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<title>Texas Ballet Theatre&#x27;s Plan To Survive</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As part of its plan to raise what it now says is "at least" $2 million by mid-September or face the prospect of closing its doors, Texas Ballet Theater plans to use recorded music for the 2008-09 performance season and will seek to "pay or settle" $850,000 in debt with creditors, including Bass Performance Hall and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra....]]></description>
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<title>Rambert Dance To Get Home In London&#x27;s South Bank</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Contemporary dance company Rambert is to have a new purpose-built home, following communities and local government secretary Hazel Blears' decision to give the go-ahead to a controversial tower block on London's South Bank."...]]></description>
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<title>Free Chicago Dance Fest Packs In The Crowds</title>
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<description><![CDATA["The free event even attracted a long line of hopefuls waiting to grab any last-minute cancellations Monday, illustrating that problems attracting a dance audience just might be solved by more funding and lower ticket prices."...]]></description>
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<title>More Signs Of Stress For Texas Ballet</title>
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<description><![CDATA["In yet another sign of the persistent financial woes facing the Texas Ballet Theater, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra reports that the dance company is months behind in signing a $350,000 contract with the orchestra for the upcoming season."...]]></description>
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<title>What If You Could (Literally) Capture Dancers&#x27; Energy?</title>
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<description><![CDATA["A new technology developed by the environmental innovation lab Enviu takes advantage of the vast amount of energy expended by revellers as they throw themselves around the dance floor. When you dance, you generate energy by the shaking of the ground. What we do, very simply, is to capture the movement of dancing people and transform it into energy."...]]></description>
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<title>Canadian National Ballet  Soloist Jumps To Dirty Dancing</title>
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<description><![CDATA["I'll be doing eight shows a week. I'm going to take it one show at a time and try to keep it a little bit different each time. At the ballet we had so many casts for each show, you'd maybe get to do three shows maximum. Here you really get to build your character, once you've worked past the nerves and stress."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["The Texas Ballet Theater's former chief fundraiser expressed skepticism Saturday about whether the company will be able to raise the $1 million to $1.5 million it said it needs over the next two months to avoid possibly closing its doors after 47 years of operation."...]]></description>
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<title>Who Knew? Dance Is A Big Hit On TV</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Take your pick -- there's no shortage of dance on TV. Inspired viewers maybe even try out a move or two on the living room floor, or sign up for classes, secretly hoping that they, too, could hack it as a professional. Dancing days are here again, and the ratings are soaring."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["The canceled trip is a symptom of ongoing financial and managerial problems that have resulted in an operating budget deficit estimated at $400,000. Ballet officials confirmed the deficit figure Wednesday. The China trip was canceled when the ballet was not able to raise the remaining $70,000 to underwrite artistic director Ben Stevenson's presentation of Cleopatra, which was to be performed by the troupe in Shanghai and other Chinese cities."...]]></description>
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<title>A Life On Pointe</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Maina Gielgud danced in her first pair of pointe shoes at the age of six. That is at least five years before the bones are fully formed but, remarkably, the glued and stiffened shoes did no harm to Gielgud's slender feet. Half a century later she was still teaching ballet class in pointe shoes. She reluctantly discarded them three or four years ago. It was, she says, "a huge, major decision."...]]></description>
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<title>Good Mark Morris Vs. Bad Mark Morris</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Why do some Morris works thrill while others irritate? The dichotomy has grown only more marked. I find it striking that no overemphasis on choreography has ever bothered me when Mr. Morris himself is dancing."...]]></description>
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<title>Wheeldon&#x27;s Ambitious Sophomore Company Gets Past The Expectations</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Along with the considerable hype, Christopher Wheeldon's much anticipated new company generated came some pointed criticism as well last summer in New York and London. "Sounding a bit chastened, artistic director , one of the most sought-after choreographers in the world, did not hesitate to acknowledge the lumps the company took."...]]></description>
