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• May-June 2016 | Mail

  01-05-2016 23:17
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• May-June 2016 Ask Rhee Gold

  01-05-2016 23:14
  Advice for dance teachers Continue reading
  
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• May-June 2016 | 2 Tips for Modern & Contemporary Teachers | Healthy Heads and Sequence Recall

  01-05-2016 22:49
  Tip 1Maintaining a healthy head position is a constant challenge for students at every level. Students often jut the chins forward, which can create a number of problems with alignment. This first came to my attention while I was recovering from rotator cuff surgery. My physical therapist pointed out that my chin was out and the base of my skull was sinking into my cervical spine. “That’s why you have shoulder problems,” he said.Tip 2Maintaining a healthy head position is a con
  
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• May-June 2016 | Moving Images

  01-05-2016 22:34
  Videos of note (new and not)1. Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq2. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Beyond the Steps3. Accent on the Offbeat4. Capturing Grace Continue reading
  
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• May-June 2016 | Page Turners

  01-05-2016 22:32
  Books of note (new and not)1. The Cycle: A Practical Approach to Managing Arts Organizations2. Rupert Can Dance3. Spinning Mambo Into Salsa: Caribbean Dance in Global Commerce4. Up to This Pointe Continue reading
  
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• May-June 2016 | FYI

  01-05-2016 22:27
  What’s up in the dance communityTraining to Teach Special PopulationsDefining Jazz DanceEntrances and Exits Continue reading
  
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• May-June 2016 | On My Mind

  01-05-2016 22:24
  Sometimes when I tell people that I believe dance can change lives, I receive skeptical reactions, especially from non-dance people. Maybe they’d change their minds if they heard about Pierson Feeney, an 11-year-old who lives in D’Iberville, Mississippi, and takes dance classes at Gulf Coast School of Performing Arts. The Kansas City Star recently reprinted a story about him, and I want to share it with you. Continue reading
  
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• May-June 2016 | EditorSpeak

  01-05-2016 22:22
  "Mindful Diversity": In this issue we explore racial and cultural diversity in dance schools and why it’s important. You can read about that in the story, which starts on page 82; what I want to do here is make a pitch for diversity in a broader sense."Honor or Insult?": Not long ago, a high school in Utah found itself in hot water over a drill team dance. Clad in Native American–themed costumes, feathers, and braided wigs, the students pounded their feet, spun, and raised their arms
  
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• May-June 2016 | Performance Corner

  01-05-2016 22:18
  Our sneak peek at dance shows we’d love to see Continue reading
  
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• May-June 2016 | Bulletin Board

  01-05-2016 22:15
  Dance in Time: May/June BirthdaysQuotable: Dancers on Dance Continue reading
  
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• May-June 2016 | 2 Tips for Hip-Hop Teachers | Explosive Movement and Social Dancing

  01-05-2016 22:02
  Tip 1An explosive quality (driven by the energy of the music) is inherent to hip-hop. The ability to execute explosive movements—sudden, decisive, and fast—makes a dancer stand out onstage.Tip 2Encourage students to dance with each other in public as well as in class. While the studio is a great starting point, hip-hop dance is an art form that can be fully realized only when danced as a community, in a social setting. Continue reading
  
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• May-June 2016 | Bright Biz Idea | Clothing That Fits

  01-05-2016 21:25
  “What will my child need?” may be the most common question studio owners are asked by new students’ parents. What style and color leotard? A ballet skirt or not? What about tap or jazz or hip-hop?Some studio owners send customers to retail stores or fill clients’ needs from a stash in a supply closet. Others create small boutiques in the lobby or run full-inventory retail stores as part of or separate from the studio. Still others partner with dancewear suppliers that ser
  
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• May-June 2016 | 2 Music Tips for Dance Teachers | Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake

  01-05-2016 20:57
  Tip 1With Swan Lake (1876), Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) became the second composer of symphonic stature to write a ballet score. (The first was Léo Delibes, whose Sylvia premiered seven years earlier.) Ignorant of balletic compositional techniques, Tchaikovsky studied the specialists—Adolphe Adam and Ludwig Minkus—to determine length and tempos for individual dances. However, Tchaikovsky used a complex system of key relationships and applied symphonic scoring te
  
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• May-June 2016 | 2 Tips for Ballet Teachers | Leg Stretches on the Barre

  01-05-2016 20:51
  Tip 1 I love walking into a studio where dancers are busy stretching quietly before class or rehearsal. Encourage students to leave conversations outside. When they pass through the studio door, they should enter a quiet and peaceful dance space.Tip 2 When stretching the leg in devant on the barre, it’s helpful to think of keeping the supporting hip as close to the barre as possible and the working hip perpendicular to the barre. As dancers transition in devant from attitude to a fully ext
  
