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• This algorithm can hide messages in dance music | Computerworld - Computerworld

  18-08-2016 22:53 via computerworld.com
  
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  This algorithm can hide messages in dance music | Computerworld
  Computerworld
  It's long been known that secret messages can be included in music through techniques such as backmasking, but now a Polish researcher has developed an ...and more »
  
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• Virginia Ballet Company Premiers Family Fun Series - Virginia Connection Newspapers

  18-08-2016 22:47 via connectionnewspapers.com
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  Virginia Ballet Company Premiers Family Fun Series
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  Virginia Ballet Company Premiers Family Fun Series ...and more »
  
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• 12-Year-Old Kai Song Premieres 'I Just Wanna Dance': Exclusive ... - Billboard

  18-08-2016 22:16 via billboard.com
  
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  12-Year-Old Kai Song Premieres 'I Just Wanna Dance': Exclusive ...
  Billboard
  Life as a 12-year-old is pretty awesome. You don't have many responsibilities beyond going to school and not flunking. You get to stay home when you're sick ...and more »
  
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• Houston Ballet announces new academy director - Your Houston News

  18-08-2016 22:03 via yourhoustonnews.com
  
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  Houston Ballet announces new academy director
  Your Houston News
  Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch has announced the appointment of Madeleine Onne as Director of Houston Ballet Academy. Onne will work closely with Welch to continue the high standard of educational and artistic excellence that the ...
  
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• Olympic weightlifter's celebration dance got a green screen treatment - Mashable

  18-08-2016 21:34 via mashable.com
  
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  Olympic weightlifter's celebration dance got a green screen treatment
  Mashable
  Whoever chose green as the backdrop for Olympic events might have underestimated the internet. When people noticed that that the color was almost a perfect green screen match, the scenes were transformed and shared online. Twitter user ...
  The Morning Brew: The sad story behind this weightlifter's joyful dance movesNewsOK.com
  Crowd favourite Katoatau says dance routine carries a serious messageOlympics
  
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• New Classical Arts Centre is Indiana Ballet Theatre CEO's passion project - nwitimes.com

  18-08-2016 20:02 via nwitimes.com
  
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  New Classical Arts Centre is Indiana Ballet Theatre CEO's passion project
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  Gloria Tuohy (center) with students Gabe and Lindsay Hartman (left) and Dakota Alessandrini (right) in the third floor space of the CAC, which will become the home of the IBT. New Classical Arts Centre is Indiana Ballet Theatre CEO's passion project.
  
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• Brilliant ballet critic quits - Slipped Disc

  18-08-2016 18:52 via slippedisc.com
  
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  Brilliant ballet critic quits
  Slipped Disc
  Formerly with the Telegraph, lately with the Spectator, she was a founder of the ArtsDesk website and a close observer of Russian affairs. Ismene writes: This is my last column as The Spectator's dance spectator. It's been the deepest pleasure to ...
  
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• At Jacob's Pillow, 'FLEXN' is searing example of dance as protest - The Boston Globe

  18-08-2016 18:33 via bostonglobe.com
  
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  At Jacob's Pillow, 'FLEXN' is searing example of dance as protest
  The Boston Globe
  BECKET — Dancing, an art form that relies mostly on the body to tell stories, has become very vocal. Pre- and post-performance talks are now common and, in “FLEXN,” the Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray/Peter Sellars collaboration presented this week at Jacob's ...and more »
  
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• Omar Robles' awe-inspiring photo series shows famous ballet dancers just hanging out on the streets of New York - Metro

  18-08-2016 17:01 via metro.co.uk
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  Omar Robles' awe-inspiring photo series shows famous ballet dancers just hanging out on the streets of New York
  Metro
  If we see professional ballet dancers at all, it's usually in the hushed surrounds of gilded opera houses. You don't tend to come across them standing en pointe at the bus stop. Which is why Omar Robles' photo series, which captures famous dancers ...
  
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• Shanghai Ballet: Echoes of Eternity, Coliseum, London — review - Financial Times

  18-08-2016 16:12 via ft.com
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  Shanghai Ballet: Echoes of Eternity, Coliseum, London — review
  Financial Times
  In my not inconsiderable experience of ballet, I have never been treated to the synopsis of a staging in rhymed couplets — laboured, it has to be said, and less than illuminating of events to come, but rhyming nonetheless. That is, until the Shanghai ...
  Shanghai Ballet: Echoes of Eternity review at the London ColiseumThe Stage
  Shanghai Ballet: Echoes of Eternity – London ColiseumThe
  
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• Washington DC Dance Season - Highlights - DC Theatre Scene

  18-08-2016 15:31 via dctheatrescene.com
  
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  Washington DC Dance Season - Highlights
  DC Theatre Scene
  Tuesday night, Trey Graham hosted the annual DC Theater Scene preview of the local theatre season at The Smithsonian. The discussion highlighted just a few specifics within the breadth of local offerings in theater, opera and musical theater, and dance.
  
