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• Review: 'Reset' Follows Benjamin Millepied's Efforts to Rejuvenate Paris Opera Ballet - New York Times

  12-01-2017 22:24 via nytimes.com
  New York Times
  Review: 'Reset' Follows Benjamin Millepied's Efforts to Rejuvenate Paris Opera Ballet
  New York Times
  For a year and a half, Benjamin Millepied led the Paris Opera Ballet, where among other things he worked to diversify the company and to rethink the institution's hierarchy. At one point in “Reset,” the riveting documentary by Thierry Demaizière and ...
  'Reset' Review: Ballet's Benjamin Millepied Just Wants to Have FunTheWrapall 5 news articles »
  
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• Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century - The New York Times - New York Times

  12-01-2017 22:09 via nytimes.com
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  Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century - The New York Times
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  Our chief dance critic asks whether ballet can express a modern view of the sexes.and more »
  
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• Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century - New York Times

  12-01-2017 22:09 via nytimes.com
  New York Times
  Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century
  New York Times
  Jurgita Dronina in Christopher Wheeldon's “The Winter's Tale.” Credit Karolina Kuras/The National Ballet of Canada. Can ballet express a modern view of the sexes? In the Western contemporary world, women and men often hold equal status at work, ...and more »
  
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• Watch POWERS' Vibrant Visual For 'Dance': Exclusive Premiere - Billboard

  12-01-2017 18:03
  
  Billboard
  Watch POWERS' Vibrant Visual For 'Dance': Exclusive Premiere
  Billboard
  All POWERS wants to do is "Dance" in their brand new visual for the genre-bending track and you'll be inspired to do the same. The video starts with the duo entering what seems to be a very small shack in the middle of the desert, but once inside, it's ...and more »
  
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• POWERS' Vibrant Visual For 'Dance': Watch | Billboard - Billboard

  12-01-2017 18:03
  
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  POWERS' Vibrant Visual For 'Dance': Watch | Billboard
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  All POWERS wants to do is "Dance" in their brand new visual for the genre bending track and you'll be inspired to do the same.and more »
  
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• 'Dance Moms' Rumors: Maddie Ziegler To Write A Tell-All Book, Will She Slam Abby Lee Miller? - The Inquisitr

  12-01-2017 18:01
  
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  'Dance Moms' Rumors: Maddie Ziegler To Write A Tell-All Book, Will She Slam Abby Lee Miller?
  The Inquisitr
  'Dance Moms' Rumors: Maddie Ziegler To Write A Tell-All Book, Will She Slam Abby Lee Miller? Bernadette Giacomazzo. It looks like everyone is getting their last “licks” in before Abby Lee Miller is carted off to jail. And the latest Dance Moms rumors ...
  'Dance Moms' Recap: Abby's Controversial New Routine Sends the ALDC into a PanicBuddyTV (blog)
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• Special guests dazzle with dance team - Ottawaherald.com

  12-01-2017 17:42
  
  Ottawaherald.com
  Special guests dazzle with dance team
  Ottawaherald.com
  Raising her arms, Ryleigh Kobel, kindergartener at Central Heights Elementary School, performs with the Dazzlers dance team during halftime of the Central Heights High School basketball game Friday night. Kobel has spin bifida, a birth defect that ...
  School Dance Team Invites Wheelerchair DancersOzarksFirst.comall 3 news articles »
  
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• Ballet: The pirate of Liaoning - Jerusalem Post Israel News

  12-01-2017 17:24 via jpost.com
  
  Jerusalem Post Israel News
  Ballet: The pirate of Liaoning
  Jerusalem Post Israel News
  The year that Israel and China established diplomatic relations, Zijiao Qu was dancing the lead role in the Liaoning Ballet of China's production of Le Corsaire. In 1992, performing an international ballet in China was an unusual occurrence. In her ...
  
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• See Sia's Ecstatic '80s-Themed 'Move Your Body' Dance Video - RollingStone.com

  12-01-2017 17:19
  
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  See Sia's Ecstatic '80s-Themed 'Move Your Body' Dance Video
  RollingStone.com
  Sia's new single "Move Your Body" is another dance-ready track on the heels of her massive Number One single "Cheap Thrills." The new song's lyric video merges clubby sequences with goofy Eighties nostalgia.and more »
  
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• Beloved Bluefield dance instructor Lamb passes away at 66 - Beckley Register-Herald

  12-01-2017 17:18
  
  Beckley Register-Herald
  Beloved Bluefield dance instructor Lamb passes away at 66
  Beckley Register-Herald
  Randy Lamb, owner of Bluefield Dance Studio, performs with students in the Nutcracker Suite in this 2014 file photo. prev. next. BLUEFIELD – A dance instructor credited with helping to bring the arts to Bluefield and the Mercer County area passed away ...and more »
  
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• Pretty Big Movement Is A Dance Company That Crushes Body Stereotypes With Style - Huffington Post

