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• Ballet performance at Nathan Hale Arts Magnet School - theday.com

  11-03-2016 23:30 via
  Ballet performance at Nathan Hale Arts Magnet School
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  Dancers Rachel Buder and Eric Carnes of the Albano Ballet Company perform a Strauss waltz ballet during the educational performance of "Dance the Language of Movement" to kindergarten and first grade students at Nathan Hale Arts Magnet School in ...
  

• Texas Ballet Theater revives 'Cinderella' for original choreographer's 80th birthday - Dallas Morning News

  11-03-2016 23:01 via
  Dallas Morning News
  Texas Ballet Theater revives 'Cinderella' for original choreographer's 80th birthday
  Dallas Morning News
  Texas Ballet Theater will perform Cinderella at the Eisemann Center in Richardson March 11-13. Creative director Ben Stevenson's 1970 staging of the ballet has been performed worldwide. By MANUEL MENDOZA [email protected]. Special ...
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• Tom Hardy Has a Secret Obsession With Ballet! - Us Weekly

  11-03-2016 22:30 via
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  Tom Hardy Has a Secret Obsession With Ballet!
  Us Weekly
  Tom Hardy braved the desert elements for Mad Max: Fury Road and battled below-freezing temperatures for the Oscar-winning film The Revenant. But as a source reveals exclusively in the latest issue of Us Weekly, the 38-year-old actor gets his off-screen ...
  

• Dance preview: Special bond delivers beautiful moments for Ballet BC - Vancouver Sun

  11-03-2016 21:51 via
  Vancouver Sun
  Dance preview: Special bond delivers beautiful moments for Ballet BC
  Vancouver Sun
  Program 2. March 17 to 19, 8 p.m. | Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets and info: $30-$90 at ticketmaster.ca. “Juste, like we say in French. Not too little. Not too much.” That's French choreographer Medhi Walerski giving feedback to the dancers of Ballet ...and more »
  

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• Neil deGrasse Tyson Narrating This Ballet Video Is Absolutely Mesmerizing - Huffington Post

  11-03-2016 18:15 via
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  Neil deGrasse Tyson Narrating This Ballet Video Is Absolutely Mesmerizing
  Huffington Post
  Everyone's favorite astrophysicist and the Dance Theatre of Harlem just created the most spellbinding video ever. 03/11/2016 12:13 pm ET | Updated 4 hours ago. 210. Taryn Finley Black Voices Associate Editor, The Huffington Post ...
  

• Behind the Scenes of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy - The Moscow Times (registration)

  11-03-2016 18:12 via
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  Behind the Scenes of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy
  The Moscow Times (registration)
  The Bolshoi Ballet is a renowned classical ballet company based in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. Founded in 1776, during the reign of Empress Catherine II, it is one of the world's oldest and most acclaimed ballet companies. Acceptance into the Bolshoi ...
  

• New Orleans Ballet Theatre raises the barre at Dancing with Degas - NOLA.com

  11-03-2016 17:30 via
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  New Orleans Ballet Theatre raises the barre at Dancing with Degas
  NOLA.com
  Since founding the New Orleans Ballet Theatre and Schramel Conservatory of Dance, Marjorie Hardwick Schramel and Gregory Schramel have been dedicated to creating a community of professional dance and dancers in the city. The ballet company's ...
  

• Swan Lake ballet - WPMI Local 15 News

  11-03-2016 16:56 via
  Swan Lake ballet
  WPMI Local 15 News
  WPMI — This weekend, Mobile Ballet is bringing to life one of the all-time classics, Swan Lake. Swan Lake is a classic that the Mobile Ballet only performs about every four to five years. "It's one of the most beautiful ballets to do and the music is ...
  Mobile Ballet presents "Swan Lake"FOX10 Newsall 2 news articles »
  

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• 'The Rite of Spring with Richmond Ballet and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra' at UB - Niagara Frontier Publications

  11-03-2016 15:34 via
  'The Rite of Spring with Richmond Ballet and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra' at UB
  Niagara Frontier Publications
  The Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, will present "The Rite of Spring with Richmond Ballet and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 21, in the Mainstage Theatre at the Center for the Arts North Campus. The performance ...
  

• Ballet's bright future on display - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

  11-03-2016 15:18 via
  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  Ballet's bright future on display
  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  In the fall of 2010, Jennifer Homans raised hackles in the dance world when she proclaimed in “Apollo's Angels,” her definitive history of ballet, that the art form was dying. “Contemporary choreography veers aimlessly from unimaginative imitation to ...
  

• Marc Brew Company: For Now, I Am… review – a dancer rediscovers his body

  11-03-2016 14:54
  
  Lilian Baylis Studio, London
  In a powerful, poetic work, Marc Brew traces how he returned to performance and reinvented himself as a choreographer after being injured in an accidentMarc Brew was 20 when he was paralysed from the waist down after a car accident that, he assumed, would put an end to his promising dance career. Yet Brew slowly reinvented himself as a performer and choreographer. It’s the story of how he reclaimed his body that Brew tells, 19 years later, in this beautifully c
  
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• Meditation and ballet likely to improve wisdom, says study - Firstpost

  11-03-2016 09:49 via
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  Meditation and ballet likely to improve wisdom, says study
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• Boston Ballet showcases dance by little-known Russian master - The Boston Globe

  11-03-2016 04:04 via
  The Boston Globe
  Boston Ballet showcases dance by little-known Russian master
  The Boston Globe
  Leonid Yakobson may be the most influential 20th-century ballet choreographer most people have never heard of. A Russian contemporary of George Balanchine known for his culturally explosive experimentalism, Yakobson (1904-1975) didn't immigrate to ...
  

