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• Review: At Fall for Dance Festival, Female Power - New York Times

  09-10-2015 23:58 via
  New York Times
  Review: At Fall for Dance Festival, Female Power
  New York Times
  When the organizers of the 2015 Fall for Dance Festival set eyes on the list of MacArthur winners last month, they must have erupted in a happy roar. One name on the list was Michelle Dorrance, the 36-year-old tap choreographer and dancer.
  

• Carolina Ballet unveils world premieres - News & Observer

  09-10-2015 20:57 via
  News & Observer
  Carolina Ballet unveils world premieres
  News & Observer
  Carolina Ballet's production of “A Dancerly Response”with Lara O'Brien, left, and Yevgeny Shlapko. Armes Photography. Carolina Ballet's production of “Symphonie Fantastique” with Sokvannara Sar and Company Dancers. Armes Photography. Carolina ...
  

• Silicon Valley Ballet brings Alicia Alonso's 'Giselle' choreography to U.S ... - San Jose Mercury News

  09-10-2015 20:01 via
  Silicon Valley Ballet brings Alicia Alonso's 'Giselle' choreography to U.S ...
  San Jose Mercury News
  For those with Dionysian tastes, the recent reopening of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba might signify easier (not to mention legal) access to Havana cigars and dark rum. And those with Apollonian leanings may soon find more ...
  Silicon Valley Ballet Premieres "Giselle" with a Cuban TwistKQEDall 3 news articles »
  

• 4 People Changing the Face of Ballet - Elle UK Magazine

  09-10-2015 18:05 via
  4 People Changing the Face of Ballet
  Elle UK Magazine
  It originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. Since then ballet has long suffered from a diversity problem, but these faces are changing everything from race and ...
  

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• 'It's a gift!' Inside America's miraculous new centre for arts and faith

  09-10-2015 17:50
  
  Japanese architects Sanaa get spiritual with the sublime $83m Grace Farms centre for arts, faith and justice in New Canaan, Connecticut, which is backed by a hedge fund manager. Just don’t call it a churchIn the bucolic idyll of New Canaan, Connecticut, a silvery serpentine rooftop slithers down the hillside. Charting a course of shallow switchbacks, gently flaring up and down as it swooshes down the slope, it looks like the path of a snowboarder, frozen in motion and raised up on slender
  
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• Tutu cute: young dancers step out at Sydney Opera House – in pictures

  09-10-2015 15:17
  
  Children aged three to six enjoy a dance class in the shadow of Sydney Opera House to mark the Australian Ballet’s touring production of The Sleeping Beauty for young audiences Continue reading...
  
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• This week’s best dance

  09-10-2015 14:00
  
  Dance Umbrella | The Royal Ballet Double BillThis may be the most wide-reaching festival in Umbrella’s recent history, with 10 shows across venues in 13 boroughs. There is a focus on outdoor spaces, with Charlotte Spencer’s Walking Stories taking place in a series of London parks (18-31 Oct), and Of Riders And Running Horses, an evening of freestyle dance on a car park roof (NCP Car Park, EC1, Thu to 17 Oct). Elsewhere Claire Cunningham meditates on exclusion and judgment (Lillian Ba
  
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• Interview with US tap dancer Will Gaines: archive, 9 October 1981

  09-10-2015 06:30
  
  Gaines has a quip about how he started tapping: ‘Well, I was sittin there doin nothin with these chains on my feet…’Jazz tap has become, almost overnight, an art form in this country - yet we’ve had a veteran like Will Gaines living over here in Rotherham since 1963, largely unrecognised. He jokes around a lot, but he’s a serious enough performer to have danced with Duke Ellington’s band during the Ellington Mass at Coventry Cathedral - and photographer Denis
  
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• The Australian Ballet announces its storytime ballet series for children - Sydney Morning Herald

  09-10-2015 06:02 via
  Sydney Morning Herald
  The Australian Ballet announces its storytime ballet series for children
  Sydney Morning Herald
  The Australian Ballet announced it will be bringing the magic of the popular fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, to life on stage in a new production that has been designed specifically for its tiniest fans. A sea of pink tutus, belonging to a group of 30 ...and more »
  

• Dance Listings for Oct. 9-15 - New York Times

  09-10-2015 05:05 via
  New York Times
  Dance Listings for Oct. 9-15
  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 Saturday) For the past three years, Sarah A. O. Rosner has created a kind of ...
  

• Change in dance team designation inspires more high school boys to boogie - Chicago Tribune

  09-10-2015 00:32 via
  Chicago Tribune
  Change in dance team designation inspires more high school boys to boogie
  Chicago Tribune
  Dakota Jackson, one of three boys on the dance team, practices with teammates Sept. 24, 20215, in the cafeteria at Eisenhower High School in Blue Island. “I just thought it would be fun to start dancing,” said Jackson, 15. Dakota Jackson, one of three ...
  

• Review: Deborah Hay's 'Match-Play' Fuses Dance and Theater - New York Times

  09-10-2015 00:18 via
  New York Times
  Review: Deborah Hay's 'Match-Play' Fuses Dance and Theater
  New York Times
  About a decade ago, the veteran choreographer Deborah Hay was watching a video of her 2004 dance “The Match,” and it seemed to her like a play. So she wrote a description of what her dancers had done in the form of a script and invited the Austin-based ...
  

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