  12-01-2017 16:45
  
  Huffington Post
  Pretty Big Movement Is A Dance Company That Crushes Body Stereotypes With Style
  Huffington Post
  Watch the ladies of Pretty Big Movement break it down — and by it, we mean outdated beauty ideals, of course. 01/12/2017 10:42 am ET. Priscilla Frank Arts Writer, The Huffington Post. The Scene ...and more »
  
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• Australian basketball league celebrates throwback weekend with awkward dance video - SB Nation

  12-01-2017 16:33
  
  SB Nation
  Australian basketball league celebrates throwback weekend with awkward dance video
  SB Nation
  Every now and then, you'll see a sports team wear throwback jerseys to commemorate their history. The Raptors have done it, the Packers have done it, the White Sox have done it (to the dismay of Chris Sale), and you get the picture. Australia's ...
  
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• Hillcat Dance heading to national competition - Claremore Daily Progress

  12-01-2017 15:39
  
  Claremore Daily Progress
  Hillcat Dance heading to national competition
  Claremore Daily Progress
  Members of the Rogers State University Dance squad will compete at a national dance competition this weekend in Florida. prev. next. The Rogers State University Dance squad will compete in the Universal Dance Association (UDA) Dance Team National ...
  
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• Dance teacher arrested for sexual relationship with teen - FOX 13 News, Tampa Bay

  12-01-2017 15:17
  
  FOX 13 News, Tampa Bay
  Dance teacher arrested for sexual relationship with teen
  FOX 13 News, Tampa Bay
  NORTH PORT (FOX 13) - A North Port dance instructor is behind bars after being charged with performing sexual acts on a teen. The founder of Haven Dance Studio, Lauren Debendetta, is charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a minor.
  Dance instructor charged with lewd acts on a studentSarasota Herald-Tribune
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• Inside DWTS Pro Louis van Amstel's 'Romantic' First Dance (Ever!) with Husband Joshua Lancaster - PEOPLE.com

  12-01-2017 15:09
  
  PEOPLE.com
  Inside DWTS Pro Louis van Amstel's 'Romantic' First Dance (Ever!) with Husband Joshua Lancaster
  PEOPLE.com
  With no cake, a female “best man” and a grown woman as flower girl, Louis van Amstel and Joshua Lancaster's wedding was full of unique moments. But there was one traditional moment the couple was not going to skip: the first dance. “As much as Louis ...and more »
  
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• “Grow, the Encore!” – Allegro Dance Project - WTVQ

  12-01-2017 15:00
  
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  “Grow, the Encore!” – Allegro Dance Project
  WTVQ
  Dancer Kat Michelle and Jeana Klevene, director and founder of the Allegro Dance Project, drop by the studio to tell Doug High about their upcoming production, “Grow, The Encore!” taking place on Saturday, January 14 at the Lyric Theatre and Cultural ...
  
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• Giselle review – Alina Cojocaru is sublime in signature role

  12-01-2017 13:38
  
  Coliseum, London
  Cojocaru brings exquisite precision to her performance in English National Ballet’s atmospheric and richly picturesque productionThis is an inspired piece of curation. English National Ballet follow their production of Akram Khan’s incendiary new version of Giselle with a historically attentive staging of the 1841 ballet. This cherished version dates from 1971, when Mary Skeaping returned to original sources and descaled the score. It’s fascinating to see old a
  
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• Report: Dance instructor began sexual relationship with teen inside dance studio - Fox 4

  12-01-2017 12:34
  
  Fox 4
  Report: Dance instructor began sexual relationship with teen inside dance studio
  Fox 4
  Four In Your Corner talking to neighbors of Laura De Benedetta after she was arrested for performing sexual acts on once of her dance students. Copyright 2017 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast ...
  Dance teacher arrested for sexual relationship with teenFOX 13 News, Tampa Bay
  North Port dance teacher charged with molesting female student, 15WWSB ABC 7
  
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• SB Dance Theater's Winter Performance - Santa Barbara Independent

  12-01-2017 09:04
  
  Santa Barbara Independent
  SB Dance Theater's Winter Performance
  Santa Barbara Independent
  “It's important to me that our community knows that Santa Barbara Dance Theater is continuing to commission, create, and perform great works of dance art,” said the company's artistic director Christopher Pilafian. With its upcoming performance, Anima ...
  
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• 'Let's turn the whole world around': inside Siobhan Davies' dance laboratory - The Guardian

  12-01-2017 08:30
  
  'Let's turn the whole world around': inside Siobhan Davies' dance laboratory
  The Guardian
  Does the mind rule the body? The dancer doesn't think so – and she's recruited scientists for her experimental new show. 'I think the mind is bloody wonderful' … Siobhan Davies in her south London studio. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian.
  
