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• Carolina Ballet's impressive 'Macbeth' a crowd-pleaser - News & Observer

  15-04-2016 23:37 via newsobserver.com
  
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  Carolina Ballet's impressive 'Macbeth' a crowd-pleaser
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  Lara O'Brien, right, and Marcelo Martinez in the Carolina Ballet's production of “Macbeth.” 20/20 Photo-Video. Lara O'Brien, left, and Marcelo Martinez in the Carolina Ballet's production of “Macbeth.” 20/20 Photo-Video. Lara O'Brien, right, and ...
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• Atlanta Ballet Brings Fairy Tale Fantasy Back To The Stage - WABE 90.1 FM

  15-04-2016 23:17 via news.wabe.org
  Atlanta Ballet Brings Fairy Tale Fantasy Back To The Stage
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  The work of legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp is returning to the Atlanta Ballet this weekend, with a show that saw its world premiere in Atlanta in 2012. Tharpe worked with the company to create a full-length ballet titled “The Princess and the Goblin.
  
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• Miami City Ballet's Night in New York - Wall Street Journal

  15-04-2016 22:59 via wsj.com
  
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  Miami City Ballet's Night in New York
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  On Wednesday, ballet-lovers from Miami flocked to New York in honor of Miami City Ballet and its Lincoln Center debut. Patrons and supporters of the company gathered on the promenade of the David H. Koch Theater for cocktails before the opening night ...and more »
  
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• Raucous grandeur in Washington Ballet's 'Carmina Burana' - Washington Post

  15-04-2016 20:58 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  Raucous grandeur in Washington Ballet's 'Carmina Burana'
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  It's an exciting, bittersweet time for the Washington Ballet, and its current series at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater captures that spirit. Departures and beginnings are on everyone's mind as the institution and its followers contemplate a ...and more »
  
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• Willamette Apprentice Ballet presents 'On with the Dance' - Corvallis Gazette Times

  15-04-2016 20:31 via gazettetimes.com
  
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  Willamette Apprentice Ballet presents 'On with the Dance'
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  Willamette Apprentice Ballet's three graduating senior dancers (clockwise from top) Emma Kooyman, Andrea Mitev and Angelina Vernard will perform at “On with the Dance” this weekend at the Majestic Theatre. prev. next. When the Willamette Apprentice ...and more »
  
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• The Elton John Ballet Love Lies Bleeding - MetroNews Canada

  15-04-2016 19:59 via metronews.ca
  
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  The Elton John Ballet Love Lies Bleeding
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  Artistic director and choreographer Jean Grand-Maitre talks about collaborating with the legendary rocker in a more classical art medium. Q: Part biographical, how was the ballet's narrative put together? A: “When I first met him (Elton John) in Las ...
  
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• Singular Bodies beautifully exploits the overlap between dance and visual effect - The Globe and Mail

  15-04-2016 19:25 via theglobeandmail.com
  
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  Singular Bodies beautifully exploits the overlap between dance and visual effect
  The Globe and Mail
  When Pablo Picasso designed the costumes for the Ballet Russes's 1917 Parade, he put together huge, cubist contraptions made of solid cardboard, some extending several feet above the dancers' heads. Images from the ballet show dancers leaning on ...
  
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• College basketball players have a new dance craze starring a song from 20 years ago - SB Nation

  15-04-2016 19:16 via sbnation.com
  
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  College basketball players have a new dance craze starring a song from 20 years ago
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  Maryland basketball players Jared Nickens, Jaylen Brantley and Damonte Dodd have been dancing to "My Boo" by Ghost Town for weeks and now they're trying to make it a movement. Oh yeahh!!! wassup wit it ? @jaybriddle_1 add my snap: jnickkk. A video ...
  
