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<description><![CDATA["Tina Ramirez, the artistic director of Ballet Hispanico, is stepping down from her position after almost 40 years, but she doesn't want to call it retirement: 'I've been in the theater my whole life, how can you retire?'" Nonetheless, this is the beginning of her last season at the company's helm....]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite 15 years' struggle with conservative clerics, nervous officials, small audiences (who sometimes boo) and an uncomprehending society, the Egyptian Modern Dance Theater Company and its school have firmly established themselves in Cairo's arts scene....]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["Among the surviving 19th century ballets, Don Quixote&#133; doesn't get much respect. It wears its lowbrow intentions a mite too proudly&#133; But let's face it: Don Q is about keeping the audience entertained, and high art is often perceived as tainted when it entertains. The Kirov Ballet, not surprisingly, approaches it with no such hang-ups."...]]></description>
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<title>Rebirthing A Theater, Part XXXVI</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's been ten years since Minneapolis's decrepit Shubert Theatre was moved to a new location and slated for renovation as a major regional dance hub. But the project has repeatedly fallen short of funding targets and the renovation has never begun. Now, a new $1.5m challenge grant offers new hope, but the Shubert must raise an additional $6.5m to get the money....]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[&#133;&nbsp;it's dancing about aviation. This weekend at "Breaking Ground: A&nbsp;Dance Charrette," five choreographers presented site-specific works made for Floyd Bennett Field, New&nbsp;York's first municipal airport....]]></description>
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<title>Paul Taylor Company Loses Long-Term Lease On Its Home</title>
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<description><![CDATA["The company is scrambling to find new space that a nonprofit organization can afford. The search is complicated by the special needs of a dance company. Dance studios need to have wide-open areas without columns, and the ceilings must be at least 14 feet high, to preserve the foreheads of dancers being lifted into the air."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["You might know him as one of the world's most f&ecirc;ted conductors, but as the artistic and general director of the Mariinsky he's responsible for the Kirov Ballet as well as the Kirov Opera. Over the past decade, this firebrand Russian maestro has consolidated his influence on the ballet."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["An Argentine tango themed on the Tale of Genji, a Japanese novel written 1,000 years ago, will be performed this month in Tokyo and Nagoya." (The tangueros are Argentine and Polish, with a Noh dancer playing the Buddha; the instruments include both bandoneon and shamisen.)...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["Plans for Rambert Dance Company's new &pound;14&nbsp;million purpose-built home [in south London] have been thrown into question, following English Heritage and Westminster City Council's decision to legally challenge a proposed 144-metre tower block development which will house the venue."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["The US choreographer is now 89, and makes his post-show stage appearances in a wheelchair. But, having pretty much reinvented human movement over many decades and more than 200 elliptical works, he remains, as ever, at the absolute cutting-edge of contemporary dance."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["Clarity of intention aside, the [Lyon Dance Biennial] is one of the most ambitious and important dance festivals in the world, and its largeness of scale and intention is splendid to see at a time of ever-shrinking financing for the arts."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["Salsa fever is raging in China, with more than a dozen Latin dance studios having opened in the capital in the last four years. This week, an estimated 4,000 people from across the country and abroad are expected to attend the third annual China Salsa Congress in Beijing for four days of performances and competition, including for a second year an event on the Great Wall."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The Australian Ballet and the indigenous company Bangarra Dance Theatre have traveled to France with their joint project, Rites, a new take on The Rite of Spring that pays tribute to 30,000 years of Aboriginal culture. What do the French make of it? Critic Rosita Boisseau, looking "somewhat shell-shocked," said, "It's very strange. It left me a bit confused. All the dancers suddenly appearing covered head to toe in mud... It's a completely different approach, and we have to be very curious and open-minded towards this kind of composition."...]]></description>
