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• So You Think You Can Dance mentor blog: tWitch on Team Street's best exit - Entertainment Weekly

  01-09-2015 23:07 via
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  So You Think You Can Dance mentor blog: tWitch on Team Street's best exit
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  The top 6 put on an incredible show. It was a really tough elimination, but it was a good show nonetheless. No matter how the votes go next week, I think the night as far as styles go went in favor of Team Street. Megz, Jaja, and Virgil got to do ...
  'So You Think You Can Dance': Houston Ballet dancer's emotional exitChron.com (blog)
  'So You Think You Can Dance' shocker: Jim Nowak
  

• BABYMETAL Wants To Teach METALLICA Their Dance Moves - BLABBERMOUTH.NET

  01-09-2015 22:18 via
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  BABYMETAL Wants To Teach METALLICA Their Dance Moves
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  Japanese teenage girl pop metal band BABYMETAL spoke to NME backstage at this past weekend's Reading and Leeds festivals. You can now watch the chat below. Asked which band at the event they would like to teach their dance moves and why, ...
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• Rick Ross - Money Dance Feat. The-Dream (Prod. By Jake One) [New Song] - HotNewHipHop

  01-09-2015 21:39 via
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  Rick Ross - Money Dance Feat. The-Dream (Prod. By Jake One) [New Song]
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  After dropping J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League-produced "Foreclosures," yesterday, Rick Ross returns with his second Black Dollar single, "Money Dance" feat. The-Dream. Seattle-based producer Jake One sets the scene for Ross' latest ode to the scrillions with a ...
  Rick Ross Week Continues With “Money Dance”The Urban Daily
  Rick Ross "Money Dance" (ft. The-Dream)Exclaim!
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• Local belly dance troop brings unique entertainment to The Coffee Cat - The Corner News

  01-09-2015 21:30 via
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  Local belly dance troop brings unique entertainment to The Coffee Cat
  The Corner News
  Beans and Bellies will include live music, belly-dancing lessons for the audience, and an open dance session at the end of the troupe's belly dance performance. Posted: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 2:00 pm. Local belly dance troop brings unique ...
  

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• Cullman dance student Brittany Lee attends school of Nashville Ballet Summer ... - Cullman Times Online

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  Cullman dance student Brittany Lee attends school of Nashville Ballet Summer ...
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  Brittany Lee, who studies at the Cullman Ballet Theatre School, recently attended the Nashville Ballet Summer Intensive program. Brittany Lee. Special to the Times. Brittany Lee. Brittany Lee, who studies at the Cullman Ballet Theatre School, recently ...and more »
  

• Dance for Life benefit raises $330000 - Chicago Tribune

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  Dance for Life benefit raises $330000
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  Tom Menard of La Grange Park, AIDS Foundation staff, left, and Anthony Guerrero of Chicago, executive director Dance for Life and Chicago Dancers United (Lee A. Litas / Pioneer Press). See more galleries. Dance for Life. Caption Dance for Life.and more »
  

• September 2015 | 2 Tips for Hip-Hop Teachers | Cross-Training and Knee Drop

  01-09-2015 20:21
  We typically think about dancing for exercise, but what about exercising for dance? Hip-hop requires strength and stamina, but dancers who start off in the street (like me) may have no prior physical training. Some students struggle to keep up in class because they lack conditioning, not rhythm or ability to pick up steps.The knee drop is a common but impressive transition to the floor. (Jerkers call it a pin drop.) Stand with feet shoulder-width apart. Place the right foot’s shoelace area
  
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• September 2015 | Tiny Dancers

  01-09-2015 20:17
  With the rise of unrealistic reality television shows, the dance competition world is often given a bad name. It can be perceived as a catty, tear-inducing experience for children and their parents. But dance teachers know that competition dance can be a positive experience—it teaches children confidence, teamwork, perseverance, and the value of hard work. It teaches them to set goals, and that reaching those goals doesn’t always come easily. It teaches them how to adapt and overcome
  
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• Demi Lovato's 'Cool for the Summer' Is Fastest No. 1 on Dance Club Songs in ... - Billboard

  01-09-2015 20:05 via
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  Demi Lovato's 'Cool for the Summer' Is Fastest No. 1 on Dance Club Songs in ...
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  Demi Lovato leaps to the top of Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart (dated Sept. 12), as "Cool for the Summer" blasts 5-1. The track reaches the summit in only its fifth week, completing the quickest climb to No. 1 in nearly two years: Lady Gaga's ...and more »
  

• Dance season brings a mix of eclectic offerings - Charlotte Observer

  01-09-2015 19:17 via
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  Dance season brings a mix of eclectic offerings
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  Melisaa Anduiza,left, Anna Gerberich and Jamie Dee Clifton dance together in “Forgotten Land.” North Carolina Dance Theatre dancers rehears for their current performance of "Othello and Forgotten Land" Dwight Rhoden's updating of "Othello," which takes ...
  

