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• Something wicked: Macbeth at the Young Vic – in pictures

  02-12-2015 18:31
  
  Director Carrie Cracknell and choreographer Lucy Guerin have teamed up for a new version of Macbeth at the Young Vic starring John Heffernan and Anna Maxwell Martin. It’s murder on the dancefloor… Continue reading...
  
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• Pepper Fajans Makes Brooklyn Studios for Dance a Blessed Refuge - New York Times

  02-12-2015 17:12 via
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  Pepper Fajans Makes Brooklyn Studios for Dance a Blessed Refuge
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  Pepper Fajans is a dancer, a puppeteer, a choreographer and a carpenter, but when he was a child he performed magic. “Extensively,” he said. “I went out on the street in downtown Seattle and passed a hat.” He may have been mastering misdirection, but ...
  

• Striking, thrilling, disturbing: readers share their theatre memories

  02-12-2015 16:00
  
  Guardian Culture Professionals Network readers reflect on their first and favourite theatre experiencesMy first theatre memory was Schlachten! at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg in 1999. It was a production by Tom Lanoye and Luk Perceval based on Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses. It was a 12 hour theatre marathon: quite intense and of course very bloody. But the best part came after our gruesome night of intrigues and multiple murders; we rewarded ourselves with fresh fish sandwiches at
  
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• December 2015 | Onstage Nationwide

  02-12-2015 02:16
  If you’re looking for just the right competitions and conventions for your students, you’ll find them here. Our extensive and updated listings, updated each year, run from coast to coast, and range from mega-tours to regional events. Continue reading
  
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• December 2015 | 2 Music Tips for Teachers | Leitmotifs and National Dances in Coppélia

  02-12-2015 02:13
  Tip 1Coppélia (1870), staged in Paris two months before the Franco-Prussian War broke out, is considered the last Romantic ballet. A collaboration between choreographer Arthur Saint-Léon, librettist Charles Nuitter, and composer Léo Delibes, it tells a comic story of a village couple, Swanilda and Franz, and a mysterious doll maker, Dr. Coppélius.Tip 2Delibes incorporated several national dances, all the rage then in Paris, into Coppélia’s score, setting
  
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• December 2015 | College Close-Ups | Duke University

  02-12-2015 02:04
  The Duke University Dance Program aims to provide excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary dance studies within a first-class liberal arts education. Its mission is to ensure that students don’t have to give up dance in order to pursue a rigorous academic education; most students in the program choose interdepartmental or double majors. Continue reading
  
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• December 2015 | Ask Rhee Gold

  02-12-2015 02:02
  Advice for dance teachers Continue reading
  
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• December 2015 | Teacher in the Spotlight | Brynn Weinzirl

  02-12-2015 02:01
  NOMINATED BY: Dana Farber, a student’s mother: “Brynn has endless energy for her students. She spends weekends working on choreography, rhinestoning costumes, hand-making accessories, and helping her solo students. She wants the best for her students and encourages them with positive and kind words. What I value most as a dance parent is that Brynn takes class, attends conventions, and looks for performing opportunities to further her own dance experience.” Continue reading
  
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• December 2015 | Mail

  02-12-2015 01:49
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• December 2015 | EditorSpeak

  02-12-2015 01:48
  "Dance in Museums": Choreographer William Forsythe has long kept a toe in the art world. He’s exhibited at the Louvre, Tate Modern, MoMA, and Venice and Whitney biennials, and now has a major show at Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Art."A Farewell": I was asked if I wanted to write a farewell or slip quietly into the sunset upon resigning as associate editor. I love sunsets, but I have also loved my job at Dance Studio Life magazine. Continue reading
  
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• December 2015 | Bright Biz Idea | From Personal Journey to Brand

  02-12-2015 01:11
  Ofelia de la Valette was in the gym, fighting off some post-pregnancy pounds. Hard work, but then she knows plenty about work. What she didn’t know, that day at the gym, was that she was about to experience something that would change her life. Continue reading
  
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