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Date Location News Source
15 Apr 2010 Melbourne
Australia
Ballet Stars Pirouette in New Direction

Three of Australia's principal ballet dancers are leaping into a brave new world by setting up a new breakaway ballet company.

ABC News Australia
14 Apr 2010 New York
USA
Dancing With the (City Ballet) Star

In case you missed it, Tiler Peck, a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, appeared on “Dancing With the Stars” on Tuesday night.

The New York Times
13 Apr 2010 Vancouver
Canada
Ballet BC Reborn

Dressed all in black and dark grey, her auburn hair folded up hastily in a big clip, Emily Molnar is guiding Ballet BC through its next steps.

The Globe and Mail
13 Apr 2010 New York
USA
Dance Troupe Worker Charged With Rape

A stagehand for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has been charged in connection with a sexual assault alleged to have occurred at the Carolina Inn early Sunday, police said Tuesday.

WRAL.com
7 Apr 2010 New York
USA
From Broadway to the Met

The final new production of the Metropolitan Opera season, Rossini’s “Armida,” opens on Monday. The sorceress of the title seduces men, including the crusader Rinaldo, but the story is essentially about a powerful woman who chooses revenge over love.

The New York Times
7 Apr 2010
Australia
Dancers Move Freely at New Ballet Home

West Australian ballet dancers will no longer have to leave the state to further their careers. WA Ballet has found a new home, with room enough to set up a school.

WA Today
6 Apr 2010
USA
What's the Appeal of Reality Dancing Competitions?

I realize that as a television reporter, I'm supposed to have my finger on the pulse of the community, but I have to admit something vaguely shameful: I still don't understand why people watch reality dancing competitions.

Dose.ca
4 Apr 2010
USA
Assessing the Future of Modern Dance, a Fragile American Art Form

A few weeks ago, Paul Taylor did something no other modern-dance choreographer can do: He watched his company perform for 2 1/2 weeks at New York's City Center, seating nearly 2,000 a night. He's been doing that for years -- and has booked it for next season as well, for a run of 15 different works.

Washington Post
3 Apr 2010 Miami
USA
Miami City Ballet School Increasing Talent Pool Worldwide

Dancing requires total concentration on the here and now, and on this recent weekday morning, Miami City Ballet dancers are focused on the moment-by-moment tasks of rehearsal.

Miami Herald
29 Mar 2010
USA
Ballet Stars Now Tweet as Well as Flutter

In the rarefied world of ballet, where dancers are expected to speak with their bodies, sometimes it seems that aloofness is something to aspire to. Lately, though, the ribbons are loosening. Courtesy of Twitter, dancers are starting to make themselves heard. It isn’t always dainty.

The New York Times
29 Mar 2010 Dallas
USA
TITAS Command Performance Brings Back Brilliant Dancers Jacoby and Pronk

The brilliant dance team of Drew Jacoby and Rubinald Pronk returns to TITAS’ Command Performance in April.

Examiner.com
29 Mar 2010 Los Angeles
USA
Nigel Lythgoe Reveals 5 New Things About SYTYCD 7

So You Think You Can Dance is shimmying on in with its seventh season on May 27, but there's a lot that's changing about the reality show. Judge and creator Nigel Lythgoe hopped on a call with reporters today to talk about the big format shake-ups, and I'm laying out the most important things for you right here.

BuzzSugar
24 Mar 2010
USA
Choreographer Dares to Show Images Most Try to Avoid in 'American Rendition'

Americans would rather not consider the suffering of people water-boarded, beaten and deprived of sleep as part of our government’s so-called war on terror.

Star-Ledger
24 Mar 2010 Toronto
Canada
Old Men Dancing – and They Don’t Care Who’s Watching

Of all the things guys like doing together, dancing — in our society at least — must count among the least likely. Yet a group of middle-aged Peterborough area men have forged rewarding personal bonds and garnered a good deal of admiring public attention doing just that.

The Star
24 Mar 2010 Moscow
Russia
Bolshoi Theatre to Show Real-Time Ballet on European Cinema Screens

The European public will be able to see ballets staged by Russia's Bolshoi Theatre on cinema screens in real time starting from March 31, the organizers of the project said on Wednesday.

Ria Novosti
23 Mar 2010 San Francisco
USA
Opening Night of The Little Mermaid Went Swimmingly

On the opening of John Neumeier's The Little Mermaid this past Saturday night, San Francisco Ballet received a roaring standing ovation.

San Francisco Gate
23 Mar 2010
UK
A New Dawn: How Street Dance Came in From the Cold

Street dance used to be a fringe genre. Now it's making the leap to theatre, prime-time TV – and even a 3D film. Sanjoy Roy on how it came of age.

Guardian.co.uk
21 Mar 2010
UK
A Footballer at the Royal Ballet

When it comes to fitness and footwork, dancers top the premier league, but can you really compare football and ballet?

Times Online
21 Mar 2010 New York
USA
A Lasting Love Affair: Why Choreographer Tharp Returned to Sinatra Songbook

Frank Sinatra was whispering sweet enticements into a microphone before Twyla Tharp was even born.

Star-Ledger
20 Mar 2010 New York
USA
‘Come Fly Away’: Subtlety Isn’t Everything

“Pathetically exhibitionistic creeps?” But also “bores?” I myself find the occasional exhibitionistic creep I encounter to be anything but boring. Far better than the mousy, introverted kind who resolutely refuse to scamper around doing jetes and arabesques.

The New York Times
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