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• 'American Ballet Theater: A History,' a PBS Documentary, Is a Love Letter to a ... - New York Times

  13-05-2015 22:41
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  'American Ballet Theater: A History,' a PBS Documentary, Is a Love Letter to a ...
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  A point shoe descends in slow motion, aiming its tip like a dagger as it hits the center of a spotlight. The voice of Jennifer Homans, author of “Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet,” gently, almost coaxingly, speaks about the ritual the art form ...
  Celebrating American Ballet Theatre's Past, Present and Future at 75Newsweek
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• Review: American Ballet Theater Recalls the Wide Range of Its Early Years - New York Times

  13-05-2015 22:38
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  Review: American Ballet Theater Recalls the Wide Range of Its Early Years
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  American Ballet Theater is celebrating its 75th anniversary by presenting a half-dozen one-act ballets from its first decade. Having opened its season at the Metropolitan Opera House on Monday with three selections, the company followed up on Tuesday ...
  
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• Review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Nods to Balanchine - New York Times

  13-05-2015 22:38 via nytimes.com
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  Review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Nods to Balanchine
  New York Times
  Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is a confusing company though it's easy to see why talented dancers flock to it. They want to perform, and if this group has anything, it's an abundance of contemporary repertory. Its identity is harder to pin down. Led by ...
  
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• Braylon Beam: A Panthers' fan that will make you want to dance - ESPN (blog)

  13-05-2015 20:31 via espn.go.com
  
  Braylon Beam: A Panthers' fan that will make you want to dance
  ESPN (blog)
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Six-year-old Braylon Beam is a huge Carolina Panthers fan with a goal to one day coach the NFL team. But he's a bigger inspiration for the way he's dancing his way through chemotherapy to battle a brain tumor that was discovered in ...and more »
  
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• Crazy Youngsters Break Out in a Worldwide Dance Party for Pitch Perfect 2 - Adweek

  13-05-2015 19:25 via adweek.com
  
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  Crazy Youngsters Break Out in a Worldwide Dance Party for Pitch Perfect 2
  Adweek
  More than 100 fans were featured out of a whopping 1,500 total submissions for this Pitch Perfect 2 promo. Together they created a worldwide dance party as the premiere for Ester Dean's song "Crazy Youngsters," an original song that appears in the movie.
  Pitch Perfect 2 Stars Have A Worldwide Dance Party With Viners, YouTubers ...PerezHilton.comall 24 news articles »
  
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• Dance drama 'Snakeskin' set to uncoil - U-T San Diego

  13-05-2015 19:12 via utsandiego.com
  
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  Dance drama 'Snakeskin' set to uncoil
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• 'People Want To Pour Water On The Flame Of Dance Music' Says Hardwell - Your EDM

  13-05-2015 19:09 via youredm.com
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  'People Want To Pour Water On The Flame Of Dance Music' Says Hardwell
  Your EDM
  In a recent interview with Pulse Radio, Hardwell talked about his upcoming music and his thoughts on the current scene. Being voted the best DJ in the world, whether you like it or not, Hardwell provides a unique perspective on the state of dance music.
  
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• Hartsville dance studio to host 34th spring showcase - SCNow

  13-05-2015 19:03 via scnow.com
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  Hartsville dance studio to host 34th spring showcase
  SCNow
  The Brenda Cranford School of Dance will present its 34th annual spring showcase Friday and Saturday at Center Theater. Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:44 pm. Hartsville dance studio to host 34th spring showcase Staff Reports Morning News.
  
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• Behind closed doors: what really happens in the rehearsal room

  13-05-2015 18:47
  
  Line by line, step by step, how do performers prepare for a show? And how does it differ in the dance and theatre worlds? David Jays watches the warm-ups for King John, A Damsel in Distress and Rambert’s Dark ArteriesA martinet director barking at chorines in 42nd Street. An imperious ballet impresario in The Red Shoes. Philip Seymour Hoffman, full of avant-garde angst in Synecdoche, New York … I have images of rehearsals in my head and they are probably all misleading. Rehearsal is the work
  
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• Behind closed doors: what happens in a rehearsal room?

