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• New York City Ballet's Very 21st-Century Steps - The New York Times - New York Times

  27-01-2017 23:37
  New York Times
  New York City Ballet's Very 21st-Century Steps - The New York Times
  New York Times
  Sara Mearns in “The Shimmering Asphalt” by Pontus Lidberg Thursday evening at the David H. Koch Theater. Credit Andrea Mohin/The New York Times.
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• New York City Ballet's Very 21st-Century Steps - New York Times

  27-01-2017 23:37
  New York Times
  New York City Ballet's Very 21st-Century Steps
  New York Times
  Sara Mearns in “The Shimmering Asphalt” by Pontus Lidberg Thursday evening at the David H. Koch Theater. Credit Andrea Mohin/The New York Times. To make ballet contemporary again, modern music and modern sensibilities are needed. And lo!
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• Cocteau sins: Les Enfants Terribles by the Royal Ballet – in pictures

  27-01-2017 23:00
  
  The Barbican in London is staging a new production of Philip Glass’s dance-opera, based on Jean Cocteau’s sensational novel Les Enfants Terribles. Step inside the surreal world of two siblings’ deadly gamesContinue reading...
  
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• Review: Louisville Ballet's Choreographers' Showcase Is All About Narrative - 89.3 WFPL

  27-01-2017 21:58
  
  89.3 WFPL
  Review: Louisville Ballet's Choreographers' Showcase Is All About Narrative
  89.3 WFPL
  At the opening night of this year's Choreographers' Showcase, Robert Curran, producing and artistic director of the Louisville Ballet, framed the evening in the context of narrative. In a season in which the Ballet is producing three of the great story ...
  
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• San Francisco Ballet unveils two works, but repeats reign - The Mercury News

  27-01-2017 21:34
  
  The Mercury News
  San Francisco Ballet unveils two works, but repeats reign
  The Mercury News
  One of Helgi Tomasson's strengths as artistic director at San Francisco Ballet has been his often-canny talent for knitting together disparate works and assembling programs that are often far more interesting than the parts. But for Program 1, “The Joy ...
  
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• Shall these ballet dancers dance? Oh yes, and sing, act and star in national tour of 'An American in Paris' - Dallas News

  27-01-2017 19:44
  
  Shall these ballet dancers dance? Oh yes, and sing, act and star in national tour of 'An American in Paris'
  Dallas News
  An American in Paris is about unlikely dreams. In the 1951 movie and the 2015 Broadway musical, an American veteran, recovering from World War II, wants to start his life over as a painter in Paris. He falls in love with a woman he meets at first sight.
  
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• What would Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone score on Strictly?

  27-01-2017 18:41
  
  This week La La Land, whose stars sing and dance, got 14 Oscar nominations. What did former Strictly judge Arlene Phillips think?I had read all the reviews before going to see La La Land and I just couldn’t wait. I think it was the afternoon after the opening night, I was in a pantomime in Wimbledon and a big group of the performers all raced down to see it. We were buzzing. The opening number came and we were on our feet cheering, but as the film went along, well, I think I had expec
  
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• Seetha Raghaveeyam: Captivating ballet - The Hindu

  27-01-2017 12:31
  
  The Hindu
  Seetha Raghaveeyam: Captivating ballet
  The Hindu
  A scintillating dance ballet 'Seetha Raghaveeyam' in the gestural vocabulary of Bharatanatyam and several other concerts marked the 24th edition of a six-day Thyagaraja Aaradhanotsvam under the aegis of Thyagaraja Aaradhana Trust and Visakha Music ...
  
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• London boys ballet school reports huge rise in pupil numbers - Evening Standard

  27-01-2017 11:47
  
  Evening Standard
  London boys ballet school reports huge rise in pupil numbers
  Evening Standard
  The head of a London ballet school for boys has reported a huge rise in pupil numbers, with many applicants inspired by Strictly Come Dancing. James Cunliffe, founder and director of The London Boys Ballet School, said boys were no longer embarrassed ...
  
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• Us/Them and Woolf Works: this week’s best UK theatre and dance

  27-01-2017 11:30
  
  A remarkable look at the Beslan school tragedy and a homage by Wayne McGregor to Virginia Woolf. Plus: The Glass Menagerie, Letters To Windsor House, Love, Travesties, Sampled and Cinderella1 Us/Them
  A major hit at the Edinburgh fringe last summer, this remarkable show offers a child’s-eye view of the 2004 Beslan school siege, which left more than 300 people dead, including 186 children. Remarkably, this production created by Carly Wijs for the Belgian company Bronks was made with the over
  
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• Jazz dance to benefit Ajax Cafe - Peninsula Daily News

  27-01-2017 10:40
  
  Peninsula Daily News
  Jazz dance to benefit Ajax Cafe
  Peninsula Daily News
  PORT HADLOCK — The Key City Jazz trio plans a jazz dance Saturday to raise money for Port Hadlock restaurant Ajax Cafe. The event, which will be from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Rosewind Common House, 3131 Haines St., will raise money to help the cafe ...
  
