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• Ballet's young ambassadors throw foodie affair - Houston Chronicle

  05-05-2017 23:40 via houstonchronicle.com
  
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  Ballet's young ambassadors throw foodie affair
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  Clockwise from top left: Chefs Rebecca Masson, from left, Nicole Routhier, Lance Gillum, Elliott Kelly and Robert Del Grande; Chris Shepherd, from left, Lindsey Brown and Kristy and Chris Bradshaw; Dancers ... more. Photo: Gary Fountain, For The Chronicle.
  
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• Honoring 25 years with Ballet Master Arturo Fernandez

  05-05-2017 23:39 via blog.linesballet.org
  
  This is Arturo Fernandez’s last season with the company as LINES Ballet’s Ballet Master. There are few things we could do to accurately express the love, gratitude and honor we have for him. For the last 25 years he’s traveled on countless tours and preserved and passed on countless hours of choreography to our dancers. His dedication, passion and care will not soon be forgotten. Below is a brief message from Arturo, and following that are a collection of notes from current and
  
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• 2017 New York City Ballet Spring Gala Features Spectacular Performances, Raises Over $2 Million - Forbes

  05-05-2017 23:26 via forbes.com
  
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  2017 New York City Ballet Spring Gala Features Spectacular Performances, Raises Over $2 Million
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  New York City Ballet held its annual Spring Gala Thursday evening at the David H. Koch Theater. The evening featured the world premiere of Odessa, a new ballet by acclaimed Russian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, as well as three other ballets: Peter ...
  BWW Review: New York City Ballet's All Christopher Wheeldon ProgramBroadway Worldall 2 news articles »
  
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• Stage set for Moscow Ballet - Gisborne Herald

  05-05-2017 23:13 via gisborneherald.co.nz
  
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  Stage set for Moscow Ballet
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  FITTING a moonlit lake and a palace ballroom into a theatre could be a daunting prospect but the Moscow Ballet company will manage that in less than three hours when the troupe arrives in Gisborne on Monday. The Russian company are performing one of ...and more »
  
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• For the Couples in This Alexei Ratmansky Ballet, Love Is Not Enough - New York Times

  05-05-2017 23:12 via nytimes.com
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  For the Couples in This Alexei Ratmansky Ballet, Love Is Not Enough
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  Aloft, from left, Tiler Peck, Sara Mearns and Sterling Hyltin, with other members of New York City Ballet in “Odessa,” at the David H. Koch Theater. Credit Andrea Mohin/The New York Times. When the choreographer Merce Cunningham was asked in 1991 ...and more »
  
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• Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest Learn to Dance Bachata from Prince Royce - PEOPLE.com

  05-05-2017 22:51 via people.com
  
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  Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest Learn to Dance Bachata from Prince Royce
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  Who better to learn bachata – the Caribbean dance that originated in the Dominican Republic, from than the “king of bachata” himself, Prince Royce? That's exactly what happened on Live with Kelly and Ryan when the 22-time Latin Billboard Award winner ...
  Kelly Ripa to Announce Her New 'Live!' Cohost on MondayUs Weeklyall 102 news articles »
  
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• Billboard Dance Chart Upstarts: Joe Goddard, Ofenbach & K?D - Billboard

  05-05-2017 22:18 via billboard.com
  
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  Billboard Dance Chart Upstarts: Joe Goddard, Ofenbach & K?D
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  Joe Goddard, Electric Lines. British electronic producer Joe Goddard grabs his first solo Billboard chart appearance with Electric Lines, new at No. 14 on Dance/Electronic Album Sales. As a member of Hot Chip, Goddard has earned four top 10s, including ...
  
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• Review: Alberta Ballet's Our Canada tells Gordon Lightfoot's tale of our heritage - Calgary Herald

  05-05-2017 22:00 via calgaryherald.com
  
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  Review: Alberta Ballet's Our Canada tells Gordon Lightfoot's tale of our heritage
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  Alberta Ballet rehearses Our Canada at the Jubilee Auditorium on Wednesday May 3, 2017. The new ballet features the music of Gordon Lightfoot and will be a world premiere event running in Calgary May 4-6. Gavin Young/Postmedia Network Gavin Young ...and more »
  
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• Classical Ballet Theatre presents 'Swan Lake' - Fairfaxtimes.com

  05-05-2017 20:47 via fairfaxtimes.com
  
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  Classical Ballet Theatre presents 'Swan Lake'
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  Kathy Beyer shares her expertise with Claire de la Paz, who is dancing the lead role of Odette in the Children's Series 'Swan Lake.' prev. next. Classical Ballet Theatre is staging “Swan Lake” as its Spring 2017 Children's Series performance on May 6 ...
  
