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• Review: 'Whelan/Watson: Other Stories' Pairs Stars of Ballet - The New York Times - New York Times

  12-07-2015 23:20
  New York Times
  Review: 'Whelan/Watson: Other Stories' Pairs Stars of Ballet - The New York Times
  New York Times
  LONDON — The names in the title “Whelan/Watson: Other Stories” are those of Wendy Whelan, an American, and Edward Watson, a Brit. She retired from New York City Ballet in October after 23 years as principal; he has been a principal of the Royal Ballet ...and more »
  
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• Event : film -- FILM AND TALKBACK – “BALLET 422” WITH NYC ... - The Post Star - Glens Falls Post-Star

  12-07-2015 23:13
  Glens Falls Post-Star
  Event : film -- FILM AND TALKBACK – “BALLET 422” WITH NYC ... - The Post Star
  Glens Falls Post-Star
  “Ballet 422” illuminates the process behind the creation of a single ballet within the ongoing cycle of work at one of the world's great ballet companies. Doors open at 6:30 and the film begins at 7PM at The Bow Tie Cinema, 19 Railroad Pl, Saratoga ...
  Photos: Ballet Gala showcases top choreographers - The RecordTroy Recordall 3 news articles »
  
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• Photos: Ballet Gala showcases top choreographers - Troy Record

  12-07-2015 22:32
  
  Glens Falls Post-Star
  Photos: Ballet Gala showcases top choreographers
  Troy Record
  Saturday night's 2015 SPAC Ballet Gala presented three works by 21st-century choreographers, America's Justin Peck, Russia's Alexei Ratmansky, and England's Christopher Wheeldon. With widespread European and American commissions, each has ...
  Event : film -- FILM AND TALKBACK – “BALLET 422” WITH NYC ... - The Post StarGlens Falls Post-Starall 4 news articles »
  
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• Ariana Crowder in 'So You Think You Can Dance' Top 20 - MyCentralJersey.com - MyCentralJersey.com

  12-07-2015 22:16 via mycentraljersey.com
  
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  Ariana Crowder in 'So You Think You Can Dance' Top 20 - MyCentralJersey.com
  MyCentralJersey.com
  Ariana Crowder loves sushi, puppies, baby goats and, oh yeah — dance. Named to the Top 20 of "So You Think You Can Dance" (SYTYCD) last week, the 22-year-old will compete in her first live show Monday on Fox. Loading… Post to Facebook.
  
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• Flamenco firebrand Israel Galván: 'I was probably dancing inside the womb'

  12-07-2015 21:01
  
  Israel Galván is the dance maverick who has reinvented flamenco, pitching it into dark, experimental territory. Will Lo Real, his work about the Holocaust, cause as much outrage at the Edinburgh festival as it did in at its Madrid premiere? And just what is ‘crazy dancing’? “It was frightening,” says Israel Galván, remembering the night he received the worst reaction of his performing life – at the premiere of his work, Lo Real/Le Réel/The Real, in Madrid in 2013. A trib
  
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• Irish dance competition canceled due to BDS pressure - Israel News - Jerusalem ... - Jerusalem Post Israel News

  12-07-2015 19:49 via jpost.com
  
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  Irish dance competition canceled due to BDS pressure - Israel News - Jerusalem ...
  Jerusalem Post Israel News
  "We wanted to show people in Israel what real Irish dance is and can be," say dancers. Irish dance. MARINA FRUMKIN and Pavel Kolesov, the directors of Carey Academy Israel, an international chain of Irish dance studios.. (photo credit:FEISPHOTOS).
  
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• Texas police officer caught on video showing off dance moves | abc7.com - KABC - KABC-TV

  12-07-2015 19:44 via abc7.com
  
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  Texas police officer caught on video showing off dance moves | abc7.com - KABC
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  A Texas police officer was caught on camera learning various dance moves to the hit song "Nae Nae" on the Fourth of July. Embed. <iframe width="476" height="270" src="http://abc7.com/video/embed/?pid=845339" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>.
  Going viral: Texas officer doing the "Nae Nae" dance - WTSP.comWTSP 10 Newsall 9
  
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• Recon flight shows Last Dance Fire 75% contained, 150 acres... | www ... - Palm Beach Post

  12-07-2015 19:36 via palmbeachpost.com
  
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  Recon flight shows Last Dance Fire 75% contained, 150 acres... | www ...
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  Authorities say the Last Dance Fire at the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge is 8,700 acres and 75 percent containment, according to a report from a reconnaissance flight Sunday morning. Official say just 150 acres are actively burning and today's ...and more »
  