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• Safarova, Mattek-Sands dance to Australian Open doubles title - Yahoo Sports

  27-01-2017 09:31
  
  Yahoo Sports
  Safarova, Mattek-Sands dance to Australian Open doubles title
  Yahoo Sports
  Melbourne (AFP) - Second seeds Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova took out the Australian Open women's doubles title on Friday to be crowned Grand Slam champions for a fourth time. The American-Czech pairing battled past 12th-seeded Andrea ...
  VIDEO - Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova celebrate with cheeky danceEurosport.comall 41 news articles »
  
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• Beauty and the Beast: Fairy tale ballet to help wishes come true for eastern North Carolina children - Greenville Daily Reflector

  27-01-2017 06:27
  Greenville Daily Reflector
  Beauty and the Beast: Fairy tale ballet to help wishes come true for eastern North Carolina children
  Greenville Daily Reflector
  Emma Mehlhop, 17, and Nicole Munson, 17, rehearse for Beauty and the Beast at Greenville Civic Ballet Center Tuesday, Jan. 24th, 2017. 012717goballet-3 · 012717goballet-1.jpg · 012717beauty.jpg · 012717beast.jpg. Loading… Kim Grizzard. Friday ...and more »
  
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• From Ballet to Trisha Brown - The New Yorker

  27-01-2017 06:06
  
  The New Yorker
  From Ballet to Trisha Brown
  The New Yorker
  To dance “Glacial Decoy,” the Paris Opera Ballet dancers had to undo what their training told them to do. Film Society of Lincoln Center | Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center | 212-875-5610. By Joan Acocella. Carolyn Lucas and Lisa Schmidt, of Trisha ...
  
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• Lunar New Year: The art of the lion dance - CNN

  27-01-2017 06:03
  
  CNN
  Lunar New Year: The art of the lion dance
  CNN
  Hong Kong (CNN) Over a billion people will celebrate the start of Lunar New Year this Saturday. Customs practiced leading up to and during the 15-day period known as Spring Festival, include setting off fireworks to ward off evil spirits and eating ...and more »
  
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• Dance, comedy and music, happening Jan. 28-29 - Austin American-Statesman

  27-01-2017 06:02
  
  Austin American-Statesman
  Dance, comedy and music, happening Jan. 28-29
  Austin American-Statesman
  Austinites participate in Austin's Free Day of Dance last year. Erika Rich For American-Statesman. Theater & dance. “The Daughter of the Regiment.” High comedy, romance and vocal fireworks await in this three-performance production of Gaetano Donizetti ...
  
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• January 2017 | 2 Music Tips for Dance Teachers | The Ballets Russes and Les Sylphides

  27-01-2017 06:01
  by Nina PinzarroneOn June 2, 1909, in Paris—an auspicious day in ballet history—Serge Diaghilev presented his newly formed Ballets Russes in Michel Fokine’s Les Sylphides in the form we know today.
  
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• Monthly West Coast Swing Dance - GreerToday

  27-01-2017 06:00
  
  Monthly West Coast Swing Dance
  GreerToday
  PLEASE NOTE: Our January monthly dance will be held on a SUNDAY at The Spinning Jenny. This venue has an amazing dance floor, and we are excited to dance there this month! Until we find a permanent location for our monthly dances, we will schedule ...
  
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• IVCC offers Wedding Reception Survival dance class - MyWebTimes.com

  27-01-2017 05:14
  
  IVCC offers Wedding Reception Survival dance class
  MyWebTimes.com
  Illinois Valley Community College's Continuing Education Office will offer “Wedding Reception Survival” from 7 to 8:15 p.m. Tuesdays, Feb. 7 through March 14, at Oglesby Lincoln School's gymnasium. Jane and Rodney Schomas will teach students the ...
  
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• U.S. Marines perform Japanese TV drama's “Love Dance” in heartwarming video - RocketNews24

  27-01-2017 05:11
  
  U.S. Marines perform Japanese TV drama's “Love Dance” in heartwarming video
  RocketNews24
  For those who've never spent a day inside an American military base, it's easy to imagine the institutions as cold, spartan environments. Dawn to dusk must be nothing but a constant rotation between target practice and sparring involving various types ...
  
