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• Alessandra Ferri Makes the Most of a Dance With Father Time - New York Times

  22-06-2016 20:52 via nytimes.com
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  Alessandra Ferri Makes the Most of a Dance With Father Time
  New York Times
  It was late April, and the ballerina Alessandra Ferri was rehearsing the balcony pas de deux from Kenneth MacMillan's “Romeo and Juliet” with Herman Cornejo in American Ballet Theater's Lower Manhattan studios. The liquid fluidity, gorgeously arched ...
  
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• Go-To Dance Move? Country Stars Break It Down [Watch] - Taste of Country

  22-06-2016 20:48 via tasteofcountry.com
  
  Taste of Country
  Go-To Dance Move? Country Stars Break It Down [Watch]
  Taste of Country
  Dustin Lynch does the “Luke Bryan.” Chase Bryant does the “Sprinkler.” The “Running Man” and “Shopping Cart” are a few others that country music stars demonstrated on the CMT red carpet earlier this month. And yes, someone likes to twerk.and more »
  
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• That wicked fun dance party returns - Metro.us

  22-06-2016 20:07 via metro.us
  
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  That wicked fun dance party returns
  Metro.us
  On June 24, the City of Cambridge will host its 19th annual City Dance Party in the streets in front of City Hall. For this all-ages event, blocks of Massachusetts Avenue will be closed to traffic to accommodate thousands of eager dancers. This year ...
  Cambridge's Annual City Dance Party Returns This WeekendBoston magazine (blog)all 2 news articles »
  
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• Cop Seizes Opportunity To Dance In Bomb Squad Suit - Jalopnik

  22-06-2016 19:11 via jalopnik.com
  
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  Cop Seizes Opportunity To Dance In Bomb Squad Suit
  Jalopnik
  Is this the most equipment and manpower a law enforcement agency has ever devoted to a meme? What you're witnessing is the Bloomington, Minnesota police department performing the “Running Man Challenge,” (a viral dance created by a couple high ...
  
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• Cambridge's Annual City Dance Party Returns This Weekend - Boston magazine (blog)

  22-06-2016 18:52 via bostonmagazine.com
  
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  Cambridge's Annual City Dance Party Returns This Weekend
  Boston magazine (blog)
  Officials are gearing up for the return of the annual City Dance Party on Friday, June 24. The festivities, which are free and open to the public, will take place in front of Cambridge's City Hall between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.. The party will have no ...
  
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• Best EDM, Electronic and Dance Albums of 2016 So Far - RollingStone.com

  22-06-2016 18:47 via rollingstone.com
  
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  Best EDM, Electronic and Dance Albums of 2016 So Far
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  For the better part of 2016, it's been too easy to reduce EDM to a punchline — for starters, top tier act David Guetta dropped a cover of "If You're Happy and You Know It" late last year. But for all the news about EDM's bubble bursting, Avicii ...and more »
  
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• See Beyonce, Serena Williams Dance in Stark 'Sorry' Video - RollingStone.com

  22-06-2016 18:10 via rollingstone.com
  
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  See Beyonce, Serena Williams Dance in Stark 'Sorry' Video
  RollingStone.com
  Beyoncé has released the official video for her latest Lemonade single "Sorry." The clip was officially part of the visual album component, which is still exclusively available in full on Tidal and HBO.
  Watch Beyoncé and Serena Williams Dance In Official 'Sorry' VideoTIMEall 121 news articles »
  
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• Daniel Mengden chose baseball over the family business ... ballet - SB Nation

  22-06-2016 17:39 via sbnation.com
  
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  Daniel Mengden chose baseball over the family business ... ballet
  SB Nation
  HOUSTON, Texas -- As a boy, Daniel Mengden sat for hours in his front yard throwing a tennis ball to the curb across the street, carefully studying how it bounced off the cement differently with each toss. "He drove the neighbor across the street nuts ...
  
