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dirac

Aug 31 2009, 01:08 PM

I've been having difficulty connecting to BT this morning, so today's links may go up a bit slowly. For starters:

Ballet Wichita holds auditions for its Nutcracker.

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The dancers won't know how they did for at least two more weeks, said Jill Landrith, Ballet Wichita's artistic director, who assigns the company productions. Each of the dancers, though, will be used in the upcoming 2009-10 season.

The fully costumed productions run in December.

Huntsville Ballet Company, likewise.

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This year's Nutcracker auditions at the Huntsville Ballet Company brought out more than students in pointe shoes - it brought lights, camera and action.

A documentary film crew was on hand at the Saturday and Sunday auditions to film the dancers and interview others associated with dance in the Huntsville community - all part of a documentary about dance in America.

dirac

Aug 31 2009, 01:10 PM

Nine new dancers join the Joffrey Ballet.

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The Joffrey Ballet will be adding nine dancers to its ranks this season, replacing a relatively sizable contingent that left earlier this year.

Related article.

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Major dance companies experience a certain amount of turnover each season for all the usual reasons -- injuries, retirement, career discontent. But the changes at the Joffrey Ballet during the past half year have been more substantial than usual, with many longtime company members moving on and a slew of new hires now being announced.

In addition to the seven dancers who left following the spring season, two additional dancers -- Kathleen Thielhelm and Heather Aagard, both veterans with the troupe -- have departed.

dirac

Sep 1 2009, 12:25 PM

A preview of the New York City Center season by Susan Reiter in Playbill.

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The Festival has become the essential opening salvo of the new season, and no year would be complete without such longstanding and welcome resident companies as those of Alvin Ailey and Paul Taylor. And although it is only in its third year of existence, Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company has become a highly anticipated annual offering, with its adventurous and forward-looking ballet repertory and world-class dancers.

But alongside these regulars, an eclectic array of unfamiliar offerings will represent everything from tango to Brazilian contemporary dance to classical ballet—the latter in the form of a highly-anticipated U.S. debut: the new Spanish company directed by American Ballet Theatre virtuoso Angel Corella. Also new—in terms of its participants, if not its name—is Kings of the Dance, the program that celebrates today’s leading male ballet artists.

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