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ABT's Ballet Mistress Remembers Vaganova


The Paris Review 06/13/13 Source

ABT Names New Ballet Master


The New York Times 06/13/13 Source

Kennedy Center’s ‘Anything Goes’ is a real party full of show-stopping numbers


Even the orchestra laughs along with “Anything Goes,” the jubilant, dance-your-cares-away musical comedy that just sailed into the Kennedy Center’s Opera House for a month. As the saxophones and trombones slide up and down the scale during the overture, you feel sure that a Marx Brothers-style party is about to break out.

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Review: Mark Morris' 'Spring' bucks recent 'Rite'


'Spring, Spring, Spring,' from the choreographer with an arrangement by the Bad Plus, reverses trends in performing Stravinksy's 'Rite of Spring.'

BERKELEY — "The Rite of Spring" is a ballet born of violence. Stravinsky's score unfurls the furious sudden spring of his native St. Petersburg, the sounds of cracking ice on the river Neva being like gunfire. Taken from the scandalous sexuality of Russian folklore, the dance depicts a virgin sacrificed to the savage, ecstatic pleasure of "sages." Source

Dance Listings for June 14-20


A selected guide to dance performances in the New York area.

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Spectrum Dance Theater stages new ‘Autopsy of Love’


Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater, back from a tour of Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, debuts artistic director Donald Byrd’s latest piece, “Autopsy of Love,” June 20-29, 2013. Source

Party Radar: Cold Cave, Hussyclub, Bushwacka, Fag Fridays, Actress, more


Hussyclub hit Fix Yr Hair with "Straight Girl"
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Is there anything better than HRH Prince Charles a-cuttin' and a-scratchin' some real tunes on some real vinyl? (Real vinyl is making a comback in 2013, according to the NY Times on Wednesday ... and in More

Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Dancers Return to Lincoln Center


The Alvin Ailey company, under Robert Battle, brings old works and new to the David H. Koch Theater.

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ArtsBeat: American Ballet Theater Names New Ballet Master


Keith Roberts, a former principal dancer, will become ballet master in September.

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D.C. theaters scramble to find new homes


Even producing such slender rock-and-roll camp as “Diamond Dead” and “Cannibal, the Musical,” Andrew Baughman and his heavy-metal brethren with the Landless Theatre Companyoutgrew their base in the tiny, 45-seat D.C. Arts Center in Adams Morgan.

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Zac Johnson: Extracurricular Credit: 250 College and High School Campuses Raise Millions for Local Children's Hospitals in 2012.


Now on more than 250 college campuses and countless high schools, Dance Marathon has proven to be the experiential fundraising and project-based learning event of choice for this country's next generation of revolutionary leaders.

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Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech Program Is Expanding


Students in grades 4 through 8 learning dance under Eliot Feld at New York’s Ballet Tech school will perform at the Joyce Theater.

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Embezzlement At The Bolshoi?


MOSCOW -- Russian police have launched a criminal investigation into the embezzlement of 90 million rubles (about $3 million) of state funds during th...

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Two dance companies melded styles, bodies at UC Irvine


On the surface, San Francisco's LINES Ballet and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago are a study in contrasts. The former company, founded by choreographer Alonzo King, brilliantly performs his ethereal and cerebral balletic style. The latter, under Glenn... Source

Fifty Shades of Carmen


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The SAB Workshop Benefit - Rites of Passage


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Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ a Theatrical Portrait of Balanchine


Richard Nelson’s new play, “Nikolai and the Others,” gives an intimate portrait of Balanchine at work with Stravinsky on the ballet “Orpheus.”

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Molotov Theatre Group looks to class up its gory act


“To be honest with you, a year ago at this time, I was not sure that there was going to be a Molotov Theatre much longer,” Alex Zavistovich said. His co-founders, with whom he started Molotov in 2007, had left to pursue new careers. Molotov was “facing some fairly heavy debts.” And as dedicated as Zavistovich wanted to be to the ideals of Grand Guignol, the French Theater of Horror, he thought that the company had some branding problems.

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Critic’s Notebook: Peter Martins and City Ballet Over 30 Seasons


On his 30th season as ballet master in chief of New York City Ballet, Peter Martins has shown how puzzling a figure he is.

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Dance Review: American Ballet Theater in ‘Romeo and Juliet’


Marcelo Gomes and Diana Vishneva of American Ballet Theater danced the title roles in “Romeo and Juliet” at the Metropolitan Opera House.

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