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• Yvonne Rainer documentary helps close SF Dance Film Fest - SFGate

  07-10-2015 23:21 via
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  Yvonne Rainer documentary helps close SF Dance Film Fest
  SFGate
  Born before the Golden Gate Bridge was built and raised in the Avenues, Yvonne Rainer came of age in San Francisco during a time when the Beat Generation was questioning everything — and so was she. In her 20s, she helped revolutionize modern ...
  

• Kim Brandstrup Brings 'Jeux' and Follows a Different Path to City Ballet - New York Times

  07-10-2015 21:54 via
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  Kim Brandstrup Brings 'Jeux' and Follows a Different Path to City Ballet
  New York Times
  “It's like nothing we've ever done before,” Sara Mearns said as she rushed from one rehearsal to another just before the New York City Ballet season opened. “He wasn't telling us what steps to do and where to do them.” Ms. Mearns, a principal dancer ...
  

• Orlando Ballet leading man takes a break - Orlando Sentinel

  07-10-2015 21:53 via
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  Orlando Ballet leading man takes a break
  Orlando Sentinel
  The longtime principal dancer for Orlando Ballet won't be returning to the stage when the troupe opens its season with "Giselle" in a few weeks. You might find him somewhere out West, whooshing down a ski slope. "When you're a ballet dancer, you're not ...
  

• Fall for Dance at City Center: The Old Man Shows How It Is Done - New York Times

  07-10-2015 21:52 via
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  Fall for Dance at City Center: The Old Man Shows How It Is Done
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  Fall for Dance continued its eclectic offerings at City Center on Tuesday night with its third mixed bill, and at this festival, where the new can sometimes look strangely old-fashioned, it was both right and wrong that the most momentous piece on the ...
  

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• This is what happens when Native Powwow meets electronic dance music - PBS NewsHour (blog)

  07-10-2015 21:41 via
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  This is what happens when Native Powwow meets electronic dance music
  PBS NewsHour (blog)
  A Tribe Called Red is mixing Native Canadian Powwow with electronic dance music to create a unique sound. Photo by Falling Tree Photography. At first, Bear Witness, an Ottawa-based DJ, only meant to throw a party for his friends. In 2007, Witness had ...
  

• Phoenix Greek Festival showcases food, dance and culture, 10/9-11 - azcentral.com

  07-10-2015 21:21 via
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  Phoenix Greek Festival showcases food, dance and culture, 10/9-11
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  Students of the Pyrkagia dance group perform for the crowd during the Greater Phoenix Greek Festival at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Community Center in October 2014. (Photo: Jeffrey Lowman/The Republic, Jeffrey Lowman / The Republic). 19 CONNECT 7 ...
  

• Song, dance fuel Bloom's 'Crazy' CW adventure - USA TODAY

  07-10-2015 21:01 via
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  Song, dance fuel Bloom's 'Crazy' CW adventure
  USA TODAY
  LOS ANGELES — Rachel Bloom kicks open the sports bar's double doors, climbs onto the bar, drops a plate of fries on her head, crawls across tables past gigging girls in scout uniforms, wipes down a table, wipes her hands on a busboy's shirt and ...and more »
  

• Parents upset that school dance dress code targets female students - Fox News

  07-10-2015 19:52 via
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  Parents upset that school dance dress code targets female students
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  Parents of some South Carolina high school students won't say “Yes” to the dress code. Administrators at Nation Ford High School in Fort Mill told WBTV on Monday that they've received complaints over a school dance flier that some have claimed unfairly ...and more »
  

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• Learn How to Nail Your College Dance Audition! - Back Stage

  07-10-2015 19:52 via
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  Learn How to Nail Your College Dance Audition!
  Back Stage
  What better way to tackle the four years of college than by dancing through? Dancewave, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit dedicated to “developing new programs and strategies for learning, performing, and connecting the exciting elements of dance in our ...
  

• Enjoy These Bills Fans Having A Dance–OHHH RKO OUTTA NOWHERE - Deadspin

  07-10-2015 18:57 via
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  Enjoy These Bills Fans Having A Dance–OHHH RKO OUTTA NOWHERE
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  This video initially looks like mundane footage of some Bills fans dancing and having fun, but what happens next will restore your faith in humanity, or something. The RKO recipient appeared to be conscious after being slammed through a table by a guy ...and more »
  

• Review: 'Steve Jobs' Is An Electrifying Interpretive Dance Of Abstract ... - Forbes

  07-10-2015 18:02 via
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  Review: 'Steve Jobs' Is An Electrifying Interpretive Dance Of Abstract ...
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  steve-jobs-movie-poster-800px-800x1259 Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs is a fantastically entertaining cinema. The Box Office: Steve Jobs debuts in limited release in New York and LA on October 9th before expanding into wide release on ...and more »
  

• Sunflower Dead, 'Dance With Death' - Video Premiere - Loudwire

  07-10-2015 17:02 via
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  Sunflower Dead, 'Dance With Death' - Video Premiere
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  Are you ready — ready to dance with death? Let's introduce you to Sunflower Dead, who are teaming up with Loudwire to bring you the eye-catching exclusive premiere of their video for “Dance With Death.” The video is a mixture of live performance with ...
  