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<title>She Used To Be Iran&#x27;s Most Famous Dancer</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Before the revolution, Farzaneh Kaboli was Iran's most famous dancer, the glittering star of the internationally renown Mahalli Dancers. Today, at the age of 59, she is a teacher-choreographer without an audience. Only on special occasions can her dances be performed in public and, even then, at the risk of being jailed or fined. Kaboli has been imprisoned twice, and on several other occasions has had to pay heavy fines owing to public-decency complaints that came after the fact."...]]></description>
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<title>Houston Ballet Plans New $53 Million Home</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Owning a building that consolidates operations is typical for major American ballet companies. The companies with the largest budgets either have them or are well on the way."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["Now every network is begging for the next dance opportunity. Everywhere you look, it's thriving and pulling in enormous numbers. Doing a show like 'Dancing With the Stars' is pretty much the most famous you can get as a dancer unless you're Baryshnikov or something."...]]></description>
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<title>Death By Dancing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In July of 1518, a woman began a fervent dancing vigil that lasted between four and six days. By the end of the week, 34 others had joined her and, "within a month, the crowd of dancing, hopping and leaping individuals had swelled to 400. Authorities prescribed 'more dancing' to cure the tormented movers but, by summer's end, dozens in the Alsatian city had died of heart attacks, strokes and sheer exhaustion due to nonstop dancing."...]]></description>
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<title>Fierce Independence Marks A Dance Master&#x27;s Career</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Italian choreographer Luca Veggetti has been taking the US by storm recently. "He has long identified with what he calls the distinctly American sense of freedom, and he hopes soon to move here permanently." Throughout his career, Veggetti has rejected the European cultural model in favor of a hard-won freelance career....]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["The United States has numerous summer ballet programs, from small classes in suburban studios to the School of American Ballet's prestigious program. But the Bolshoi offering, which began with a smaller, trial session last summer in Manhattan and is organized by the Russian American Foundation, is both a camp and a cross-cultural public relations effort."...]]></description>
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<title>National Ballet Of China Has  Rough History</title>
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<description><![CDATA[During the Cultural Revolution, "costumes were banned; the dancers wore Mao suits. Foreign terms, such as pas de deux, were also outlawed. 'We had to perform in the countryside on stages of rocks and dirt.' Once the door to outside influences reopened in the early 1980s, the Chinese National Ballet darted through, inviting in new choreographers and teachers."...]]></description>
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<title>Paris Opera Ballet Season Down Under Canceled</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Victoria government won't support a planned tour by the Paris Opera Ballet, and the season has collapsed. "We're embarrassed for Australia, and we're embarrassed for Melbourne. It's terrible after having been given such a wonderful time in Sydney for the ballet to be flicked by Melbourne." Supporters of the planned vist warned that "the decision might do "irreparable damage" to the reputations of Melbourne and Australia....]]></description>
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<title>A First Step To A Major Spanish Ballet Company?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[More Intelligent Life]]></description>
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<title>Kudelka Speaks: Why I Left The National Ballet</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It was a surprise to all when James Kudelka suddenly quit as director of the National Ballet of Canada in 2005. "When Kudelka looks back to that time, he sees a perfect storm of anti-creativity forces. Central to that storm were his fears that the new house would impact negatively on the company's budget, siphoning funds away from its creative mandate."...]]></description>
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<title>ABT - A Season That Delivers The Goods (Yet Doesn&#x27;t)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Alastair Macaulay comes away from this season's American Ballet Theatre season strangely unsatisfied. "Is this the spring season that America's national ballet company should have been giving? Why does Ballet Theater seem to take ballet less seriously than I do?"...]]></description>
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<title>Meet Australian Ballet&#x27;s New CEO</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Valerie Wilder is an unusually qualified chief executive. A former dancer, artistic director and executive director, she knows the performing-arts business -- both onstage and off -- and the joys and hardships that can come with it....]]></description>
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<title>A Web-Savvy Dance Sensation</title>
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<description><![CDATA["Persona Non Grata is rappers Ill-O and Ivo Dinero, both 19, and Heedi Blacc, 18, all of Brownsville, Brooklyn. They are part of a wave of hip hop in which Web-savvy teens with an ear for catchy music can create and control their own fame. In this case, fame centers on a song that begat a dance that begat an Internet sensation."...]]></description>
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