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• Rita Moreno to be named Nevada Ballet Theatre Woman of the Year - Las Vegas Review-Journal

  23-01-2019 23:54
  Rita Moreno to be named Nevada Ballet Theatre Woman of the Year  Las Vegas Review-JournalRita Moreno, the next Nevada Ballet Theatre Woman of the Year, is on the phone from the Fountainblue Hotel in Miami, where she relaxes and does a little ...
  
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• South High Marathon Dance announces beneficiaries - Glens Falls Post-Star

  23-01-2019 23:41 via poststar.com
  South High Marathon Dance announces beneficiaries  Glens Falls Post-StarSOUTH GLENS FALLS — The South High Marathon Dance announced on Wednesday the recipients of the 42nd annual event to be held in March.
  
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• Ageless Pensacola Presents Ballet Pensacola’s DIVAS-We Will Rock You! - WEAR

  23-01-2019 23:21
  Ageless Pensacola Presents Ballet Pensacola’s DIVAS-We Will Rock You!  WEARBallet Pensacola invites you to DIVAS-We Will Rock You! , an edgy evening of dance set to the popular music of your favorite singers! Performances are held at ...
  
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• Ballet Kelowna kicks off with first 2019 program, Winter - Kelowna Capital News

  23-01-2019 23:11
  Ballet Kelowna kicks off with first 2019 program, Winter  Kelowna Capital NewsA mixed program from Ballet Kelowna will kick off the new year. Winter is an up-tempo response to the season's icy chill from Ballet Kelowna's artistic director ...
  
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• Pittston Area Honor Society sponsors dance show to benefit organization - The Sunday Dispatch

  23-01-2019 22:44 via psdispatch.com
  Pittston Area Honor Society sponsors dance show to benefit organization  The Sunday DispatchYATESVILLE — Students of The Pittston Area National Honor Society will host a dance show called “A Chance to Dance” at 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3 at the ...
  
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• BlocBoy JB sues Epic Games over popular “Shoot” dance emote - The Verge

  23-01-2019 22:41 via theverge.com
  BlocBoy JB sues Epic Games over popular “Shoot” dance emote  The VergeRapper BlocBoy JB is the latest person to file a lawsuit against Fortnite developer Epic Games, this time over the use of his "Shoot" dance move in Fortnite.
  
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• Celebrities named for Minnesota Ballet's dance challenge - Duluth News Tribune

  23-01-2019 22:32
  Celebrities named for Minnesota Ballet's dance challenge  Duluth News TribuneThis year's Celebrity Dance Challenge includes a chef versus an evening anchor versus a musician versus a medical professional.
  
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• Winter Dance Party docuseries to commemorate 60th anniversary of 1959 tour - Mason City Globe Gazette

  23-01-2019 22:00 via globegazette.com
  Winter Dance Party docuseries to commemorate 60th anniversary of 1959 tour  Mason City Globe GazetteCLEAR LAKE | A documentary series on the infamous 1959 Winter Dance Party tour, marred by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big ...
  
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• City Ballet to audition children for ‘Coppelia’ - Albany Times Union

  23-01-2019 21:56
  City Ballet to audition children for ‘Coppelia’  Albany Times UnionNew York City Ballet will audition area children to dance with the company during its summer season from July 16 to 20 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
  
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• San Francisco Ballet's Sasha De Sola is the Subject of a New Bilingual Children's Book - pointemagazine.com

  23-01-2019 21:50
  San Francisco Ballet's Sasha De Sola is the Subject of a New Bilingual Children's Book  pointemagazine.comYou know you've really made it when a children's book has been made about your life. While San Francisco Ballet principal Sasha De Sola has long inspired ...
  
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• Woman Streams Alleged Sex Assault on Nightclub Dance Floor on Facebook Live: 'Help Me!' - PEOPLE.com

  23-01-2019 21:44 via people.com
  Woman Streams Alleged Sex Assault on Nightclub Dance Floor on Facebook Live: 'Help Me!'  PEOPLE.comAtlanta police are investigating an alleged sexual assault that was live-streamed while it was taking place on the crowded dance floor of an Atlanta club.
  
