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• World Ballet Day Recap - http://www.dancemagazine.com/ (blog)

  02-10-2015 19:15 via
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  World Ballet Day Recap
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  Yesterday was World Ballet Day. And unless you swore off social media for all of October 1, you don't need this blog to serve as a reminder. #WorldBalletDay was everywhere. Even Snapchat dedicated a feed to “Ballerinas & Ballerinos.” (It's still alive ...and more »
  

• The Royal Ballet's Romeo and Juliet: 50 years of star-crossed dancers – in pictures

  02-10-2015 14:49
  
  It’s half a century since Kenneth MacMillan’s Shakespearean ballet premiered at the Royal Opera House in London. Here are some of the dancers who have been paired as the doomed lovers, from Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev to Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae Continue reading...
  
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• Eyewitness: Valladolid, Spain

  02-10-2015 10:58
  
  Photographs from the Eyewitness series Continue reading...
  
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• Mobile Infirmary wins Pink Glove Dance competition - WSFA

  02-10-2015 03:33 via
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  Mobile Infirmary wins Pink Glove Dance competition
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  This year, more than 68,000 physicians, administrators, nurses, breast cancer survivors and community members dressed in pink exam gloves to create dance videos for breast cancer awareness.
  Drumroll, Please: Medline Announces the Winner of the 2015 Pink Glove Dance ...Business Wire (press release)all 9 news articles »
  

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• October 2015 | On My Mind

  02-10-2015 02:56
  I’m noticing a lack of creativity in choreography lately—or maybe it’s people’s inability to think for themselves. At a respected ballet company’s performance, on the competition stage, and on TV, choreographers are creating contemporary work that’s strikingly similar. Yes, the level of technical mastery among dancers is diverse, but there’s a disturbing sameness to the mood, expression, and movement—which typically convey ideas about suffering and
  
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• October 2015 | 2 Music Tips for Teachers | 20th-Century Music

  02-10-2015 02:54
  The 20th century ushered in a new era in music composition, though Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, Puccini, and others continued to write in a Romantic style.Major 20th-century movements include neoclassicism, minimalism, and experimental music. Continue reading
  
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• October 2015 | Teacher in the Spotlight | Lisa Marie Pelton

  02-10-2015 02:53
  NOMINATED BY: Kim Wood, mother: “In 2003, Lisa opened her school with 80 students. Since then, it has grown and she is living her dream. She is blessed with a 4-year-old son and also a beautiful daughter born two years ago with cystic fibrosis. When she is tired or has been up all night with a sick child, she lights up when she walks into her studio, sees her students, and gets energized to dance with them once again.” Continue reading
  
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• October 2015 | College Close-Ups | Five College Dance Department

  02-10-2015 02:51
  Founded in 1978, the Five College Dance Department (FCDD) combines the distinct dance programs of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts–Amherst (UMass–Amherst), pooling offerings and resources to create one of the nation’s largest college dance departments. Continue reading
  
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• October 2015 | EditorSpeak

  02-10-2015 02:46
  "Recipe for a Better World": On page 146 of this issue, you’ll find a story about the DanceLife Teacher Conference in which we tell you about many of the goings-on at this big event—but there’s one thing we didn’t touch on because it bears separate mention. It’s the joy and abandon, the sweat and exhilaration of the hundreds of dance teachers who threw themselves into all kinds of technique classes."Powerful Girls": It’s 2015, and our culture still conditions
  
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• October 2015 | Mail

  02-10-2015 02:41
  Words from our readers Continue reading
  
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• October 2015 | Ask Rhee Gold

  02-10-2015 02:38
  Advice for dance teachers Continue reading
  
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• Twyla Tharp: the need to create dance and the will to survive - 89.3 KPCC

  02-10-2015 02:11 via
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  Twyla Tharp: the need to create dance and the will to survive
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  In 1965, at the age of 23, dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp started her own dance company, which continues to this day. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, she and the company are on a tour of major cities across the U.S., with shows in Los Angeles ...and more »
  

• October 2015 | FYI

  02-10-2015 02:04
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• Review: Fall for Dance Opens With Miami Ballet and Che Malambo - New York Times

  02-10-2015 00:44 via
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  Review: Fall for Dance Opens With Miami Ballet and Che Malambo
  New York Times
  Luring new dance audiences, through cheap tickets and crowd-pleasing variety, has been a goal of Fall for Dance since its inception in 2004. The 12th edition of the festival opened on Wednesday at City Center, and the program, one of the most memorable ...
  

• Review: New York City Ballet Gives a Dance Form a Makeover - New York Times

  02-10-2015 00:39 via
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  Review: New York City Ballet Gives a Dance Form a Makeover
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  The failure rate in ballet choreography is always high. So who would have predicted that all four world premieres (by four choreographers, two of them locally unknown) at New York City Ballet's fall gala on Wednesday would all be works of real merit ...
  

• Dance Listings for Oct. 2-8 - New York Times

  02-10-2015 00:30 via
  Dance Listings for Oct. 2-8
  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. A.O. Movement Collective (through Oct. 10) For the past three years, Sarah A.O. Rosner has created a kind of gay ...
  

• Hurricane and Rainstorm Are Locked in a Dangerous Dance - ABC News

  02-10-2015 00:00 via
  Hurricane and Rainstorm Are Locked in a Dangerous Dance
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  Hurricane Joaquin is locked in a dance with an extraordinarily heavy rainstorm that is already drenching the Carolinas. As the two draw closer together over the next few days, the effects could be disastrous for the East Coast. The rainstorm is the ...and more »
  

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