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<description><![CDATA["The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra announced that it will accompany the financially beleaguered Texas Ballet Theater for the ballet's October performances at Bass Hall, with the cost being absorbed by" a local foundation. But the local musicians' union chief is warning the ballet that it could face pickets if it attempts to revert to an earlier plan to use canned music....]]></description>
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<title>The Red Shoes, Classic Dance Film, Holds Up 60 Years Later</title>
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<description><![CDATA["The film pays fetishistic attention to all of ballet's detailed contrivance: the elaborate makeup, the constant audience-consciousness, the endless attention to minutiae of musical timing and technical articulation. Brilliantly it closes in on one particular feature of ballet technique."...]]></description>
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<title>Texas Ballet Leaders Say They&#x27;d Step Aside If It Would Save Company</title>
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<description><![CDATA["The Texas Ballet Theater's chairwoman and its artistic director said Thursday that they would be willing to step aside if that would help the ballet raise $2 million by Sept. 10 -- including $500,000 in cash -- to stave off bankruptcy or a shutdown."...]]></description>
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<title>Christopher Wheeldon - Maybe A Reality Show For Choreographers?</title>
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<description><![CDATA["We've met with Bravo about some kind of reality show. I don't think I was controversial enough. I said I'm not going to create controversy, and I saw them glazing over. They wanted diva ballerina fits and glass in the pointe shoes, that kind of thing. We're trying to move away from those cliches."...]]></description>
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<title>Boston&#x27;s Snappy Dance Closes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After 10 years, the company, which developed a growing following in Boston, has dissolved because of funding challenges, artistic director Martha Mason said...]]></description>
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<title>An Explosion Of New Dance? </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Are we in the midst of a dance boom? You'd have to think so from the way hot-shot choreographers are going out and forming their own companies....]]></description>
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<title>Nation Of Dance - Britons Dancing Like Never Before</title>
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<description><![CDATA["We may be bombarded with depressing news about the recession, housing crisis, credit crunch. Yet step inside any community hall in Britain and, judging by the sea of smiling faces you're likely to meet, you would think that times had never been so good. Everyone, it seems, is dancing."...]]></description>
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<title>Texas Ballet Has Only Two Weeks To Raise Money</title>
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<description><![CDATA["In an effort to convey a heightened sense of urgency in its eleventh-hour fundraising drive, officials of Texas Ballet Theater told an emergency meeting of the board of trustees Tuesday that the ballet must still raise $1.4 million in the next two weeks or face the likelihood of declaring bankruptcy and closing its doors."...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA["Sitting through the Genée International Ballet Competition in Toronto was an eye-opening experience. Some candidates shone from the beginning, while others came alive or faded from sight in the latter stages. The judges did not have an easy task."...]]></description>
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<title>Australian Wins Gen&#xE9;e International Ballet Competition</title>
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<description><![CDATA["A total of 53 dancers, including 10 from Canada, had been competing in the past week for one of 16 spots in finals. The Genée has been staged for the past 80 years by the Royal Academy in London and since 2002 has alternated between the U.K. and overseas."...]]></description>
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<title>Pushing The Boundaries Of Choreography</title>
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<description><![CDATA["We're seeing surfacing in American contemporary dance work in recent years the deliberate use of strategies that have long been common artistic practice in other art forms. Appropriation, sampling, referencing and dialoguing with other artists' works, notions of authorship, dissolving of genres, the rethinking of dance's relationship with movement, and with audiences, etc., are all in play. Also in play is an impatience with the cherished notion of originality."...]]></description>
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<title>Texas Ballet Theatre Cancels Dallas Dates</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The financially strapped company has canceled two of the three Dallas performances it had scheduled to kick off the 2008-09 season....]]></description>
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<title>The Olympics Of The Dance World</title>
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<description><![CDATA["The competition, named after the dancer and training organization's co-founder, Adeline Genée, has been running annually since 1931.Only since 2000 has the Genée competition taken place outside London. The 57 semi-finalists, all but eight of them female, are ballet students aged 15 to 19, who passed the academy's Advanced 2 examination with distinction or have been awarded a Solo Seal. This year's candidates come from Australia, Canada, Britain, the U.S. and from as far away as Indonesia and Brazil, all told 11 of the 79 countries where the Royal Academy of Dance is active. "...]]></description>
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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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<title>Citing Money Woes, Texas Ballet Theatre Cancels Much-Anticipated China Tour</title>
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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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