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4.5KBoston Ballet brings on a new roster, a new team
In the late spring of 2019, one Boston Ballet dancer after another gave their final bow with the company (some from the...
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13.8KDance Gap Year: Filling the gap and helping dancers find their way
Young adulthood — it can be a scary time of uncertainty and big decisions. Dancers in this time of life have to...
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3.2KA tribute to show business legend David Winters
People speak in superlatives when relating their feelings about the late David Winters, who died on April 23, at the age of...
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3.3KInternational dance journey at Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company
Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (KCDC) is a well-known Israeli company that was founded by Yehudit Arnon in 1970. The company has been...
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4.7KState Street Ballet is in its sterling year
State Street Ballet, based in Santa Barbara, CA, is celebrating its 25th year and has announced an exciting year of performances and...
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4.3KStars of High Strung at DancerPalooza
DancerPalooza’s Beat Street expo opens today and So Danca has some exciting news! As presenting sponsors for this year’s festival, So Danca...
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2.7KPrincesses Ballet: Transforming lives through a love of dance
Princesses Ballet, run by 501(c)3) non-profit organization City Gospel Mission in Cincinnati, is changing lives. The program offers free ballet lessons to...
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5.4KPerformance spaces for non-professional adult dancers: Why should they have to stop?
There’s just something about dancing in the glow of stage lights, of giving your all to an audience with something on which...
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4.9KIce Dance International skates at Jacob’s Pillow: Finding flight and flow
Ice skating. We think rosy cheeks and hot cocoa, or fancy judges and sequined dresses. But something like concert dance? Maine-based Ice...
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3.3KAmerican Dance Movement announces September National Dance Day
American Dance Movement (ADM), formerly the Dizzy Feet Foundation, has announced a new date for National Dance Day, to be celebrated annually...
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4.5KThings that dancers are good at (And gigs that need exactly those things)
We’re coming up on the end of the school year, and countless graduating dancers are coming into the industry. Whether they’re coming...
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4.4KTaking to the streets: Ballerina Brittany Cavaco dances through Paris in film ‘Until Midnight’
Ballerina, model and Só Dança ambassador Brittany Cavaco lives every dancer’s dream and confronts every dancer’s nightmare in the new dance film,...
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4.3KToronto to host 2019 Genée International Ballet Competition
The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is set to bring the Genée International Ballet Competition, one of the world’s most prestigious ballet...
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2.7KDancing José Limón’s ‘The Traitor’ at the University of Florida: The old made anew
Some stories — and thus, some dances — are simply timeless. At the same time, there may very well be creative choices...
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4.0KBoston Ballet’s John Lam tries on a new…dress
Boston Ballet Principal John Lam has danced leading roles in some of the most sought-after ballets – Prince Desire in The Sleeping...
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5.5KFinal Bow for Yellowface: Ending outdated representations of Asians in ballet
It was yet another Nutcracker season at New York City Ballet (NYCB), and the company was getting more and more letters questioning...
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2.6KPlant-based milk alternatives: What dancers need to know
The rise in popularity of non-dairy milk alternatives can be attributed to many diverse reasons, including increased awareness of their health benefits,...
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3.3KHope Easterbrook’s Dance 4 Hope: Dance as a universal language of healing
One could look at all the suffering in the world and say, “What could I possibly do to help? There’s just so...
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2.8KYasmeen Audi finds dance in all different places and spaces
Does dance have a sense of place to you? Do you connect it with certain spaces, buildings, towns? Does it have certain...
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3.3KGrosh Cares Grant: Amplifying performing arts, theater and more
As the technology continues to advance, there have been more innovative ways for the theater and dance studios to bring shows to...
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4.7KCreating a new musical: ‘Marie, Dancing Still’
On Saturday, February 23, the Steps Beyond Foundation hosted an Artists Talk entitled “The Creative Process Unraveled: Creating a New Musical”. The...
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5.4KHandling Injury, Part II: Carolyn Paine
“Out of adversity comes opportunity,” goes an old saying. Carolyn Paine, director/choreographer of CONNetic Dance (Hartford, CT), seems to have found the...