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• 'Let's turn the whole world around': inside Siobhan Davies' dance laboratory

  12-01-2017 08:30
  
  Does the mind rule the body? The dancer doesn’t think so – and she’s recruited scientists for her experimental new showWe’re standing in a beautiful, airy dance studio, beneath a ceiling made from great sweeping arcs of pale timber. In the spaces between their criss-crossing curves, skylights peep down. It is, I can’t help thinking, a good home for an artist who doesn’t like to feel boxed in.Siobhan Davies opened these studios, in Elephant and Castle, London,
  
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• Dance with Uste: Learn traditional steps at Balkan music fest - Brooklyn Paper

  12-01-2017 08:06
  
  Brooklyn Paper
  Dance with Uste: Learn traditional steps at Balkan music fest
  Brooklyn Paper
  Rockin' the Balkan: Visitors can learn the fundamentals of traditional Balkan line and circle dances at the Zlatne Uste Golden Festival at Grand Prospect Hall on Jan. 13–14. Enlarge this image. Oresti Tsonopoulus. Circle up: Folkdance and music go ...and more »
  
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• Chill out and rock out at a yoga rave - MyDaytonDailyNews

  12-01-2017 06:00
  
  MyDaytonDailyNews
  Chill out and rock out at a yoga rave
  MyDaytonDailyNews
  Part downward dog and part dance-club moves – Yoga Rave will combine the calm, mindfulness of yoga with the upbeat fun of a night at the club. The first-time event will start with a beginner-friendly Vinyasa yoga flow – with an occasional dance ...and more »
  
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• Embiid gets down with dance team after McConnell's buzzer-beater - NBA.com

  12-01-2017 05:55
  USA TODAY
  Embiid gets down with dance team after McConnell's buzzer-beater
  NBA.com
  The Sixers stunned the Knicks 98-97 on Wednesday with T.J. McConnell's buzzer-beating fadeaway, and few enjoyed it more than irrepressible rookie Joel Embiid. So much so, in fact, that "The Process" couldn't resist getting in a quick postgame boogie ...
  Joel Embiid busts a move with 76ers dance teamUSA TODAY
  Watch Joel Embiid Dance With Sixers Cheerleaders After Buzzer-Beater Win Vs. KnicksNESN.comall 122 news ar
  
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• Hometown Hero helps special needs kids shine through dance - WYTV

  12-01-2017 05:41
  
  WYTV
  Hometown Hero helps special needs kids shine through dance
  WYTV
  Camryn Constance blocked a potential game-winning shot at the buzzer, to seal up a 51-49 Austintown Fitch victory over Poland Wednesday. Warren Harding's Mike Hughes · Warren Harding boys handle East. January 11, 2017. Warren Harding topped East ...
  
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• UL Cheer and Dance head to national competition - KATC Lafayette News

  12-01-2017 05:39
  
  KATC Lafayette News
  UL Cheer and Dance head to national competition
  KATC Lafayette News
  The Ragin Cajun cheer and dance teams will hit the road tomorrow heading to Disney World to compete at nationals. Members of the teams sacrificed the majority of their Christmas break to perfect their routine to impress the judges in Orlando. "What ...
  
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• Teens @LINES: Emerging Artists Share their Voices

  12-01-2017 03:00 via blog.linesballet.org
  By Briana Dickinson
  What a difference 12 weeks at LINES makes! The Teens @LINES dancers have proved it. After having observed the final sharing of the teen contemporary class on December 11, there is no question that Alonzo King LINES Dance Center is a place where dancers are called to come and bring forth their artistic voices. The teen students each brought their unique individuality to the program with a willingness to take risks and grow.
  Yet what was revealed most in the sharing of their fi
  
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• Congolese music, dance workshops come to Missoula - The Missoulian

  12-01-2017 02:13
  
  The Missoulian
  Congolese music, dance workshops come to Missoula
  The Missoulian
  It's been 20 years since Mabiba Baegne last brought her African dance and music magic to Missoula. Among the many things that have changed since then: the Garden City became, in just the past few months, home to more than two dozen refugees from the ...
  
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• Police searching for 'leotard bandit' after bizarre dance store robbery - WGN-TV

  12-01-2017 01:58
  
  WGN-TV
  Police searching for 'leotard bandit' after bizarre dance store robbery
  WGN-TV
  The burglar was wearing regular clothes when he broke into a dance-wear shop in Missouri. He left with dance clothes that were mostly in adult sizes. That came in handy when he returned 30 minutes later. He was wearing one of the stolen leotards when ...
  Photo of leotard-wearing dance shop burglar released as Independence police seek tipsKansas City Star
  Man breaks into dance store, steals items in leotard, po
  
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• Dance company returns from China - Indiana Daily Student

  12-01-2017 01:27
  Indiana Daily Student
  Dance company returns from China
  Indiana Daily Student
  Professor and director of the African American Dance Company Iris Rosa is strict about how her dancers wear their hair. Black-, white- and short-haired dancers alike get their hair braided in cornrows. So when the dance company traveled to Beijing ...
  
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