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• Tame Impala's Dance-Leaning 'Currents' Available to Stream Ahead of Release ... - Music Times

  12-07-2015 19:32 via musictimes.com
  
  Music Times
  Tame Impala's Dance-Leaning 'Currents' Available to Stream Ahead of Release ...
  Music Times
  A few days ahead of Currents' July 17 release, Tame Impala is currently streaming its third studio album in its entirety across NPR Music and CBC Music. Shadowing the Australian band's 2010 debut album Innerspeaker and its 2012 sophomore follow-up ...and more »
  
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• Ballet Manila holds 'From Page to Stage' season; international choreography ... - Inquirer.net

  12-07-2015 18:45
  
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  Ballet Manila holds 'From Page to Stage' season; international choreography ...
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  ENCHANTING tales of love, fantasy and adventure topbill “From Page to Stage,” Ballet Manila's (BM) 20th performance season. Celebrating literature and its larger-than-life characters, the BM will stage dance productions based on Severino Reyes ...
  
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• YMCA Dance Program wins top honors at national competition - Entertainment ... - Pittsburg Morning Sun

  12-07-2015 16:46 via morningsun.net
  Pittsburg Morning Sun
  YMCA Dance Program wins top honors at national competition - Entertainment ...
  Pittsburg Morning Sun
  The Pittsburg YMCA's Academy of Dance performed at the State One National Competition recently in Branson, Mo. and won numerous top honors in both solo and group competition. The Y's Level A group Company Jazz's “Let's Go Crazy” was 1st Runner ...
  
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• Review: Spandau Ballet perfect their resurrection at Westonbirt gig ... - Gloucester Citizen

  12-07-2015 15:04
  
  Review: Spandau Ballet perfect their resurrection at Westonbirt gig ...
  Gloucester Citizen
  It seemed like an age to me since Spandau Ballet first piqued childhood intrigue on Top of the Pops with their tartan, leather and frills and edgier approach. As the house band at The Blitz Club, the boys were at the forefront of the New Romantic ...and more »
  
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• Spotlight on business: Bailando Dance Studio - Valdosta Daily Times: Business - Valdosta Daily Times

  12-07-2015 11:42 via valdostadailytimes.com
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  Spotlight on business: Bailando Dance Studio - Valdosta Daily Times: Business
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  A group of Bailando Dance Studio dancers goes through steps in their current practice space at Anytime Fitness. Spotlight on business: Bailando Dance Studio. Jason Stewart | The Valdosta Daily Times ...
  
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• The struggle for the soul of British dance | Stage | The Guardian - The Guardian

  12-07-2015 09:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian
  The struggle for the soul of British dance | Stage | The Guardian
  The Guardian
  A trio of influential choreographers have claimed that Britain's contemporary dance schools are no longer producing talent capable of performing at the highest level. Are teachers encouraging 'creative expression' at the expense of rigour and excellence?
  
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• The struggle for the soul of British dance

  12-07-2015 09:30
  
  A trio of influential choreographers have claimed that Britain’s contemporary dance schools are no longer producing talent capable of performing at the highest level. Are teachers encouraging ‘creative expression’ at the expense of rigour and excellence?It’s a spring morning, and I’m watching a contemporary dance class at the Trinity Laban conservatoire in Deptford, south-east London. The studio is large and airy, one of 13 such spaces in the building designed by the Swiss architects H
  
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• Cinderella review – pagan thrills and a captivating heroine

  12-07-2015 09:00
  
  London Coliseum
  Christopher Wheeldon and the Dutch National Ballet’s Anna Tsygankova give us a young woman’s transition from hesitant girl to exuberant womanChristopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella, created for Dutch National Ballet in 2012, and this week performed in London for the first time, is a fairytale with contemporary resonance. Wheeldon, who last month won a Tony award for his choreography for An American in Paris, has clearly given the story much thought. In the place of the convention
  
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• Other Stories review – flashing the artistic wealth of experience

  12-07-2015 09:00
  
  Wendy Whelan and Edward Watson bring the riches of their long careers to five specially commissioned new worksThe US ballerina Wendy Whelan and Royal Ballet principal Edward Watson are in the autumn of their careers. She’s 48 and he’s 39; both have reached the point at which even dance-trained bodies protest against the demands made on them by performance. But as Keats wrote of autumn: “…thou hast thy music too”. And what riches these dancers have to offer, what experience they have to
  
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• Misty Copeland makes history at American Ballet Theatre - Thehour.com: - Thehour.com

