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• Ballet masters of the 21st century - Oregon ArtsWatch

  03-03-2016 23:35 via
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  Ballet masters of the 21st century
  Oregon ArtsWatch
  Those two words, put together, conjure up the image of a haughty, stern old gentleman in breeches, pounding out musical tempi on the floor with his cane and poking dancers' bodies into desired positions. Ballet may be a traditional art form that's ...and more »
  

• La Sylphide delights as National Ballet spring opener: review - Toronto Star

  03-03-2016 20:14 via
  Toronto Star
  La Sylphide delights as National Ballet spring opener: review
  Toronto Star
  La Sylphide, the 180-year-old, Romantic era dance-drama that opened the National Ballet of Canada's almost-spring season on Wednesday, is a reminder of two timeless lessons. First, the grass is rarely greener on the other side. Second, be nice to old ...
  National Ballet of Canada's La Sylphide is a magical, almost disorienting, experienceThe Globe and Mailall 2 news articles »
  

• Syracuse City Ballet brings New York dancers to star in 'Sleeping Beauty' - Syracuse.com

  03-03-2016 19:48 via
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  Syracuse City Ballet brings New York dancers to star in 'Sleeping Beauty'
  Syracuse.com
  Ana Sophia Scheller dances as Princess Aurora in the New York City Ballet Company's 2013 production. She will recreate the role for Syracuse City Ballet March 11 and 13. (Courtesy Syracuse City Ballet). Print Email · Linda Loomis | Contributing writer ...
  

• City Ballet of San Diego: All about Balanchine - The San Diego Union-Tribune

  03-03-2016 19:37 via
  The San Diego Union-Tribune
  City Ballet of San Diego: All about Balanchine
  The San Diego Union-Tribune
  George Balanchine fans don't have to fly to New York to experience three of his ballets in a single program. City Ballet of San Diego returns to Spreckels Theatre this weekend with three ballets and a live orchestra in “Balanchine Masterworks 2016 ...and more »
  

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• What Ballet Dancers Can Teach You About Finding A New Career - Huffington Post

  03-03-2016 14:36 via
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  What Ballet Dancers Can Teach You About Finding A New Career
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  Harry Price and Andrea Carrucciu talk about what it means to take leaps in your professional life. 03/03/2016 08:36 am ET. Chloe Angyal Front Page Editor, The Huffington Post. TIMOTHY A. CLARY via Getty Images ...and more »
  

• Immortal Tango review – PVC, power ballads and a touch of panto

  03-03-2016 13:43
  
  Peacock theatre, LondonFeaturing music from Abba, Coolio and the film Titanic, this frenetic shakeup of the traditional tango format has little time for poetry or emotional nuanceDancer and director German Cornejo has said that he wants to break away from standard tango show formats, and with Immortal Tango he has certainly succeeded. It is a head-spinning mix of cabaret, variety, rock gig, pantomime, cruise ship entertainment and fantasy fashion parade. One minute you’re transfixed by the
  
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• The art of dance - Aitkin Independent Age

  03-03-2016 13:04 via
  Aitkin Independent Age
  The art of dance
  Aitkin Independent Age
  Isle High sophomore Megan Miller showed off her tap-dance routine to fans at intermission of a Huskies' basketball game earlier this season. Savanna Oberfeld. Stepping out. Isle sophomore Savanna Oberfeld performed a solo dance routine for an ...
  

• Disabled performer defies traditions of dance to inspire other artists - ABC Online

  03-03-2016 13:03 via
  ABC Online
  Disabled performer defies traditions of dance to inspire other artists
  ABC Online
  Claire Cunningham has been in Perth for the past month performing two of her own works, Guide Gods and Give Me a Reason To Live, in her role as the Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF) 2016 artist in residence. She has also conducted workshops with ...
  

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• Dance teams to compete in final Face-Off competition - Northern Star Online

  03-03-2016 13:03 via
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  Dance teams to compete in final Face-Off competition
  Northern Star Online
  Members of the Vanity dance team rehearse for the Face-Off dance competition in the Holmes Student Center, Regency Room on Tuesday. Face-Off will be at 7 p.m. Friday in the Holmes Student Center, Carl Sandburg Auditorium. Posted: Thursday, March 3, ...
  

