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• #LoveTheatreDay 2015 – as it happened

  18-11-2015 18:38
  
  On 18 November, more than 300 theatres and groups from across the world joined audience members to celebrate #LoveTheatreDay on Twitter 5.38pm GMTThat’s all we’ve got time for in covering today’s #LoveTheatreDay. The celebrations will continue long into the evening, with the #Showtime segment of the event giving those who can’t make it to a theatre this evening the chance to sit in some “virtual stalls” and experience a performance, or two, via Twitter.theatre
  
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• Flights of fancy: the Royal Ballet's romantic Two Pigeons – in pictures

  18-11-2015 16:08
  
  Vadim Muntagirov and Lauren Cuthbertson take the lead roles in Frederick Ashton’s classic ballet The Two Pigeons at the Royal Opera House in London Continue reading...
  
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• Yolanda Sonnabend obituary

  18-11-2015 16:01
  
  Stage designer and portrait painter, renowned for her work with the choreographer Kenneth MacMillanYolanda Sonnabend’s professional career as a stage designer was blessed with success from the outset. She had her first design commission at the Royal Ballet while still an undergraduate, in 1958. Then, through the 1960s, 70s and 80s, most often working for the choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, with whom she developed a special relationship, Yolanda, who has died aged 80, designed a string of
  
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• Royal New Zealand Ballet review – De Frutos's love letter to the Pacific

  18-11-2015 15:24
  
  Linbury Studio, London
  Wild, muscular dance meets deft use of Maori music in Javier De Frutos’s joyful yet complex work for RNZB – whose intensity is hard to matchI wish the world had more dances by Javier de Frutos. His work for theatre can be brutally powerful, but when it comes to making steps, his choreography communicates such clever inventive fun that it can make me laugh out loud. In The Anatomy of a Passing Cloud, his third work for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, De Frutos com
  
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• #LoveTheatreDay 2015 – live

  18-11-2015 09:30
  
  On 18 November, more than 300 theatres and groups from across the world will join audience members to celebrate #LoveTheatreDay on TwitterHow you can get involvedFollow #LoveTheatreDay on TwitterEmail [email protected] with your activities 8.30am GMTWelcome to our #LoveTheatreDay live blog. Today is the day that theatres, amateur groups, arts companies and audience members from across the UK and beyond take part in the second #LoveTheatreDay on Twitter – the Lovie award-winnin
  
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• Xavier Le Roy on performing naked: 'Everybody is the same but is different'

  18-11-2015 06:12
  
  The French biologist turned choreographer on media fascination with his ‘story’ and his new work, a six-hour ‘art exhibition’ performed in the nudeNaked bodies are heaped in a mound. Faces pushed up against groins, legs indiscriminately stacked over breasts and buttocks. Everyone is as still as stone. Then, slowly, they begin to unfurl. Feet flex, limbs tentatively stretch out, backs ripple. Related: Skinny-dipping in the void: the day I toured James Turrell's art show na
  
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• Xavier Le Roy on performing naked: 'Everybody is the same but different'

  18-11-2015 06:12
  
  The French biologist turned choreographer on media fascination with his story and his new six-hour public ‘exhibition’ in Sydney, performed in the nudeNaked bodies are heaped in a mound. Faces pushed up against groins, legs indiscriminately stacked over breasts and buttocks. Everyone is as still as stone. Then, slowly, they begin to unfurl. Feet flex, limbs tentatively stretch out, backs ripple. Related: Skinny-dipping in the void: the day I toured James Turrell's art show nakedRelat
  
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• Alvin Ailey Offers Various Dance Stylings in Season Preview - Fordham Ram (registration)

  18-11-2015 05:59 via
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  Alvin Ailey Offers Various Dance Stylings in Season Preview
  Fordham Ram (registration)
  The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater premiered four distinct, lively performances to preview its winter season, which goes from Dec. 2, 2015 to Jan. 3, 2016. First, Artistic Director Robert Battle debuted his first new work since assuming the ...
  

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• Expressions Dance Showcases Powerful Creativity - Fordham Ram (registration)

  18-11-2015 05:33 via
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  Expressions Dance Showcases Powerful Creativity
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  Expressions Dance Alliance is a tight knit group of dancers that perform at Fordham events and hold open classes for students. Courtesy of Katherine Kelly. Arguably one of Fordham's most appealing attributes is its support of all the exercises of the ...
  

• IU ballerina shares love for dance through performance - Indiana Daily Student

  18-11-2015 04:25 via
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  IU ballerina shares love for dance through performance
  Indiana Daily Student
  Cara Hansvick did not smile, focused on the pinnacle moment of each move as she held her poses. She kept her frame controlled as her partner, Andrew Copeland, twirled her at the top of the dance number during Tuesday's rehearsal for IU Opera & Ballet ...and more »
  

• Video: Pregnant woman's hip-hop dance routine goes viral - fox8.com

  18-11-2015 03:54 via
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  Video: Pregnant woman's hip-hop dance routine goes viral
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  CALIFORNIA– A pregnant woman's hip-hop dance routine has gone viral. Christina Litle, 28, is 7-months pregnant with her third child. The dance teacher told PEOPLE unless a doctor tells a pregnant woman she has an at-risk pregnancy, there's no reason ...and more »
  

• Dixie State Dance Company presents Fall Dance Concert - St George News

  18-11-2015 03:29 via
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  Dixie State Dance Company presents Fall Dance Concert
  St George News
  The Dixie State Dance Company presents its Fall Dance Concert on Friday, Nov. 20, and Saturday, Nov. 21. Location and date unspecified | Photo Courtesy of Dixie State University, St. George News. ST. GEORGE — Join Dixie State University for a night of ...
  

• Gather, Dance and Enjoy at Myerov Farm In Perkasie - Patch.com

  18-11-2015 02:53 via
  Gather, Dance and Enjoy at Myerov Farm In Perkasie
  Patch.com
  Dublin farmland gathers community excitement with dancing at dusk and a featured guest chef at this local Fall Ball. A perfect weekend date! Doylestown-Buckingham-New Britain, PA. By joe montone (Open Post) November 17, 2015. ShareTweetGoogle ...
  

• From a Foggy Bottom coffeehouse to Broadway 'Lord of the Dance' gig - Washington Post

  18-11-2015 01:06 via
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  From a Foggy Bottom coffeehouse to Broadway 'Lord of the Dance' gig
  Washington Post
  During the nearly two years that he spent working as a barista at Filter in Foggy Bottom, Joe Duffey never actually served customers Irish coffee, but he would have gladly smiled, made you an Americano and struck up a conversation about all things ...
  

• A Literary Beat You Can Dance To - New York Times

  18-11-2015 00:12 via
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  A Literary Beat You Can Dance To
  New York Times
  “We're the Sequoias. We're going to play some songs from the book,” John Seabrook announced from the stage at Bowery Electric in Lower Manhattan last Friday night. The band's set list, he added, would consist of “Britney Spears, Katy Perry, that kind ...
  

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