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• Ballet star Julie Kent has big plans for Washington Ballet - Washington Post

  08-03-2016 23:29 via
  Washington Post
  Ballet star Julie Kent has big plans for Washington Ballet
  Washington Post
  Julie Kent, the retired American Ballet Theatre star newly named to direct the Washington Ballet, outlined grand and thoughtful plans when she met with board members and reporters Tuesday afternoon. On Kent's dream list of ballets to add to the ...
  ArtsBeat | Julie Kent to Lead Washington BalletNew York Times (blog)
  Julie Kent Named Washington Ballet's Artistic Directorhttp://www.dancemagazine.com/ (blog)
  

• Silicon Valley Ballet folds after 30 years - SFGate

  08-03-2016 21:25 via
  SFGate
  Silicon Valley Ballet folds after 30 years
  SFGate
  Silicon Valley Ballet — which in the last year had changed its name from Ballet San Jose and recapitalized — has ceased operations, ending a 30-year run as the primary Bay Area dance company south of San Francisco. Following a series of performances ...
  Silicon Valley Ballet, Former Ballet San Jose Closing After 30 YearsCBS Local
  Silicon Valley Ballet succumbs to financial troubles a year after being saved by emergency ca
  

• Has the Adelaide fringe festival gotten too big for its boots?

  08-03-2016 20:30
  
  Adelaide fringe brings more and more artists to the city each year – but as British comedian Alexis Dubus highlighted in a brutal Facebook post this week, how many are walking away happy?Another year, another Adelaide fringe festival – and another controversy.Related: How Adelaide could become Australia's most exciting city – simply by doubling down on cultureRelated: Adelaide fringe 2016: five acts that prove in theatre, bigger isn’t always betterRelated: How Adelaide co
  
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• Has the Adelaide fringe festival become too big for its boots?

  08-03-2016 20:30
  
  Adelaide fringe brings more and more artists to the city each year – but as British comedian Alexis Dubus highlighted in a brutal Facebook post this week, how many are walking away happy?Another year, another Adelaide fringe festival – and another controversy.Related: How Adelaide could become Australia's most exciting city – simply by doubling down on cultureRelated: Adelaide fringe 2016: five acts that prove in theatre, bigger isn’t always betterRelated: How Adelaide co
  
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• Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Monumental review – an almighty revelation

  08-03-2016 07:14
  
  Adelaide Festival Centre and Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide festival
  Canadian post-rockers bring their massive drums and sad, soaring crescendos to two Adelaide shows, including a dance piece that polarises audiencesPost-rock is a loudly ponderous, insistently serious kind of music: all brooding soundscapes, apocalyptic themes and long, instrumental songs that are fanned into vast fire-fronts of noise. Everything emotes. Related: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – the full transcriptRelated: How A
  
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