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• The Unity of Dance and Architecture - Hackaday

  22-06-2016 17:31 via hackaday.com
  
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  The Unity of Dance and Architecture
  Hackaday
  In an ambitious and ingenious blend of mechanical construction and the art of dance, [Syuko Kato] and [Vincent Huyghe] from The Bartlett School of Architecture's Interactive Architecture Lab have designed a robotic system that creates structures from a ...
  
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• Swift, Hiddleston cuddle and dance at Selena Gomez show - New York Daily News

  22-06-2016 15:43 via nydailynews.com
  
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  Swift, Hiddleston cuddle and dance at Selena Gomez show
  New York Daily News
  Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston dance at Selena Gomez's concert in Nashville on Tuesday. Looks like Taylor Swift is the one who can't keep her hands to herself. While her best friend Selena Gomez warbled the lyrics to her song “Hands To Myself” during ...
  Taylor Swift, Tom Hiddleston Dance, Pack on PDA at Selena Gomez's Nashville Concert: Watch!Us Weekly
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• 'Dance Moms' Abby Lee Miller To Plead Guilty In $5M Fraud Case; Deal With Feds - Deadline

  22-06-2016 15:21 via deadline.com
  
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  'Dance Moms' Abby Lee Miller To Plead Guilty In $5M Fraud Case; Deal With Feds
  Deadline
  While details were not revealed, sources tell Deadline the plea will likely see Miller escape significant jail time and pay a bulky fine in the case, which could have see her behind bars for up to five years and paying out more than $5 million in fines ...
  'Dance Moms' star Abby Lee Miller to plead guilty to fraudUSA TODAY
  'Dance Moms' Star To 'Accept Responsibility' For Fed ChargesCBS Local
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• Kids at Summer Dance Camp prep for Relay for Life performance - Southernminn.com

  22-06-2016 15:16 via southernminn.com
  
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  Kids at Summer Dance Camp prep for Relay for Life performance
  Southernminn.com
  Emberlie Tellijohn (far right) has 25 girls and boys signed up for her Summer Dance Camp this June at the Le Center Primary Building. The dancers are preforming July 8 at the Le Sueur County Relay for Life. (Alex Kerkman/Le Center Leader). Nora Goettl.
  
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• Taylor Swift, Tom Hiddleston Dance, Pack on PDA at Selena Gomez's Nashville Concert: Watch! - Us Weekly

  22-06-2016 14:53 via usmagazine.com
  
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  Taylor Swift, Tom Hiddleston Dance, Pack on PDA at Selena Gomez's Nashville Concert: Watch!
  Us Weekly
  Can't keep her hands to herself! One week after debuting her romance with Tom Hiddleston, Taylor Swift took her new man on a PDA-filled date night to pal Selena Gomez's Revival concert in Nashville on Tuesday, June 21.
  Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston Dance the Night Away at Selena Gomez's Nashville ConcertE! Online
  Swift, Hiddleston cuddle and dance at Selena Gomez showNew York Daily
  
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• Dark Souls 3 player defeats Abyss Watchers boss with dance pad - VG247

  22-06-2016 14:39 via vg247.com
  
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  Dark Souls 3 player defeats Abyss Watchers boss with dance pad
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• Spotlight on Anderson University dance program - The Herald Bulletin

  22-06-2016 13:08 via heraldbulletin.com
  
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  Spotlight on Anderson University dance program
  The Herald Bulletin
  Anderson University dancers pose for a group photo outside John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. AU was one of 31 universities selected to perform at the historic venue for the American College Dance Association's ...
  
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• Will 'Pennsyltucky' dance to Trump's tune? - The Hill (blog)

  22-06-2016 12:25 via thehill.com
  
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  Will 'Pennsyltucky' dance to Trump's tune?
  The Hill (blog)
  OHIOPYLE, PA.- Judy and her husband Phil, who is in his 29th year of service in the military, along with three other couples who ventured from Pittsburgh to attend an annual craft beer festival held on the fringes of the Pennsylvania state park, all ...
  
