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• Review: FJK Dance Brings Its Fusion to New York - New York Times

  07-04-2016 23:56 via
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  Review: FJK Dance Brings Its Fusion to New York
  New York Times
  Fadi J. Khoury, right, of FJK Dance, with Elad Kabilio on cello. Credit Jaqlin Medlock. FJK Dance, led by the Iraqi-born dancer and choreographer Fadi J. Khoury, specializes in a fusion of styles. Imagine bits of Middle Eastern movement wedged between ...
  

• LINES BFA Junior Class travels to ACDA

  07-04-2016 23:20 via blog.linesballet.org
  From March 15-19, LINES Ballet BFA at Dominican’s Junior class traveled to Scottsdale, AZ to participate in the American College Dance Association’s (ACDA) West Conference. They presented a work by choreographer and BFA alumna, Liv Schaffer. Check out this awesome recap of their experience and read more from Liv and BFA Junior, Alisha Ragon, who premiered her own work for the first time during the informal concert series at ACDA.
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• Emerging Choreographer To Play Bigger Role Than Ever In Crafting Nashville Ballet's Next Season - WPLN

  07-04-2016 22:58 via
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  Emerging Choreographer To Play Bigger Role Than Ever In Crafting Nashville Ballet's Next Season
  WPLN
  The Nashville Ballet has announced its 2016-17 season, including a greater presence than ever for one longtime member of the company. Christopher Stuart joined Nashville Ballet as a dancer in 2003, and has a number of featured solo roles on his resume.
  

• What Do Drake's 'One Dance' Lyrics Mean? It's Not Just About Dancing - Romper

  07-04-2016 22:34 via
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  What Do Drake's 'One Dance' Lyrics Mean? It's Not Just About Dancing
  Romper
  Drake is hardly a mysterious man. He wears his heart on his sleeve, he's a terrible liar, and his puberty years are memorialized in countless Degrassi episodes for all to see. His lyrics, though, can be a bit more opaque. So, what do Drake's "One Dance ...
  WATCH: Will.i.am Just Freestyled To Drake's New Song 'One Dance' And Completely #OWNED It!Capital FMall 2 news articles »
  

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• Ballet Idaho's Barreto makes her princess debut in 'The Sleeping Beauty' - Idaho Statesman (blog)

  07-04-2016 22:12 via
  Ballet Idaho's Barreto makes her princess debut in 'The Sleeping Beauty'
  Idaho Statesman (blog)
  When ballerina Elizabeth Barreto was a little girl, dancing at her mom's studio in La Grande, Ore., she would sit in front of the television and watch her mom's collection of dance VHS tapes when she wasn't in class. Her favorite was the Royal Ballet's ...
  

• Richmond Ballet Closes Season with The Rite of Spring - Community Idea Stations

  07-04-2016 21:52 via
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  Richmond Ballet Closes Season with The Rite of Spring
  Community Idea Stations
  The Richmond Ballet is closing their 2015-16 season with Salvatore Aiello's rending of the ballet The Rite of Spring, in honor of dancer Lauren Fagone. Lauren is retiring from the ballet after a 14-year career here, where she has become known as one of ...
  

• Eastern Shore Ballet Theatre Brings Snow White To Resort - The Dispatch

  07-04-2016 21:18 via
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  Eastern Shore Ballet Theatre Brings Snow White To Resort
  The Dispatch
  BERLIN — Growing up as artsy kids on the Eastern Shore of Maryland was not an easy thing for Fawn Mete and Nicole Brushmiller, who grew up in Berlin and Salisbury, respectively. There were only a handful of programs, and even fewer programs catered ...
  

• AFA honors Houston Ballet's Shelly Power - Chron.com

  07-04-2016 21:06 via
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  AFA honors Houston Ballet's Shelly Power
  Chron.com
  Sometimes keeping things simple is a better, and more effective, approach to fundraising. American Festival for the Arts' "Beyond Music Gala" at the Junior League of Houston on Wednesday night raised a respectable $90,000 towards the organization's ...
  

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• University of Texas Homicide Victim Identified as Ballet Dancer Haruka Weiser - People Magazine

  07-04-2016 19:10 via
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  University of Texas Homicide Victim Identified as Ballet Dancer Haruka Weiser
  People Magazine
  Officials have released the name of a female student found in a creek Tuesday morning on the University of Texas campus. Haruka Weiser, 18, a first-year Theater and Dance student, has been tentatively identified as the victim, according to university ...
  Young ballet student confirmed as victim of homicide at UTDallas Morning News (blog)
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• Alvin Ailey's company returns to Seattle, and brings a free youth dance camp - The Seattle Times

