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• Ballet Diva Steps Up in Old Hat - BloodHorse.com (press release) (registration) (blog)

  30-12-2015 23:03 via
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  Ballet Diva Steps Up in Old Hat
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  Jacks or Better Farm's homebred Ballet Diva had her way with state-bred competition around one turn in 2015 in South Florida at age 2 and steps up to graded company for her 3-year-old bow in the Jan. 2 Old Hat Stakes (gr. III) at Gulfstream Park.
  

• Ballet Folklorico presents Christmas recital - Douglas Daily Dispatch

  30-12-2015 22:37 via
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  Ballet Folklorico presents Christmas recital
  Douglas Daily Dispatch
  DHS Ballet Folklorico students take the stage during their annual Christmas recital, held at the DHS Auditorium on Dec. 11. Ballet Folklorico presents Christmas recital. Aaliyah Montoya/Douglas Dispatch. Ruben Valdez and Evy Escalante perform a ...
  

• Pre-Broadway Review: 'Gotta Dance' - Variety

  30-12-2015 21:57 via
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  Pre-Broadway Review: 'Gotta Dance'
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  Seniors dance hip hop — sort of — in this high-concept, sweet-natured but currently bland and unsurprising new musical comedy “Gotta Dance,” premiering in Chicago with a planned Broadway landing in the fall. Inspired by the true story of a senior ...
  Photo Flash: Inside Opening Night of Broadway-Bound GOTTA DANCE in Chicago!Broadway World
  Lillias White, Andr De Shields and Cast Gotta Dance! Broadway-Bound Musical ...Play
  

• Fund for the Arts program helps children communicate through ballet - WLKY Louisville

  30-12-2015 20:37 via
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  Fund for the Arts program helps children communicate through ballet
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  THE DOW SHED 117, THE NASDAQ WAS OFF 42, AND THE S&P 500 DROPPED 15. THIS WEEK, WE HAVE BEEN INTRODUCING YOU TO A NEW FUND FOR THE ARTS PROGRAM CALLEDS FOR KOSAIR KIDS. TONIGHT, JENNIFER BAILEYS TAKES ...and more »
  

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• For Big Dance Theater, the After-Party Is at Intermission - New York Times

  30-12-2015 20:28 via
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  For Big Dance Theater, the After-Party Is at Intermission
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  In tight metallic pants and voluminous 17th-century wigs, Aaron Mattocks and Elizabeth DeMent skipped toward each other, halted and let their arms swim up, reaching for the same point in space. The choreographer Annie-B Parson, perched in the risers, ...and more »
  

• French opera and ballet chief dies - Slipped Disc

  30-12-2015 17:41 via
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  French opera and ballet chief dies
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  Dance sites are reporting the death on Sunday of Jean-Albert Cartier, a formidable organiser who founded the Ballet Theatre Francais in Nancy, the Festival d'Anjou, and the summer academy Europe Danse in Grasse. Born in Marseille in 1930, he was the ...
  

• SF Ballet's 'Nutcracker' revels in tradition - Daily Californian

  30-12-2015 16:17 via
  SF Ballet's 'Nutcracker' revels in tradition
  Daily Californian
  On Dec. 18, people hurried into the invitingly lit halls of the War Memorial Opera House, trying their best to escape the Bay Area downpour and salvage their Christmas best. At the door, children were handed plush bears. The theater lobby was warm and ...and more »
  

• Gloria Contreras obituary

  30-12-2015 16:11
  
  Dancer and choreographer who ran her own company in Mexico for 45 yearsGloria Contreras, who has died aged 81, was a leading dancer, choreographer and teacher in her native Mexico City. There she ran her own company, the Taller Coreográfico, at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, for 45 years.At the age of 20, Contreras left home to join the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in Canada. Two years later she went to New York, started her own group, México Lindo, and discove
  
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• Jefferson Ballet presents 'Snow Queen' at Jesuit - NOLA.com (blog)

  30-12-2015 14:24 via
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  Jefferson Ballet presents 'Snow Queen' at Jesuit
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  Metairie residents Anne Marie Theriot and Libbey Luminais try on their "Palomino" costumes for Snow Queen. ( ). Print Email · NOLA Community Submission By NOLA Community Submission The Times-Picayune on December 30, 2015 at 7:24 AM, updated ...
  

• Ballerina Sylvie Guillem bows out with Boléro in Japan

  30-12-2015 14:23
  
  French dancer brings curtain down on glittering career that included performing with Nureyev and becoming the youngest ever étoileAfter a career that defied convention, the French ballet dancer Sylvie Guillem went with the traditional for her final act, bowing out with a performance of Boléro in the Japanese city of Yokohama.A capacity audience of 2,400 burst into 15 minutes of rapturous applause as she left the stage, which was covered with bouquets of flowers. Related: Sylvie Gui
  
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