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Elizabeth Murphy has been selected for Dance Magazine's "On the Rise" feature in the July 2013 issue: http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/July-2013/ Unfortunately, the article isn't available online, at least yet.

PNB dancers are back in the studio after summer break, and the company is heading to Vail International Dance Festival at the end of July. On 23 July PNB presents a Vail Preview at the Phelps Center from 5:30-7:00pm. Tickets can be purchased online for $25; subscribers must call the box office (206.441.2424) to purchase tickets at the $20 discounted price. It's general admission, chairs on bleachers in the large studio, Studio C. Program Information for the Vail Preview: 2013 marks PNB’s fourth visit to the acclaimed Vail International Dance Festival in Vail, Colorado. This year, PNB is taking seven ballets by George Balanchine (Agon, Apollo, Concerto Barocco, and Serenade), Kent Stowell (Swan Lake Act II), and Christopher Wheeldon (After the Rain pas de deux and Tide Harmonic). Excerpts from a selection of these works will be featured in this studio preview rehearsal. Program Information for Vail: Opening Night-25th Anniversary Celebration, Sunday, July 28, 7:30 pm • Serenade (Tchaikovsky/Balanchine) plus performances by additional festival guest artists Pacific Northwest Ballet, Monday, July 29, 7:30 pm • Tide Harmonic (Talbot/Wheeldon) • After the Rain pas de deux (Pärt/Wheeldon) • Swan Lake Act II (Tchaikovsky/Stowell after Ivanov) Pacific Northwest Ballet: Balanchine in Black & White, Tuesday, July 30, 7:30 pm • Concerto Barocco (Bach/Balanchine) • Apollo (Stravinsky/Balanchine) • Agon (Stravinsky/Balanchine)

Marie wears a little crown. Maybe that's where "princess" comes from.

Julie Kent acquitted herself quite nicely in "Center Stage." I thought she was wicked.

Villella was quite clear in his interview that he thinks Cuban dancers are based in the Russian school and needed to be "de-Russified" before they could dance his rep the way he wanted it danced. He would never bring in the dancers and coaches from the local Cuban communtiy because they would teach the style they knew, not the style he wanted.

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Here's the direct link to McRae's Prix de Lausanne tap number: Toe tapping is making a comeback: there are three tappers that made the Top 20 on this season's "So You Think You Can Dance," and at least two of them have used it in their solos.

That's an inspired choice, lmspear.