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A video interview with Deborah Bull.

http://www.getsurrey...11_deborah_bull

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"I think The Everyday Dancer is actually more interesting than all the, you know, the nonsense that you hear or the things that people focus on, bleeding toes and broken hearts and so on," she said.

"We do tend, at the end of the day, to go home on the tube and wash our tights in the sink before we go to bed."

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Sarasota Ballet slide show.

http://www.yourobser...Sarasota-Ballet

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Occupy Wall Street reportedly contemplates opening a front at Lincoln Center.

http://www.metro.us/...-lincoln-center

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The protesters may set up a second camp in the public plaza in front of Lincoln Center tomorrow.

Meanwhile, every night this week Occupiers will continue to hold their general assemblies in Washington Square Park.

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Orlando Ballet presents "Vampire's Ball."

http://www.orlandose...0,2273162.story

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What Hill came up with was a combination of the familiar Halloween elements — a haunted house, a crazy doctor and a creature. He even created his own mythology. "I went so far as to create an antidote to a vampire's bite," he said. But there are rules: "It needs to be ingested within 24 hours."

Hill hopes the audience will appreciate the dancing, while being amused by the send-up of horror conventions.

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Manassas Ballet Theatre presents 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.'

http://www2.insideno...low-ar-1388269/

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The production opens the company’s 2011-12 season, which also includes “The Nutcracker,” “Peter and the Wolf” and “Swan Lake.” All productions are held at the Hylton center and accom­panied by the Manassas Ballet Theatre Orchestra.

The ballet is an interpretation of the classic short story by Wash­ington Irving, in which Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones battle for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel, and an encounter with the mys­terious Headless Horseman one autumn evening tips the scales in one suitor’s favor.“This is actually the second time we’ve performed ‘Sleepy Hollow,’” said Sara Gaydash, a five-year veteran dancer and teacher with the Manassas Ballet Theatre. “We’re very closely fol­lowing the original story with this production, but we’re also adding our own twists to it. The score is made up of bits and pieces of compositions our art and music directors composed.”

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A review of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet by Alastair Macaulay in The New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.c...ree-review.html

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The Farrell company, which only dances for a few weeks each year, always tackles a challenging number of ballets, and the endeavor is invariably remarkable. This season is the troupe’s 10th anniversary. I saw two programs in Washington, both twice (six ballets in all). Each performance was better than the one before.

Currently the company numbers 21 dancers and 6 apprentices. The Eisenhower stage looked densest during the thrilling finale of Balanchine’s “Diamonds,” which features 34 dancers, including additions from the Sarasota Ballet of Florida.

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Q&A with Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker.

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What was your big breakthrough?

Being accepted into Mudra, the school of [choreographer] Maurice Béjart, in Brussels in 1980. It was quite an exceptional place at that time: an artistic project for young people from all over the world. After that, I went to study in New York; when I returned in 1982, I made my work Fase to the music of Steve Reich. That was the beginning of a life in choreography.