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A woman who was told to remove mementoes of her dead daughter from her office workspace loses her suit against her employer.

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A New Jersey judge rejected a woman’s claim that her boss inflicted intentional emotional distress by making her remove photos of her deceased daughter and her daughter’s ballet slippers from her cubicle.

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Box office receipts for the Edinburgh International Festival went down by 3.3% this year.

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He insisted the festival – which featured Chinese opera and ballet, Indian dance and Korean productions of Shakespeare – had performed “extremely well”, saying a slight drop in ticket income had been predicted because so many acts were unfamiliar to the festival’s core audience.

Critics have heaped praise on shows such as the Peony Pavilion, by the National Ballet of China, and Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe’s Revenge of Prince Zi Dan, although many productions had widespread availability and tickets were still available for the end-of-festival fireworks display last night.

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The festival continued to attract strong foreign interest with audiences from 75 different counties, 2,500 artists from 38 nations and increased diplomatic and media presence from Asian countries. Over a quarter of a million people are estimated to have watched the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert on Sunday night which marked the end of the festival.

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Scottish Ballet receives an award from the Bank of Scotland. (Registration required for full article.)

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The growth in Scotland’s national ballet company under the artistic direction of Ashley Page to the point where it now deserves a regular place in the programme of the Edinburgh International Festival was recognised on Saturday with the presentation of a Bank of Scotland Archangel award.

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Nashville Ballet kicks off its season with a preview of "Cinderella."

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As a preview of their popular cantata Carmina Burana, the Nashville Ballet co-presented an event last April with the Nashville GLBT Chamber of Commerce. The sneak peek of Cinderella will be very similar in nature, Dawidjan says.

"There will be food and drinks before the presentation, and then we'll all go into the main rehearsal room for the performance," Dawidjan says.

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A story on the arts in Grand Rapids by Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk for The Grand Rapids Press.

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Michigan’s second city is No. 1 in many categories. The Grand Rapids Ballet Company is the only professional troupe in the state devoted to classical dance. Opera Grand Rapids is the oldest professional opera company in Michigan.

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Dance Theatre of Tennessee will honor Elaine Thomas on her seventy-fifth birthday.

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Thomas is currently artistic associate and principal coach for DTT. Artistic Directors and Principal Dancers of several ballet companies that Thomas has been associated with or have worked with will be flying in for the event. Some of these companies include Ballet West, Pennsylvania Ballet, Texas Ballet Theater and Australian Ballet. They will present premieres of works by Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Ben Stevenson, among others.