Saturday, July 20

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Tulsa Ballet holds its first Nutcracker Festival this year.

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The event will feature a variety of holiday-related activities, from live performances to a holiday marketplace offering unique gifts and festive decor; seasonal sweets and other culinary treats; children’s activities, including inflatables, an obstacle course and other events; ice skating; a special train that will give riders a peek into Santa’s Workshop; visits from Santa himself; and live performances by Tulsa artists, including excerpts from Tulsa Ballet’s “The Nutcracker."

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival celebrates its fiftieth anniversary.

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His company, renamed the Ohio Ballet two years later, began its Summer Festival at Cascade Plaza in downtown Akron in 1974, performing on a wood stage built from donated lumber.

"We were actually pioneering something there. We laid a wood floor because, of course, it had to be springy, a little bit, on truss work. And then we put a Marley [dance] floor over that," said Jane Startzman, a former Ohio Ballet dancer and director of the Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival.

 

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An interview with Matthew Bourne.

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Now he is back working on Oliver! once more, this time directing a production designed by his long-time collaborator Lez Brotherston, who also designed Swan Lake. After a series of large-scale revivals, this stripped-back, fast-moving version takes the show back to its “poor theatre” roots. “It is going full circle in some ways, bringing it back to something that is more authentic, closer to how it was created in 1960,” he says.

 

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A fashion magazine item on Chloe Misseldine.

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In her recent debut in “Swan Lake” on July 3, Chloe Misseldine left everyone speechless with her outstanding performance. This debut marked a huge milestone in her career, including being promoted to principal dancer of the American Ballet Theater. Misseldine started her journey at around the age of 3 at Orlando Ballet School. In 2022 she was promoted to a soloist at American Ballet Theatre. With other performances in shows such as Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Onegin, and The Seasons, Misseldine has shown her determination and flawlessness.

 

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A profile of @Ballerina Farm's Hannah Neeleman in The Sunday Times.

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“Back then I thought we should date for a year [before marriage],” she continues. “So I could finish school and whatever. And Daniel was, like, ‘It’s not going to work, we’ve got to get married now.’ ” After a month they were engaged. Two months after that they were married, moving into an apartment Daniel rented on the Upper West Side. And three months after that she was pregnant, the first Juilliard undergraduate to be expecting “in modern history”.