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<title>Ballet Star Irina Baronova, 89</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Baronova, an international ballet star who was one of three celebrated prodigies known as the "baby ballerinas" after George Balanchine discovered them in Paris in the 1930s, died on Saturday at her home in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia....]]></description>
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<title>Saving Lives With Dance In Colombia</title>
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<description><![CDATA["In the nation of Colombia, a dance troupe known as 'The Body School' is gaining widespread attention for helping members of the company to escape lives of violence and hardship."...]]></description>
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<title>In Lebanon - A Struggle For Contemporary Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA["In Lebanon, popular culture remains committed to folk forms like dabkeh and belly dance, while the middle classes - the natural audience for contemporary dance - remains emaciated after 15 years of civil war, civil unrest and migration."...]]></description>
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<title>Tere O&#x27;Connor On How To See Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA["When did they get stuck interpreting or trying to impose a narrative? When did they lose interest or space out? When did they grasp a moment of emergence of what O'Connor called a developing architectural form?"...]]></description>
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<title>The Tango - Cure For The Blues?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers in Australia are investigating whether doing the tango can help people battle depression....]]></description>
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<title>BalletMetColumbus Tries Last Minute Efforts To Avoid $100,000 Hole</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Except for a $50,000 shortfall in its 2004-05 season, BalletMet has balanced its budget every year. Executive Director Cheri Mitchell attributed the shortage to the poor economy, which has depressed ticket sales and donations from corporations. Bad winter weather also contributed to fewer ticket sales, she said."...]]></description>
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<title>Dance Steps To The Front</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Dance seems to be coming out of the shadows. The top-rated, top-viewed video on YouTube is The Evolution of Dance, a breezy potted history of popular dance styles - which is also, incidentally, a breezy potted history of popular music, except with dance on top, the way I like it. Elsewhere, kids all over YouTube are showing off their dance moves in a kind of physical karaoke, sometimes on the street, often in their rooms."...]]></description>
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<title>Ballet Hispanico Founder Steps Down</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tina Ramirez, the founder of Ballet Hispanico, announced Monday that she was hanging up her shoes after 38 years as artistic director....]]></description>
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<title>Twyla Tharp - It&#x27;s A Guy Thing</title>
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<description><![CDATA["It is perhaps a disappointment, politically, that America's foremost female choreographer has such an obsession with manliness, and with telling us that men can perform ballet without becoming homosexuals. But Tharp has a point: the movement style associated, in this country, with standard-issue virility--the way men get around on those big, shambly legs of theirs--is beautiful, and is rarely featured in ballet."...]]></description>
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<title>Dance In The City - Using LA As A Stage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How do you dance in a city so overwhelmed with visual images? You use the city as your canvas......]]></description>
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<title>The Choreographer&#x27;s Unconventions</title>
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<description><![CDATA["If there is a rule book for becoming a ballet choreographer, Miro Magloire is not following it. He did not study dance as a child, and his first encounter with ballet came in his late teens, when he wandered into an adult beginners class to gain a better understanding of his role as an accompanist. Nor does his résumé include any gaudy star turns with big-name companies."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["According to preliminary national estimates from Nielsen, "So You Think You Can Dance" averaged a 3.0 rating/9 share in adults 18-49 and 8.8 million viewers overall to dominate the 9 o'clock hour and stand as the night's top-rated program."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["This story is very sad, but it has so much wrong in it that I think we have to be careful with what's been reported here. Maybe Ross was sick, maybe he was confused, it's hard to know what he actually said."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[An interview intended to be kept under wraps for 40 years has shed remarkable light on an Australian's disastrous directorship of the Royal Ballet in London....]]></description>
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<title>Over Objections, Ohio Ballet Wants To Use Grants To Pay Its Debts</title>
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<description><![CDATA["The defunct Ohio Ballet wants to use endowment gifts to pay $470,000 in bills. But not so fast, say the foundations that provided the money."...]]></description>
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<title>A Live Survey Of American Dance In One Week</title>
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<description><![CDATA["The Kennedy Center's "Ballet Across America" survey over the past week proved that the country has dancing talent to burn. Yet though the companies were culled from coast to coast, they are part of a small world. More than one company director referred to the gathering as Old Home Week; members of all nine of the companies have various intertwined histories and professional connections."...]]></description>
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<title>The Role Every Ballerina Wants</title>
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<description><![CDATA["When Kenneth MacMillan choreographed Romeo and Juliet for the Royal Ballet in 1965, he created the most fiercely coveted ballerina role of them all. The canon isn't short of tragic heroines - Giselle, Odette in Swan Lake, Tatiana in Onegin - but it's the beautiful, doomed Juliet every ballerina dreams of dancing."...]]></description>
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<title>The Updating Of Dorian Gray</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Dorian Gray reimagined as a gay aftershave model for our times?" No, it's not a performance art piece or a bad TV movie - it's the latest project from star choreographer Matthew Bourne. "Bourne is toying with the possibility of giving Dorian a doppelganger, an evil twin, and is still working out how to avoid having a literal version of the novel's notorious portrait in the attic."...]]></description>
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<title>Twyla Tharp Attacks Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Tharp, unlike so many choreographers who are most secure with a pas de deux or a solo, is a master (mistress?) of group dynamics: Everything's a rush, a melee, a jumble, except that everything's crystal clear. She's not a mere traffic manager, though; things not only work out, they go somewhere."...]]></description>
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<title>Kennedy Center Reaches Out For Nine Regional Dance Companies</title>
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<description><![CDATA["With all the big international groups we bring in, it's getting harder for us to sell the regional companies of America. It's important to see these wonderful companies; some of them have never been here before, like my alma mater, the Kansas City Ballet. I wanted to have them all, but I couldn't give them each a full week; this is a way that made sense for them and for us."...]]></description>
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<title>Dance Writ (Very) Large</title>
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<description><![CDATA["David Michalek that projects images of dancers on three 12-metre-tall screens in hyper-slow motion. For these towering figures, each five-second dance movement plays out over 10 minutes in minute detail. That yield is a study of the dancer, both in physical form and emotional expression, writ large in a public arena, with audience interaction en masse considered crucial to the experience."...]]></description>
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<title>Dance - Taking It To The Streets (And TV, And...)</title>
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<description><![CDATA["It seems as if every channel worth its programming salt, from broadcast networks to TLC, Lifetime and Bravo, has trotted out a dance-based reality show. As an unexpected side effect, street dance is now being popularized through television and on the shows' Web sites, and newer moves are being documented and codified in a way not seen before."...]]></description>
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<title>Can You Build  A Ballet Audience With Celebrities?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Traditional dance isn't drawing crowds. So some companies have been offering celebrity productions to up the comfort factor. But "pretending that ballet isn't really ballet, that it's just an upmarket sister to Strictly Come Dancing, won't lure any new viewers into the theatre the next time the Kirov dance Balanchine."...]]></description>
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<title>The High Cost Of Dance On A Body</title>
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<description><![CDATA[According to a recent study in the Journal of Orthopaedic Sports Physical Therapy, the annual injury rate at classical ballet companies ranges from 67 percent to 95 percent....]]></description>
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<title>A Call To Reform Dancers&#x27; Pay On London&#x27;s West End</title>
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<description><![CDATA["If you stay in a show, you get a percentage rise every year, that's what they do. They give you so much for staying a second year or third year. But as dancers get older and older, every time they go to a new show, they start off at square one again. It is quite hard for them. There does not seem to be any provision for experienced dancers as they get older."...]]></description>
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