• Indian dance virtuoso Alarmel Valli: 'We forget that art can be humanly and spiritually correct' - The National

  03-03-2016 12:36 via
  The National
  Indian dance virtuoso Alarmel Valli: 'We forget that art can be humanly and spiritually correct'
  The National
  The Pandanallur-style of the Indian dance Bharatnatyam comes from a small village in the state of Tamil Nadu and goes back hundreds of years. But until virtuoso Alarmel Valli began travelling around the world in the 90s to present the lyrically charged ...and more »
  

• PHOTOS: Dance Break, Russia - Advocate.com

  03-03-2016 12:02 via
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  PHOTOS: Dance Break, Russia
  Advocate.com
  Thanks to Alex Yocu for sending these photos he took of his acrobatic and flexible friends. Moscow-born Yocu began working as a photographer in 2010. His main passion is travel photography, reportage photos of real people, and life itself. Since 2011 ...
  

• Mosaic youth dance to the music at Detroit's Music Hall - The Detroit News

  03-03-2016 11:01 via
  The Detroit News
  Mosaic youth dance to the music at Detroit's Music Hall
  The Detroit News
  Mosaic performers will present two-hour concert events on Saturday and Sunday at Music Hall in Detroit. (Photo: Lumumba Reynolds). When Taylor Ivey was 12 she attended her first Mosaic singers concert and longed to be on stage. “The singing and ...
  

• 27 of the Most Romantic First-Dance Songs From Celebrity Weddings - POPSUGAR

  03-03-2016 09:55 via
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  27 of the Most Romantic First-Dance Songs From Celebrity Weddings
  POPSUGAR
  For whatever reason, celebrity weddings are an endless source of fascination. The flowers, the dress, the maid of honor speech . . . every detail is important. One of the sweetest parts of any wedding, famous people or not, is the first dance between ...and more »
  

• 2016 Austin Festival of Dance: The second round of Kathy Dunn Hamrick's streamlined contemporary dance festival is ... - Austin Chronicle

  03-03-2016 09:30 via
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  2016 Austin Festival of Dance: The second round of Kathy Dunn Hamrick's streamlined contemporary dance festival is ...
  Austin Chronicle
  Leave it to Kathy Dunn Hamrick, choreographer of resonant dances and developer of a solid audience base for her own 17-year-old company, to streamline the contemporary dance festival into a one-day, gem-studded event. Tickets are cheap for three ...and more »
  

• As you dance it: Brian Eno and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker do Shakespeare - The Guardian

  03-03-2016 08:01 via
  The Guardian
  As you dance it: Brian Eno and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker do Shakespeare
  The Guardian
  In the show Golden Hours, featuring tracks from Eno's Another Green World and choreography by De Keersmaeker, the playwright's lines are danced rather than spoken. The duo talk about stretching time, the power of pop songs and searching for answers in ...
  

• As you dance it: Brian Eno and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker do Shakespeare

  03-03-2016 08:00
  
  In the show Golden Hours, featuring tracks from Eno’s Another Green World and choreography by De Keersmaeker, the playwright’s lines are danced rather than spoken. The duo talk about stretching time, the power of pop songs and searching for answers in the studioBelgians, says Brian Eno, have got a thing for repetition. As evidence, he offers the listening habits of his Flemish mother. “When I was young, she fell in love with a Roy Orbison song called Blue Bayou … We had
  
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• Dance, step teams say they were denied from performing in parade - WAVE 3

  03-03-2016 06:52 via
  Dance, step teams say they were denied from performing in parade
  WAVE 3
  Several dance step teams in the Louisville area said they are disappointed that their applications were denied to be part of the 2016 Kentucky Derby Festival Republic Bank Pegasus Parade. (Source: WAVE 3 News) ...and more »
  

• Ballet school plans an evening of dance - Youngstown Vindicator

  03-03-2016 06:23 via
  Ballet school plans an evening of dance
  Youngstown Vindicator
  Ballet Western Reserve company dancers are bringing back some bygone eras of American pop culture. They have created a series of short performances in the style of several decades as the centerpiece of “Building Art” – the downtown dance school's ...
  

