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• On Being the BFA Senior Project Advisor, Kara Davis

  19-02-2016 23:59 via blog.linesballet.org
  
  By Kara Davis
  My ultimate goal as the BFA Senior Project advisor is to hold space for these incredibly trained young artists to investigate their choreographic voices, their dancing minds, and thinking bodies. I mainly set up the timeframe for the fall and spring semesters. I give them some parameters around what needs to be accomplished when, and then let them take on the responsibility of creating their processes and generating the laboratory of their creative inquiries. I assign their peer gr
  
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• Ballet dancers compete in Denver for bid to national competition - The Denver Post

  19-02-2016 23:12 via
  Ballet dancers compete in Denver for bid to national competition
  The Denver Post
  Poised on her pointe shoes, Daniela Thorne was the picture of composure. The 13-year-old ballet dancer hid her nerves behind meticulously applied makeup, a flowing costume and a beaming smile. Moments later, she pranced into the spotlight. Daniela is ...
  

• Pacific Northwest Ballet Returns to City Center - New York Times

  19-02-2016 15:00 via
  New York Times
  Pacific Northwest Ballet Returns to City Center
  New York Times
  Once upon a time, Peter Boal was a prince — that is, of New York City Ballet, where he danced until 2005. Then, he went to Seattle, to become the artistic director of Pacific Northwest Ballet. But Mr. Boal can't seem to stay away for long. The company ...
  

• Beneath the beautiful ballet, a brutal toll on the body - For The Win

  19-02-2016 13:12 via
  For The Win
  Beneath the beautiful ballet, a brutal toll on the body
  For The Win
  CHICAGO — Nicole Ciapponi pops off her boot and rolls down her sock, revealing a large mass on the inside of her right foot. A four-inch scar runs across the bump. The wad of scar tissue protrudes at a right angle; it doesn't make sense that she walks ...
  

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• Sarasota Dancer to Join London's Royal Ballet - WWSB ABC 7

  19-02-2016 11:40 via
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  Sarasota Dancer to Join London's Royal Ballet
  WWSB ABC 7
  Francisco Serrano, the 19 year-old son of Ariel Serrano and Wilmian Hernandez, the husband/wife founders of The Sarasota Cuban Ballet School, Inc., will join London's word-renowned Royal Ballet when it opens its 2016-2017 season this September.
  

• The Royal Ballet's Matthew Golding: 'The Brad Pitt of ballet? I just focus on the show' - Evening Standard

  19-02-2016 11:18 via
  Evening Standard
  The Royal Ballet's Matthew Golding: 'The Brad Pitt of ballet? I just focus on the show'
  Evening Standard
  Should Tottenham's Dele Alli have been sent off? Watch the incident and have your say. The Royal Ballet's Matthew Golding has been tipped as Carlos Acosta's successor and bestowed with the nickname “the Brad Pitt of ballet”. But the principal dancer ...and more »
  

• Ballet explores temptation, angelic guidance away from dark side - Albuquerque Journal

  19-02-2016 08:19 via
  Albuquerque Journal
  Ballet explores temptation, angelic guidance away from dark side
  Albuquerque Journal
  The production “Stratagem,” by the Ballet Magnificat!, is inspired by “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For 30 years Keith Thibodeaux has been taking chances with his dance company. Ballet Magnificat! is a premier Christian ...
  

• Transgender Swedish ballet dancer Tibor Horvath's heartbreaking struggle - Daily Mail

  19-02-2016 06:07 via
  Daily Mail
  Transgender Swedish ballet dancer Tibor Horvath's heartbreaking struggle
  Daily Mail
  As a male ballet dancer Tibor Horvath of the Royal Swedish Ballet was a strikingly handsome star of the stage who went on to perform internationally for the Hamburg and English and Finnish national ballets. Photographs of Tibor dancing as a soloist ...
  

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• Ballet Idaho Goes Ballroom With Twyla Tharp And Frank Sinatra - Boise State Public Radio

  19-02-2016 06:07 via
  Boise State Public Radio
  Ballet Idaho Goes Ballroom With Twyla Tharp And Frank Sinatra
  Boise State Public Radio
  Friday and Saturday Ballet Idaho does its winter show at Boise's Morrison Center for the Performing Arts. And tickets sold much faster than usual. This ballet is made up of four short pieces but one of them in particular is generating the excitement ...and more »
  

• A Childhood Love Letter to Ballet: Author Sari Wilson Visits Northshire - Saratoga TODAY Newspaper

  19-02-2016 06:04 via
  Saratoga TODAY Newspaper
  A Childhood Love Letter to Ballet: Author Sari Wilson Visits Northshire
  Saratoga TODAY Newspaper
  SARATOGA SPRINGS – Sari Wilson, author of “Girl Through Glass,” will be at Northshire Bookstore on Thursday, February 25 at 6 p.m. Wilson will discuss her debut novel, and her own experience as a childhood ballerina, with Darlene Myers, the founder ...
  

• Ballet names interim manager - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

  19-02-2016 01:56 via
  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  Ballet names interim manager
  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  Joseph Volpe, who spent 42 years with New York's Metropolitan Opera – 16 of them as general manager – was named the interim managing director of the Sarasota Ballet Thursday, replacing Mary Anne Servian, who was dismissed from her position of five ...
  ArtsBeat | Joseph Volpe to Lead Sarasota Ballet (for a While)New York Times (blog)all 2 news articles »
  

• Students experience Colorado Ballet production of 'Alice in Wonderland' - 9NEWS.com

  19-02-2016 01:46 via
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  Students experience Colorado Ballet production of 'Alice in Wonderland'
  9NEWS.com
  DENVER —The home of the Colorado Ballet was a little rowdier than usual Thursday afternoon. Kids from all over the state were invited to see a production of “Alice in Wonderland.” “It's huge to have students come see a professional production because ...
  Colorado Ballet's ALICE (IN WONDERLAND) Begins TonightBroadway Worldall 2 news articles »
  

• Dance Weekly: Race and ballet - Oregon ArtsWatch

  19-02-2016 01:32 via
  Oregon ArtsWatch
  Dance Weekly: Race and ballet
  Oregon ArtsWatch
  Screening Thursday night at the Hollywood Theatre is the movie “A Ballerina's Tale—The Incredible Rise of Misty Copeland” directed by Nelson George, part of the Portland Black Film Festival in partnership with Oregon Ballet Theatre. The film will be ...and more »
  

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