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• David Mancuso's Loft was a dance music utopia. We should all learn from it now - Los Angeles Times

  15-11-2016 22:01
  
  Los Angeles Times
  David Mancuso's Loft was a dance music utopia. We should all learn from it now
  Los Angeles Times
  If you've gone clubbing to escape the pain and anxiety of this week, you have David Mancuso to thank for your moments of camaraderie and relief. Mancuso's death at 72, first announced Monday by Kid Recordings, adds to the tally of musical visionaries ...
  David Mancuso, DJ and dance culture pioneer, dies aged 72 | Music ...The Guardian
  Craig Shifty - RIP David Mancuso October 2
  
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• Human, digital connection becomes the stuff of ballet at Mana in Jersey City - NJ.com

  15-11-2016 21:48
  
  NJ.com
  Human, digital connection becomes the stuff of ballet at Mana in Jersey City
  NJ.com
  JERSEY CITY -- Today's connection between the human and the digital is the subject of a triadic ballet being presented Saturday, Nov. 19, through Tuesday, Nov. 22, at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. Roya Sachs and Mafalda Millies, two independent ...
  
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• BCPS board member: Dallas Dance must go - Baltimore Sun

  15-11-2016 17:51
  
  Baltimore Sun
  BCPS board member: Dallas Dance must go
  Baltimore Sun
  Op-ed: BCPS board member shares the email that convinced her Dallas Dance must go. I am a member of the Board of Education of Baltimore County who voted against Dallas Dance's employment contract renewal earlier this year because I think his job ...and more »
  
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• See Inside: Ballet Memphis' new Midtown home - Memphis Business Journal

  15-11-2016 17:19
  Memphis Business Journal
  See Inside: Ballet Memphis' new Midtown home
  Memphis Business Journal
  Over the past year, a prominent Overton Square corner has gone from a vacant hotel to an empty lot to the future home of Ballet Memphis. Ballet Memphis purchased the property at the corner of Cooper Street and Madison Avenue in August 2015 for $4.23 ...
  
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• Rambert review – massed forces summon an epic, jubilant Creation

  15-11-2016 16:12
  
  Sadler’s Wells, London
  Forty three dancers are complemented by orchestra, choir and soloists in an ambitious and highly energetic production of Haydn’s oratorio Mark Baldwin has always been staunch in his support of new music; under his direction of Rambert, composers as diverse as Julian Anderson and Scanner have been commissioned to write scores. But Baldwin’s most recent choreographic project is ambitious in a whole new direction – producing an epic two hours of dance
  
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• Zadie Smith's Dance of Ambivalence - The Atlantic

  15-11-2016 12:00
  
  The Atlantic
  Zadie Smith's Dance of Ambivalence
  The Atlantic
  Like ​The Atlantic? Subscribe to ​the Daily​, our free weekday email newsletter. Reviews. Swing Time. By Zadie Smith. Penguin. “When you are first published at a young age, your writing grows with you—and in public,” the novelist Zadie Smith once wrote.and more »
  
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