• Dance Bars Set To Open In Mumbai, But No CCTV Cameras - NDTV

  03-03-2016 05:57 via
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  Dance Bars Set To Open In Mumbai, But No CCTV Cameras
  NDTV
  An advocate for bargirls said CCTV cameras at the bars would not just show the dancers, but also the patrons, who might not want to be identified. (File Photo). Mumbai: Highlights. SC tells Mahrashtra govt to give licenses to dance bars by March 15; SC ...
  Dance bars: SC dismisses Maharashtra govt's CCTV rule, terms it 'absurd'Firstpost
  Dance bars: SC eases norms, state says will bring new law to check 'obscenity'The Indian Ex
  

• Native American says performance from Utah high school's dance team mocked tribe's culture - fox13now.com

  03-03-2016 05:38 via
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  Native American says performance from Utah high school's dance team mocked tribe's culture
  fox13now.com
  CEDAR CITY, Utah -- A dance routine performed by a Utah high school drill team is getting backlash for its cultural insensitivity to Native Americans. The video has amassed nearly 20,000 views after it was posted by a parent who saw the performance ...
  

• The Goldbergs pays hilarious homage to Dirty Dancing (and Footloose, too) - A.V. Club

  03-03-2016 05:07 via
  A.V. Club
  The Goldbergs pays hilarious homage to Dirty Dancing (and Footloose, too)
  A.V. Club
  It's a rare Wednesday when The Goldbergs gets its own TV Club review, but even setting aside the biggest reason for this momentous occasion—ABC's decision to try and kick-start its new Tuesday night sitcom, The Real O'Neals, by debuting its first two ...
  The Goldbergs Review: Dancing the "Dirty Dancing" DanceTVOvermindall 42 news articles »
  

• Dance: The Dream/A Month in the Country; The Odyssey - Spectator.co.uk

  03-03-2016 05:04 via
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  Dance: The Dream/A Month in the Country; The Odyssey
  Spectator.co.uk
  That joke about the young bull who tells the old bull, 'Hey, Dad, see all those cows — let's run and get one of them,' and the old one replies, 'Let's walk and we can have the lot,' is of course far too politically incorrect to tell these days. But it ...
  

• Come one, come all to the First Friday Dance - Ashland Daily Press

  03-03-2016 04:31 via
  Ashland Daily Press
  Come one, come all to the First Friday Dance
  Ashland Daily Press
  The First Friday Dances — held the first Friday of the month during the school year at Northland College — feature a variety of are old-time dances, which are taught first and then the dancers are prompted throughout the dance by a caller. prev. next. ×.
  

• Professor communicates culture through dance - Indiana Daily Student

  03-03-2016 01:09 via
  Professor communicates culture through dance
  Indiana Daily Student
  A crowd of dancers tried to keep up as an instructor demonstrated Senegalese sabar. The movements were rapid and precise. The dancers' feet didn't stay on the floor for long, they were propelled by a drumbeat that never stopped. “You don't have to know ...
  

• Round the clock marathon dance enters 39th year in South Glens Falls - WNYT

  03-03-2016 00:20 via
  WNYT
  Round the clock marathon dance enters 39th year in South Glens Falls
  WNYT
  SOUTH GLENS FALLS - Students at South Glens Falls High School are up to their old tricks. They're raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for people in need, and they're doing it by dancing. The marathon dance is all about getting down to raise big ...
  

• New York City Ballet injects incredible zing into new Peck ballet and other works - Washington Post

  03-03-2016 00:10 via
  Washington Post
  New York City Ballet injects incredible zing into new Peck ballet and other works
  Washington Post
  Super Tuesday took on new meaning at the Kennedy Center Opera House, where the New York City Ballet spun its opening-night performance into a whirlwind of exhilaration. The arts center's ballet series has become a parade of familiar full-length ...
  Review: 'New York City Ballet Program A' at The Kennedy CenterDC Metro Theater Arts (press release) (blog)all 2 news articles 
  

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