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• Photo gallery: Baby Ballet Workshop - Kansas City Star

  14-08-2015 23:59 via
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  Photo gallery: Baby Ballet Workshop
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  The Kansas City Ballet School has been holding a Baby Bundle Ballet Workshop for new parents with infants from 2 to 9 months old. On Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, instructor Kimberly Cowen (left) and her daughter, 13-month-old Elaine Giroux, led Alexandra ...
  

• A delicate balance from Sarasota Ballet in Jacob's Pillow debut - Boston Globe

  14-08-2015 23:20 via
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  A delicate balance from Sarasota Ballet in Jacob's Pillow debut
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  BECKET — This week at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, an American ballet company performs the works of two Englishmen and one Brazilian. To a certain extent, it's just business as usual in our globalized dance world: One of the Brits is Christopher ...
  Dance review: Sarasota Ballet makes triumphant debut at Jacob's PillowWicked Local Duxbury
  Review: Sarasota Ballet, With Ashton as the Beating Hea
  

• Review: Decision to reunite Spandau Ballet was a great one, judging by crowd ... - Ipswich Star

  14-08-2015 23:05 via
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  Review: Decision to reunite Spandau Ballet was a great one, judging by crowd ...
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  At the end of a rather wet and dreary evening broken up by a string of thrilling races, evergreen New Romantics Spandau Ballet lit up Newmarket Racecourse last night. Comments; Email; Print. To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in.
  

• American Contemporary Ballet Rediscovers a Russian Classic - LA Magazine

  14-08-2015 21:44 via
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  American Contemporary Ballet Rediscovers a Russian Classic
  LA Magazine
  Imagine the dialogue of your favorite TV show or film being lost to the ages, and the music is all that remains. Such is the case with The Seasons, a classical ballet that debuted in 1900 by Marius Petipa, who created famous full-length works like Swan ...
  

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• Ballet's $1M anonymous gift signal to community - The Courier-Journal

  14-08-2015 20:30 via
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  Ballet's $1M anonymous gift signal to community
  The Courier-Journal
  On Friday, the Louisville Ballet's announcement of a $1 million gift by an anonymous donor from New York signaled progress to strengthen the artistic side of the company's work. The money, said artistic director and executive director Robert Curran, ...
  Louisville Ballet gets anonymous $1 million giftLouisville Business First
  Louisville Ballet Receives $1 Million Gift89.3 WFPL
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• Anna Maxwell Martin to star as Lady Macbeth at London's Young Vic

  14-08-2015 20:16
  Director Carrie Cracknell and choreographer Lucy Guerin will stage the gory tragedy with a company of actors and dancers Anna Maxwell Martin, the steely star of the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, is to take up the daggers as Lady Macbeth when she makes her debut at the Young Vic in a radical new production, opposite her stage husband John Heffernan.Macbeth, which will open at London’s Young Vic in November and then transfer to the partner theatres, Birmingham Rep and Home i
  
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• Beyond the main stage at Wilderness Festival 2015 - in pictures

  14-08-2015 18:46
  This year’s sun-soaked Wilderness Festival in Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire featured headliners Björk, George Clinton and Ben Howard, but beyond the main stage there was plenty to see and do for young and old alike. All images: Simon MinettContinue reading...
  
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• 30 Incredible Ballet Portraits - Huffington Post

  14-08-2015 17:47 via
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  30 Incredible Ballet Portraits
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  The sublime art of ballet is about movement; and yet, few videos seem to do the ballet dancer justice like the perfectly captured still image. Maybe it's because each split second of a ballet dancer's movements must be perfect to create a beautiful ...
  

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• 'Dance Moms' Star Chloe Lukasiak Dishes On Teen Choice Awards Drama, Her ... - International Business Times

  14-08-2015 17:31 via
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  'Dance Moms' Star Chloe Lukasiak Dishes On Teen Choice Awards Drama, Her ...
  International Business Times
  Chloe Lukasiak, pictured at Nickelodeon's 28th Annual Kids' Choice Awards in Inglewood, California, on March 28, is up for a 2015 Teen Choice Award. Getty Images. In just two days “Dance Moms” fans will finally learn who won the 2015 Teen Choice Award ...
  OK! Exclusive Video: Chloe Lukasiak Compares Her New Dance Studio To Abby Lee ...OK! Magazi
  

• Louisville Ballet receives $1 million anonymous gift - WDRB

  14-08-2015 17:26 via
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  Louisville Ballet receives $1 million anonymous gift
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  The student's family reported him missing after he never made it home from the Phoenix School of Discovery. He was found around 1 a.m.More >>. The student's family reported him missing after he never made it home from the Phoenix School of Discovery.and more »
  

• Appleton teens step up for dry dance party - Appleton Post Crescent

  14-08-2015 16:25 via
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  Appleton teens step up for dry dance party
  Appleton Post Crescent
  APPLETON – A dance party for underage students will go on at a downtown Appleton club after organizers moved the event from a Thursday night to a Sunday night to avoid a shutdown by police. The alcohol-free Teen Glow Night will be held from 8 to 11:30 ...
  