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• Drake scores first Number 1 as a lead artist with One Dance - Official Charts Company

  15-04-2016 18:46 via officialcharts.com
  
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  Drake scores first Number 1 as a lead artist with One Dance
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  Meghan Trainor climbs high and The Voice UK winner Kevin Simm makes his solo Top 40 debut. Facebook122; Twitter0; Google +0; Reddit0; Email. 14593. Drake scores first Number 1 as a lead artist with One Dance. By Jack White (@Jack5326). It's been a ...
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• Peoria ballet spurred from a conversation on a train in 1965 and it's been going strong ever since - Peoria Journal Star

  15-04-2016 18:34 via pjstar.com
  
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  Peoria ballet spurred from a conversation on a train in 1965 and it's been going strong ever since
  Peoria Journal Star
  Thirteen-year-old Deborah Pizer didn't expect the conversation between her mother, Shirley Pizer, and her long-time dance teacher, Jack Slater, to amount to much. The trio had met up by chance during a train ride to Chicago in 1965. “Mom and Jack got ...
  
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• Peoria Ballet celebrating golden anniversary with a gala - Peoria Journal Star

  15-04-2016 18:34 via pjstar.com
  
  Peoria Ballet celebrating golden anniversary with a gala
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  PEORIA — The Peoria Ballet's 50th Anniversary Gala will happen exactly 50 years after the first performance on April 30, 1966. “It's pretty cool how that has coincided,” said the ballet's artistic director Ian Poulis. “It wasn't really planned.” The ...
  
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• Oakland Ballet gamble has hits and misses - SFGate

  15-04-2016 18:16 via sfgate.com
  
  Oakland Ballet gamble has hits and misses
  SFGate
  Graham Lustig, the artistic director of the Oakland Ballet Company, takes chances that you must admire, even if the results of his efforts fall short of the ideal. He is celebrating the troupe's 51st season with a program offering two world premieres ...and more »
  
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• Luna: The Beating Heart of Dance-Making and Creativity - Huffington Post

  15-04-2016 18:13 via huffingtonpost.com
  
  Luna: The Beating Heart of Dance-Making and Creativity
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  Luna Dance Institute (LDI) is the place for dance education and creativity in the East Bay. Located in West Berkeley next to the I-80 freeway and the Berkeley Marina, Luna fosters community by gathering parents, educators, children, choreographers, ...
  
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• Dance marathon at Ballard High School - WHAS11.com

  15-04-2016 17:42 via whas11.com
  
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  Dance marathon at Ballard High School
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  Students at Ballard High School are putting on their dancing shoes and will show off their dance moves. It's all part of several dance marathons held at high schools across the state to compliment the University of Kentucky's 24 hour Dance Blue marathon.
  
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• Chicago-based dance theater brings Spanish culture to St. Louis - fox2now.com

  15-04-2016 17:42 via fox2now.com
  
  Chicago-based dance theater brings Spanish culture to St. Louis
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  ST. LOUIS, MO. (KTVI)- Chicago's Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater is celebrating their 40th anniversary in St. Louis this year at the Touhill Performing Arts Center today and tomorrow, April 16. The Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater has ...
  
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• Israelis dance with Polish saviors at former courtroom of Auschwitz commander - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

  15-04-2016 17:14 via jta.org
  
  Israelis dance with Polish saviors at former courtroom of Auschwitz commander
  Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  (JTA) — Approximately 30 Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust attended a dance organized for them by Israelis at a Warsaw venue where the commander of the Auschwitz death camp was put on trial. From the Depths, a group established in 2014, ...and more »
  
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• Irish Dance Competition Comes to FGCU - WGCU News

  15-04-2016 16:00 via news.wgcu.org
  
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  Irish Dance Competition Comes to FGCU
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  Hundreds of Irish dancers descend on Florida Gulf Coast University this weekend for the university's first Irish Dance competition. It's hosted by Southwest Florida's Celtic Spirit School of Irish Dance in Naples. Catherine and Claire Gorman opened the ...and more »
  
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• Watch Drake Perform “One Dance” For The First Time - The Source

  15-04-2016 15:36 via thesource.com
  
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  Watch Drake Perform “One Dance” For The First Time
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  As the anticipation continues to build up for the release date of Views From The 6, Drake joined Rihanna on stage during her 'Anti' world tour in Toronto and performed his new track “One Dance” and “Jumpman.” The crowd went wild for the Canadian rapper ...
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• Influential UK Garage DJ EZ Will Run Marathon Dance Party at Vinyl - Westword

  15-04-2016 15:09 via westword.com
  
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  Influential UK Garage DJ EZ Will Run Marathon Dance Party at Vinyl
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  DJ EZ hails from Tottenham, North London, where for the past twenty years he's been crucial in developing "UK garage," an uptempo, sample-heavy form of house music. His Pure Garage compilations, first released in 2000, have sold over two million copies ...
  