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• Man fatally shot at Northeast Side dance studio identified - mySA

  23-01-2019 21:32 via mysanantonio.com
  Man fatally shot at Northeast Side dance studio identified  mySAA man who was killed after a large brawl at a Northeast Side dance studio on Sunday was identified by the Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office.
  
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• Billboard Dance's Ones to Watch: January 2019 - Billboard

  23-01-2019 21:23 via billboard.com
  Billboard Dance's Ones to Watch: January 2019  BillboardIt's a new year, and you can't be caught listening to the same old jams. You need an innovative groove, a bold boom bap, a *fresh* sonic frontier. Good thing for ...
  
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• ISU Bengal Dance Team to host dance clinic Jan. 26 POCATELLO - Idaho State University

  23-01-2019 21:06 via isu.edu
  ISU Bengal Dance Team to host dance clinic Jan. 26 POCATELLO  Idaho State UniversityJanuary 23, 2019. POCATELLO – Idaho State University's Bengal Dance Team will host a dance clinic at Reed Gymnasium for children ages 4 to 10 on Jan.
  
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• Young 76ers fans go viral after epic dance off - FOX 5 DC

  23-01-2019 20:56 via fox5dc.com
  Young 76ers fans go viral after epic dance off  FOX 5 DCAn epic dance-off that ignited a crowd at Monday night's 76ers game has everyone talking. The boys who turned into internet sensations spoke with FOX 29's ...
  
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• Blue Valley dance coaches call racial discrimination suit false - Kansas City Star

  23-01-2019 20:49 via kansascity.com
  Blue Valley dance coaches call racial discrimination suit false  Kansas City StarA former Blue Valley dance coach named in a black student's racial discrimination lawsuit that has received national attention said the suit does not contain the ...
  
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• Review: At City Ballet, Taylor Stanley Is a God for Our Time - The New York Times

  23-01-2019 20:19
  Review: At City Ballet, Taylor Stanley Is a God for Our Time  The New York TimesMr. Stanley's thrillingly authoritative debut opened the winter season — and a triple bill of Balanchine-Stravinsky ballets — on a high note.
  
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• Review: At City Ballet, Taylor Stanley Is a God for Our Time

  23-01-2019 20:18 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Stanley’s thrillingly authoritative debut opened the winter season — and a triple bill of Balanchine-Stravinsky ballets — on a high note.
  
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• ‘Unsex Me Here’: What happens when you look at gender, via Shakespeare, through ballet - Charlotte Observer

  23-01-2019 18:48
  ‘Unsex Me Here’: What happens when you look at gender, via Shakespeare, through ballet  Charlotte ObserverBiology and psychology. Gender-bending and mind-bending. Innocent love and violent love and sparring love and interspecies love and anxiety so paralyzing it ...
  
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• Charlotte Ballet’s Innovative Works thoughtfully mixes dance movement with literature - Charlotte Observer

  23-01-2019 18:48
  Charlotte Ballet’s Innovative Works thoughtfully mixes dance movement with literature  Charlotte ObserverCharlotte Ballet's Innovative Works, retooled this year by artistic director Hope Muir to match out-of-town choreographers with UNC-Charlotte literary experts, ...
  
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• Charlotte Ballet, UNC Charlotte collaborate on Shakespeare for Innovative Works - Charlotte Observer

  23-01-2019 18:48
  Charlotte Ballet, UNC Charlotte collaborate on Shakespeare for Innovative Works  Charlotte ObserverBiology and psychology. Gender-bending and mind-bending. Innocent love and violent love and sparring love and interspecies love and anxiety so paralyzing it ...
  
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• Shakespeare and gender at Charlotte Ballet's new Works - Charlotte Observer

  23-01-2019 18:47
  Shakespeare and gender at Charlotte Ballet's new Works  Charlotte ObserverGender and ballet and The Bard come together in Charlotte Ballet's new Innovative Works, "Shakespeare Reinvented," a collaboration of the ballet with UNC ...
  
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• These kids threw down the dance-off of the century at the Sixers game - SB Nation

  23-01-2019 18:33 via sbnation.com
  These kids threw down the dance-off of the century at the Sixers game  SB NationOn Monday night, the world witnessed an array of dancing and energy that escalated to crowd-energized shirtlessness. A dance-off for the ages broke out in ...
  
