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Did you get the latest dish? In this week's episode: Baryshnikov brings home a big-bucks award, Smash adds some musical TV competition, drums beat out the World Hoop Dancing Championship, and the Mikhailovsky Theatre fails to read the fine print when recruiting star dancers.

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The second TIV Awards took place last Wednesday, February 15th at Level 3 in Hollywood, and guess who was on the red carpet and behind the scenes chatting with nominees, winners and guests... Take a look at our interviews, including Brian Friedman, Joelle Martinec, Leslie Scott, and many more! Click here to watch all the interviews.

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Lots to dish about this week. Watch our latest episode: A New York theater opens its doors to more dancing, Rodin’s statues inspire choreography, Step Up 4 brings together a team of dynamite choreographers, dancer Sergei Polunin faces consequences after leaving the Royal Ballet, an elementary scholar gets punished for his Michael Jackson dance moves, and check out our exclusive interview with choreographer Marguerite Derricks!

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SYTYCD Comfort Fedoke just shot her first music video for her new single "Lose Your Mind". The DancePlug Team joined her behind the scenes in downtown LA on a cold Saturday night, and our host G Madison got to talk to Peterson Thelisma of Strikers All Stars, Marc Calape, krumping crew Bad News Fam, director Reign Shaw, and of course Comfort herself. Take a look at our interviews.

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Created by Allen Walls and Carey Ysais, the World Dance Awards saw its first ceremony on Sunday October 16th, at the Highlands nightclub in Hollywood, honoring choreographers in the media industry.

We were on the red carpet with our host Jason Carter, catching up with some of today's best industry choreographers. Take a look at our interviews with Travis Payne, Rich + Tone Talauega, Super Dave, Chuck Maldonado, Chris Dupré, Aisha Francis, Bradley Rapier, Aisha Francis, Ryan Heffington, Robert Schultz, Yusuf Nasir, Alex Wong, Lauren Gottlieb, Eddie Garcia, Toni Basil, Paulette Azizian, Carey Ysais, Allen Walls, Sharon Ferguson, Kevin Stea, Teresa Espinosa and Dave Scott.

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The DancePlug Dish is celebrating its ONE year anniversary, by making a few updates to its format. We are also very pleased to welcome Starr Session and her new segment "Pop Starr", where pop entertainment and dance meet.

In this week's new Dish episode: Celebrations are in order, nuns are on the Broadway run, the SYTYCD Season 7 cast is back in LA and Debbie Allen wants her money back.

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Last week, DancePlug covered three different dance events in Los Angeles: Dancers Alliance/Aftra Launch Party, Maxt Out: The Homecoming, and Dancescape.

Dancers Alliance were celebrating their new affiliation with AFTRA, on Thursday November 11th at Boulevard 3. The evening was hosted by Dana Wilson and George Jones, and we got to see some performances by the Beat Freaks, Justin Giles, Jillian Meyers and Shaun Evaristo. Take a look at our interviews, hosted by Jason Carter, with Aisha Frances, Dana Wilson, Ava Bernstine, Jillian Meyers, Reina Hidalgo, Lindsey B, Chuck Maldonado, JaQuel Knight, Napoleon and Tabitha, Tera Perez, Levi Walker, The Movement's Jim Keith, Clear Talent Group's Pete Engle and Shayna Brouillard.

Maxt Out, also celebrating, just had their 10th year event at the Pasadena City College, and our host Starr Session was on the scene.

Dancescape held their benefit show, this past Saturday November 13th in Beverly Hills. Benjamin Allen was there to talk to some of the choreographers, check out their interviews.

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The DancePlug Dish, your weekly news-flash channel on all things dance.

In this week's episode:
Las Vegas proves that dance is not only found on the strip, Montreal dances for 30 days in the New Yorker outdoors, and Russia will finally perform some of Jiri Kylian's amazing work.


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