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• Martha Graham brings unbalanced program to Jacob's Pillow - Boston Globe

  28-08-2015 23:00 via
  Boston Globe
  Martha Graham brings unbalanced program to Jacob's Pillow
  Boston Globe
  BECKET — The Martha Graham Dance Company — performing during the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival's final week — has had, like other such eponymous groups, tricky decisions to make in terms of how to navigate life after its iconic leader has passed on.and more »
  

• MADBOOTS DANCE is full of feeling at Jacob's Pillow - Boston Globe

  28-08-2015 23:00 via
  Boston Globe
  MADBOOTS DANCE is full of feeling at Jacob's Pillow
  Boston Globe
  BECKET — “I feel too much,” says Oskar Schell, the young hero of Jonathan Safran Foer's heartbreaking novel “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.” The two dances premiered this week at Jacob's Pillow by the all-male company MADBOOTS DANCE are ...
  

• Candy Apples Cathy Nesbitt-Stein Explains Departure From Dance Moms...Hopes To ... - Reality Tea

  28-08-2015 22:03 via
  Reality Tea
  Candy Apples Cathy Nesbitt-Stein Explains Departure From Dance Moms...Hopes To ...
  Reality Tea
  Admit it…you've been wondering where Candy Apples Cathy went on the second half of what had to be the longest season of Dance Moms. Abby Lee Miller's nemesis was there one episode, and the next she was gone, sending Jeanette to lead her dancers.
  'Dance Moms' Season 6 Spoilers: Cathy Nesbitt-Stein Wants To Rejoin Lifetime ...Yibada (English Edition)all 4 news articles »
  

• Watch Amy Schumer, Jennifer Lawrence Dance Atop Billy Joel's Piano - RollingStone.com

  28-08-2015 16:13 via
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  Watch Amy Schumer, Jennifer Lawrence Dance Atop Billy Joel's Piano
  RollingStone.com
  Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence, screenwriting tandem and budding best friends, made a surprise appearance during Billy Joel's Wrigley Field concert in Chicago Thursday night to lead an onstage dance party during "Uptown Girl." As video from the ...
  You have to see BFFs JLaw and Amy Schumer dance on top of Billy Joel's pianoUSA TODAY
  Uptown Girls! Watch Jennifer Lawrence & Amy Schumer Dance
  

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• The 10 best things to do this week

  28-08-2015 14:34
  
  From a John Waters season at the BFI to a game-changing new sitcom and the best Notting Hill carnival parties, here are the cultural highlights of the next seven days Continue reading...
  
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• Ballett Zurich at Edinburgh festival review – poetry in motion

  28-08-2015 13:40
  
  Playhouse, Edinburgh
  A virtuosic, seductive double bill by Wayne McGregor and Christian Spuck – set to music by Max Richter and recitals of Shakespeare’s sonnetsA beautiful courtliness exhales from this luminous double bill.Related: Moving sonnets: Zurich Ballet dance Shakespeare's intimate poemsContinue reading...
  
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• Car Thief Suspect Does Dance for Police During Chase - TIME

  28-08-2015 13:35 via
  TIME
  Car Thief Suspect Does Dance for Police During Chase
  TIME
  After Los Angeles police engaged in a chase with the woman on Wednesday night, they threw down a spike strip, which punctured a tire. In an unusual turn of events, she then got out of the car, did a little dance, and got back into the car. Cops ...
  This Suspected Car Thief Did a Little Dance Before Getting Arrested by Police ...E! Online
  Suspected car thief ends high-speed car chase with a quick dance party [VIDEO]NewsOK.com
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• The Magic Flute at Edinburgh festival review – all the makings of a classic

  28-08-2015 13:19
  
  Festival theatre, Edinburgh
  Theatre company 1927’s enchanting staging of the opera as a silent film – with Papageno as Buster Keaton and Pamina as Louise Brooks – will be hard to topThis production is a joy to watch: an enchanting, big-hearted, supremely lovable piece of whimsical animation and nimble stagecraft. Its creators are director Barrie Kosky, illustrator Paul Barritt and writer Suzanne Andrade of the theatre company 1927; it was first staged in 2012 at the Komische Op
  
