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• Learn how to swing dance - Port Huron Times Herald

  03-05-2015 23:39
  
  Learn how to swing dance
  Port Huron Times Herald
  Things get a little bit jazzy in Port Huron once a week as people learn the Charleston, lindy hop and fox trot dance moves. The Blue Water Vintage Swing Club meets every Tuesday for beginner and intermediate swing dancing lessons above GoodFella's, 321 ...
  
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• Tonawanda Dance Arts goes 'Coast 2 Coast' with national program - Niagara Gazette

  03-05-2015 20:05
  Niagara Gazette
  Tonawanda Dance Arts goes 'Coast 2 Coast' with national program
  Niagara Gazette
  James Neiss/staff photographerIllusionist Ryan Dutcher joined DJ J S'zzle aka Jimmy Lyles and dancer Louie Perez for Coast 2 Coast: Dance Across America's 2nd annual national tour that stopped at Tonawanda Dance Arts this past week. Tonawanda ...
  
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• Scarlett Johansson Hosts SNL, Performs Sexy Dance and Congratulates Floyd ... - E! Online

  03-05-2015 20:01
  
  Design & Trend
  Scarlett Johansson Hosts SNL, Performs Sexy Dance and Congratulates Floyd ...
  E! Online
  Scarlett Johansson hosted SNL for the fourth time on Saturday, a day after the U.S. release of The Avengers: Age of Ultron, in which she reprises her role as Black Widow. The 30-year-old actress also played the part on the NBC sketch comedy series, in ...
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• Bird-inspired ballet in Cordova - Alaska Dispatch News

  03-05-2015 19:57 via adn.com
  
  Alaska Dispatch News
  Bird-inspired ballet in Cordova
  Alaska Dispatch News
  A flock of shorebirds during a Creative Ballet class at Current Rhythms Dance Studio in Cordova. Jennifer Gibbins/The Cordova Times. CORDOVA -- After school on Friday at Mount Eccles Elementary School, second through fifth graders gather with dance ...and more »
  
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• Love of dance brings business opportunity - azcentral.com

  03-05-2015 18:31
  
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  Love of dance brings business opportunity
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  A mutual passion for dance sparked the entrepreneurial path for Mike and Amber Wittmers to open Adaptive Force Performing Arts. Loading… Post to Facebook. Love of dance brings business opportunity A mutual passion for dance sparked the ...
  
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• Spandau Ballet triumphs at Beacon Theatre - Newsday

  03-05-2015 16:53 via newsday.com
  
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  Spandau Ballet triumphs at Beacon Theatre
  Newsday
  Few bands in the history of pop music have been as misunderstood as Spandau Ballet has been in America. The British quintet, known mainly for its synth-soul ballad “True” and the gloriously off-kilter anthem “Gold,” has long been seen as an '80s oddity ...
  Story Behind the Song: Spandau Ballet's 1983 hit single 'True'Fox Newsall 4 news articles »
  
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• Breakin’ Convention review – drop-kicking verve and breathtaking stunts

  03-05-2015 16:43
  
  Sadler’s Wells, London
  Hip-hop dance duos and a trio of footloose twins kick up a stylish storm at international festivalBreakin’ Convention’s two-day festival of international hip-hop dance theatre pulls in Sadler’s Wells’s youngest and most diverse audience who, true to the its spirit, move around constantly, record everything on smartphones and, encouraged by genial host Jonzi D, give it some noise. Continue reading...
  
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• The Classical Beat: Kansas City Ballet steeps spring program in Balanchine - Kansas City Star

  03-05-2015 15:00 via kansascity.com
  
  Kansas City Star
  The Classical Beat: Kansas City Ballet steeps spring program in Balanchine
  Kansas City Star
  The Kansas City Ballet's spring performance brings together artists of the past and present whose lives and careers have influenced each other in profound ways. The centerpiece of “Dances Daring (Then and Now)” is choreographer George Balanchine's ...
  
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• Maya Plisetskaya obituary

  03-05-2015 14:23
  
  Russian ballerina regarded as one of the greatest dancers of the 20th century who was for many years prevented from appearing in the westMaya Plisetskaya, who has died aged 89, was one of the most important ballerinas of the Soviet era, becoming, on the retirement of Galina Ulanova, the leading ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet. Slender, with long legs and blazing red hair, she had a dazzling technique, a huge, almost masculine, jump and remarkably flexible back and arms. She claimed that she inhe
  
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• Maya Plisetskaya

  03-05-2015 14:23
  
  Russian ballerina regarded as one of the greatest dancers of the 20th century who was for many years prevented from appearing in the westMaya Plisetskaya, who has died aged 89, was one of the most important ballerinas of the Soviet era, becoming, on the retirement of Galina Ulanova, the leading ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet. Slender, with long legs and blazing red hair, she had a dazzling technique, a huge, almost masculine, jump and remarkably flexible back and arms. She claimed that she inhe
  
