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17 hrs ago | Plymouth Evening Herald

Street dance troupe step up

CAST your mind back to the Britain's Got Talent finals in May. With nearly 20 million UK viewers tuned in and millions more glued to TVs around the world, it was the most watched show in six years.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet

Thu Nov 19, 2009

DanceJournal

E Pluribus Unum or "Out of many one" with West Chester University Dance Company

West Chester University Dance Company, in cooperation with The College of Visual and Performing Arts, is proud to present E Pluribus Unum.

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Related Topix: Arts, West Chester, PA, Philadelphia, PA, Symphony, Ballet

Wed Nov 18, 2009

The West Australian

Dance Review: Counter Point

Standing ovations, cheers and whistles marked the opening night of Counter Point, in which some of WA's finest contemporary dancers featured in distinctly different pieces from local choreographer Jo Pollitt and France's Didier Theron.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet

Tue Nov 17, 2009

There's more to Columbus than OSU

This weekend! OSUDance Presents Manimals and Other Human Creatures

Faculty and visiting artists from the Department of Dance at Ohio State present "Manimals and Other Human Creatures," an evening of new works, Thursday - Saturday, November 19-21, 2009 at 8 p.m. in Sullivant Theatre, 1813 N. High St.

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Related Topix: Arts, Drama Movies, It's a Wonderful Life

Hastings Today

Stepping Out - review

Brian Capron, best known as Coronation Street's evil killer Richard Hillman, excels in a completely different role as he milks the laughs in hit comedy Stepping Out at Devonshire Park Theatre.

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Related Topix: Brian Capron, Arts

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Free Press

Harper cashing in on a little Bollywood cachet

First Stephen Harper got by with a little help from the Beatles. Now the prime minister is cashing in on a little Bollywood cachet.

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Related Topix: Bollywood, Arts, Canada

Bay Guardian

Dance: Keefer of the flame

DANCE Next year it will be 30 years since choreographer and dance maven Krissy Keefer cofounded the radical feminist Wallflower Collective in Oregon, and 25 years since she relocated her social activist Dance Brigade Company to San Francisco.

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Related Topix: Arts, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Metro, Ballet, Oakland, CA

Sat Nov 14, 2009

StarTribune

Dance review: ARENA Dances offers fresh, intriguing works

Competing aspects of masculinity are central to ARENA Dances' performance at The Lab in Minneapolis this weekend.

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Related Topix: Arts, Entertainment

Fri Nov 13, 2009

IcWales

Arts: Dance review: Mark Morris Dance, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

MARK MORRIS recently told a journalist his earliest memory was "bobbing to music" and you can almost imagine him in the wings bobbing away.

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Related Topix: Travel, United Kingdom Travel, Cardiff, United Kingdom Travel, Arts, Ballet

Thu Nov 12, 2009

TheNational

All under dance's umbrella

The American choreographer Mark Morris breezed into London last week - and that is exactly the right verb to use to describe a man whose joyful disposition is reflected in the work he creates.

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Related Topix: Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Cowichan News Leader

Ballet Victoria urging Cowichan dance fans to discover what's growing in the Secret Garden

Elements of sadness, hope, joy and courage artistically bloom in the Cowichan Theatre Friday during Ballet Victoria's unique version of The Secret Garden and Selected Works.

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Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Arts, Ballet, Classical, Haydn

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Show Tracker

'So You Think You Can Dance': Catching up with Adam Shankman

Choreographer, director and producer Adam Shankman joined "So You Think You Can Dance" this season as its third full-time judge.

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Related Topix: Arts

Mon Nov 09, 2009

SFGate

Review: Axis Dance Company at Malonga Casquelord

Axis Dance Company, which produced its annual season over the weekend at Oakland's Malonga Casquelord Center for the Arts, continues to occupy its unique niche in the Bay Area arts scene and exceptional choreographers keep adding to the troupe's stature.

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Related Topix: Arts

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Seattle Times

Review: 'Alaska' is bold, 90-proof dance

By Diana Szeinblum, 8 p.m. today-Sunday, On the Boards, 100 W. Roy St., Seattle; $24 . Dance review In the fearless, gale-force landscape of "Alaska," created by Argentinean choreographer Diana Szeinblum, bodies convulse and metamorphose in brutal phrases that read like symptom and remedy both.

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Related Topix: Arts, Greenwood (Seattle, WA), Ballard (Seattle, WA), First Hill (Seattle, WA), Seattle Center(Seattle, WA), Lake City (Seattle, WA)

Sat Nov 07, 2009

StarTribune

Two men walk into a dance commission

R eggie Wilson and Andrya Ouamba have been collaborating on "The Good Dance: Dakar/Brooklyn" for more than three years.

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Related Topix: Senegal, Africa, World News, Entertainment

Fri Nov 06, 2009

The Lebanon Daily News

Dancers salute Hines; comic, philosopher coming to LVC

An all-star cast will pay tribute to the late tap legend Gregory Hines and many others in "Thank You, Gregory!" at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Tap, Drama Movies, Bojangles, Biography Movies, Black Entertainment, Gregory Hines, Arts, Motherhood, Penn State Berks

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Newindpress

Dancer in the air

KOCHI: Krishnapriya Nazeer dances, none of her relatives watch the performance. They are among the audience alright, but with bent heads and closed eyes.

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Related Topix: Arts

Wed Nov 04, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Step-by-step guide to dance: Richard Alston

British choreographer Richard Alston has leapt from hippy rebel to member of the modern dance establishment with impressive ease, writes Sanjoy Roy Shuffle it Right by the Richard Alston Dance Company In short Initially a drop-out, then a rebel, Richard Alston has become part of the modern dance establishment.

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Related Topix: Arts, Modern Dance, Ballet, New York

Tue Nov 03, 2009

TV Guide

Mia Michaels: I'm the Next Tyra Banks or Heidi Klum

You'll still get to see a lot of Mia Michaels , even though she's no longer on So You Think You Can Dance .

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Related Topix: So You Think You Can Dance 1, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Arts, Emmy Awards

Jaunted

Chicago: Sick of Baseball and Football? Leap Over to Chicago's Dance Festival

Every November, dance aficionados head to Chicago for the city's month-long boogie festival, Dance Chicago to see everything from ballroom to ballet to clogging to hip-hop. This year marks the 15th anniversary of Dance Chicago, and while you can expect some good dancing, the fest is changing it up this year.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Skokie, IL, Travel

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