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Kate Walsh Honea leaves the Sarasota Ballet after nineteen years.

Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre gets a government grant, after complaining publicly.

A story on the sexual assault lawsuit against Mitchell Taylor Button in The Daily Mail.

The Vail Dance Festival offers "International Evenings of Dance."

An interview with James Whiteside.

Opening night at the Vail Dance Festival.

A story on the sexual assault lawsuit filed against Mitchell Taylor Button.

A lawsuit is filed against Mitchell Taylor Button, husband of Dusty. Related.

An op-ed in The Arkansas Democrat Gazette on choreography and copyrights.

A review of Megan Abbott's new ballet-themed novel, "The Turnout," by Suzanne Berne in The Washington Post.

Q&A with Martha Ullman West about her new book, “Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet.”

Q&A with Emily Coates.

Oh, certainly not, ECat! Some of our elders would make Pazcoguin sound like Jane Austen. Not to take the thread down the side alley of Profanity Through the Ages, but to take only one example, there is reason to believe that the now almost universal use of the F-word as an intensifier and otherwise was first made commonplace by American GIs in World War II, who had a lot to be intense about (another favorite was "chickensh--;" the men had many good reasons to employ that one, too). I would expect there's a lot of it in the ballet world as well). These uses could be rather ingenious and funny. All I can tell you is that the swearwords and hyper-colloquial style did not work for me in this excerpt and made it a slog. I just hope I get a few breaks from it in the book.

An interview with Georgina Pazcoguin.

A review of the National Ballet of Japan by for Bachtrack.

A review of the Royal Ballet by Graham Watts for Bachtrack.

A story on the newly formed Perth Youth Ballet.

Amar Ramasar will retire from the New York City Ballet next year.

Ballerinas from the early days of Dance Theatre of Harlem talk about their era.

A WBUR story on the charges filed against Mitchell Taylor Button, Dusty Button's husband.

American Ballet Theatre's executive director announces her departure.

Dusty Button's husband Mitchell is accused of sexual assault.

Ballet book recommendations from Moira Macdonald for The Seattle Times.

The Joyce Theater announces its season schedule.

New York City Ballet's Clara Miller talks about her singing.