• September 2015 | Face Time

  01-09-2015 19:09
  By the time performance season rolls around, most school owners have put hours of thought and research into finding costumes for their students. As critical as dressing the body is, it’s also important to dress the face. Whether the dancers do their own makeup or your staff or volunteers serve as makeup artists, these guidelines can help your students look their best onstage. Continue reading
  
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• September 2015 | Unequal Rights

  01-09-2015 19:08
  Dancing women have a long history of rattling society’s cage and making people nervous. Take Isadora Duncan and Maud Allan. As the 19th century turned into the 20th, these San Francisco natives dumped their heavy dresses and lace-up shoes for gauzy tunics and bare feet in order to let their bodies move freely. As they boldly danced to Chopin or Schubert, they scandalized the mainstream and became the darlings of suffragettes, free thinkers, and artists. Later in the 20th century, choreogra
  
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• September 2015 | Bulletin Board: Pin, Post, and Share

  01-09-2015 19:07
  Click! What’s new online at the Rhee Gold CompanyDance in Time: SeptemberQuotable: Dancers on Dance Continue reading
  
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• September 2015 | Performance Corner

  01-09-2015 19:04
  Our sneak peek at dance shows we’d love to see Continue reading
  
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• September 2015 | 2 Tips for Modern & Contemporary Teachers | Questions in Class and Hyperextension

  01-09-2015 18:56
  Sometimes students lean too heavily on asking questions. Encourage them to understand that part of class is figuring out answers for themselves. Students become more engaged in learning if they’re empowered to use various methods for absorbing material or concepts, such as observing another dancer or trying an exercise a few times.Working with hyperextension can be challenging in all dance forms. First, students struggling with hyperextension need to understand which muscles to engage for
  
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• Philly gets into the morning dance party scene with Best Day Ever - Philly.com (blog)

  01-09-2015 18:45 via
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  Philly gets into the morning dance party scene with Best Day Ever
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  Best Day Ever is Philly's first - and so far only - morning dance party, organized by local women Caitlin Rae Kelemen and Meggi Connor. (Allie Volpe / Philly.com). Travel Deals. $8.69 & up -- Car Rentals across the U.S. · See all travel deals ».
  

• September 2015 | Breaking the Mold

  01-09-2015 18:31
  Competition dances often present angst-ridden choreography set to lyrics that convey pain or despair. Whether they depict personal suffering or take a bleak perspective on the state of the world, these pieces are dark—and though they can be powerful, they can be difficult to watch, and in some cases, similar to one another, or derivative. What happened to dance as joyful entertainment, we wondered, and is there value in originality? To answer these questions, we asked readers whether such
  
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• September 2015 | Table of Contents

  01-09-2015 18:27
  This month we shine the light on competitions: dances for the littlest kids, ballet pieces, onstage mishaps, originality, and our annual Q&A with competition directors.Plus gender inequality in dance, theater etiquette, hair and makeup basics for young dancers, movement classes for non-dancers, part 4 of our business series for new school owners, and more!Throughout the month of September, we'll be publishing online versions of selected stories, with full content available by October 1. Cont
  
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• September 2015 | No Experience Necessary

  01-09-2015 18:19
  Organized by the Oakland-based, mixed-ability Axis Dance Company, this class for non-dancers is one among many that keep popping up in studios around the country. They enlarge traditional curriculum offerings and widen a studio’s customer base—similar, perhaps, to how tap and hip-hop did so in the past.Part of this interest in dance as a pleasurable, non-technique–driven activity may be related to an increasingly sedentary society’s need to become more physically engaged.
  