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• Demons and the dance floor - Financial Times

  15-04-2016 15:09 via ft.com
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  Demons and the dance floor
  Financial Times
  “She does not know her beauty/ She thinks her brown body has no glory”: the a cappella song “Images”, released in 1966, tersely captures some of the demons that haunted Nina Simone. It is no wonder a furore has greeted the upcoming biopic Nina, which ...
  
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• WATCH: LSU holds glorious dance-off to end practice - 247Sports

  15-04-2016 14:56 via lsu.247sports.com
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  WATCH: LSU holds glorious dance-off to end practice
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  The LSU football team had some fun in Tiger Stadium on Thursday afternoon when students were allowed to join in on the fun for the team's annual Student Appreciation Day. LSU students got to tour the locker room, walk through the tunnel, watch practice ...and more »
  
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• How LCD Soundsystem became the cool elder statesmen of dance music - Los Angeles Times

  15-04-2016 14:31 via latimes.com
  
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  How LCD Soundsystem became the cool elder statesmen of dance music
  Los Angeles Times
  The marquee atop the Fox Theater in Pomona didn't exactly advertise the fact that one of the biggest pre-Coachella reunion concerts in years was afoot. "NOTHING TO SEE HERE," the sign read on Monday night, gently needling the hundreds and hundreds ...and more »
  
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• Dance classes and storytelling at Pittsburgh's Market Square this weekend - PGH City Paper (blog)

  15-04-2016 14:30 via pghcitypaper.com
  
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  Dance classes and storytelling at Pittsburgh's Market Square this weekend
  PGH City Paper (blog)
  A series of special programs take place in Market Square tonight and tomorrow to highlight Dutch artist Allard van Hoorn's audio installation Mix-n-Match, a larger-than-life illuminated "record player." click to enlarge The "spindle" of "Mix-N-Match ...
  
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• Three of the best… new dance performances

  15-04-2016 14:00
  
  BalletBoyz - Life | Scottish Ballet: Swan Lake | The Rebel Man StandardThe always inventive, always entertaining male company explores the tension between life and death in a double bill, commissioned from Pontus Lidberg and Javier de Frutos. Continue reading...
  
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• Watch: LSU closes out spring practice with a joyous dance party - Sports Illustrated

  15-04-2016 13:42 via si.com
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  Watch: LSU closes out spring practice with a joyous dance party
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  Get breaking news and SI's biggest stories instantly. Download the new Sports Illustrated app (iOS or Android) and personalize your experience by following your favorite teams and SI writers. LSU football is finishing off their spring practice this ...
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• Ballet Virginia International taps Broadway to give the classic "Cinderella" a new feel for Saturday's show - Virginian-Pilot

  15-04-2016 12:04 via pilotonline.com
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  Ballet Virginia International taps Broadway to give the classic "Cinderella" a new feel for Saturday's show
  Virginian-Pilot
  LeeAnn Walker, a dancer with the Roanoke Ballet Theatre and former student of Ballet Virginia International, will play Cinderella. Broadway choreographer creates a contemporary "Cinderella" ballet for Norfolk group. Courtesy photo from Ginger Thatcher.
  
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• Watch Drake perform new single 'One Dance' live for the first time - NME.com

  15-04-2016 10:50 via nme.com
  
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  Watch Drake perform new single 'One Dance' live for the first time
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  The rapper released the song, along with Kanye West and Jay-Z collaboration 'Pop Style', earlier this month, ahead of his upcoming new album 'Views From The 6', which will be released on April 29 through Apple Music. Drake made a cameo during ...
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• 'Dance Moms' Season 6 Spoilers: Abby Lee Miller Lashes Out At Mackenzie Ziegler In Ep 16 - Design & Trend