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<title>Company Director Fired For Insufficient Blackness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Leeds-based Phoenix dance company has fired its director and resident choreographer, Javier de Frutos -- mainly because "under his direction Phoenix had ceased to be a sufficiently 'black' company. Even though De Frutos is himself Venezuelan and the rest of his company are a completely representative, urban, ethnic mix, Leeds seem to want to put back the clock to the time when Phoenix was a 'flagship' black company."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["Adam Linder, 25, won The Place Prize for dance 2008 for his contemporary duet Foie Gras, a critique of modern mass consumption. He was the youngest of 20 choreographers chosen from 174 hopefuls to compete for the £25,000 award." And just like that, a quiet kid from Australia became one of the hot new personalities of the international dance world....]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["What a difference a year makes! When Christopher Wheeldon brought his new company Morphoses to Sadlers Wells last year, I complained that the programme was monochrome and prim - a poor advertisement for so exciting a venture. Wednesday's bill was exactly the opposite: full of life, intelligence and promise for the future."...]]></description>
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<title>Toto, I Don&#x27;t Think We&#x27;re in the Bronx Anymore</title>
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<description><![CDATA["What might [the first break dancers] make of Break Out, the Korean dance-comedy spectacle now having its North American debut at the Union Square Theater? I'm still trying to figure out what to make of it myself."...]]></description>
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<title>Paris Opera Ballet&#x27;s Tough Cookie</title>
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<description><![CDATA["That [Brigitte] Lefèvre, 63, has lasted 16 years in different capacities, mostly as dance director, is in itself remarkable. Historically dance directors have tended to fall like flies at the Paris Opera."...]]></description>
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<title>Atlanta Ballet Returns to Using Live Music (Temporarily)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The company, which switched to recorded music two years ago to save money, will use a pit orchestra for four productions this season, thanks to a one-time $200,000 grant....]]></description>
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<title>Trey McIntyre&#x27;s New Company</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Trey McIntyre Project, with a budget of $1.6 million, is a compact ensemble of 10 that he envisions expanding to 12 next year. He is happy working on this scale for the moment. "I don't want to be making any larger pieces. I also want to be sure that every dancer is challenged and working a lot."...]]></description>
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<title>Texas Ballet Crisis Has Rallied A Community</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Depending on whom you talk to, the 48-year-old ballet group is either facing imminent death or simply weathering the kind of economic storm that periodically afflicts many nonprofit arts groups. But a bright side has emerged as TBT goes about righting the ship. The groundswell of support that rose up when the company's troubles came to light may have surprised even the ballet organizers, and it has brought in well over $1 million thus far."...]]></description>
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<title>Why Britain Isn&#x27;t Turning Out New Star Dancers</title>
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<description><![CDATA["On leaving the company, many of those homegrown dancers set up as teachers, feeding a new generation through the schools. That thread - that continuity - is now broken, and the results for British ballet have been catastrophic. A sideways glance at football tells the same story: a national skill-base weakened, possibly beyond repair, by a vast influx of foreign players.It doesn't have to be this way."...]]></description>
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<title>The Militant, Meatpacking District Snow White</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Snow White is supposed to be a story of innocence lost and love found, but Catherine Baÿ has a different take. "The site-specific installation, seen Tuesday at the Diane von Furstenberg shop in the West Village, transports the character from the land of fairy tales to the fashionable meatpacking district," and recreates Snow White as "slightly creepy and undeniably militant."...]]></description>
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<title>Celebrating The Best Of NYC Dance</title>
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<description><![CDATA["The Bessies -- more formally known as the New York Dance and Performance Awards -- are often described as the dance world's equivalent of the Oscars." The 24th annual presentation of the Bessies took place on Monday night, with plenty of emotion and few surprises....]]></description>
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<title>A &#x27;Step-by-Step Guide&#x27; to Merce Cunningham</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Cunningham is much more interested in effects than intentions. That's a good credo for audiences too." As Merce himself said, "It is hard for many people to accept that dancing has nothing in common with music other than time and the division of time."...]]></description>
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