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• September 2015 | Bright Biz Idea | Primed for Success

  01-09-2015 18:19
  In this installment of our business series for aspiring school owners, we explore the basic elements and purposes of a cash flow projection. Forecasting income and expenses might not be the most exciting part of starting a school, and for some, it may be the most intimidating part of the process. But without a clear (and realistic) understanding of those figures, it’s impossible to know what it will take to open a dance studio and make it profitable. Continue reading
  
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• September 2015 | Ask Rhee Gold

  01-09-2015 18:18
  Advice for dance teachers Continue reading
  
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• September 2015 | Thinking Out Loud | Theater Etiquette

  01-09-2015 18:11
  As a dance educator and former performer, I believe dance teachers have an obligation to teach theater etiquette to their students. I teach it for many reasons: because I want my dancers to take pride in the art they have chosen to study, and to behave in a manner that exemplifies this when attending a performance; because I want them to show respect for the performers onstage and courtesy to the patrons seated around them; and because I want them to understand what it means to immerse themselve
  
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• Will Cathy Nesbitt-Stein take Abby Lee Miller's spot on Dance Moms? - Starcasm.net

  01-09-2015 18:10 via
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  Will Cathy Nesbitt-Stein take Abby Lee Miller's spot on Dance Moms?
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  “What happened to Cathy Nesbitt-Stein?” fans wondered, as Abby Lee Miller's rival was noticeably absent from the latter half of season five of Dance Moms. Cathy, dance instructor of Candy Apples Dance Center, was first seen in season one, as her ...and more »
  

• September 2015 | Teacher in the Spotlight | Wendy Stein

  01-09-2015 18:09
  NOMINATED BY: Elaina DiBenedetto, student: “I am so lucky that more than 10 years ago Wendy Stein walked into my dance studio and my life. She introduced me to modern dance and encouraged me to dance my first solo; her unwavering confidence has pushed me to do things I might otherwise have let pass by. She is the epitome of what a dance teacher should be.” Continue reading
  
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• September 2015 | Ballet Scene | Raising the Barre

  01-09-2015 18:09
  As anyone who participates in competitions knows, ballet entries are rare. Ballet is one of the toughest competition categories: ballet technique is not as forgiving as jazz or contemporary—the legs are either turned out and stretched and the feet pointed, or they’re not. Teachers are often hesitant to compete in ballet because they want to showcase their students at their best—and often, their best isn’t ballet.As both a choreographer and judge, I’ve learned a lot
  
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• September 2015 | Mindful Marketing | Rethinking Tradition

  01-09-2015 18:05
  When I vented my frustration to my non-dancer husband, he asked why we did it this way. Stunned, I stared at him and said, “But it’s always been done that way.” Wrong answer. Clearly everyone else’s old ways of doing “it” weren’t working. We needed to change “it.”The first thing I did was eliminate the words but and always from my vocabulary. Then I began finding solutions. Continue reading
  
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• September 2015 | FYI

  01-09-2015 18:02
  What’s up in the dance communityBallet in Cleveland Branches OutHarkness Medical Insight Shared OnlineMoving UpCompetition Founder Roland Dupree Dies Continue reading
  
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• September 2015 | Bloopers and Bedlam

  01-09-2015 17:58
  Sitting in a judge’s seat at countless competitions, I have witnessed hundreds of onstage mishaps. I’ve seen dancers trip, collide, slip, and fall down. I’ve seen costumes split, drop, or fall off altogether. Wigs will shift, shoes will slip off, shorts will climb, and straps will break. Some dancers bounce back from these mini-disasters like Tigger in Winnie-the-Pooh, while others crumble and cry. I’ve seen plenty, and learned plenty of lessons for both students and teac
  
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• September 2015 | Moving Images

  01-09-2015 17:57
  Videos of note (new and not) Continue reading
  
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• September 2015 | 2 Tips for Tap Teachers | Back to Basics

  01-09-2015 17:55
  Let’s focus on the basics. Which fundamental skills and techniques form the core of a tap curriculum?Continue reading
  
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• September 2015 | Page Turners

  01-09-2015 17:54
  Books of note (new and not) Continue reading
  
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• September 2015 | 2 Tips for Ballet Teachers | Inside Pirouettes

  01-09-2015 17:49
  A common mistake with inside pirouettes is turning in the passé leg during the turn. To correct this, have your students start in a straight-leg lunge preparation.The straight leg in the lunge preparation for an inside pirouette harnesses a great deal of the energy and force needed to get a dancer on balance and turning. Yet students often rely too heavily on their upper bodies during the preparation, swinging their arms to acquire momentum. Continue reading
  
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• Mullis: Please, press pause on the back-to-school dance - Battle Creek Enquirer

  01-09-2015 17:48 via
  Mullis: Please, press pause on the back-to-school dance
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  This is my 13th year of doing the back-to-school dance. This year I am dancing to “Sunrise, Sunset” from “Fiddler on the Roof.” Why? Because my oldest will be a high school senior. Is this the little girl I carried… Honestly, I would like to hit pause.
  

