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6 min ago | The Hartford Courant

Reader Submitted: The Second Annual Dance For Peace Features Dancers...

Artists for World Peace presents the 2nd Annual Dance for Peace at The Kate, 300 Main Street, Old Saybrook , on Saturday, June 29, at 8 p.m. Inspired by the International Peace Belt and featuring some of the most gifted dancers and musicians from New York, Connecticut, Boston and Providence, this extraordinary performance benefits the scholarship ... (more)

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Related Topix: Arts, Old Saybrook, CT, Bollywood, Killingworth, CT

6 min ago | The Guardian

Mary Wigman: a dance pioneer with an awkward past

As the debate gathers around the current imbalance between male and female choreographers, the names of pioneering women such as Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Bronislava Nijinska are regularly invoked to recall a golden age of female creativity and power.

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4 hrs ago | The Austin Chronicle

Gender, Sex, and Fabric

The problem of the skirt - at least the long, voluminous skirt, as demonstrated in Nicole Roerick 's Morose Beauty - is one of access.

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Related Topix: Arts, World News, Japan, Wedding, Austin, TX

5 hrs ago | DanceJournal

Lauren Putty White receives 2013 Ellen Forman Memorial Award

Lauren Putty White has been named the winner of the 2013-2014 Ellen Forman Memorial Award.

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Related Topix: Arts, Drexel University, University of the Arts, Ballet, Modern Dance

9 hrs ago | The Jersey Journal

Rhaw, yet refined: Rennie Harris' new hip hop company debuts on Broadway

"Keeping it real" has become an elusive goal for hip-hop artists, whose art is increasingly threatened by mainstream acceptance.

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Related Topix: Easy-Listening, Broadway, Arts, Modern Dance, Theater, New York, Entertainment

13 hrs ago | Philly.com

Translating Tourette into artistry

Dance, for Madison, is an art form whose choreography is based on the symptoms of the Ambler artist's neurological disease.

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Related Topix: Arts, Arcadia University

Tue May 21, 2013

BroadwayWorld.com

Down Home's Homeless in Homeland Comes to Brighton Fringe 2013, May 27-29

Down Home and Saria Idana have announced that Homeless in Homeland will have its UK/International premiere at Brighton Fringe, in Brighton, UK with 3 shows May 27th, 28th, and 29th, 2013.

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Related Topix: Arts, Poetry, Israel, World News, Middle East

The Village Voice

Summer Guide: Dance

Yanira Castro's 2009 Bessie-winning Dark Horse/Black Forest involved fraught duets in a lobby restroom at the Gershwin Hotel.

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Related Topix: Arts, Classical, Gershwin, Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY, Long-Island-City, NY, East Village (New York, NY), Attica, NY

Driffield Today

Pupils dance their way back in time

Youngsters at Garton-on-the-Wolds Primary School are ready to travel back in time for their performance at a vintage fair.

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Related Topix: Arts

Londonist

Dance Review: Sylvie Guillem, 6,000 Miles Away @ Sadler's Wells

Famed for her long, limber legs, flaming auburn hair and uncompromising standards of excellence, Sylvie Guillem is the closest thing the dance world has to a rock star.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet

Examiner.com

Dear DWTS producers: Why can't you support National Dance Week?

May marks the beginning of free dance events, beginning with Downtown Dance at the Los Angeles Music Center.

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Related Topix: Arts, So You Think You Can Dance, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Dance, Scandinavia

Iol.co.za

Director seasons play with Bollywood flair

VIBRANT: A new work by Verne Munusamy, Consenting Silence, opens this week. Among the cast of 14 are Prenasha Govindasamy, left, and Sashin Kandhai.

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Related Topix: Bollywood, Arts

Iol.co.za

Dazzling, unique 'choreopoem'

KNOWN for breaking ground in many areas of contemporary dance, Durban's Flatfoot Dance Company uses the words of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote in its latest production, dubbed a "uniquely visioned choreopoem", History is a Home Address.

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Related Topix: Arts, World News, South Africa, Poetry

The Otago Daily Times

Sophisticated dazzler

Nicole McLean, of Arrowtown, co-stars as Velma Kelly in the Showbiz Queenstown production of Chicago, being staged in the Queenstown Memorial Centre until May 25.

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Related Topix: Theater, Chicago, Arts

BroadwayWorld.com

Shanghai Ballet to Make Uk Debut with Jane Eyre, Aug 14-18

Shanghai Ballet Company is to make its highly anticipated UK debut in August at the London Coliseum with performances of JANE EYRE, an original, innovative ballet production based on Charlotte Bront's famous novel.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Jane Eyre, Drama Movies, Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England, Theater

Mon May 20, 2013

BroadwayWorld.com

National Tap Dance Celebration 2013 Set for Music Hall at Fair Park, Now thru 5/25

The Dance Council of North Texas presents its National Tap Dance Celebration 2013, today, May 21 - 25, 6:30 - 7:15 p.m. at Music Hall, Fair Park, 909 1st Ave., Dallas, Texas.

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Related Topix: Arts, Texas, Dallas, TX, Theater

Examiner.com

'The Choreographer's Canvas': A diverse NY dance showcase entertains

Supporters and fans of " The Choreographer's Canvas " gathered at the Manhattan Movement Arts Center, May 18, to enjoy an evening of eclectic dance performances.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Bollywood

Patch.com

Special Guest Instructors Coming to Dancenter North

Ballet and jazz students will have the unique opportunity to get inspired by dance masters with Dancenter North's unique classes next month.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Chicago, IL

Daily Mail

Richard Kay: Its great to be British at last, says Flatley

Irish-American is 'over the moon' Michael Flatley after learning that he has been successful in applying for British citizenship after years of trying More than a billion fans have seen twinkle-toed dance star Michael Flatley perform around the world, but that wasn't enough for him to get last-minute tickets for today's Chelsea Flower Show.

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Related Topix: Folk, Michael Flatley, Arts, Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England

Lowell Sun

'Dancing With The Stars': Zendaya Coleman has title within grasp

"Dancing with the Stars' hosts Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke-Charvet announce Zendaya Colemand as a celebrity during 'Good Morning America' on February 26, 2013.

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Related Topix: Zendaya Coleman, Reality TV, Entertainment, Dancing With the Stars, Television, Shake It Up!, Good Morning America, Arts