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• New York Theatre Ballet Presents CINDERELLA - Broadway World

  23-01-2019 17:28
  New York Theatre Ballet Presents CINDERELLA  Broadway WorldNew York Theatre Ballet presents Cinderella from February 9-10, 2019 at Florence Gould Hall with performances each day at 11am, 1pm and 3:30pm.
  
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• Watch Camilla Parker Bowles Dance to Hava Nagila at a Jewish Community Center - TownandCountrymag.com

  23-01-2019 17:23 via townandcountrymag.com
  Watch Camilla Parker Bowles Dance to Hava Nagila at a Jewish Community Center  TownandCountrymag.comWhen Camilla Parker Bowles visited one of Jewish Care's community centers, she didn't hesitate to join in a cultural celebration.
  
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• Library Program Focuses on African American Ballet Artists - The SandPaper - The SandPaper

  23-01-2019 16:58
  Library Program Focuses on African American Ballet Artists - The SandPaper  The SandPaperThe Long Beach Island branch of the Ocean County Library will host “An Unlikely Two: Misty Copeland and Robert Battle” on Friday, Feb. 1, at 2 p.m. The ...
  
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• A First Look At The Dance of Death and Mies Julie at Classic Stage Company Off-Broadway - Playbill.com

  23-01-2019 16:37 via playbill.com
  A First Look At The Dance of Death and Mies Julie at Classic Stage Company Off-Broadway  Playbill.comThe two August Strindberg plays—including a new adaptation of Miss Julie by Yaël Farber and a new version of The Dance of Death by Conor McPherson—are ...
  
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• New Hard Rock dance hall launching with invitation-only Tanya Tucker concert - Tulsa World

  23-01-2019 16:33 via tulsaworld.com
  New Hard Rock dance hall launching with invitation-only Tanya Tucker concert  Tulsa WorldCountry music legend Tanya Tucker will christen Track 5, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino's new live music dance hall venue, with a private, invitation-only show ...
  
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• Duke's New Dance MFA: Not Your Typical Program - Duke Today

  23-01-2019 16:18 via today.duke.edu
  Duke's New Dance MFA: Not Your Typical Program  Duke TodayIf you're looking for a traditional master's degree in dance that will send you on a well-trod career as a performing dancer, the new MFA at Duke is probably not ...
  
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• Ballet premiering at NMU's FRT was created by local artists - UpperMichigansSource.com

  23-01-2019 15:41
  Ballet premiering at NMU's FRT was created by local artists  UpperMichigansSource.com'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' was choreographed and composed by artists in Marquette.
  
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• Marigny Opera Ballet - BOOK OF SAINTS - Very Local New Orleans

  23-01-2019 15:36
  Marigny Opera Ballet - BOOK OF SAINTS  Very Local New OrleansBook of Saints returns to the Marigny Opera House after its sensational debut in 2017. Teresa Fellion's two-act ballet is an illumination of the lives of three ...
  
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• VSU, Valdosta School of Ballet present “Sleeping Beauty” Jan. 25-26 - Valdosta State University News

  23-01-2019 15:06
  VSU, Valdosta School of Ballet present “Sleeping Beauty” Jan. 25-26  Valdosta State University NewsValdosta State University Theatre and Dance is once again partnering with the Valdosta School of Ballet to present “Sleeping Beauty” Jan. 25-26 at Mathis City ...
  
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• San Antonio Ballet School Encourages Diversity in Dance - Spectrum News

  23-01-2019 14:33
  San Antonio Ballet School Encourages Diversity in Dance  Spectrum NewsThe ballet school is emphasizing community outreach.
  
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• Boys' epic dance battle at Sixers game goes viral - WLS-TV

  23-01-2019 14:21 via abc7chicago.com
  Boys' epic dance battle at Sixers game goes viral  WLS-TVYour feel good moment of the day comes courtesy of an epic dance off that's become a bit of a thing at Philadelphia 76ers games.
  
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• Grace of ballet, vibrancy of acrobats thrills BCPAC audience - Bradford Era

  23-01-2019 14:00
  Grace of ballet, vibrancy of acrobats thrills BCPAC audience  Bradford EraAcrobats effortlessly twirling from colorful sheets of material 10 feet above the stage, or balancing with one arm on stacked chairs to tempo of live background ...
  