  15-04-2016 09:44 via designntrend.com
  
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  'Dance Moms' Season 6 Spoilers: Abby Lee Miller Lashes Out At Mackenzie Ziegler In Ep 16
  Design & Trend
  (Photo : Getty Images/Jason Merritt) Will Mackenzie Ziegler be able to impress coach Abby Lee Miller in the upcoming episode of "Dance Moms" season 6? "Dance Moms" season 6, episode 16 will mostly be about ALDC coach Abby Lee Miller and ...and more »
  
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• Lucy Guerin: Can you translate Shakespeare into dance? - The Stage

  15-04-2016 08:43 via thestage.co.uk
  
  Lucy Guerin: Can you translate Shakespeare into dance?
  The Stage
  A scene from Macbeth at the Young Vic, directed by Carrie Cracknell and Lucy Guerin. Photo: Tristram Kenton. Lucy Guerin. Choreographer Lucy Guerin was born in Australia and trained in Australia and New York before establishing Lucy Guerin Inc in ...
  
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• Wonderbound artfully blurs lines between dance, theater in "Dust" - The Denver Post

  15-04-2016 08:06 via denverpost.com
  
  Wonderbound artfully blurs lines between dance, theater in "Dust"
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  Denver contemporary ballet company Wonderbound's "Dust" builds on its well-received collaborations with musicians and theater companies. (Provided by Amanda Tipton). Garrett Ammon's fascination with vintage Americana has paid off in the most popular ...
  
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• A Look Into Penn State's Oldest Dance Company, Orchesis - Onward State

  15-04-2016 07:51 via onwardstate.com
  
  A Look Into Penn State's Oldest Dance Company, Orchesis
  Onward State
  Hidden behind dominating walls of sports, theater, and other larger clubs lies Penn State's own small community of dance companies. We certainly know they exist, but we don't hear much about them until a big showcase is looming and there are flyers ...
  
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• Six more questions for Lula Washington Dance Theatre, coming to CSUMB this Saturday. - Monterey County Weekly (blog)

  15-04-2016 06:58 via montereycountyweekly.com
  Monterey County Weekly (blog)
  Six more questions for Lula Washington Dance Theatre, coming to CSUMB this Saturday.
  Monterey County Weekly (blog)
  Lula Washington Dance Theatre has been interpreting black American life and culture into dance works for 36 years, from their base in L.A., to across the nation, to around the world, including Russia, Kosovo, Mexico, Canada, China and Spain. Lula ...
  
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• Critic's picks: Dance - The Boston Globe

  15-04-2016 04:01 via bostonglobe.com
  
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  Critic's picks: Dance
  The Boston Globe
  SHOES ON, SHOES OFFShakespeare & Company resident choreographer Susan Dibble explores our fascination with footwear in this intriguing work, which follows a shoe salesman and his clients as they search for energy in pair after pair of shoes. April 17 ...and more »
  
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• Bradenton dancers take part in national Water Dance project - Bradenton Herald (blog)

  15-04-2016 01:47 via bradenton.com
  
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  Bradenton dancers take part in national Water Dance project
  Bradenton Herald (blog)
  On Saturday afternoon, thousands of dancers at more than 100 locations around the United States will simultaneously perform a work meant to celebrate their communities' relationships with water. About 75 of those dancers will be right here in Bradenton ...
  
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• Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling Kiss, Dance, and Fly in La La Land's First Footage - Vanity Fair

  15-04-2016 00:51 via vanityfair.com
  
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  Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling Kiss, Dance, and Fly in La La Land's First Footage
  Vanity Fair
  Last April, we learned that Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling would re-unite for a third time in what sounded like the musical fantasy film of our dreams—a song-and-dance-filled homage to Hollywood from Whiplash filmmaker Damien Chazelle. And on Thursday ...
  
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• Two Evansville Girls Set to Dance with Justin Bieber - Tristatehomepage.com

  15-04-2016 00:48 via tristatehomepage.com
  
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  Two Evansville Girls Set to Dance with Justin Bieber
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  EVANSVILLE, INDIANA -- Hadley Walts and Zoe Woebkenberg have been long-time friends with many things in common. They're both 15 and they both love to dance. "In our free time, we just like to listen to music and make up dances sometimes," Walts said ...
  
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