  13-05-2015 18:47
  
  Line by line, step by step, how do performers prepare for a show? And how does it differ in the dance and theatre worlds? David Jays watches the warm-ups for King John, A Damsel in Distress and Rambert’s Dark ArteriesA martinet director barking at chorines in 42nd Street. An imperious ballet impresario in The Red Shoes. Philip Seymour Hoffman, full of avant-garde angst in Synecdoche, New York … I have images of rehearsals in my head and they are probably all misleading. Rehearsal is the work
  
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• Hear Prince's Dance Rally 4 Peace Paisley Park Concert - RollingStone.com

  13-05-2015 17:38 via rollingstone.com
  
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  Hear Prince's Dance Rally 4 Peace Paisley Park Concert
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  On May 2nd, Prince hosted a Dance Rally 4 Peace at his Paisley Park Studios outside Minneapolis to honor Freddie Gray and support those protesting in Baltimore. In very un-Prince-like fashion, the singer has now shared a soundboard recording of that ...
  Hear Prince's Full 'Dance Rally 4 Peace' ConcertRadio.com Music and Entertainment News
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• Mexican choreographer Tania Pérez-Salas can't wait for her dance troupe's LA ... - Los Angeles Times

  13-05-2015 17:20 via latimes.com
  
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  Mexican choreographer Tania Pérez-Salas can't wait for her dance troupe's LA ...
  Los Angeles Times
  Tania Pérez-Salas is one of Mexico's noted contemporary choreographers, and her dance company, Tania Pérez-Salas Compañía de Danza, has graced stages from Kennedy Center to the Middle East. Missing in the company's 21-year history, however, is a ...
  
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• The Cinderella story of Central Indiana Dance Ensemble - NUVO Newsweekly

  13-05-2015 16:57 via nuvo.net
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  The Cinderella story of Central Indiana Dance Ensemble
  NUVO Newsweekly
  You can hear a pin drop after a dancer falls down in a rehearsal studio. That was uncomfortably apparent Friday night at the home of the Central Indiana Dance Ensemble in Carmel. After one dancer lost her balance and dropped to the floor, the room ...
  
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• Watch Prince Harry Do a Traditional Haka Dance in New Zealand - TIME

  13-05-2015 16:25 via time.com
  
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  Watch Prince Harry Do a Traditional Haka Dance in New Zealand
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  Prince Harry performed a haka, a traditional dance and war chant native to New Zealand's Maori people, with soldiers at the Linton Military Camp, a major military base near Palmerston North on Wednesday. AFP reports that the royal, decked out in ...
  Watch Prince Harry perform traditional war dance with New Zealand troopsToday.com
  Prince Harry Performs Traditional Maori Haka War Dance with Troops in New ...People Magazin
  
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• Children's Essays Inspire Upcoming Dance Performance - WTVY, Dothan

  13-05-2015 15:58 via wtvy.com
  
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  Children's Essays Inspire Upcoming Dance Performance
  WTVY, Dothan
  Patti Rutland Jazz is thrilled to present its most heartfelt and creative show to date, IGNITE! The amazing professional dancers in the dance company are the core of the largest outreach program in Alabama teaching almost 6000 children weekly. It was ...
  
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• Dance Moms Reunion Recap: G'day Dysfunction! - Reality Tea

  13-05-2015 15:42 via realitytea.com
  
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  Dance Moms Reunion Recap: G'day Dysfunction!
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  I'd say congratulations are in order, dear readers! Cheers to each one of you for making it through yet another extra-long season of Dance Moms with the always controversial Abby Lee Miller at the helm. Last night was the last reunion before Abby packs ...
  'Dance Moms' Australia Special Premiere Dates Confirmed By Lifetime During ...International Business Times
  'Dance Moms' Reunion: Holly and Abby Face
  
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• Watch Conan, Van Damme Recreate Dorky 'Kickboxer' Dance - RollingStone.com

  13-05-2015 15:42 via rollingstone.com
  
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  Watch Conan, Van Damme Recreate Dorky 'Kickboxer' Dance
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  Jean-Claude Van Damme is known for kicking serious ass on-screen, but one of his finest cinematic moments happened on the dance floor. At the prompting of Conan O'Brien during Tuesday night's episode of Conan, the actor recreated his infamous, dorky ...
  Watch Jean-Claude Van Damme recreate his 'Kickboxer' dance on 'Conan'USA TODAY
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• I'll do it: Cinderella for a night - Lodi News-Sentinel