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• The Smear: A career-killing lie almost ruined this rising Minneapolis dance star - City Pages

  23-01-2019 13:47 via citypages.com
  The Smear: A career-killing lie almost ruined this rising Minneapolis dance star  City PagesI. Hate mail. 0. On the morning of October 21, 2017, the budding New York choreographer Jinah Parker was sitting in bed, her husband lying alongside, when ...
  
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• San Francisco dance company performs in Winona this weekend - PostBulletin.com

  23-01-2019 12:00 via postbulletin.com
  San Francisco dance company performs in Winona this weekend  PostBulletin.comWINONA — San Francisco's contemporary dance troupe, ODC/Dance, will present two performances this weekend in Winona.
  
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• Rediscover One of the First Artists Who Choreographed Dance for Film - Hyperallergic

  23-01-2019 09:00 via hyperallergic.com
  Rediscover One of the First Artists Who Choreographed Dance for Film  HyperallergicA stunning exhibition of Sara Kathryn Arledge makes a strong case for her as an overlooked artist deserving reevaluation and rediscovery. Dan Schindel3 days ...
  
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• Dayton Contemporary Dance Company: Still Going Strong - WYSO

  23-01-2019 09:00 via wyso.org
  Dayton Contemporary Dance Company: Still Going Strong  WYSOA dance company is more than graceful bodies moving across a stage; it's also the people behind the scenes making sure the artists can create. The Dayton.
  
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• Spring ballet class canceled - The Maroon - Maroon

  23-01-2019 08:03
  Spring ballet class canceled - The Maroon  MaroonStudents excited to pirouette and sashay their way through the school year were barred from the barre when Loyola cancelled its only ballet class for the spring ...
  
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• Spring ballet class canceled despite demand - The Maroon - Maroon

  23-01-2019 08:03
  Spring ballet class canceled despite demand - The Maroon  MaroonStudents excited to pirouette and sashay their way through the school year were barred from the barre when Loyola cancelled its only ballet class for the spring ...
  
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• Ballet Magnificat presents 'The Prodigal Son' in Dalton, Georgia - Chattanooga Times Free Press

  23-01-2019 06:01
  Ballet Magnificat presents 'The Prodigal Son' in Dalton, Georgia  Chattanooga Times Free PressBallet Magnificat, an internationally known ballet company headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, will present a free performance of the story of the prodigal son ...
  
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• Maryland state prosecutor who investigated political corruption cases of Dallas Dance, John Leopold to retire - Baltimore Sun

  23-01-2019 01:30 via baltimoresun.com
  Maryland state prosecutor who investigated political corruption cases of Dallas Dance, John Leopold to retire  Baltimore SunMaryland State Prosecutor Emmet Davitt will retire later this year. Emmet Davitt's notable targets include former Baltimore County schools superintendent Dallas ...
  
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• ArtsUW Roundup: Opening of Rutherford and Son, Faculty Dance Concert, and more. - UW Today

  23-01-2019 00:21 via washington.edu
  ArtsUW Roundup: Opening of Rutherford and Son, Faculty Dance Concert, and more.  UW TodayThis week in the arts, attend a lecture about Asian porcelain near the Red Sea in the early eighteenth century, catch the first night of Rutherford and Son, listen to ...
  
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• Russian National Ballet Performs 'The Sleeping Beauty' at UNLV Feb. 4 - UNLV NewsCenter

  23-01-2019 00:16
  Russian National Ballet Performs 'The Sleeping Beauty' at UNLV Feb. 4  UNLV NewsCenterThe Performing Arts Center is pleased to welcome the Russian National Ballet in a performance of "The Sleeping Beauty" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4.
  
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• Dance environments affect dancers' mental health - The Daily Universe - Universe.byu.edu

  23-01-2019 00:00 via universe.byu.edu
  Dance environments affect dancers' mental health - The Daily Universe  Universe.byu.eduDancers may struggle with eating disorders and perfectionism, but dancing environments can play a major role in helping dancers to be mentally healthy.
  
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