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• Local dance competition, charity honors dedicated competitor Alison Parker - WRIC

  28-08-2015 11:36 via
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  Local dance competition, charity honors dedicated competitor Alison Parker
  WRIC
  ROANOKE (WSLS) – Alison Parker: A hometown girl who was known as a philanthropist who cared about the community in which she worked and lived. Before she was killed during a live broadcast on WDBJ7 by a former co-worker, Alison was working to ...
  Parker and Ward remembered, from the dance floor to the football fieldWDBJ7all 23 news articles »
  

• Recommended Dose: August's Best Dance Tracks - NPR

  28-08-2015 09:04 via
  NPR
  Recommended Dose: August's Best Dance Tracks
  NPR
  The dance music that moves us in these waning days of summer often does so in minuscule ways. Maybe it has something to do with the merciless mercury levels, but a good portion of our Recommended Dose mix for August doesn't require the flailing of ...and more »
  

• American Ballet Theatre school opens at Segerstrom Center next month - Daily Pilot

  28-08-2015 02:38 via
  Daily Pilot
  American Ballet Theatre school opens at Segerstrom Center next month
  Daily Pilot
  The New York-based company's offshoot is geared toward teaching dance to children ages 3 to 14. print. Students dance during the Young Dancer Summer Workshops on Thursday, July 9. The American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School at ...and more »
  

• Australian Ballet's Sleeping Beauty marks David McAllister's debut as ... - The Australian

  28-08-2015 01:56 via
  The Australian
  Australian Ballet's Sleeping Beauty marks David McAllister's debut as ...
  The Australian
  Fancy making a ballet that many critics view as the hardest to get right? David McAllister, artistic director of the Australian Ballet, has placed himself in that particular creative hot seat. Next month, the Australian Ballet will launch McAllister's ...
  

• Ballet star inspires young dancers to follow in his footsteps - CBS News

  28-08-2015 01:49 via
  Ballet star inspires young dancers to follow in his footsteps
  CBS News
  SUITLAND, Md. -- To the ballet students at Suitland High School in Maryland, Eric Underwood is a legend. That's because Underwood -- a graduate of Suitland High -- has risen to stardom with the Royal Ballet of London. With the ballet company touring ...
  

• Dance Listings for Aug. 28-Sept. 3 - New York Times

  28-08-2015 01:07 via
  New York Times
  Dance Listings for Aug. 28-Sept. 3
  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. FringeNYC (through Sunday) This annual collection of charmingly experimental, provocatively quirky and often ...
  

• Top-heavy ballet school by Y+M Design Office features an oversized roof - Dezeen

  28-08-2015 01:00 via
  Top-heavy ballet school by Y+M Design Office features an oversized roof
  Dezeen
  This ballet studio in Japan by Y+M Design Office is topped by a large pointed roof with curving eaves and is lifted above the ground by a small cement-rendered podium (+ slideshow). Ballet School by Y+M Design Office. Kobe-based Y+M Design Office ...
  

• 'Biophony,' Alonzo King LINES Ballet preview - The Orion (blog)

  28-08-2015 00:32 via
  The Orion (blog)
  'Biophony,' Alonzo King LINES Ballet preview
  The Orion (blog)
  Dancers show off their lines in Alonzo King's LINES Ballet. Photo courtesy of Chico Performances. On Saturday, September 5, there will be a new and intriguing kind of ballet presented at Chico State. Alonzo King LINES Ballet will be performing his ...
  

• Shakespeare, zombies and ballet, and how they fit (or don't) into Woodward ... - Fresno Bee

  28-08-2015 00:08 via
  Fresno Bee
  Shakespeare, zombies and ballet, and how they fit (or don't) into Woodward ...
  Fresno Bee
  Samantha “Sam” Hyde plays Ophelia, one of her many roles in “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” at Woodward Shakespeare Festival. Donald Munro [email protected] ...and more »
  

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