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• 24 Drones Dance with Japanese Multimedia Company Elevenplay During AMERICA'S GOT TALENT - Nerdist

  22-06-2016 12:02 via nerdist.com
  
  24 Drones Dance with Japanese Multimedia Company Elevenplay During AMERICA'S GOT TALENT
  Nerdist
  Remember how Oscar Isaac's character in Ex-Machina busted out some awesome dance moves alongside his robot companion? Well if you liked that, you'll love this! During the second audition episode for America's Got Talent, Elevenplay, a multimedia ...
  
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• New Dance Council head looks to push the envelope — eventually - PGH City Paper

  22-06-2016 12:00 via pghcitypaper.com
  PGH City Paper
  New Dance Council head looks to push the envelope — eventually
  PGH City Paper
  Randal Miller, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's new director of dance programming and special events, learned the ropes largely under Paul Organisak, who resigned in August after 12 years as the Trust's vice president for programming. Organisak left big ...
  
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• Why We Dance: Photos From the 'Radical Queer Underground' - New York Times (blog)

  22-06-2016 11:00 via lens.blogs.nytimes.com
  New York Times (blog)
  Why We Dance: Photos From the 'Radical Queer Underground'
  New York Times (blog)
  Quito Ziegler is a founding member of the WRRQ Collective and a board member of the Third Wave Fund who is currently developing a film project to help people visualize the queer feminist world of the future. Queer people everywhere work it out every ...
  
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• Groom surprises bride with cringeworthy Michael Jackson dance - and even the DJ gets involved - Mirror.co.uk

  22-06-2016 10:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror.co.uk
  Groom surprises bride with cringeworthy Michael Jackson dance - and even the DJ gets involved
  Mirror.co.uk
  This is the moment a groom performed a Michael Jackson dance for his new bride at their wedding - before starting a spontaneous - and pretty cringeworthy - dance-off with the DJ. The footage was filmed in Austin, Texas, and shows the man wearing a ...and more »
  
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• How choreographer Ann Yee got Andrew Scott and Ralph Fiennes into the groove

  22-06-2016 08:00
  
  She helped Scott shake his hips like a rock god in Birdland and set Fiennes boogying in A Bigger Splash. For actors, Ann Yee has all the right movesRalph Fiennes struts like a chicken, shimmies his bum, communes with the Mediterranean sun. In the film A Bigger Splash, he plays Harry, a music producer who erupts into the summer retreat of a rock star played by Tilda Swinton – and his impromptu dance to the Rolling Stones’ Emotional Rescue establishes him as a disruptive, disarming lif
  
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• (Graphic: Nick Wanserski, Image: Thinkstock) - A.V. Club

  22-06-2016 07:11 via avclub.com
  
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  (Graphic: Nick Wanserski, Image: Thinkstock)
  A.V. Club
  Digging through the contemporary dance-punk canon of the early '00s, it's pretty easy to bridge a few characteristics back to the '80s glam-metal party, but only at the most basic of levels. For example, the musicianship of both eras is pretty ...
  
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• Photos: Local groups ready for FestivALL Dance Gala - Charleston Gazette-Mail (subscription)

  22-06-2016 06:06 via wvgazettemail.com
  
  Charleston Gazette-Mail (subscription)
  Photos: Local groups ready for FestivALL Dance Gala
  Charleston Gazette-Mail (subscription)
  Loyd Boyd (in purple) and other dancers from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Ailey II apprentice company, instructed advanced/intermediate dancers age 14 and up in the company's style of modern dance. Local dance companies, the Charleston ...
  
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• The death-defying Dance of the Flyers - CNN

  22-06-2016 01:05 via cnn.com
  
  CNN
  The death-defying Dance of the Flyers
  CNN
  (CNN) Five individuals climb to the top of a pole more than 100 feet tall. One man, known as the caporal, stands in the middle on a small, wooden platform playing the flute and drum. There is nothing to support him. There are no safety nets to catch him.
  
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