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• Methuen Ballet Ensemble presents 'The Nutcracker' - Wicked Local Newburyport

  22-11-2015 20:51 via
  Wicked Local Newburyport
  Methuen Ballet Ensemble presents 'The Nutcracker'
  Wicked Local Newburyport
  WHAT: “The Nutcracker,” presented by Methuen Ballet Ensemble. WHEN: Saturday, Nov. 28, matinee 3 p.m.; gala reception 6 p.m., performance 7 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 29, 3 p.m.. WHERE: Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport.and more »
  

• Smuin company heralds season with 'Christmas Ballet' - SFGate

  22-11-2015 15:53 via
  SFGate
  Smuin company heralds season with 'Christmas Ballet'
  SFGate
  The Thanksgiving bird is not yet defrosted and we are plunged into the holiday dance season. Smuin Ballet opened its run of “The Christmas Ballet” over the weekend at Walnut Creek's Lesher Center for the Arts and, despite a few reservations about what ...
  

• Scottish Ensemble review – euphoric club moves to the tune of Bach

  22-11-2015 15:29
  
  Dance City, Newcastle
  The Scottish Ensemble and Andersson Dance team up for an infectious, sonorous dance interpretation of the Goldberg VariationsThe composition of Bach’s Goldberg Variations will always be mysterious. Were they really a musical sheep-counting exercise for the benefit of an insomniac ambassador? A harmonic exegesis of the Ptolemaic universe? A private joke at the expense of an unkind critic? Or maybe, as this remarkable collaboration between the Scottish Ensemble and Ande
  
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• American Ballet Theatre's Pointe Shoes Go Couture - Dance Spirit

  22-11-2015 13:03 via
  Dance Spirit
  American Ballet Theatre's Pointe Shoes Go Couture
  Dance Spirit
  Pointe shoes are already very pretty and pink, so what happens when you have a bunch of the world's top fashion designers customize a pair? Well, American Ballet Theatre's answered that question for us with their “Collector's Edition” pointe shoe auction.
  

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• Ballet dancers and ACL injuries - San Francisco Examiner

  22-11-2015 09:32 via
  San Francisco Examiner
  Ballet dancers and ACL injuries
  San Francisco Examiner
  Ballet dancers can be devastated by ACL injuries, but with proper treatment these athletes can regain their strength and continue to perform. (Courtesy photo). By Anna Fedosseeva on November 22, 2015 12:30 am. facebook · twitter · google_plus · mail ...
  

• Monotones I and II/ The Two Pigeons review – Nuñez steals the show

  22-11-2015 09:00
  
  Royal Opera House, London
  The Royal Ballet’s Ashton double bill finds Cuthbertson and Muntagirov struggling to take offThe Two Pigeons was choreographed by Frederick Ashton and first performed by the Royal Ballet in 1961. Set to a romantic score by Messager, it’s the slightest of tales. In 19th-century Paris, a young painter tires of his fiancee and chases after a Gypsy girl. Rejected by her, he returns home and is forgiven. In a touching coup de theatre, the couple’s parting a
  
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