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A story about the dance baby boom in lockdown by Gia Kourlas in The New York Times.

Chloé Lopes Gomes wins her case and gets her job back.

Nashville Ballet joins the ranks of companies returning to live performance.

A review of Ballet West by Marianne Adams for danceviewtimes.

A tour of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive archive.

A review of the Ballet of the State Theater Nuremberg by Ilona Landgraf in her blog, "Landgraf on Dance."

Kevin McKenzie announces his retirement from American Ballet Theatre.

Remembering Rudolf Nureyev's only visit to Hong Kong.

Thank you for the link. Russell is awesome on the original Broadway cast album and her line readings have entered justly into legend ( ("I was rereading 'Moby Dick' the other day [radio silence]….It's about this [beat] whale"). Enough to make me forgive her Mama Rose.

A preview of William Forsythe and Tiler Peck's collaborative The Barre Project.

Richard Stoker, who composed "The Garden Party" for Frederick Ashton and Peter Darrell, is dead at age 82. Related.

A portrait of Tamara Karsavina is auctioned off at Christie's and donated.

Not pedantic at all, JMcN, you're quite right and thank you. I blame Quiggin. The NY Times plugged "sexual misconduct" in their obituary headline and the NYT obit is picked up by many other outlets, so no, this aspect is not being downplayed......

A review of San Francisco Ballet by Janice Berman for San Francisco Classical Voice.

An article on how weight requirements are currently enforced in ballet and the influence of the fitness craze by Chloe Angyal in The Washington Post.

A list of the "ten best" movies about ballet.

Kansas City Ballet will give benefit performances next month.

Grand Rapids Ballet hires a new marketing director.

Los Angeles Ballet will hold a virtual gala.

A review of Australian Ballet by Geraldine Higginson for Dance Australia.

At the risk of going off thread, and with all due respect, the English clergy were up to the slavery traffic to their eyeballs. Others did preach and campaign against it. The abolitionists in the US were regarded as dangerous cranks, and talked of secession. I can appreciate the great works of the past without necessarily accepting their "moral justice" -- certainly not in its entirety. One of Tolstoy's greatest works describes the really bad things that can happen to a woman who leaves a barren marriage for love. It doesn't end well for her, and while Tolstoy does not lack compassion his book is basically about why she was wrong. I am glad that women taken in adultery these days don't have to cope with such moral justice, they already likely have enough complications to deal with.

A review of Polish National Ballet by Jenifer Sarver for Bachtrack.

Pacific Northwest Ballet presents its annual "Spring Fling" online.

An NPR story on Eugene Ballet's new digs.

An omnibus review of online dance performances by Roslyn Sulcas in The New York Times.