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	<title>Night at the Ballet: NPR&#39;s Ari Shapiro&#39;s &#39;&#39;surreal opportunity&#39;&#39; to sing with The Washington Ballet</title>
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Dance: Did you hear the one about NPR correspondent Ari Shapiro performing with The Washington Ballet&#63; &#39;&#39;I&#39;m not a dancer&#44; and I do not dance&#44;&#39;&#39; Shapiro says&#44; &#39;&#39;but I get to sing this song while everybody dances around me&#46;&#39;&#39; He&#39;s not joking&#46; In fact&#44; the song Shapiro sings during his &#39;&#39;little cameo&#39;&#39; in the company&#39;s new ballet&#44; based on Ernest Hemingway&#39;s The Sun Also Rises&#44; is in French&#46; Ari Shapiro ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Vampire Barre: The Washington Ballet&#39;s latest is as much Broadway as ballet</title>
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Dance:&#39;&#39;It&#39;s been loosely referred to as the Rocky Horror Show of ballet&#44;&#39;&#39; jokes Michael Pink&#46; &#39;&#39;It comes back and back again because it sells out&#46; People adore it&#46; It has that cult status&#46;&#39;&#39;He&#39;s referring to Dracula&#46; Both Atlanta Ballet and Colorado Ballet have performed the ballet nearly six times in the past 13 years&#46; Also a repeat performer is the Milwaukee Ballet&#44; where Pink serves as artistic director&#46;Dracula Luis R&#46; Torres and Maki Onuki in &#39;&#39;Dracula&#39;&#39; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>School Dances: Kennedy Center offers college &#39;&#39;dance sampler platters&#39;&#39; next weekend</title>
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Dance:&#39;&#39;Do you know that I performed at the national festival 20 years ago&#63;&#39;&#39;Diane DeFries of the American College Dance Festival Association says she hears that comment often&#46; &#39;&#39;It&#39;s amazing how many people working &#91;in dance&#93; have been involved with the organization&#44; or were involved as students&#44;&#39;&#39; she says&#46;But the general public&#63; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Uplifted&#58; Pilobolus: Baltimore native Nile Russell was all ready to give up dancing before he discovered the dance company Pilobolus</title>
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Dance:Nile Russell was all ready to give up dancing&#46;&#39;&#39;In modern dance&#44; there were people freaking out the audience just for the sake of freaking them out&#44; chaos for the sake of chaos&#44;&#39;&#39; says Russell&#46; &#39;&#39;I didn&#39;t think there was anything that was really pushing dance forward&#46;&#39;&#39;In fact&#44; Russell was preparing to become a dance teacher and leave New York when a friend dragged him to a Pilobolus audition nearly three years ago&#46; It was love at first move&#46; &#39;&#39;I had never really heard much about Pilobolus before besides the fact that they did crazy lifting and &#91;made&#93; all these kinds of shapes and poses&#44;&#39;&#39; he says&#46; &#39;&#39;But I just fell in love with the vibe&#44; the sense of community that they just doused over everything&#46;&#39;&#39; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Dancing to Memories: Kyle Abraham honors memories of his father in &#39;&#39;The Radio Show&#39;&#39;</title>
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Dance:&#39;&#39;It started out as kind of a stutter&#44;&#39;&#39; says Kyle Abraham&#44; about his father&#39;s aphasia&#44; a type of brain damage&#46; &#39;&#39;Two years later&#44; it started getting worse&#46; So it was just a gradual thing&#46;&#39;&#39;Abraham&#39;s father was diagnosed with Alzheimer&#39;s disease in 1999&#44; and lived with that and aphasia&#44; which came in later&#44; until last July&#46; But by 2006&#44; says Abraham&#44; &#39;&#39;conversation was getting a little chancier&#44; harder&#46;&#39;&#39;Kyle Abraham&#58; Abraham&#46;In&#46;Motion ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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