  07-04-2016 18:25 via
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  Alvin Ailey's company returns to Seattle, and brings a free youth dance camp
  The Seattle Times
  Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will perform “Odetta,” a tribute to the late musician and civil-rights leader, at the Paramount Theatre. (Michael Strong). Dancing toward justice: The great American dance company comes back to Seattle this month with ...and more »
  

• Show by Perm Ballet highlights Russian tradition of classical dance - Montreal Gazette

  07-04-2016 18:00 via
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  Show by Perm Ballet highlights Russian tradition of classical dance
  Montreal Gazette
  Stars of the Russian Ballet features 10 dancers from the Perm Ballet, including Inna Bilash and Nikita Chetverikov, seen here performing Apollo by George Balanchine. P. Semianikova. Share Adjust Comment Print. A host of Russian ballet stars, a dose of ...
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• Columbus's Jimmy Orrante Creates a New Ballet - WOSU

  07-04-2016 17:35 via
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  Columbus's Jimmy Orrante Creates a New Ballet
  WOSU
  Recent Columbus Ballet Met retiree, Jimmy Orrante, recently created a sensory-friendly ballet in Rochester, New York. https://www.balletmet.org/the-company/dancers/jimmy-orrante/. Jimmy Orrante, long time leading dancer of Ballet Met, has been teaching ...
  

• Scearce Scores Macbeth Ballet - NC State News

  07-04-2016 17:22 via
  Scearce Scores Macbeth Ballet
  NC State News
  If you received a prophecy that said you'd become the ruler of your nation, would you believe it? And what would you be willing to do in order to make that prophecy come true? These are questions with particular relevance in a U.S. presidential ...
  

• Bolshoi Ballerina Discusses Which Ballet Is 'Like Champagne' - Huffington Post

  07-04-2016 15:45 via
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  Bolshoi Ballerina Discusses Which Ballet Is 'Like Champagne'
  Huffington Post
  Originally choreographed in 1869, “Don Quixote” is a ballet based off Miguel de Cervantes's classic novel El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha), featuring lots of tambourines and castanets.and more »
  

• Men & Girls Dance: the show fighting paranoia around child abuse - The Guardian

  07-04-2016 13:09 via
  The Guardian
  Men & Girls Dance: the show fighting paranoia around child abuse
  The Guardian
  Fevered Sleep's show features men dancing tenderly with young girls. Its creators explain how they convinced parents it wasn't creepy, but a celebration of a relationship tainted by the media. Creepy or beautiful? One set of performers in Men &amp ...
  

• Men & Girls Dance: the show fighting paranoia around child abuse

  07-04-2016 13:09
  
  Fevered Sleep’s show features men dancing tenderly with young girls. Its creators explain how they convinced parents it wasn’t creepy, but a celebration of a relationship tainted by the mediaFevered Sleep’s latest project, Men & Girls Dance, is exactly what its title suggests: adult male performers dancing with young girls. That relationship, though, has been tainted in recent years. Put the words “men” and “girls” in the same sentence and it’s
  
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• North Star Ballet breaks from a traditional performance to host shorter ballets for its spring performance - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

  07-04-2016 10:06 via
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  North Star Ballet breaks from a traditional performance to host shorter ballets for its spring performance
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  Annemarie Timling and David Kreiss-Tomkins pose for a portrait before North Star Ballet practice at Herring Auditorium on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. They are a pair of soloists in the spring show, "Les Sylphides." Les Sylphides. News-Miner. Annemarie ...
  

• Q-C painter goes from battlefields to ballet classes - Quad City Times

  07-04-2016 08:07 via
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  Q-C painter goes from battlefields to ballet classes
  Quad City Times
  During the Vietnam War, David Anderson (center) served as a combat artist in the U.S. Marine Corps. prev. next. It took David Anderson more than 60 years to be able to say his dream sentence: "I'm a full-time artist." Anderson, who is 70 and lives in ...
  

• Millepied's final spring programme for the Paris Opera Ballet is brazenly American - Spectator.co.uk

  07-04-2016 05:03 via
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  Millepied's final spring programme for the Paris Opera Ballet is brazenly American
  Spectator.co.uk
  Paris Opera Ballet plays hard to get. It doesn't deign to travel all the way over here, thanks to a combination of exorbitant expense and a languid disdain for the little Britons with their Johnny-come-lately ballet tradition (not even one century old ...
  San Francisco Ballet premieres Ratmansky's 'Seven Sonatas'Examiner.comall 5 news articles »
  

• Napa Valley Ballet offers summer workshops - Napa Valley Register

  07-04-2016 03:25 via
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  Napa Valley Ballet offers summer workshops
  Napa Valley Register
  Napa Valley Ballet is offering an opportunity to “get down and dance” with its 2016 Intensive Workshop scheduled for July 11 through Aug. 12. The 2016 summer workshop is designed to open dance horizons and explore new forms of expression through a ...
  

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