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• Inclusive dance program lets all dancers shine - KEYT

  05-05-2017 20:36 via keyt.com
  
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  Inclusive dance program lets all dancers shine
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  CAMARILLO, Calif. - A couple times a week students gather for a performing arts dance class at California State University Channel Islands. In this class, one student is changing the way all of us should think about movement and dance. “I love it. It's ...
  
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• Teenagers with disabilities learn to dance from the heart - Philly.com

  05-05-2017 20:18 via philly.com
  
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  Teenagers with disabilities learn to dance from the heart
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  Pennsylvania Ballet II dancer Halle Sherman, left, helps Tamika Lincoln, a student at St. Katherine Day School, during rehearsals for a joint performance by young professional dancers and students with disabilities. Sherman said: 'We are friends forever!'.and more »
  
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• May-June 2017 | The Space Race

  05-05-2017 20:15
  
  Perhaps the question “When do you know it’s time for a bigger studio?” isn’t difficult to answer when your studio space is a closet.
  
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• Tulane defensive end takes ballet lessons - Maroon

  05-05-2017 20:12 via loyolamaroon.com
  
  Tulane defensive end takes ballet lessons
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  Ade Aruna, Tulane University business senior and defensive end this year for the Green Wave, looks to make a splash in his last season. This year he hopes to play even better, but is approaching offseason workouts in a different way. Aruna has added ...
  
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• May-June 2017 | Moving Images

  05-05-2017 19:48
  
  Videos of note (new and not)1. Balanchine Essays: “Arabesque”2. Thelma’s Tap Notes: Tap Into Life: A Guide to Tap Dancing for Adults, Level I3. Reset4. Contemporary Turns and Jumps With Albert Cattafi
  
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• Suffolk dancers win big in Richmond ballroom dance competition - Virginian-Pilot

  05-05-2017 18:34 via pilotonline.com
  
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  Suffolk dancers win big in Richmond ballroom dance competition
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  Student Jennifer Pollard of Suffolk takes to the dance floor to perform the Rumba with partner and instructor Jeff Call at Studio 2C. Studio 2C dance studio. Buy Now. James Thomas Jr. | For The Virginian-Pilot. Julianna Davenport, performing the Bolero ...
  
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• Connections bubble up in Printz Dance's 'Glasslands' - SFGate

  05-05-2017 18:29 via sfgate.com
  
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  Connections bubble up in Printz Dance's 'Glasslands'
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  Plastic may be the scourge of the world, but it finds a kind of redemption in “Glasslands,” Printz Dance Project's exploration of human connection in the age of technology. Transformed into clear, room-size bubble-pods and drifting opaque sheets, the ...
  
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• Lines Ballet uses language of dance to keep language alive - SFGate

  05-05-2017 18:08 via sfgate.com
  
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  Lines Ballet uses language of dance to keep language alive
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  Over the years, choreographer Alonzo King has ranged far and wide in his choice of collaborators, but one of the most fascinating of the bunch made his debut with Lines classical ballet at its spring season opening Thursday, May 4, at Yerba Buena ...
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• DC Has a New Beyoncé Dance Class—And It's Just As Fun As You'd Think - Washingtonian.com

  05-05-2017 17:22 via washingtonian.com
  
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  DC Has a New Beyoncé Dance Class—And It's Just As Fun As You'd Think
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  For someone who has decidedly zero moves, I walked into my first Beyoncé-themed dance class in DC prepared to feel uncomfortable. The fact that I wasn't—and actually had a lot of fun—is a pretty good testament to DivaDance's ability to get even ...
  
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• 'Alice in Wonderland' ballet mixes classic dance, custom animations - MLive.com

  05-05-2017 17:06 via mlive.com
  
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  'Alice in Wonderland' ballet mixes classic dance, custom animations
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  GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Audiences are invited to fall down the rabbit hole for a night of whimsy with the Grand Rapids Ballet's "Alice in Wonderland." The show will get curiouser and curiouser as the night goes on as dancers perform in extravagant costumes ...
  
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• The Deane Center Little Beans Program Welcomes Interpretive Dance - My Twin Tiers.com

  05-05-2017 16:28 via mytwintiers.com
  
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  The Deane Center Little Beans Program Welcomes Interpretive Dance
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  WELLSBORO, Pa (18 NEWS) - At 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 13, Maia Stam of Wellsboro will teach youngsters how to create new dance moves to interpret and communicate their ideas and emotions. She will then show them how to use those movements to ...
  
