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• Final curtain call: A recap of the Senior Dance Concert - The Breeze

  17-02-2016 22:47 via
  Final curtain call: A recap of the Senior Dance Concert
  The Breeze
  Bold feet, tapping toes and swaying hips reflect and celebrate four years of hard work for both senior dance majors and their audience — especially the proud parents arriving early with flowers in hand. This past weekend's annual Senior Dance Concert ...
  

• Ratmansky and Lil Buck on the Spring Dance Calendar - New York Times

  17-02-2016 21:44 via
  New York Times
  Ratmansky and Lil Buck on the Spring Dance Calendar
  New York Times
  Some kinds of climate change are good. The eight-week repertory announced by American Ballet Theater for its annual spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House is the best news for this company in more than 25 years. More than that, it refreshes the ...and more »
  

• Students Rediscover Roots Through African Dance, Expression - CBS Local

  17-02-2016 21:37 via
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  Students Rediscover Roots Through African Dance, Expression
  CBS Local
  MIAMI (CBSMiami) — It was all about music, rhythm and expression. A group of students from The Young Women's Preparatory Academy in Miami were treated to a master class of dance, music and its roots. Beatrice Capote, a dancer with Camille A. Brown ...
  

• Dance studio to hold Noah Roman charity event - Albany Times Union

  17-02-2016 20:07 via
  Albany Times Union
  Dance studio to hold Noah Roman charity event
  Albany Times Union
  The Turning Pointe Dance Center plans to hold a charity event April 9 to benefit Noah Roman, a 15-year-old Shaker High School student whose family died in a murder-suicide and fire at his home. less. The Turning Pointe Dance Center plans to hold a ...
  Charity dance event to be held for Noah Roman in AprilNEWS10 ABCall 2 news articles »
  

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• White men can dance: A look at actors who have the moves as 'Footloose' turns 32 - New York Daily News

  17-02-2016 19:04 via
  White men can dance: A look at actors who have the moves as 'Footloose' turns 32
  New York Daily News
  There's a time to laugh and a time to weep. A time to mourn... and there is a time for white men to dance. The stereotype that white people can't dance has been around since the beginning of time, but Kevin Bacon broke away from that idea in his ...and more »
  

• Recommended Dose: Our Favorite Dance Tracks Of January - NPR

  17-02-2016 18:38 via
  Recommended Dose: Our Favorite Dance Tracks Of January
  NPR
  Our first Rx Dose mix of 2016 is fashionably late, and all the better for it. Corralling our favorite dance tracks from January (and beyond) took a little longer than expected for a host of boring reasons, but hopefully, once you hear this month's ...and more »
  

• Voces, Suite Flamenca review – Baras's virtuosity is trapped in the past

  17-02-2016 13:02
  
  Some thrilling footwork and extraordinary singing in Sara Baras’s flamenco homage isn’t enough to lift this bland production from its classic formatSo much of Sara Baras’s dancing is all about the sound. Her celebrated footwork – fast, fierce and controlled – can distil right down to the drilling of a lone woodpecker; it can be as threatening as a military drumbeat, as delicate as a patter of rain. When her body is concentrated into a solo of intricate percussive za
  
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• 'Le Corsaire' and more in Boston Ballet's 2016-17 season - The Boston Globe

  17-02-2016 06:03 via
  The Boston Globe
  'Le Corsaire' and more in Boston Ballet's 2016-17 season
  The Boston Globe
  Boston Ballet has announced its 2016-17 season, whose highlights will include the North American premiere of Ivan Liska's “Le Corsaire,” the first performance of William Forsythe's “Artifact” by a North American company, a world premiere by resident ...
  Boston Ballet Sets 2016-17 SeasonBroadway Worldall 3 news articles »
  

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• Debbie Allen Dance Academy Takes Over on 'Dance Moms' - Heavy.com

  17-02-2016 01:26 via
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  Debbie Allen Dance Academy Takes Over on 'Dance Moms'
  Heavy.com
  Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller is going through legal issues while taping the show as she is under investigation for bankruptcy fraud charges. With her legal problems growing, some of the moms turn to the Debbie Allen Dance Academy on tonight's ...
  'Dance Moms' Sneak Peek: JoJo Siwa Suggests ALDC Dancers Ditch Abby Lee Miller [VIDEO]International Business Times
  'Dance Moms' Recap: Is Abby Done for Good?BuddyTV (blog
  

• Ballet terminates managing director - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

  17-02-2016 01:22 via
  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  Ballet terminates managing director
  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  For the past five years, whenever Sarasota Ballet Director Iain Webb publicly expressed his thanks to audiences and patrons, he made sure to mention the trio of women -- Margaret Barbieri, his wife and assistant director; Mary Anne Servian, managing ...and more »
  

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