• This week’s best Edinburgh dance

  14-08-2015 14:20
  Seven | Lo Real/Le Réel/The RealLike many of flamenco’s greatest performers, Israel Galván was born to dancing parents. But while he was trained in the classical traditions of flamenco, his own choreography has expanded into increasingly experimental terrain. Lo Real is one of his most challenging works to date, a dark, poignant evocation that focuses on the persecution of the Roma people during the Holocaust. Using music that ranges from traditional forms to the Antony And The Johnson
  
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• Ballet highs: From Hozier to Jamie XX and Radiohead, the dance form is being ... - The Independent

  14-08-2015 13:12 via
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  Ballet highs: From Hozier to Jamie XX and Radiohead, the dance form is being ...
  The Independent
  When Sergei Polunin, a wayward Ukrainian ballet protege, looked to reposition himself as a Hollywood star, he turned first to pop music. Together with the photographer and director David LaChapelle, Polunin created an alternative music video for “Take ...and more »
  

• RIVERSIDE: Ballet legend Darci Kistler comes home to teach - Press-Enterprise

  14-08-2015 09:04 via
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  RIVERSIDE: Ballet legend Darci Kistler comes home to teach
  Press-Enterprise
  The former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, taught a class at Riverside Ballet Arts, where she first danced. More from this story. Darci Kistler, a former Riverside resident and principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. SLIDE SHOW:
  

• 'So You Think You Can Dance' power rankings: Jim Nowakowski leads weak field ... - GoldDerby

  14-08-2015 05:33 via
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  'So You Think You Can Dance' power rankings: Jim Nowakowski leads weak field ...
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  Edson comes in last for me on Team Stage (I originally ranked him sixth out of 10) simply because he seems to be the most forgettable. No, he's never been the worst dancer – in fact he's a great dancer. But did anyone even notice that he was on the ...
  Local dancer hits 'So You Think You Can Dance'Philly.comall 4 news articles »
  

• Streetwise Afro-Brazilian dancers storm across the racial divide

  14-08-2015 01:05
  Dance company composed of young people from Brazil’s favelas celebrates a vibrant African heritage that was once repressedThere comes a moment when Jardel Santos Silva is spinning so fast on stage that everything else falls away: the memories of his impoverished childhood, the sea of clapping viewers, even the stage floor itself. Instead, Silva is back in the town squares and backstreets of Brazil’s south-eastern city of Uberlândia, where daily dance-offs provided moments of respite fr
  
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• Dance intensive wraps up with public concert - The Missoulian

  14-08-2015 00:50 via missoulian.com
  The Missoulian
  Dance intensive wraps up with public concert
  The Missoulian
  Cam Stuart (Mark Ruffalo) would be good company if he could just dial himself down. But he can't. So when he offers a neighbor help with carry… Read more · Western 'Shrew': Montana Shakespeare in the Parks puts unique spin on classic play. HAMILTON ...
  
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• 'Bring It' reality show star Camryn Harris to lead Aug. 15 dance workshop - Dothan Eagle (blog)

  14-08-2015 00:22 via dothaneagle.com
  'Bring It' reality show star Camryn Harris to lead Aug. 15 dance workshop
  Dothan Eagle (blog)
  Camryn Harris, star of Lifetime's reality show “Bring It” will be in Dothan on Saturday, Aug. 15, instructing a dance workshop at Dothan High School for girls ages 6-19. A meet and greet starts at 9 a.m. The workshop runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m ...and more »
  
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• NY dance studio denies girl with Down Syndrome, says family - WTNH Connecticut News (press release)

  14-08-2015 00:18 via wtnh.com
  
  WTNH Connecticut News (press release)
  NY dance studio denies girl with Down Syndrome, says family
  WTNH Connecticut News (press release)
  At her heart, Anna Winnicki is a dancer. She twirls, she dips, and she laughs – heartily. Ariel Winter · Young star of hit ABC Show undergoes breast reduction surgery. Updated: 10 mins ago. Best known as the nerdy yet lovable middle sister Alex Dunphy ...
  Buffalo family upset after dance studio denies girl with Down SyndromeNBC4i.comall 11 news article
  
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• Dance Listings for Aug. 14-20 - New York Times

  14-08-2015 00:14 via nytimes.com
  New York Times
  Dance Listings for Aug. 14-20
  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. Lauren Bakst and Yuri Masnyj (Thursday and next Friday) As part of the Drawing Center's multidisciplinary ...
  
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