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• 2017 Ballet Ball delivers unique Nashville evening - The Tennessean

  05-03-2017 17:42 via tennessean.com
  
  The Tennessean
  2017 Ballet Ball delivers unique Nashville evening
  The Tennessean
  Nashville is truly unique. Of course you don't need me to tell you that. But I ask you, where else could you have an evening such as supporters of the Nashville Ballet experienced on the evening of March 4? Here are the details. Co-chaired by Laura ...
  
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• Ballet Black review – Little Red Riding Hood is a riot of a dance

  05-03-2017 14:54
  
  Barbican, London
  This eclectic triple bill draws inspiration from Debussy and Shostakovich before concluding with a funny, gutsy spin on a fairytaleThere are so many shining ways in which Ballet Black have made themselves a model of diversity. It’s not just their policy of giving a home to black and Asian dancers, nor the following they’ve built over the last 16 years – a vivid rebuttal to the idea that ballet appeals only to a white, middle-aged, middle-class audience. Equally
  
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• Ballet Black review – edgy, visceral elegance and fairytale fun

  05-03-2017 14:54
  
  Barbican, London
  This eclectic triple bill draws inspiration from Debussy and Shostakovich before concluding with a riotous rendering of Little Red Riding HoodThere are so many shining ways in which Ballet Black have made themselves a model of diversity. It’s not just their policy of giving a home to black and Asian dancers, nor the following they’ve built over the last 16 years – a vivid rebuttal to the idea that ballet appeals only to a white, middle-aged, middle-class audien
  
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• Miami City Ballet announces new season — and new 'Nutcracker' - Miami Herald

  05-03-2017 12:00 via miamiherald.com
  
  Miami Herald
  Miami City Ballet announces new season — and new 'Nutcracker'
  Miami Herald
  Miami City Ballet has announced its 2017-2018 season, highlighted by a newly designed production of “George Balanchine's The Nutcracker” from Cuban-American designers Isabel and Ruben Toledo. A program devoted to the late Jerome Robbins, ...
  
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• Meeting and Vestige review – Wayne Parsons makes his mark

  05-03-2017 09:00
  
  Rich Mix, London
  Parsons proves himself a distinctive narrative voice with his compelling new work about a fictional celebrityWayne Parsons is a familiar figure on the UK contemporary dance scene. From Richard Alston to Shobana Jeyasingh and Mark Bruce, Parsons has performed for them all, carving confident shapes on stages large and small. For the most part this work has been abstract in nature, but last Saturday Parsons launched himself as a choreographer with a distinctive narrative voice.His
  
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• Julie Cunningham: ‘The traditional duet always has the woman reliant on the man. I’m sick of it’

  05-03-2017 09:00
  
  The dancer turned choreographer on gender, her new company, and the highs and lows of working with Merce CunninghamIn September 2016, Julie Cunningham became the first recipient of the Leverhulme choreography fellowship, which helps professional dancers to become full-time working choreographers. Cunningham trained at the Rambert school, then spent 10 years dancing for Merce Cunningham (no relation) in New York before returning to Britain to join Michael Clark’s company, where her performa
  
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• The Trocks send up ballet with aplomb, and a lot of body hair - San Francisco Chronicle

  05-03-2017 07:51 via sfchronicle.com
  
  San Francisco Chronicle
  The Trocks send up ballet with aplomb, and a lot of body hair
  San Francisco Chronicle
  Members of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo dance in their version of “Esmeralda” at Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall. Members of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo dance in their... In the first minute of the show Friday, March 3, titters turned to ...
  
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• Misty Copeland: dancing into history

  05-03-2017 07:00
  
  She was caught between her impoverished mother and the ballet mistress who offered her a way out. Aaron Hicklin meets Misty Copeland, the first black principal at the American Ballet TheatreWe cannot know whether Misty Copeland would have become America’s most celebrated ballet dancer if she had not met Cindy Bradley, the flame-haired instructor who first recognised and then sharpened her talents, but it seems unlikely. Then again, it’s doubtful that Copeland would have met Bradley i
  
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