance Journal (blog)

  17-04-2015 14:15 via philadelphiadance.org
  Ballet 180 Unites with Composer Leonardo Le San and WRTI Host Jack Moore ...
  The Dance Journal (blog)
  On April 26, Ballet 180 will premiere Hybrid – A collaborative project between Ballet 180 and Leonardo Le San, a Philadelphia-based composer and recording artist. Producing the musical recording for Hybrid will be WRTI Classical Host Jack Moore, who ...
  
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• Dearth of Tutu-Makers Puts Ballet in Crisis - Newsweek

  17-04-2015 13:23 via newsweek.com
  Newsweek
  Dearth of Tutu-Makers Puts Ballet in Crisis
  Newsweek
  The show can't possibly go on. Or, at least, no ballet company should be expected to woo paying audiences without its principal dancers twirling and whirling in hand-stitched tutus. And there's the problem. There just aren't enough tutus to go around.
  
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• First Draft | Today in Politics: The Republican Dance Card Fills Up in New ... - New York Times

  17-04-2015 13:08
  New York Times
  First Draft | Today in Politics: The Republican Dance Card Fills Up in New ...
  New York Times
  Good Friday morning from Washington, where the relationship between Congress and the Obama administration continues its prickly course. But the primary focus moves from Iowa to New Hampshire, the state of derailed presidencies and second chances, ...and more »
  
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• Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre plans $20 million campaign for expansion, endowment - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  17-04-2015 12:20 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre plans $20 million campaign for expansion, endowment
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Rendering of exterior of new annex building at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's Strip District campus. The company expects to break ground on the project this summer. Share with others: 0 inShare. Related Media: bullet. Dance preview: Pittsburgh Ballet ...
  Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre takes steps to bolster programTribune-Review
  Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre announces $
  
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• Sore muscles and joyful leaps: the quest to be crowned BBC Young Dancer

  17-04-2015 08:59
  
  From ballet to hip-hop, 20 finalists train for thousands of hours in the hope of winning BBC Four’s first contest for dancers aged 16 to 20Twenty-year-old Jonadette Carpio strides across the floor, and her lip curls into a snarl. She’s petite and unassuming, but then she stamps her foot and the room shakes, the DJ’s bassy beats quaking our plastic seats. Carpio launches into an aggressive dance routine, a robotic krump with her torso popping as if her heart is jumping out of her chest. Thi
  
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• 'Beyond the Borders' fuses cultures in dance concert - Lansing State Journal

  17-04-2015 06:11
  
  Lansing State Journal
  'Beyond the Borders' fuses cultures in dance concert
  Lansing State Journal
  When the Habibi Dancers talk about crossing borders, it isn't just geography. Their annual spring concert this weekend along with two days of workshops featuring Sharon Kihara, a belly dance superstar who has toured the world as a performer.
  
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• Ballet to tell a timeless story - Toledo Blade

  17-04-2015 06:04 via toledoblade.com
  
  Toledo Blade
  Ballet to tell a timeless story
  Toledo Blade
  One of the world's most beloved fairy tales, Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid, will come to life this weekend in Ballet Theatre of Toledo's spring production. Three shows are planned: 7 p.m. today and 2 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Trinity ...
  
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• Ballet Midwest offers a dancing 'Cinderella' - Topeka Capital Journal

  17-04-2015 05:37 via cjonline.com
  Topeka Capital Journal
  Ballet Midwest offers a dancing 'Cinderella'
  Topeka Capital Journal
  Prince Charming (Drew Huskey) will partner with Cinderella (Alexis Faught) at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Topeka Performing Arts Center, 214 S.E. 8th, where Ballet Midwest will stage its productions of "Cinderella." Sarah Barnell will dance the lead role at ...and more »
  
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• DSL NewsWire: New Frankenstein Ballet Amps Down Horror in Favor of Love

  17-04-2015 04:52
  San Francisco Ballet and The Royal Ballet’s co-production of the gothic classic Frankenstein will be choreographed by The Royal Ballet’s artist in residence, Liam Scarlett. Continue reading
  
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• DSL NewsWire: Dancer Is First From Studio to Receive Juilliard Acceptance

  17-04-2015 04:35
  Zoe Hollinshead, a 17-year-old dancer at DanceMakers of Atlanta, Georgia, has been accepted into the bachelor of fine arts dance program at The Juilliard School in New York: the first Atlanta native and one of very few African Americans to achieve the honor. Continue reading
  
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• DSL NewsWire: Dancer Is First From Atlanta to Receive Juilliard Acceptance

  17-04-2015 04:35
  Zoe Hollinshead, a 17-year-old dancer at DanceMakers of Atlanta, Georgia, has been accepted into the bachelor of fine arts dance program at The Juilliard School in New York: the first Atlanta native and one of very few African Americans to achieve the honor. Continue reading
  
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• DSL NewsWire: Tony Waag: Keeping Tap Alive and Moving It Into the Future

  17-04-2015 04:16
  Tony Waag, executive/artistic director of the American Tap Dance Foundation (ATDF), talked about tap’s past and future with Broadway World (BW) this week in anticipation of the upcoming Rhythm in Motion contemporary tap dance showcase, set for April 22 to 26 in New York City. Continue reading
  
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• Dance Listings for April 17-22 - New York Times

  17-04-2015 00:46
  Dance Listings for April 17-22
  New York Times
  Full reviews of recent dance performances: nytimes.com/dance. A searchable guide to these and other performances is at nytimes.com/events. Ballet Hispanico (Sunday through April 26) This ardent company returns to the Joyce Theater with works by ...
  
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