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• WATCH: Von Miller shows off dance moves on “The Late Late Show” - The Denver Post (blog)

  11-02-2016 23:52 via
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  WATCH: Von Miller shows off dance moves on “The Late Late Show”
  The Denver Post (blog)
  Broncos linebacker Von Miller is making his rounds on the talk-show circuit on the heels of Denver's Super Bowl 50 victory. His latest stop was “The Late Late Show with James Corden” Tuesday, in which he showcased his famed dance moves. Miller showed ...
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• Dance Listings for Feb. 12-18 - New York Times

  11-02-2016 23:30 via
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  Dance Listings for Feb. 12-18
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  Full reviews of recent dance performances: nytimes.com/dance. A searchable guide to these and other performances is at nytimes.com/events. Alwin Nikolais Celebration (through Sunday) A 1950s forerunner to illusionist companies like Pilobolus and Momix, ...
  

• Merrill Ashley Is in Focus at the Dance on Camera Festival - New York Times

  11-02-2016 22:57 via
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  Merrill Ashley Is in Focus at the Dance on Camera Festival
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  Merrill Ashley was in her kitchen cooking when she found herself rocking her hips, ever so gently, from side to side. This was in 2001, after the first of two hip replacements. “I burst into tears,” she said in an interview at her apartment a few ...
  

• Legendary St. Louis-regional black artists inspire dance - Alton Telegraph

  11-02-2016 22:08 via
  Legendary St. Louis-regional black artists inspire dance
  Alton Telegraph
  The Big Muddy Dance Company, along with one of its featured dancers pictured here, will perform to choreographer Robert Moses' “Gunshots/Daffodils/Moans/Still,” in which Moses draws musical inspiration from and uses samples from a mix of St. Louis ...and more »
  

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• Students celebrate Black History Month through Hip-Hop dance class - Daily Sundial

  11-02-2016 20:45 via
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  Students celebrate Black History Month through Hip-Hop dance class
  Daily Sundial
  The Africana Studies and Kinesiology departments, in conjunction with the Los Angeles-based dance program GROOV3, held an annual hip-hop workshop on campus, Wednesday. (Patricia Perdomo/ The Sundial). It's almost 4:30 p.m. and the quiet of ...
  

• What Does it Take to Dance in an Immersive Show? - http://www.dancemagazine.com/ (blog)

  11-02-2016 20:41 via
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  What Does it Take to Dance in an Immersive Show?
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  At various points during The Grand Paradise, I was put inside a pseudo-coffin, told to help a performer undress and left alone to browse a vintage Playboy from the 70s. But the weirdest part of my night was participating in a pillow fight that turned ...
  

• Dance Team Shows No Fear In Refreshingly Elegant Performance - ESPN

  11-02-2016 20:41 via
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  Dance Team Shows No Fear In Refreshingly Elegant Performance
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  A Mahomet-Seymour High School Competitive Dance Team video is going viral -- but not because of the usual scandalous, gyrating half-time shows -- thank heavens. Instead, in a moving performance, the 14 dancers -- backed by the spoken word track, ...
  'What room does fear have?' Illinois high school dance team's performance goes viralWGN-TV
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• Review: Joffrey Ballet surpasses itself in 'Bold Moves' - Chicago Tribune

  11-02-2016 20:29 via
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  Review: Joffrey Ballet surpasses itself in 'Bold Moves'
  Chicago Tribune
  At its best, dance is the most perfect of stage arts, sculpting entire worlds through the most ineffable means: color, light, music, human movement. "Bold Moves" offers three especially demanding, beautiful and distinct visions. And on Wednesday's ...
  

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• 'For Claude Shannon' Brings Brainy Dance to the Kitchen - New York Times

  11-02-2016 19:06 via
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  'For Claude Shannon' Brings Brainy Dance to the Kitchen
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  What happens when a student of neuroscience and a former quantitative analyst make a dance? Liz Santoro, a choreographer who studied neuroscience at Harvard, and Pierre Godard, a theater technician and director with a background in applied ...
  

• Looking for a fun workout? Try dancing at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio - fox6now.com

  11-02-2016 18:54 via
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  Looking for a fun workout? Try dancing at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio
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  MILWAUKEE -- Looking for a fun workout? If so, why not trying dancing? Julie Collins spent the morning being healthy at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Brookfield. Cannot Contact Server. Please upgrade your Flash Plugin. Please enable Javascript to ...and more »
  

• Violette Verdy obituary

  11-02-2016 14:52
  
  French ballerina noted for her pure classical technique and the musicality she brought to her rolesThe ballerina Violette Verdy, who has died aged 82 after a stroke, will be vividly remembered through the roles created for her, principally after her career took her from her native France to the US. Her light, easy jump, beautiful feet, intelligent musicality and sparkling personality can all still be seen in those works, even when danced today by other performers. Wit and exceptional musicality
  
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• This Beyoncé dance class will teach you to slay 'Formation' - Fusion

  11-02-2016 14:34 via
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  This Beyoncé dance class will teach you to slay 'Formation'
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  This Beyoncé dance class will teach you to slay 'Formation' | Fusion ...
  

• Benjamin Millepied Opens Up on Leaving Paris Opera Ballet - New York Times

  11-02-2016 00:07 via
  New York Times
  Benjamin Millepied Opens Up on Leaving Paris Opera Ballet
  New York Times
  PARIS — “No questions?” Stéphane Lissner, the general director of the Paris Opera, asked the 200 or so journalists assembled on Wednesday morning for the announcement of the Opera's 2016-17 season. There was the briefest pause. “Well, thank you,” he ...and more »
  

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