• What the Heck Is Postmodern Dance? - Huffington Post

  07-10-2015 16:56 via
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  What the Heck Is Postmodern Dance?
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  For the premiere performance of the 2015/16 Dance Center of Columbia College Presenting Season, the Stephen Petronio Company's Bloodlines promised "to honor and curate a lineage of American postmodern dance masters." In this endeavor, the ...
  

• Little Football Players Abandon Game To Dance Like Champions - Deadspin

  07-10-2015 15:54 via
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  Little Football Players Abandon Game To Dance Like Champions
  Deadspin
  There's an argument to be made that the more people learn about the inherent dangers of football, the less parents will be inclined to let their children participate in the game, thus leading to the eventual death of youth football. Thankfully, the ...
  Common Ground: Dance crazes keep us all on our toesThe Advocate
  Mighty Mites football players dance to Silentó's Watch Me Whip/Nae NaeDaily Mail
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• UNCG artist incorporates paintings with dance - Yes! Weekly

  07-10-2015 14:25 via
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  UNCG artist incorporates paintings with dance
  Yes! Weekly
  Billy Hawkins enjoys the best of both worlds. He's a contemporary painter by day and a dancer by night that intertwines his artistic diversity in an analytical way. Hawkins is currently a senior at UNC-Greensboro pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in ...
  

• Royal Ballet: Raven Girl/Connectome review – Wayne McGregor in fine feather - The Guardian

  07-10-2015 13:58 via
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  Royal Ballet: Raven Girl/Connectome review – Wayne McGregor in fine feather
  The Guardian
  Awkward, luminous, fierce … Sarah Lamb in Raven Girl at the Royal Opera House, London. Photograph: Tristram Kenton. Judith Mackrell · @judithmackrell. Wednesday 7 October 2015 07.58 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 7 October 2015 17.07 EDT.
  Raven Girl/Connectome, Royal Ballet, review: 'seldom stirring'Telegraph.co.ukall 6 news articles »
  

• Royal Ballet: Raven Girl/Connectome review – Wayne McGregor in fine feather

  07-10-2015 13:58
  
  Royal Opera House, London
  McGregor’s adaptation of the Audrey Niffenegger story takes flight, but Alastair Marriott’s Connectome is left exposed in this mixed programme
  Wayne McGregor’s Raven Girl and Alastair Marriott’s Connectome provoked mixed reactions when they were first performed in 2013 and 2014, respectively. But both ballets have become beneficiaries of the Royal’s very proper commitment to giving controversial new works a second chance, and allowing chore
  
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• Walking Stories: how I swapped the dance studio for the great outdoors

  07-10-2015 13:46
  
  A hike into mountains on a summer’s day led me to choreograph a group audio walk for parks. Creating this Dance Umbrella piece was a journey in itselfIt was the summer of 2011. I had been dancing in Amsterdam, then attended a meeting in Santiago di Compostela, then went straight to Hamburg for a residency and on to Grenoble for another. I travelled by train or by hitchhiking. (Train when there was funding, hitching when there wasn’t.) Lots of long journeys. Lots of landscapes. By the
  
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• Misty Copeland on Pushing Ballet's Boundaries - New York Times

  07-10-2015 13:00 via
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  Misty Copeland on Pushing Ballet's Boundaries
  New York Times
  Over the summer, Misty Copeland made history as the first African-American woman to be promoted to principal dancer at American Ballet Theater. But two years earlier, Nelson George, the writer and director, began filming Ms. Copeland who, at the time ...
  Here's Misty Copeland's Secret to a Flawless Ballet RoutineTIME
  Misty Copeland talks to Stephen Colbert about bringing diversity to ballet.Upworthy
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• Dance preview: Philadanco to bring message of diversity to August Wilson Center - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  07-10-2015 06:02 via
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  Dance preview: Philadanco to bring message of diversity to August Wilson Center
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Founder and artistic director Joan Myers Brown is celebrating the 45th anniversary of her company Philadanco, which she began as a way to cultivate more performance and training opportunities for black dancers. “A lot has changed since I started,” she ...
  

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