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52 min ago | Mountain Xpress

Rennie Harris Puremovement comes to Diana Wortham

These days, it is at times hard to recognize where the line is drawn between hip-hop and pop music.

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Related Topix: Arts, Pennsylvania

4 hrs ago | Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Wim Wenders: U2 concert film inspired 'Pina' in 3D

Now playing at Cinerama ; will open Feb. 24 at the Uptown . Wenders will be present for a special screening of the film Friday at 8 p.m., followed by a Q&A. Tickets are $30 and available through www.cinerama.com . More than a quarter century ago, the German-born filmmaker Wim Wenders attended a dance performance in Venice.

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Related Topix: Pina, Wim Wenders, Arts

9 hrs ago | Cleveland.com

Verb Ballets program to take dancers, audience on a moving journey

Members of Verb Ballets rehearse Chung-Fu Chang's "The Lily" for its world premiere Friday at the Breen Center for the Performing Arts.

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Related Topix: Arts, Painting, Cleveland, OH, Shaker Heights, OH

9 hrs ago | Guam Pacific Daily News

The next dance sensation?: Local dance crew tries to be America's best

"Empire, The Crew," which is comprised mostly of members from the SKIP Entertainment Dance Company, auditioned for the new season of "Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew" in Los Angeles last month.

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Related Topix: Arts, Hollywood (Los Angeles, CA)

11 hrs ago | BroadwayWorld.com

Harbourfront And Arabesque's JAMRA Closes

Harbourfront Centre and Arabesque, in association with Small World Music, present JAMRA, a contemporary production inspired by the dance forms of the nomadic and gypsy peoples of Egypt, Turkey, North Africa, Iran and Lebanon.

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Related Topix: World News, Egypt

Sat Feb 11, 2012

The Miami Herald

Dance entrepreneur Heather Maloney nurtures Miami artistry

Dancer, choreographer, and cultural pioneer Heather Maloney grew up on a farm in Virginia.

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Related Topix: Arts, Agriculture, Science, Home Gardening, Home

Tyler Morning Telegraph

Gracefulness Embody The Performances By Ailey II Dancers

By STEWART SMITH Entertainment Editor As one half of a dance company created by the late choreographer and modern dance pioneer Alvin Ailey, Ailey II continues the traditions and philosophies formed by its namesake.

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Related Topix: Arts, Modern Dance, Tyler, TX, University of Texas at Tyler

The Capital-Journal

First lady fixes on must-dos prior to election run

First lady Michelle Obama dances the platypus dance with Perry the Platypus of the Phineas and Ferb show, left, and choreographer Rosero McCoy, right, at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort, Saturday, Feb.

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Related Topix: Michelle Obama, Arts, Orlando, FL

Star Tribune

Athleticism, gutsiness lift 'Visceral' dance at Cowles Center

In an unusual twist for a dance concert, Black Label Movement's "Visceral" program at the Cowles Center may be best described by its sounds.

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Related Topix: Arts, Entertainment

Newindpress

Lessons in the art of dance photography

CHENNAI: "The danger of a camera in front of a moving body is converting it into a still body and still bodies are very boring," said art critic Sadanand Menon.

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Related Topix: Arts, Photography, World News, India, Modern Dance

Patch.com

News Nearby: USC Mother Reveals 'Dance Moms' Experience

You've heard of soccer moms and hockey moms. Recently, a Lifetime reality TV show-filmed here in Pittsburgh-has been putting the national spotlight onA Dance Moms .

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Related Topix: Dance Moms, Entertainment, Television, Arts, Penn Hills, PA

BroadwayWorld.com

Alden Announces Residency of Christopher K. Morgan amp ArtistsCityDance

The Alden in McLean has announced its first ever artist-in-residence, modern dance company Christopher K. Morgan & Artists/CityDance. The company will hold a series of educational and enrichment events leading up to the world premiere of Limited Visibility, choreographer Christopher K. Morgan's first evening-length work.

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Related Topix: Arts, McLean, VA, Modern Dance, Theater, American University

Back Stage

Dance Review: 'Take Dance: Salaryman'

"Salaryman" is a powerful one-act contemporary dance piece to which its choreographer, Takehiro Ueyama, unfortunately has added a cumbersome 30-minute second half.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet

Fri Feb 10, 2012

Austin American Statesman

New American Talent/Dance

A curious thing happens when you collectively give an audience $1,000 and ask them to award to it to the best of three modern short ballets.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Theater

Financial Times

British Dance Edition, Sadler's Wells, London

An illuminating, if desolating, evening in Rosebery Avenue late last week at an event described as "the UK dance industry's leading showcase, presenting the best of British dance to promoters and producers from the UK and across the globe.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet

Creative Loafing Atlanta

'Pina' does justice to dance in all its dimensions

Hollywood has embraced 3-D like a drowning man seizing a lifeline. The most innovative and exciting examples of the format have come not from special effects spectacles but German art documentaries? Can that be right? Last year, Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams used the three-dimensional effect to convey the uneven surfaces of the Chauvet ... (more)

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Related Topix: Pina, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Modern Dance

RIA Novosti

The Igor Moiseyev Ensemble: Keepers of the Dance

Igor Moiseyev's folk dance ensemble is celebrating its birthday on February 10 - on this day 75 years ago the choreographer held the group's first rehearsal.

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Herald Gazette

Spotlight on Rockport Dance Conservatory Hip Hop teacher, Katie Thompson

She learned core technique, building a base and developing discipline as a child through ballet and tap.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet

El Paso Times

Former Irvin dance teacher indicted on state charges

A former Irvin High School dance teacher sentenced last month on federal child pornography charges is now facing state charges.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Eastside dance showcase grows to include B.C., NYC dancers

A few years ago, the annual Eastside dance festival, "Chop Shop: Bodies of Work," was a strictly Seattle-area affair.

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Related Topix: Arts, Theater, Project

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