• Why don't they make shoes for black ballet dancers? - BBC News

  11-03-2016 03:30 via
  BBC News
  Why don't they make shoes for black ballet dancers?
  BBC News
  The world of ballet has long been criticised for having a problem with diversity. But could one small quirk be a symbol of the barriers facing non-white dancers, asks Kirstie Brewer. Ballet dancer Eric Underwood was on tour last summer in the south of ...
  Misty Copeland: How Ballet Shaped MeChase News & Stories
  Eric Underwood, Ballet Dancer, Wanted Shoes in His Color — and This Is the Response He GotMic
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• Modern dance master comes to Vineland - Vineland Daily Journal

  11-03-2016 03:04 via
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  Modern dance master comes to Vineland
  Vineland Daily Journal
  Tucked away in Vineland, a small dance studio welcomed a big name in the world of dance on Thursday. Ruth Andrien, a former dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company in New York, who now travels the world staging Paul Taylor works and acts as ...and more »
  

• Annual St. Patty's day event, DIA party focus on dance - Hometownlife.com

  11-03-2016 02:59 via
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  Annual St. Patty's day event, DIA party focus on dance
  Hometownlife.com
  Mick Gavin (middle) plays fiddle with members of the Detroit Square Dance Society Band, Aaron Jonah Lewis on fiddle, Ben Luttermoser on guitar, and Rachel Pearson on upright bass. Gavin also plays with his own band, Crossroads Ceili. (Photo: Submitted).
  

• Zedd & Aloe Blacc Sweeten Hot Dance/Electronic Songs With 'Candyman' Cover - Billboard

  11-03-2016 02:07 via
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  Zedd & Aloe Blacc Sweeten Hot Dance/Electronic Songs With 'Candyman' Cover
  Billboard
  The DJ & singer recall Sammy Davis, Jr. (and Willy Wonka). Plus, Zhu debuts, Coldplay tops Dance Club Songs & more. Zedd and Aloe Blacc bow on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart (dated March 19) at No. 14 with "Candyman," which starts with ...
  

• BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Amanda's happy tappy about her new dance role - Daily Mail

  11-03-2016 01:21 via
  Daily Mail
  BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Amanda's happy tappy about her new dance role
  Daily Mail
  Amanda Holden will be showing off her dance skills when she treads the boards in the autumn. But she won't be putting her best foot forward — on purpose. The star judge of Britain's Got Talent will lead a new production of the 1984 play Stepping Out ...and more »
  

• Snug Harbor's new $20K studios: African dance, yoga, ballet coming soon - SILive.com

  11-03-2016 01:19 via
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  Snug Harbor's new $20K studios: African dance, yoga, ballet coming soon
  SILive.com
  STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Snug Harbor is taking a choreographed step toward offering more performing spaces. The cultural center at 1000 Richmond Terrace in Livingston will unveil two new dance studios during an open house April 9. The studios, located ...
  

• An Interview with Kara Davis, on LINES Ballet Discovery Project

  11-03-2016 00:38 via blog.linesballet.org
  Discovery Project was on the move this year! We conducted our first Discovery Project in our own home at LINES Dance Center in San Francisco CA, Tampa FL., Dallas TX and also held a private workshop in West Palm Beach FL. We were graciously welcomed by our hosts, students, and community and felt honored to work with a talented and diverse group of students and communities from around the country! Our 2016 Discovery Project faculty included Master teachers Peta Barrett, LeeWei Chao, Sandra C
  
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• Cedar City school scraps dance routine tribe considers offensive - Deseret News

  11-03-2016 00:08 via
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  Cedar City school scraps dance routine tribe considers offensive
  Deseret News
  A drill team at a southern Utah high school scrapped a Native American-themed dance routine that featured wigs, sparkly costumes and feathered headbands after tribal criticism. Adobe stock photo. Enlarge photo». Summary. A drill team at a southern Utah ...
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• Ballet explores truth and reconciliation through dance - CBC.ca

  11-03-2016 00:07 via
  CBC.ca
  Ballet explores truth and reconciliation through dance
  CBC.ca
  The Royal Winnipeg Ballet has created a dance, Going Home Star — Truth and Reconciliation, that explores the experience of people who went to Indian residential schools. The dance is based upon a story by author Joseph Boyden and was commissioned ...
  

• Dance Listings for March 11-17 - New York Times

  11-03-2016 00:01 via
  New York Times
  Dance Listings for March 11-17
  New York Times
  Full reviews of recent dance performances: nytimes.com/dance. A searchable guide to these and other performances is at nytimes.com/events. BalletNext (Friday and Saturday) The company founded by Michele Wiles, a former principal dancer with American ...
  

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