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• May-June 2016 | 2 Tips for Tap Teachers | Pickups

  01-05-2016 19:37
  Tip 1Pickups are sometimes called pullbacks or grab-offs. For many teachers, “pickup” best describes the action of spanking up, not back. With weight on the ball of the action foot, the toe tap spanks (brushes) upward before landing back on the ball.Tip 2There are three basic types of pickups. Continue reading
  
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• May-June 2016 | Ballet Scene | Walking the Walk in Memphis

  01-05-2016 18:51
  Where can you find a studio that offers hip-hop, ballet, Memphis jookin, tap, jazz, flamenco, African dance, Chinese dance, and modern dance classes—and that prioritizes heavily underserved students to boot? That rare distinction goes to Memphis, Tennessee, home of New Ballet Ensemble & School (NBE). Continue reading
  
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• May-June 2016 | Virtual Identity: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  01-05-2016 18:27
  Dance is a spare art. It can be practiced with few accoutrements—at minimum, only the body. Dance studios can be similarly low-tech affairs: any empty room will do. But when it comes to the virtual realm, careful attention must be paid—not only to what is used, but how. The world is watching, which means presentation is critical. It’s not enough for school owners simply to have an online presence; they need to portray themselves and their schools in a positive, professional way
  
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• May-June 2016 | There’s an App for That

  01-05-2016 18:14
  Software and online resources for studio and stage Continue reading
  
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• Ballet season ends with grand 'Onegin' - SFGate

  01-05-2016 15:58 via sfgate.com
  
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  Ballet season ends with grand 'Onegin'
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  For those balletomanes who have found the fare a bit austere and abstract in this fast-concluding San Francisco Ballet season, “Onegin” is back as the final program of the year. Based on Alexander Pushkin's immortal verse novel, “Eugene Onegin,” John ...
  Review: Lead portrayals in San Francisco Ballet's 'Onegin' are right on the moneySan Jose Mercury Newsall 3 news articles »
  
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• Pablo Bronstein: Historical Dances in an Antique Setting – review

  01-05-2016 09:00
  
  Tate Britain, London SW1Pablo Bronstein’s trompe l’oeils with dancers invite wry smiles as much as contemplationThree young dancers are preening, twirling and gliding through the marble canyons of the Duveen galleries at Tate Britain. Every now and again they pause in order to strike some exaggerated pose. It might be a weak wrist to the forehead, as if receiving shocking news, or a flighty twist of the hip that suggests utter nonchalance in the face of so many gaping passersby, surp
  
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• May Contain Food review – half-baked swipe at food fixation

  01-05-2016 09:00
  
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  Luca Silvestrini’s satire on faddish eating is inventive but not quite food for thoughtAnxieties related to eating, diet and restaurant protocol are something of a first-world issue, and when those anxieties are translated into contemporary dance, set to an a cappella and plainchant score, and performed at a niche metropolitan venue, you have an event whose multiple layers of fashionability, self-reference and irony are not easily teased apart.May Contain Food, created by
  
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• Tulsa Ballet has tranforming experience on Italy tour - Tulsa World

  01-05-2016 07:23 via tulsaworld.com
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  Tulsa Ballet has tranforming experience on Italy tour
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  Tulsa Ballet dancer Diana Gomez rehearses on the stage of the Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia, Italy. Courtesy. italy ballet 2. Tulsa Ballet principal dancer Youhee Son performs in “Classical Symphony” during Tulsa Ballet's Italian Tour. Courtesy. INFRA.and more »
  
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• Stylebook snapshot: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre principal dancer doubles as costume designer - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  01-05-2016 05:56 via post-gazette.com
  
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  Stylebook snapshot: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre principal dancer doubles as costume designer
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  On right, Amanda Cochrane, principal dancer for the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre checks the fit of the costume she designed for Gabrielle Thurlow, for her role in the PBT's choreography showcase of "Four Marks," at Seton Hill University. By Sara Bauknecht ...
  
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• Orlando Ballet's 2016-17 season features three new programs - Orlando Sentinel

  01-05-2016 01:27 via orlandosentinel.com
  
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  Orlando Ballet's 2016-17 season features three new programs
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  Noted choreographer George Balanchine (left), who died in 1983, works with dancers in this undated photo file. Orlando Ballet will feature Balanchine's "Serenade" in its upcoming season. Noted choreographer George Balanchine (left), who died in 1983, ...
  Houston Ballet Presents Spring Mixed Repertory Program Starting 5/26Broadway Worldall 2 news articles »
  
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