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• Russian ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya dies at 89 - The Guardian

  03-05-2015 12:42 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian
  Russian ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya dies at 89
  The Guardian
  Maya Plisetskaya performs at the National Ballet Theater in Kiev, Ukraine in 1996. Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP. Agence France-Presse. Sunday 3 May 2015 06.42 EDT Last modified on Sunday 3 May 2015 11.35 EDT. Share on Facebook · Share on ...
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• Russian ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya dies at 89

  03-05-2015 12:42
  
  Star of the Bolshoi, whose career spanned five decades, was still dancing for the public at an age when most dancers would have retiredMaya Plisetskaya, considered one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century, has died at the age of 89 in Germany.
  Plisetskaya – who made her name in her native Russia – danced for half a century and her modern choreography and performances charged with eroticism flouted Soviet convention. Continue reading...
  
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• 5 Soldiers review – war from a female perspective packs a punch

  03-05-2015 08:00
  
  The Rep, Birmingham
  In Rosie Kay’s taut, visceral, compassionate piece, the body is the frontlineRosie Kay’s 5 Soldiers is a response to the experience of young soldiers placed in harm’s way. It says what no amount of political dissimulation can conceal: that shattering injury and violent death remain the currency of conflict. The work is subtitled The Body is the Frontline, echoing Kay’s conviction that, in an era of verbal spin, choreography can speak with unequalled immediacy. For the
  
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• Tribe puts its best foot foward - The Robesonian

  03-05-2015 04:24
  
  Tribe puts its best foot foward
  The Robesonian
  Jaymie Baxley | The Robesonian | About 450 American Indians took part in dance competitions during the second day of the Lumbee Tribe's 10th annual Dance of the Spring Moon powwow. The celebration, which is being held at the Southeastern ...and more »
  
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• Outbursts of Genius in San Francisco Ballet's Romeo and Juliet - Huffington Post

  03-05-2015 04:06 via huffingtonpost.com
  
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  Outbursts of Genius in San Francisco Ballet's Romeo and Juliet
  Huffington Post
  Helgi Tomasson's Romeo and Juliet made a comeback at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House last night, buoyed by a vivid and sensitive performance of the Prokofiev score by the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, under the electrifying baton of Martin ...and more »
  
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• Metropolitan Ballet Academy Students Take Top Honors at 2015 YAGP ... - The Dance Journal (blog)

  03-05-2015 02:27 via philadelphiadance.org
  The Dance Journal (blog)
  Metropolitan Ballet Academy Students Take Top Honors at 2015 YAGP ...
  The Dance Journal (blog)
  Young dancers studying at Metropolitan Ballet Academy (MBA) in Jenkintown, PA, achieved great success in the 2015 Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), winning high honors at the annual competition's regional Semi-Finals held in Philadelphia and Boston ...
  
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• Film Review: 'Horizons' - Variety

  03-05-2015 02:19 via variety.com
  
  Variety
  Film Review: 'Horizons'
  Variety
  A Swiss helmer travels to Cuba to explore what ballet means to the national character. Peter Debruge. Chief International Film Critic @AskDebruge. An almost spiritual celebration of classical ballet, as practiced by three generations of Cuban terps ...
  
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• Bro does a crazy chicken-neck dance after the Kentucky Derby - SB Nation

  03-05-2015 01:30
  
  Bro does a crazy chicken-neck dance after the Kentucky Derby
  SB Nation
  This bro. Thiiiiissss brooooo. Apparently this very bro'd out bro is a part of the squad. What squad you ask? Just the Bob Baffert squad, the trainer of American Pharoah, winner of this year's Kentucky Derby. It's almost as if he's a young fledgling ...and more »
  
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• Prince's Paisley Park to Host Dance Rally 4 Peace - BET (blog)

  03-05-2015 01:07
  
  BET (blog)
  Prince's Paisley Park to Host Dance Rally 4 Peace
  BET (blog)
  Prince is doing his part to support the protests in Baltimore. The music icon has recorded a song critical of the killing of young African-American men, a publicist for the artist confirmed on Thursday (Apri 30), and will also host a dance rally for ...
  
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• Dying Father Gets Last Dance With Daughter - NBCNews.com

  03-05-2015 00:32
  
  NBCNews.com
  Dying Father Gets Last Dance With Daughter
  NBCNews.com
  NBC News Channel A Missouri man battling terminal brain cancer gives his daughter a very special parting gift. KSDK's Mike Bush reports. Published May 2nd 2015, 3:29 pm. advertisement. Related Videos. (1:04) Playing Next Next ...and more »
  
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