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• Midwest Tour 2016

  09-03-2016 22:07 via blog.linesballet.org
  The Midwest has been calling to us! LINES Ballet headed on tour once more last week to visit 4 great cities in 2 weeks. Last weekend we had phenomenal performances in Madison, Wisconsin and Detroit, Michigan. This weekend we head to Carmel, Indiana and Burlington, IA. Here’s a collection of special moments on this tour so far… We hope to see you in your hometown!
  
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• Oh what a doll! SF Ballet gives new life to 'Coppélia' - SFGate

  09-03-2016 20:44 via
  Oh what a doll! SF Ballet gives new life to 'Coppélia'
  SFGate
  Spring has arrived a bit early at the San Francisco Ballet. “Coppélia” has returned to the repertoire, and the company seemed utterly fresh and alive Tuesday, March 8, at the War Memorial Opera House. Yes, the casting, headed by Frances Chung as the ...and more »
  

• National Ballet's Cacti turns dancers into musicians - Toronto Star

  09-03-2016 18:47 via
  Toronto Star
  National Ballet's Cacti turns dancers into musicians
  Toronto Star
  Dancer Dylan Tedaldi has never made so much noise onstage as he does in the upcoming Canadian premiere of Cacti. The National Ballet Company's short program opening Wednesday ends with the 30-minute iconoclastic work by Alexander Ekman.and more »
  

• Can meditation or ballet make us more wise? - Futurity: Research News

  09-03-2016 16:18 via
  Headlines & Global News
  Can meditation or ballet make us more wise?
  Futurity: Research News
  Wisdom, traditionally associated with old age, is found in people of all ages. So, what makes a person wise? A new study confirms previous research that meditation is associated with wisdom. But surprisingly, it also finds that somatic, or physical ...
  Meditation And Ballet Tied To Wisdom, Study FindsHeadlines & Global News
  Study: Meditation and ballet associated with wisdom University of Chicago
  

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• Golden Hours (As You Like It) review – time drags in dance with Shakespeare

  09-03-2016 14:11
  
  Sadler’s Wells, London
  Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker blends the Bard and Brian Eno in an abstract show, but despite some vivid choreography the results remain impenetrableMusic, rather than storytelling, has inspired most of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s work, so her decision to choreograph Shakespeare’s As You Like It would seem, on the face of it, a drastic deviation from form. Yet in Golden Hours, De Keersmaeker is far from having a late conversion to plot. During this two-hour
  
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• Michael White obituary: producer of the Rocky Horror Show

  09-03-2016 11:40
  
  Theatrical impresario and film producer behind The Rocky Horror Show, Oh! Calcutta! and Monty Python and the Holy GrailWhen he was awarded a lifetime achievement gong at the Olivier theatre awards ceremony in 2014, the producer Michael White was using a wheelchair and and his speech was slurred following a recent stroke. However, he was still beautifully dressed, and name-checked three of his greatest one-time friends and colleagues: the producer Peter Daubeny, who organised the amazing World Th
  
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• Michael White obituary

  09-03-2016 11:40
  
  Theatrical impresario and film producer behind The Rocky Horror Show, Oh! Calcutta! and Monty Python and the Holy GrailWhen he was awarded a lifetime achievement gong at the Olivier theatre awards ceremony in 2014, the producer Michael White was using a wheelchair and and his speech was slurred following a recent stroke. However, he was still beautifully dressed, and name-checked three of his greatest one-time friends and colleagues: the producer Peter Daubeny, who organised the amazing World Th
  
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• Kiss Me Quickstep review – sequins and secrets in Blackpool's ballroom battle

  09-03-2016 00:00
  
  New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme
  Amanda Whittington doesn’t put a foot wrong with this warm-hearted story about competitive dancersThe combination of Amanda Whittington – a writer with an uncommon knack for intelligent, accessible drama – and the gladiatorial arena of sequins and tailcoats is a match made in ballroom heaven. Indeed, Kiss Me Quickstep is set in ballroom heaven itself – the Winter Gardens at Blackpool, whose world-famous dance championships Whittington infiltr
  
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