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• Ballet dad among the six 2016 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award nominees - The Sydney Morning Herald

  18-08-2016 15:00 via smh.com.au
  
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  Ballet dad among the six 2016 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award nominees
  The Sydney Morning Herald
  It's the most prestigious individual award in ballet in this country, and winners of the Telstra Ballet Dancer Award, held annually since 2003, tend to go on to do extraordinary things. Seven of the former winners were promoted to principal artist in ...
  Ballet award is a big step towards putting the best foot forwardThe Australian
  Jade Wood nominated for Australian ballet's to
  
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• Binari at Edinburgh festival review – dancing of infinite delicacy

  18-08-2016 13:33
  
  Assembly Hall, Edinburgh
  Based on the songs and dances of traditional Korean funeral rites, this charming show conjures an astonishing atmosphere of beauty, grace and peace
  When a traditional dance form is uprooted from its local culture it runs the risk of losing its integrity or its life. But Binari, an unexpected charmer of a show that’s based on the songs and dances of Korean funeral rites, makes the journey to the western stage with real grace. On paper it sounds forbiddingly austere,
  
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• Ten years of toddlers' ballet - View News

  18-08-2016 13:30 via viewnews.co.uk
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  Ten years of toddlers' ballet
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  Fee Jeanes Toddlers Ballet has celebrated 10 years. Pictured are students performing their Beatrix Potter show at the Electric Palace earlier this year. A BRIDPORT toddler ballet school has celebrated a decade of teaching children to dance. Fee Jeanes ...
  
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• Capital Ballet Theatre makes intense start with new name - Lansing State Journal

  18-08-2016 13:25 via lansingstatejournal.com
  
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  Capital Ballet Theatre makes intense start with new name
  Lansing State Journal
  Act I: Ballet theater prepares for fall semester. For 25 years, the Children's Ballet Theatre has served ages 8 through 18 with intensive dance lessons and performances. Each year, they perform a production of “The Nutcracker” during Thanksgiving ...
  
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• Smother review – lust and claustrophobia in street dance romance

  18-08-2016 12:53
  
  Zoo Southside, Edinburgh
  Charting a gay love affair from erotically charged beginnings to curdled passion, this expressive dance show covers thrilling new terrainHip-hop has progressed a long way beyond its old macho image, but still it’s a surprise to encounter a dance work like Smother, which places a story of gay love and gay relationships at its heart.It’s the creation of pop choreographer Andrea Walker, and if there’s a flaw in the work it’s the slight naivety of its
  
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• Kazakh Ballet Star Brings Dance Victory from Seoul - Astana Times

  18-08-2016 11:13 via astanatimes.com
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  Kazakh Ballet Star Brings Dance Victory from Seoul
  Astana Times
  Kazakh ballet star and Astana Opera leading soloist Bakhtiyar Adamzhan won the 13th Seoul International Dance Competition, reported the Astana Opera press service. DSC8565-1024x681. Photo: Astana Opera. The artist earned the top rating in the ...
  
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• Dance lessons at Rikers to give women 'liberating release' - New York Post

  18-08-2016 08:24 via nypost.com
  
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  Dance lessons at Rikers to give women 'liberating release'
  New York Post
  The city Correction Department is advertising for two instructors to teach female inmates dance steps to “positively release tension, stress and anxiety” behind bars. Jail officials even came up with the specific dances to meet those goals: hip-hop ...and more »
  
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• En pointe, it's a night of ballet in Bangkok - Bangkok Post

  18-08-2016 08:18 via bangkokpost.com
  
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  En pointe, it's a night of ballet in Bangkok
  Bangkok Post
  Who composed that so-familiar quote? Ironically, it was a poet with a bad foot, an Englishman who probably couldn't even do a waltz. But Lord Byron knew of what he spoke, since his life had the excitement of a grand ballet. And Bangkok music-lovers ...
  
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• Lakes Area Music Festival Ballet - Brainerd Dispatch

  18-08-2016 03:12 via brainerddispatch.com
  
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  Lakes Area Music Festival Ballet
  Brainerd Dispatch
  Dancers from the St. Paul Ballet perform to Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" Wednesday during the Lakes Area Music Festival's Daydreams at the Tornstrom Auditorium in Brainerd. (Kelly Humphrey, Brainerd Dispatch - Gallery) 1 / 3. Dancers ...
  
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• N'ville Christian ballet school now offering men's classes - Central Kentucky News

  18-08-2016 02:16 via centralkynews.com
  N'ville Christian ballet school now offering men's classes
  Central Kentucky News
  The Gloria Deo School of the Arts in Nicholasville is a classical Christian ballet school that is creating more than just choreography for the younger generation, while adding classes for men for the first time. "What I like about our school is that I ...
  
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• Sarasota Ballet to return to "Fall for Dance" - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

  18-08-2016 02:02 via ticket.heraldtribune.com
  
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  Sarasota Ballet to return to "Fall for Dance"
  Sarasota Herald-Tribune
  Though it has not yet been officially announced by the Sarasota Ballet, both the New York Times and Dance Magazine have revealed that the Sarasota Ballet will return to the "Fall for Dance" Festival at New York's City Center in October, with ...
  This Chicago Dance Studio Is Giving Traditional Ballet A Hip-Hop ...Huffington Post
  A ballet educationJackson Hole News&Guide
  Brazil adds spice to New Orle
  
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• Beer & Ballet - Salt Lake City Weekly

  18-08-2016 00:39 via cityweekly.net
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  Beer & Ballet
  Salt Lake City Weekly
  Ballet West is gearing up for another round of Beer & Ballet at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (138 W. 300 South). On Saturday, Sept. 10, from 6-9:30 p.m., audience members can get a special sneak preview of Ballet West's Works from Within ...
  
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