  13-05-2015 15:29 via lodinews.com
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  I'll do it: Cinderella for a night
  Lodi News-Sentinel
  Lodi News-Sentinel Lodi Living editor Sara Jane Pohlman dances the waltz with her dance partner, Anthony Whipple, during her performance at Dancing with the Lodi Stars at Hutchins Street Square in Lodi on Friday, May 8, 2015. Buy this photo · Reporter ...
  
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• 49 reasons 'Center Stage' is the greatest dance movie ever made - Entertainment Weekly (blog)

  13-05-2015 14:22 via ew.com
  
  49 reasons 'Center Stage' is the greatest dance movie ever made
  Entertainment Weekly (blog)
  What, you think that headline is hyperbolic? My original impulse was to call Center Stage the greatest movie ever made, period—so consider this a compromise. Related. Petergallagher_l How did I not know about the 'Center Stage' sequel? Amanda Schull ...
  
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• Watch Prince Harry perform traditional war dance with New Zealand troops - Today.com

  13-05-2015 14:12 via today.com
  
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  Watch Prince Harry perform traditional war dance with New Zealand troops
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  The fifth-in-line to the British throne has gotten something of a reputation as a party guy over the last few years. But when Prince Harry gets serious, he's all business. Take his Wednesday visit to New Zealand, where he had just 20 minutes to learn a ...
  Watch Prince Harry Do a Traditional Haka Dance in New ZealandTIME
  Prince Harry Performs Traditional Maori Haka War Dance with Troops in New ...Pe
  
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• Rambert review – feel the steel in brassy dance of the miners’ strike

  13-05-2015 14:09
  
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  Tredegar Town Band share the stage with dancers for Dark Arteries, a tale of mining history that has some heart-racing momentsRambert have a long and proud tradition of performing with live music. And that tradition has rarely been on more impressive display than in Dark Arteries, where the curtain rises to show the Tredegar Town brass band massed on one side of the stage.That image promises so much: not just in the impact of the 38 musicians seated on their steeply tier
  
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• Dance Studio Owner Wants to Sell African Goods, Help Organize Ghana Tours - DNAinfo

  13-05-2015 13:40 via dnainfo.com
  
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  Dance Studio Owner Wants to Sell African Goods, Help Organize Ghana Tours
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  AUBURN GRESHAM — Dance studio owner Cheretta Hill-Botchwey's future plans include more than just fitness. The 29-year-old opened Rhythms Within U Dance and Fitness Studio, 8530 S. Racine Ave., in February with the help of her mother, Sharron Hill.and more »
  
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• New works light up Smuin Ballet's 'Unlaced' - San Francisco Examiner

  13-05-2015 13:07
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  New works light up Smuin Ballet's 'Unlaced'
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  COURTESY CHRIS HARDY; Smuin Ballet dancers Ben Needham-Wood and Erica Felsch appear in Adam Hougland's premiere “Ask Me.” Smuin Ballet is closing its 21st season with a program aptly titled “Unlaced” Dance Series. Onstage this week at Yerba ...
  
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• Rise & Rave: Wake 'N Shake is a Saturday morning dance party - CL Charlotte

  13-05-2015 13:00 via clclt.com
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  Rise & Rave: Wake 'N Shake is a Saturday morning dance party
  CL Charlotte
  Saturday morning might not seem like the best time to throw a dance party, but Kendall Kendrick thinks it's as good a time as any. An ancestral health and wellness coach and mother of four, Kendrick appreciates the nightlife scene but mostly avoids it.
  
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• Around the Town: ONA issues an Invitation to the Dance - Arizona Daily Sun

  13-05-2015 12:21 via azdailysun.com
  Around the Town: ONA issues an Invitation to the Dance
  Arizona Daily Sun
  Orchestra Northern Arizona extends an Invitation to the Dance to the community. ONA's free Saturday concert will be begin at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30) at Coconino Center for the Arts. The Flagstaff community orchestra will perform polkas, waltzes and ...
  
