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• Dance|Review: 'The Golden Cockerel' at American Ballet Theater Honors Its Origins - New York Times

  07-06-2016 23:34 via nytimes.com
  New York Times
  Dance|Review: 'The Golden Cockerel' at American Ballet Theater Honors Its Origins
  New York Times
  From left, Jeffrey Cirio and Joseph Gorak in “The Golden Cockerel,” with scenery and costumes by Richard Hudson. Credit Andrea Mohin/The New York Times. The most marvelous element of American Ballet Theater's new production of “The Golden ...
  The Golden Cockerel, American Ballet Theatre, New York — reviewFinancial Timesall 3 news articles »
  
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• Summer with LINES: An interview with Alonzo King, video of the Company on tour and More…

  07-06-2016 11:42 via blog.linesballet.org
  LINES Ballet Summer Tour 2016
  From a castle in Turkey to an ancient amphitheater in southern France to modern outdoor venues that seat thousands, the company’s July European tour will be a memorable one.
  It begins on July 9 in Ravenna, Italy at the Palazzo Mauro de Andre. They then travel to southern France to the Theatre Antique, a stone first century amphitheater in Vaison la Romaine, to perform under the stars on July 12. Onto Barcelona for the Grec Festival’s 40th year
  
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• A Video Inside Spring Tour Rehearsals with Live Musicians

  07-06-2016 11:42 via blog.linesballet.org
  “The dancer is a musical master who whips space into limitless pathways, cutting through rhythm with strikes and punctuations or making time pause.” -Alonzo King.
  Alonzo King LINES Ballet had an incredible Spring Tour performing throughout Slovenia, Germany, France and Ireland. In Rouen, France, the company had the pleasure of performing SHOSTAKOVICH with live musicians. Enjoy a sneak peek into the process of integrating these new artists during rehearsal on tour:
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• How we made the Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds

  07-06-2016 09:00
  
  ‘The song still follows me around. There’s a beer named after it now – and a loaf of bread’We started making acid house tracks before it was called acid house. It was electronic indie dance music, really. I was sharing a council flat with Alex in Battersea, which had a bedroom studio. Jimmy Cauty from the KLF, who’d been in my band Brilliant, came round a lot and Andrew Weatherall lived upstairs. Alex and I started a label called WAU! Mr Modo, which stood for weird
  
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• Royal New Zealand Ballet instructor provides inspiration for Bulls pupils - Manawatu Standard

  07-06-2016 06:48 via stuff.co.nz
  
  Manawatu Standard
  Royal New Zealand Ballet instructor provides inspiration for Bulls pupils
  Manawatu Standard
  Students at Bulls School got a taste of being munchkins and mice during a Royal New Zealand Ballet workshop where they pointed and pranced their way down an imaginary yellow brick road. More than 50 students were put through their paces by RNZB ...and more »
  
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