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• Star choreographer William Forsythe brings 'Artifact' to Boston Ballet - The Boston Globe

  27-01-2017 04:08
  
  The Boston Globe
  Star choreographer William Forsythe brings 'Artifact' to Boston Ballet
  The Boston Globe
  He is hands down one of the most influential ballet choreographers of the past half century, and for the next five years, Boston Ballet has him. When the company gives the North American company premiere of William Forsythe's “Artifact” Feb. 23-March 5 ...
  
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• Dance picks - The Boston Globe

  27-01-2017 04:08
  
  The Boston Globe
  Dance picks
  The Boston Globe
  GALLIM DANCE Fearless physicality, emotional tension, and provocative ideas will be on view when Andrea Miller's New York-based contemporary troupe makes its Boston debut with the choreographer's “WHALE.” Presented by World Music/CRASHarts.
  
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• Md. high school principal apologizes for calling cheerleaders' dance 'too ghetto' - WJLA

  27-01-2017 03:49
  Md. high school principal apologizes for calling cheerleaders' dance 'too ghetto'
  WJLA
  "If parents out there watching, if this happened to their kids, they would feel the same anger and disrespect," said cheerleader Deyana Page. Last week's performance against the school's rival, Paint Branch High School, is causing quite a stir ...and more »
  
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• Winter art extravaganza combines dance, visual art - Red and Black

  27-01-2017 03:38
  
  Red and Black
  Winter art extravaganza combines dance, visual art
  Red and Black
  Visual art and dance will combine in the Winter Art Party Extravaganza at the Lamar Dodd School of Art on Jan. 27. The show, which has been happening for over three years in the winter and the fall, will feature four exhibits. The inspiration was to ...
  
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• Miss Tara, Yellow Claw & Grey: Billboard Dance Chart Upstarts ... - Billboard

  27-01-2017 02:14
  
  Billboard
  Miss Tara, Yellow Claw & Grey: Billboard Dance Chart Upstarts ...
  Billboard
  Miss Tara, Let's Live! Canadian tech-house DJ/producer Miss Tara (real name Tara Mobayen) makes her first Billboard chart appearance, entering Top ...and more »
  
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• Billboard Dance Chart Upstarts: Miss Tara, Yellow Claw & Grey - Billboard

  27-01-2017 02:14
  
  Billboard
  Billboard Dance Chart Upstarts: Miss Tara, Yellow Claw & Grey
  Billboard
  Miss Tara, Let's Live! Canadian tech-house DJ/producer Miss Tara (real name Tara Mobayen) makes her first Billboard chart appearance, entering Top Dance/Electronic Albums (dated Feb. 4) at No. 24 with debut album Let's Live! The mammoth 34-track set ...and more »
  
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• The Chainsmokers Dominate Top Two Spots of Hot Dance ... - Billboard

  27-01-2017 01:49
  
  Billboard
  The Chainsmokers Dominate Top Two Spots of Hot Dance ...
  Billboard
  The Chainsmokers' "Paris" soars 14-2 on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart (dated Feb. 4), following its first full week of airplay, sales and streaming.and more »
  
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• Family dance program at Sonoma library on Jan. 28 - Sonoma Index-Tribune

  27-01-2017 01:44
  
  Sonoma Index-Tribune
  Family dance program at Sonoma library on Jan. 28
  Sonoma Index-Tribune
  (1 of 2) Nikola Clay travels the country teaching children about the wide world of dance traditions. (1 of 2) Nikola Clay travels the country teaching children about the wide world of dance traditions. INDEX-TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT. INDEX-TRIBUNE STAFF ...
  
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• Liberty dance studio ransacked similar to other area break-ins - KMBC Kansas City

  27-01-2017 01:27
  
  KMBC Kansas City
  Liberty dance studio ransacked similar to other area break-ins
  KMBC Kansas City
  Another studio - MelRoe's School of Dance in Liberty was robbed overnight in a similar manner as several other metro dance studios. Melanie Egbert said the thief busted through their door - and quickly went to work. "He just ransacked the place." Every ...
  
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• Spellbinding David Bowie-Inspired Ballet 'Star Dust' Makes NYC ... - Billboard

  27-01-2017 00:52
  
  Billboard
  Spellbinding David Bowie-Inspired Ballet 'Star Dust' Makes NYC ...
  Billboard
  Wednesday (Jan. 25) night in New York City, I learned you haven't truly lived until you've watched a shirtless ballet dancer lip sync David Bowie while strutting ...and more »
  
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• Riley Curry steals the show again, wins impromptu dance-off with fan - SFGate

  27-01-2017 00:31
  
  SFGate
  Riley Curry steals the show again, wins impromptu dance-off with fan
  SFGate
  Riley Curry may have a lower profile these days, but she's still capable of stealing the spotlight any time she darn well feels like it. Case and point: At dad Steph's high school jersey retirement on Tuesday night, a fan from across the room decided ...
  
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