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• Eyewitness: Royal Opera House, London

  13-05-2015 12:01
  
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• Budding ballet boy lands place at top dance school - West Briton

  13-05-2015 11:04
  
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  Budding ballet boy lands place at top dance school
  West Briton
  A YOUNG ballet dancer from St Agnes has been selected for a place at a prestigious dance school. Morgan Wright, 10, has been given a place at the Elmhurst Dance School which is a centre for professional ballet and an associate school of Birmingham ...
  
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• Harding Charter Preparatory High School Students Use Dead Cats In Bizarre ... - Huffington Post

  13-05-2015 08:13 via huffingtonpost.com
  
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  Harding Charter Preparatory High School Students Use Dead Cats In Bizarre ...
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  Animal rights activists are blasting a top-ranked Oklahoma charter school after its students were seen on video using dead cats to act out dance moves, set to the jingle used in commercials for Meow Mix cat food. The video, originally posted on ...
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• Boston Ballet's Jeffrey Cirio takes a leap as choreographer - Boston Globe (subscription)

  13-05-2015 07:11
  
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  Boston Ballet's Jeffrey Cirio takes a leap as choreographer
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  On a sublime spring day, brilliant sun streamed through the windows of a Boston Ballet studio as principal dancer Jeffrey Cirio and his colleagues gathered to rehearse. They were in the midst of performances of the company's “Edge of Vision” program at ...
  
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• DSL NewsWire: Cornish College Dance Chair to Retire

  13-05-2015 06:35
  According to the Seattle Times, Kitty Daniels, longtime chair of the Cornish College of the Arts dance department, will retire this month after 29 years in her position. “I believe so firmly that we all stand on the shoulders of others,” Daniels said. “My entire time here, I’ve very consciously and deliberately said everything is a team effort. I’ve actually refused to use the words ‘I’ and ‘my’; I’ve always said ‘we’ and ‘our.’ ” Continue reading
  
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• DSL NewsWire: Halprin’s 1967 Protest Dance Reconstructed on SF Streets

  13-05-2015 06:02
  For nine decades, Anna Halprin has explored what it means to dance and to heal. The iconic San Francisco Bay Area–artist, who started dancing at age 5 and turns 95 in July, is the subject of a series of celebrations called “Dances for Anna” spanning three months and 15 countries this year. Halprin—who founded San Francisco Dancer’s Workshop in 1955—is known internationally for her investment in dance as a transformative practice. Continue reading
  
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• DSL NewsWire: Chicago Students and Teachers Unite to Offer Affordable Dance Classes

  13-05-2015 05:46
  Dulce Rendon started dancing when she was in sixth grade as part of a free folklorico group performing traditional Latin American dances choreographed by group members themselves. Although she was passionate about dance, her parents couldn’t afford to pay for or drive her to any formal dance classes. Now the 18-year-old senior at Benito Juarez Community Academy in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago is trying to become a professional dancer. Continue reading
  
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• Fourth grader pens essay that changes dance - KING5.com

  13-05-2015 03:58 via king5.com
  
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  Fourth grader pens essay that changes dance
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  A fourth grader from Magnolia wrote an essay to convince her school to make a dance more inclusive. Loading… Post to Facebook. Fourth grader pens essay that changes dance A fourth grader from Magnolia wrote an essay to convince her school to make a ...
  
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• Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre announces hires, departures - Tribune-Review

  13-05-2015 03:01
  
  Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre announces hires, departures
  Tribune-Review
  Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre will have a roster of 30 dancers next season as a result of three hires, one promotion and two departures announced on May 11. Hannah Carter, who was promoted to soloist, is a graduate of the Royal Ballet School in London and ...
  
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• Ballet dancer Cara Marie Gary returns for 'Giselle' - Greenville News

  13-05-2015 00:34
  
  Greenville News
  Ballet dancer Cara Marie Gary returns for 'Giselle'
  Greenville News
  Nine years ago, Cara Marie Gary was a young student in the corps of International Ballet's “Giselle.” Now a professional dancer with the renowned Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Gary, 23, is returning to Greenville to take on the challenging title role in ...
  
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