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<description><![CDATA[Manohla Dargis: "This born-again version of The Red Shoes, digitally resuscitated from battered prints and negatives,&nbsp;&#133; is essential viewing because even if you think you have seen the movie before its restoration, if you're under 60, you probably haven't seen it anywhere near its original Technicolor glory."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Founded in 1989, Bangarra is now the flagship performing company of Australia's (and perhaps the world's) aboriginal peoples. "When you sit down and see a Bangarra show, you don't realise you've just been given a 50-minute history lesson, you just feel like you've been taken on a journey and it comes back to you in waves.''...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Tacita Dean's Craneway Event "records three days of rehearsals by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Craneway Pavilion," a converted automobile factory near San Francisco, about a year before Cunningham's death. The documentary film reminds Alastair Macaulay of Degas's backstage-at-the-ballet paintings....]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;One Of The Finest Dance Films Ever Made&#x22;: Wiseman&#x27;s La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A.O. Scott: "[The documentary's] greater virtue, and the substance of Mr. Wiseman's particular genius, is the way it transfixes you with the inner workings of an institution you may not otherwise care about."...]]></description>
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<title>Old Ballet Florida HQ Sold To College Drama Dept.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Palm Beach Atlantic University, a privately funded 3,500-student Christian school, paid $1.85&nbsp;million for the two-story building in downtown Palm Beach as a home for its theater program. Ballet Florida declared Chapter&nbsp;7 bankruptcy and shut down in July....]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["Dohee Lee and Jo Kreiter will be honored for outstanding achievement by [January's] 24th annual Isadora Duncan Awards, which recognize contributions to Bay Area dance...." The San Francisco Ballet and the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival received seven nominations apiece....]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["This was the fourth annual Thrill the World event and interest was at an all time high to honor the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Thrill the World reported that 22,932 people danced to Thriller in 32 countries around the globe."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["There was inevitably a lot of great dance and dancing. But also, inevitably, this was not exactly a dance occasion.&nbsp;&#133; Nor, for that matter was it about Merce (yes, everyone called him and calls him Merce). What distinguished Cunningham from all other great choreographers was the degree of his inclusiveness."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["Japan's standing as a 'hub' for salsa in Asia rises every day. International talent flock to the capital; specialist publications cover the dance form as a swelling number of aspiring dancers scour the city for classes."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["Ferry terminals are surprisingly dreamy spaces. This is especially true on wet, foggy days, when the differences between land, sea and air seem negligible, the boundaries permeable.&nbsp;&#133; All sorts of boundaries seemed uncertain [Tuesday] afternoon at the Whitehall Ferry Terminal in Lower Manhattan when [the company] Palissimo performed Halt!, a new site-specific work."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["Has dance simply caved into the wider, sexist culture, or are there specific issues affecting the profession right now? And is this apparent marginalisation something women have chosen - or has it been foisted on them?"...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["Dance is suffering from a shortage of high-profile women because of the difficulties faced by female choreographers trying to juggle a career in the sector with motherhood, according to leading industry figures."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["The din at a Pilobolus performance is like that of no other dance crowd. If you were blindfolded, you'd have every reason to assume that you were attending a small-scale circus,&nbsp;&#133; and the biggest affront wouldn't be boos but the reverential silence of a ballet recital."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Joyce Theater stagehands voted yesterday to join the "powerful union" that "struck Broadway in 2007 and negotiated a contract at Carnegie Hall that resulted in a props supervisor earning $530,044 last year." Now Joyce executive director Linda Shelton says she's "concerned that some dance companies won't be able to afford us anymore."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Undergrads who pursue the University of East London's urban dance degree -- an anomaly in the UK -- are taught "not just hip-hop styles like krumping, popping and locking, but also the fundamentals of African dance, capoeira and kathak." Purists sneer, but the program's "popularity is booming."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[High school administrators who "fretted over how to deal with freaking, grinding and other provocative dances" are combating "explicit teen dancing with an equal dose of explicitness" in the contracts they now require students and parents to sign "before a teenager can step onto the dance floor."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["It's estimated about 20,000 people in more than 200 locations in 37 countries around the world participated in the dance which occurred Saturday night or Sunday morning depending on where you were."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["As Morphoses prepares to open its third season at City Center on Thursday, Mr. Wheeldon is facing a crucial moment in which the viability of his venture seems highly uncertain. His contracts with the Vail International Dance Festival and City Center in New York will end this season, and renewals must be negotiated. In the current economic climate fund-raising possibilities could hardly look more dire."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The company's brand strategist explains: "I think the ballet really needed to put a stake in the ground and say, 'This is happening here, you need to take note.' Because no one else would do that for them. One of our big challenges was to shift the perception of what ballet is all about."...]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Why Must The Stage Always Be Horizontal And The Dancer Vertical?&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Perhaps the most salient characteristic of [Deborah] Colker's work since she founded the company that bears her name 15 years ago has been her desire to toy with perceptions of dimension, direction and distance. An early piece, Rota, featured dancers performing in a large spinning wheel, like hamsters at play."...]]></description>
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<title>Rudy Perez, L.A.&#x27;s &#x27;Postmodern Dance Guru,&#x27; At 80</title>
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<description><![CDATA["That he continues choreographing is something of a minor miracle. Not only is the arts economy dire, but Perez also has been visually impaired for the last decade. Moving slowly and burdened with hazy vision at best, Perez says the work keeps him going."...]]></description>
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<title>With New Digs, Ballet Ireland Finally Starts Realizing Its Potential</title>
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<description><![CDATA["[The company's] directors no longer worry about bringing in space heaters to keep the dancers warm, or hiring buses to ferry them to faraway locations when inner-city rehearsal venues are booked. DanceHouse's resources&nbsp;- from TVs for reviewing choreography to spaces for sewing costumes&nbsp;- also allow Ballet Ireland to attract choreographers of international calibre."...]]></description>
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<title>Financial Realities Mean A Leaner Miami City Ballet</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Miami City Ballet opens its season this week "without any of the new works or big classical productions that have generated excitement in recent years. MCB's budget is $11.2 million, down from $13.8 million last year. Eight dancers did not have their contracts renewed...."...]]></description>
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<title>Oakland Ballet Makes Steps Toward Recovery</title>
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<description><![CDATA["The prognosis for the Oakland Ballet Company looked grim in April when founding Artistic Director Ronn Guidi suddenly resigned (for the second time in a decade)." But this weekend, "the company gave its first concert since Guidi's retirement. The short, mixed program left ballet fans, if not connoisseurs of choreography, in a hopeful mood."...]]></description>
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<title>The Sacrifices PA Ballet Is, And Isn&#x27;t, Willing To Make</title>
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<description><![CDATA[To survive in a tight economy, Pennsylvania Ballet "has chosen pay freezes and furloughs. The non-artistic staff has shrunk by five from its 22 positions through attrition, and those jobs are going unfilled." But tomorrow night the ballet opens its season "with its full roster of about 40 dancers, and its orchestra."...]]></description>
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