  12-07-2015 08:40
  Misty Copeland makes history at American Ballet Theatre - Thehour.com:
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  NORWALK -- Misty Copeland ignited a historical moment for ballet dancers across the nation by being named the first African-American female principal at American Ballet Theatre in New York City recently. Dancing for eight years at the Norwalk Academy ...and more »
  
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• Misty Copeland makes history at American Ballet Theatre - Thehour.com: Norwalk - Thehour.com

  12-07-2015 08:40
  Misty Copeland makes history at American Ballet Theatre - Thehour.com: Norwalk
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  NORWALK -- Misty Copeland ignited a historical moment for ballet dancers across the nation by being named the first African-American female principal at American Ballet Theatre in New York City recently. Dancing for eight years at the Norwalk Academy ...and more »
  
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• People & Places: Tulsa Ballet breaks ground for new school in Broken Arrow ... - Tulsa World

  12-07-2015 07:12
  Tulsa World
  People & Places: Tulsa Ballet breaks ground for new school in Broken Arrow ...
  Tulsa World
  Michelle Hardesty speaks to guests at the groundbreaking for the Hardesty Center for Dance Education at Tulsa Ballet in Broken Arrow. The Hardesty Family Foundation gave land for the new facility. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World. Buy this photo.and more »
  
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• Ballet on Broadway - The Courier

  12-07-2015 06:57
  
  The Courier
  Ballet on Broadway
  The Courier
  Ballerinas from the Mansfield-based Neos Dance Theatre perform on stage for Ballet on Broadway Saturday evening. The event was held from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. between the Findlay-Hancock Public Library and Huntington Bank. Ballet on Broadway also ...and more »
  
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• The Courier » Ballet on Broadway - The Courier

  12-07-2015 06:53
  
  The Courier
  The Courier » Ballet on Broadway
  The Courier
  Ballerinas from the Mansfield-based Neos Dance Theatre perform on stage for Ballet on Broadway Saturday evening. The event was held from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. between the Findlay-Hancock Public Library and Huntington Bank. Ballet on Broadway also ...and more »
  
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• Millennium Dance Complex's Pittsburgh branch proves it's got the moves in ... - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  12-07-2015 06:00 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Millennium Dance Complex's Pittsburgh branch proves it's got the moves in ...
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Dancers in the intermediate/advanced contemporary class strike out on their own. In its first year in Pittsburgh, Millenium Dance Complex has attracted dancers across the region to network, rehearse and audition.
  
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• Nashville Ballet celebrates Christmas in July - Brentwood Home Page - Brentwood Home Page

  12-07-2015 05:30
  
  Brentwood Home Page
  Nashville Ballet celebrates Christmas in July - Brentwood Home Page
  Brentwood Home Page
  Nashville Ballet officials have begun a celebration of July with the largest ticket discount of the year, surprise appearances and invitations for children to audition. During July, patrons can get $12 off tickets to the Christmas season production of ...
  
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• From Native American dance to tap, Beaverton Ten Tiny Dances entertains ... - OregonLive.com

  12-07-2015 02:38 via oregonlive.com
  
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  From Native American dance to tap, Beaverton Ten Tiny Dances entertains ...
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  Beaverton Ten Tiny Dances Beaverton Ten Tiny Dances included everything from tap dancing to Native American dance. Print Email · Wendy Owen | The Oregonian/OregonLive By Wendy Owen | The Oregonian/OregonLive The Oregonian Email the author ...and more »
  
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• SPAC, NYC Ballet gala honors 21st-century choreographers - The Saratogian - The Saratogian

  12-07-2015 01:22
  
  Montreal Gazette
  SPAC, NYC Ballet gala honors 21st-century choreographers - The Saratogian
  The Saratogian
  “Belles-Lettres,” shown here in a previous performance, was featured at the New York City Ballet Gala Saturday night at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, along with “Pictures at an Exhibition” and “Mercurial Manoeuvres.” The gala theme was 21st ...
  Review: Peck's latest work for City Ballet nails balance of old, new - Times UnionAlbany Times Union
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• Review: Contemporary Dance Fort Worth Modern Dance Festival | The Star ... - Fort Worth Star Telegram

  12-07-2015 01:14 via star-telegram.com
  
  Fort Worth Star Telegram
  Review: Contemporary Dance Fort Worth Modern Dance Festival | The Star ...
  Fort Worth Star Telegram
  At last year's Modern Dance Festival at the Modern, structured improvisational and participatory dance in the Grand Lobby of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth proved popular with the kids. Kids love to dance, and they don't mind doing it in front of ...
  
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