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• Cuong Vu 4-tet: Ballet — 'free-styling narratives' - Financial Times

  05-05-2017 16:18 via ft.com
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  Cuong Vu 4-tet: Ballet — 'free-styling narratives'
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  Trumpeter Cuong Vu's previous release was a spiky, free-styling studio collaboration with guitarist Pat Metheny. Here, guitarist Bill Frisell joins Vu's working trio to celebrate the music of composer/arranger Michael Gibbs. The five Gibbs compositions ...
  
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• Eifman Ballet set to tour North America - Russia Beyond the Headlines

  05-05-2017 13:07 via rbth.com
  
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  Eifman Ballet set to tour North America
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  'We will introduce the original and successful choreographic repertoire of contemporary Russia to North America and Canada.' Source: Evgeny Matveev. The Boris Eifman Ballet Theater kicks off a new tour in the U.S. and Canada on May 11, and will perform ...
  
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• Beautiful ballet - The Daily Republican

  05-05-2017 12:11 via dailyrepublicannews.com
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  Beautiful ballet
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  Romeo leaped over the sleeping body of his beloved, Juliet, in the Russian National Ballet Theatre's production of the famed story by William Shakespeare Wednesday evening at Marion Cultural & Civic Center. Ceasar Maragni/Daily Republican. Dancers ...
  
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• Strings And Slippers: String Quartet, Rock Quartet And A Ballet Combine At Friends This Weekend - KMUW

  05-05-2017 12:10 via kmuw.org
  
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  Strings And Slippers: String Quartet, Rock Quartet And A Ballet Combine At Friends This Weekend
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  Twenty-First Century Projects is a new collaboration between Wichita musicians and the Friends University Ballet. The project brings together rock band Spirit of the Stairs, composer Von Hansen and a string quartet led by cellist Susan Mayo. According ...
  
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• Sky's the limit: Boris Charmatz's rooftop dance reclaims cities from terror

  05-05-2017 12:00
  
  His dancers have performed at Tate Modern and been lifted by cranes. Now, the maverick choreographer is taking them to the top of a multistorey carpark for a feverish protest showIt is dark, and a cold wind is blowing over the top floor of the multistorey car park where a crowd has gathered. The French city of Poitiers is small and pretty, but we are a long way from the bustling cafes of its centre. We have been herded to a rooftop by the railway tracks to watch Danse de Nuit, a work by the Fren
  
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• 'Peter Pan' makes a return flight with the Milwaukee Ballet - Wisconsin Gazette

  05-05-2017 10:42 via wisconsingazette.com
  
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  'Peter Pan' makes a return flight with the Milwaukee Ballet
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  Dance fans who will never grow up should be delighted by the return of Milwaukee Ballet's high-flying production of “Peter Pan.” The work, which premiered in 2010, returns to Marcus Center for the Performing Arts for four performances from May 10 to ...
  
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• Local ballet students wow on international stage - Northern Star

  05-05-2017 05:23 via northernstar.com.au
  
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  Local ballet students wow on international stage
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  Layne Hampson, 17, Kayla Van Den Bogert, 15, Caitlin Garlick, 14,and will be travelling on scholarships to different parts of the world to study ballet for two weeks. Marc Stapelberg. Popular Stories. WATCH: See the damage inside flood hit businesses ...
  
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• Editorial: "The Great Comet" and the Richmond Ballet illuminate New York's art scene - Richmond.com

  05-05-2017 04:35 via richmond.com
  
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  Editorial: "The Great Comet" and the Richmond Ballet illuminate New York's art scene
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  A Tony nomination for best choreography has gone to Hopewell's Sam Pinkleton. A graduate of Petersburg's Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the Performing Arts, Pinkleton created the dances for the Broadway musical, “Natasha, Pierre and the ...
  
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• Children's Ballet of San Antonio earns recognition for multiple accomplishments - KSAT San Antonio

  05-05-2017 00:49 via ksat.com
  
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  Children's Ballet of San Antonio earns recognition for multiple accomplishments
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  SAN ANTONIO - With San Antonio's citywide celebration of Fiesta wrapped up, the city is preparing to celebrate its biggest party yet for its 300th birthday. One of the many partners of the city's Tricentennial, the Children's Ballet of San Antonio, is ...
  
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