• Pa. House Democrats dance the 'Whip/Nae Nae' for budget awareness (VIDEO) - WPXI Pittsburgh

  01-09-2015 17:04 via
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  Pa. House Democrats dance the 'Whip/Nae Nae' for budget awareness (VIDEO)
  WPXI Pittsburgh
  Thanks to several Pennsylvania House Democrats, it will be hard to watch Whip/Nae Nae videos the same way again. According to FOX43 in Harrisburg, the group did the video in an effort to bring awareness for more education spending in the ...and more »
  

• Katherine Liepe-Levinson Makes Nature Dance Through Her Lens - 27east.com

  01-09-2015 16:22 via
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  Katherine Liepe-Levinson Makes Nature Dance Through Her Lens
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  Standing with perfect posture, Katherine Liepe-Levinson scanned her bedroom. “Where, oh where, did I put it?” she mused, her pet cat staring indifferently, perhaps waiting for a pat. Suddenly, she plucked out her “Caribbean Conservancy” bucket hat from ...
  

• After 15 years, the Bliss Dance Party faces its last dance - Washington Post

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  After 15 years, the Bliss Dance Party faces its last dance
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  After 15 years of getting crowds dancing to Britpop, house, dance-punk and electronica tracks every month, DJ Will Eastman is wrapping up his monthly Bliss Dance Party on Saturday, Sept. 26. "I've been thinking about it for a long time," Eastman says.
  

• Where Is Asia Monet Ray Now? Former 'Dance Moms' Star Lands Big TV Role - International Business Times

  01-09-2015 15:19 via
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  Where Is Asia Monet Ray Now? Former 'Dance Moms' Star Lands Big TV Role
  International Business Times
  Former "Dance Moms" star Asia Monet Ray poses at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards 2015 on Aug.16, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images. Lifetime viewers no longer get to watch Asia Monet Ray strut her stuff each week on “Dance Moms,” but the ...
  

• Dance classes at RAAC - Richmond Register

  01-09-2015 14:20 via
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  The Richmond Area Arts Council will be hosting dance classes on Thursday nights for seven weeks from Sept. 17 to Oct. 29. Cost is $75 per person for all seven classes. Dances taught this session will be Waltz, Swing, Rumba, & Cha-Cha. If you're looking ...and more »
  

• Dance This Week: Satellite Collective, a Degas Dancer and More - New York Times

  01-09-2015 14:00 via
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  Dance This Week: Satellite Collective, a Degas Dancer and More
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  Satellite Collective. In an otherwise quiet week for dance before Labor Day, Satellite Collective brings seven new dance works — by Devin Alberda (a New York City Ballet dancer), Manuel Vignoulle and Esme Boyce — to BAM Fisher, Thursday through ...
  

• 'Top 6 Perform & Elimination' - Entertainment Weekly

  01-09-2015 07:43 via
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  'Top 6 Perform & Elimination'
  Entertainment Weekly
  We're one away week from the final performance round, which means that it's time to play dirty. It's time for Cat Deeley to sing “Jason Derulo.” Cat's singing everything tonight. She's also coordinated her dress to Travis' tie, like they're going to a ...
  

• Virgil's Contemporary Number On 'So You Think You Can Dance' Is Filled With ... - Bustle

  01-09-2015 06:20 via
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  Virgil's Contemporary Number On 'So You Think You Can Dance' Is Filled With ...
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  As if I didn't love the guy so much already, on Monday night's episode of So You Think You Can Dance Season 12, Virgil's contemporary number with All-Star Melanie tore a hole through my heart with its incredibly real and harrowing emotions of a soldier ...
  

• Review: Madboots Dance Ignores Gender Boundaries - New York Times

  01-09-2015 00:04 via
  Review: Madboots Dance Ignores Gender Boundaries
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  BECKET, Mass. — In the final week of this year's Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, much of the warmest applause was directed at the woman giving the preshow speeches: Ella Baff, who is moving on after 17 years as the festival's executive and artistic ...
  

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