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• Spartan Dance Center moving to Carriage Hills strip mall - Lansing State Journal

  19-10-2015 23:47 via
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  Spartan Dance Center moving to Carriage Hills strip mall
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  MERIDIAN TWP. – Spartan Dance Center will move into a renovated facility at Carriage Hills Shopping Center next year. The dance and fitness center signed a 10-year lease with DTN Management, which will cover most of the build-out costs for the 12,500 ...
  

• Watch Kendall Whip. Watch Kendall Dance in Balmain's H&M Ad - Jezebel

  19-10-2015 23:35 via
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  Watch Kendall Whip. Watch Kendall Dance in Balmain's H&M Ad
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  Let me see ya one, two step! Kendall Jenner's dance moves are totally mesmerizing in a new video promo for Balmain's H&M collaboration. In a good way? Perhaps, or maybe not. Kendall is, as we know, the face of Balmain's anticipated H&M collection, ...
  Kendall Jenner Puts Her Dance Moves on Display in New Balmain Video!Just Jared Jr.
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• Forget Lady Gaga: Just Dance fans in Italy and India get down to their own tunes - VentureBeat

  19-10-2015 22:23 via
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  Forget Lady Gaga: Just Dance fans in Italy and India get down to their own tunes
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  Above: Each Just Dance background dancer costume is made by hand at Ubisoft's Paris studio. Image Credit: Ubisoft. Just Dance wants to take over the world through dance. With emerging markets on multiple continents, publishers who aren't gearing up for ...
  

• MSU video goodness: Jemele, Dantonio dancing, more - Detroit Free Press

  19-10-2015 22:06 via
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  MSU video goodness: Jemele, Dantonio dancing, more
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  Michigan State fans are still reveling in Saturday's shocking 27-23 win over rival Michigan, so here's some more fuel for your happy fire. ESPN's Jemele Hill, an MSU alumna, giving it to U-M fans on the air today: ...
  

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• A different sort of dance set for La Crosse's Pump House - Jacksoncountychronicle

  19-10-2015 21:18 via
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  A different sort of dance set for La Crosse's Pump House
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  That's just one of the many notions behind the unique “Dancing the Sacred,” a spoken-word dance and musical theatrical experience opening Oct. 24 at the Pump House Regional Arts Center. “We have things we wanted to share,” said Anne Drektrah and ...
  

• Travis Wall: Reality TV star brings his dynamic dance moves to Cupertino - San Jose Mercury News

  19-10-2015 21:01 via
  Travis Wall: Reality TV star brings his dynamic dance moves to Cupertino
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  Classical and contemporary dance might seem like a different world from reality TV competitions, but Travis Wall says the connection might be closer than you think -- and both genres prove Americans care deeply about dance as an art form. And he's been ...and more »
  

• NC State dance team to perform at Dallas Cowboys football game - News & Observer

  19-10-2015 20:57 via
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  NC State dance team to perform at Dallas Cowboys football game
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  Kylee' Wideman, left, and Allie Giordano, center, and the N.C. State Dance Team perform during a break in the first half of the men's basketball game against Notre Dame at PNC Arena in Raleigh, N.C., Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. Ethan Hyman ...and more »
  

• Indigo Grey: The Passage Features a New Style of Dance and Soundtrack by Amy Lee - Huffington Post

  19-10-2015 20:56 via
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  Indigo Grey: The Passage Features a New Style of Dance and Soundtrack by Amy Lee
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  Creating an award-winning short film is a unique craft unlike its full length feature counterparts. The short-filmmaker has a small amount of time to establish narrative, character development, audience connection and musical score, all of which have ...
  

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• Birmingham Royal Ballet Variations Triple Bill review – Balanchine blitz and ... - The Guardian

  19-10-2015 20:19 via
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  Birmingham Royal Ballet Variations Triple Bill review – Balanchine blitz and ...
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  In Theme and Variations, Balanchine took the lexicon of 19th-century ballet and plugged in a very modern voltage of energy and speed. History became an elegant but ferociously challenging present tense in this 1947 ballet – and it's a pleasure to see ...
  

• 'Dance Moms' Season 6 Spoilers: Abby Lee Miller Shows Up To Episode 2 ... - International Business Times

  19-10-2015 18:54 via
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  'Dance Moms' Season 6 Spoilers: Abby Lee Miller Shows Up To Episode 2 ...
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  Abby Lee Miller was present at the Season 6, episode 2 "Dance Moms" competition Saturday, despite her recent legal woes. Pictured: Abby in a promo shot for the Lifetime series. Lifetime. The show will go on. Despite “Dance Moms” coach Abby Lee Miller ...
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• Live to dance: Normal man can't sit down once music starts - Bloomington Pantagraph

  19-10-2015 13:38 via
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  Live to dance: Normal man can't sit down once music starts
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  Bill Weber, left, and his daughter, Nancy Leake of Lexington, "cut the rug" while ballroom dancing, Sunday, at the Miller Park Pavilion. Weber, at 90 years of age, danced with his four daughters and wife, who were all home at the same time.
  

• Birmingham Royal Ballet Variations Triple Bill review – Balanchine blitz and an Ashton enigma

  19-10-2015 13:15
  
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  Balanchine’s 1947 ballet is pressured and punchy, but the rest of this mixed programme shrinks to caricature and uneven pasticheIn Theme and Variations, Balanchine took the lexicon of 19th-century ballet and plugged in a very modern voltage of energy and speed. History became an elegant but ferociously challenging present tense in this 1947 ballet – and it’s a pleasure to see the aplomb with which Birmingham Royal Ballet are still making it current.
  
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• Top five things to do this week: Abbe May, Illuminated, Bell Shakespeare

  19-10-2015 08:14
  
  Sydney Dance Company stage a one-off triple bill, Bell Shakespeare’s Hamlet shows in Canberra and Casula Powerhouse celebrate their 21st birthdayIlluminated in Melbourne Continue reading...
  
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• Fears and frustrations of modern India told through dance

  19-10-2015 08:00
  
  Dance Umbrella’s Out of India programme unites contemporary choreographers who are crossing borders, breaking boundaries and exploring issues of corruption and urbanisation in their country through danceVisa problems were not exactly what Dance Umbrella director Emma Gladstone had in mind when she called her festival’s triple bill of Indian contemporary dance Out of India. But that’s what besets an early performance in Barcelona of one of the pieces, Surjit Nongmeikapam’s
  
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• Choreographing the fears and frustrations of modern India

  19-10-2015 08:00
  
  Dance Umbrella’s Out of India programme unites contemporary artists who are crossing borders, breaking boundaries and exploring issues of corruption and urbanisation in their country through danceVisa problems were not exactly what Dance Umbrella director Emma Gladstone had in mind when she called her festival’s triple bill of Indian contemporary dance Out of India. But that’s what besets an early performance in Barcelona of one of the pieces, Surjit Nongmeikapam’s Nerves
  
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• Spear review – a weird, wonderful milestone of a dance movie

  19-10-2015 06:33
  
  Australia’s first contemporary Indigenous dance film is an exhilirating cinematic debut for choreographer Stephen Page and his talented team • Guardian Australia film club in Adelaide – book your tickets nowA near-silent contemporary dance movie tracking the troubled history of Indigenous people in Australia and the coming of age of a teenage boy trying to make sense of it all? Descriptions of Spear, a strange and beautiful beast adapted from work developed by Sydney’s Ban
  
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