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• Maine State Ballet readies a pair of August programs - Press Herald

  29-05-2016 20:02 via pressherald.com
  
  Maine State Ballet readies a pair of August programs
  Press Herald
  Maine State Ballet will present a two-ballet program in August, for its summer season. Audience favorite “Can-Can Parisian” (to Jacques Offenbach's “Gaite Parisienne”) is a glitzy story ballet with plenty of acting and humor, culminating in the high ...
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• Peggy Spencer obituary

  29-05-2016 16:41
  
  Teacher, choreographer and popular judge on the BBC’s Come DancingAlthough Peggy Spencer’s life revolved around the ballroom, she never thought of herself as a dancer or choreographer; she was a natural teacher who worked for more than 70 years in service of her belief in “dance for all”. For 50 of them, she was the ultimate authority, stately but friendly, for the BBC’s Come Dancing, and the senior judiciary of global ballroom and Latin dance contests.Spencer, who
  
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• Royal Ballet mixed bill review – a winning world premiere from Wayne McGregor - The Guardian

  29-05-2016 15:24 via theguardian.com
  
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  Royal Ballet mixed bill review – a winning world premiere from Wayne McGregor
  The Guardian
  Elegance and innocence … Matthew Ball and Calvin Richardson in Obsidian Tear. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian. Judith Mackrell · @judithmackrell. Sunday 29 May 2016 09.24 EDT Last modified on Sunday 29 May 2016 17.00 EDT. Share on ...
  Royal Ballet Triple Bill, Royal Opera House: 'Strong, well-balanced'Financial Times
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• Royal Ballet mixed bill review – a winning world premiere from Wayne McGregor

  29-05-2016 15:24
  
  Royal Opera House, London
  McGregor’s all-male Obsidian Tear, one of his strongest works to date, contrasts with brutal Kenneth MacMillan, plus superbly performed Christopher WheeldonAs Wayne McGregor has evolved from contemporary to classical choreographer, he has made deliberate use of the traditional balletic contrasts between male and female dancing. He plays with the extreme, airborne possibilities of the pas de deux and the skimming, stabbing language of pointe work. But in his latest
  
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• Jekyll & Hyde review – rock’n’roll swagger

  29-05-2016 09:00
  
  Drew McOnie delivers skilful storytelling and terrific dancing with an inspired Jekyll and Hyde set in 1950s LondonThe narrative issue is one of the most pressing in dance today. Very few choreographers know how to tell a story; incoherence has become the rule, rather than the exception. In his enthralling new production of Jekyll & Hyde, the Olivier award-winning director and choreographer Drew McOnie shows us how it should be done. There is no synopsis in the programme, and no word spoken
  
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• On point ... musically: Pennsylvania Youth Ballet adds live music to performances - Allentown Morning Call

  29-05-2016 05:50 via mcall.com
  
  Allentown Morning Call
  On point ... musically: Pennsylvania Youth Ballet adds live music to performances
  Allentown Morning Call
  PHOTO GALLERY: PA Youth Ballet conducted their dress rehearsal for Carnival of Animals and Vivaldi's Four Seasons on Sunday in Bethlehem. (SHARON K. MERKEL / SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL). Kathy Lauer-WilliamsContact ReporterOf The ...
  
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