03/23/13 COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME NEWS FEED FOR BALLET.

• Natalie Portman Paternity Scandal: Aleph's Biological Father IS... _{2013-03-23, 06:02 am}
  ... and it's going to be Natalie's turn to reciprocate the favor. He recently took a job as director with The Paris Opera ballet. Natalie is going to have to decide whether Benjamin is worth giving up her work for him. She'll need to decide what matter ...
• Nevada Ballet Theatre unveils Tchaikovsky-rich '13-14 season _{2013-03-23, 05:06 am}
  Nevada Ballet Theatre will present a "Tribute to Tchaikovsky," featuring "Swan Lake's" second act and "Sleeping Beauty's" third act, in November at The Smith Center.
• Community news briefs _{2013-03-23, 03:00 am}
  ... Theatre at Raritan Valley Community College will present "In Full Bloom," featuring the American Repertory Ballet, tonight. ARB Artistic Director Douglas Martin tackles Igor Stravinsky's score, "The Rite of Spring," on the centennial of its ...
• Shen Yun 'Made Me Smile' Says Tech Company VP _{2013-03-23, 04:44 am}
  ... Chinese dance. Classical Chinese dance is an art form that has a history of thousands of years, that alongside ballet is one of the most complete dance systems in the world. Ms. Cattoche says she really liked the costumes in the performance. In ...
• Tickets for city festival on sale _{2013-03-23, 04:20 am}
  ... technology will be on show. Scottish theatre company Grid Iron presents a new, interactive performance and Scottish Ballet returns to Festival Theatre with a four-day dance festival. Other events include a tribute to Frank Zappa, focusing on his ...
• 'I feel like I can make a difference for my community' _{2013-03-23, 03:46 am}
  Frederick High junior Lily Wherry is treasurer of her school's student government, a dancer at the Frederick School of Classical Ballet, and the founder and student coordinator of her high school's English Mentoring and Tutoring program.
• P.K.'s Weekend Roundup: Last-minute around-the-Bay activities March 22, and more _{2013-03-23, 02:32 am}
  ... unforgettable. Ciao for now. San Jose - The San Jose Center for the Performing Arts presents a special by Ballet San Jose March 22 through March 24; Ballet San Jose presents Program 2 Spring Repertory , a mixed repertory program featuring the ...
• Russian National Ballet Performs Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet... _{2013-03-23, 01:12 am}
  Detroit Music Hall hosts The Russian National Ballet Theatre, tonight, March 23rd at 8 pm as they stage the rarely performed, original Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky version of the William Shakespeare tragedy, Romeo And Juliet and Chopiniana by Frederic Chopin.
• Fulcrum Point and West African Musicians Present AFRO-BEATS! at UChicago's Logan Center Today_{2013-03-23, 01:12 am}
  ... Family Series. Guest musicians and dancers for Afro-Beats! include Idy Ciss (dancer and former member of the National Ballet), Jim Gailloreto (accomplished jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer), John Knecht (a master drum player), Morikeba ...
• This week's new dance _{2013-03-23, 01:00 am}
  ... two contrasting classics: Nikita Dolgushin's staging of Giselle Ou Les Wilis (Tue to Fri), and the exuberant comedy ballet Don Quixote (30-31 Mar), in a new staging by the company's Mikhail Messerer. Liv Lorent choreographs for grown-ups but she's ...
• Dancer back on stage after spinal surgery _{2013-03-23, 12:31 am}
  ... Festival at Vanier Hall this week. Born with scoliosis, Fisher's spine started to curve at around 13. Fisher began ballet at three years old and started dancing competitively at 10. "At 15 it got really, really bad and I think the curve at that time ...
• CI Announces 2013 Dolphinpalooza _{2013-03-23, 12:21 am}
  ... Orchestra; the Channel Islands All-Stars, an electric jazz group; the Rio Brasil Samba dancers and drummers; and the Ballet Folklorico de CI. Complimentary event parking is limited and only available in the designated "A" parking lots. Upon arriving ...
• Partners and Pairs ballet show is a crowd pleaser _{2013-03-23, 12:10 am}
  The Charleston Ballet presented "Partners and Pairs" and a four-part mixed bill of dance at the Charleston Civic Center Little Theater on Friday.
• Dance Team to Perform "The Process" March 22, 2013 _{2013-03-22, 11:33 pm}
  The Dean Colleges Dance Team invites local residents to attend "The Process," a fully student-choreographed show, this Friday, March 22 at the The show exhibits a choreographic process, idea or concept in the genres of modern, jazz, contemporary, tap, ballet and contemporary hip hop that aligns with the essence of the Dean College Dance Team.
• American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company to Present Year-End Performances, 4/5-6 _{2013-03-22, 11:12 pm}
  Year-end performances for American Ballet Theatre 's Studio Company and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School are scheduled for Friday, April 5 and Saturday, April 6 at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University.
• Corpus Christi Ballet to perform Cinderella at Beeville Jones HS _{2013-03-22, 10:02 pm}
  "Cinderella," a production of the Corpus Christi Ballet dance company, will be performed on the A.C. Jones High School Auditorium stage on Saturday, May 4. The one-time performance of the children's folk tale, presented by the Coastal Bend College Foundation, will begin at 7 p.m. The Corpus Christi Ballet's appearance in Beeville has been ... (more)
• Washington Ballet's humorous - Cinderella' is enchanting _{2013-03-22, 08:47 pm}
  Why wait for fairies? The enchantments start early in the Washington Ballet's "Cinderella." Take the decor: With simple white furniture placed against a starlit night sky and slender birch trees stretching upward where there should be walls, our heroine's home has a refreshing, surreal look.
• Onegin: Tour de Force in the Wages of Love _{2013-03-22, 08:42 pm}
  ... 1965, is just wonderful. The evening-length extravaganza, back for just one week by popular demand at San Francisco Ballet, where it opened last season, is a prodigy of gorgeous dancing, stars to corps; it has a lean, clean yet utterly gripping ...
• Jonathan Trew: Growing in skyscrapers may be answer _{2013-03-22, 08:23 pm}
  TRANSLATING a novel into dance can't be an easy feat. In fact, it brings to mind the Steve Martin quote that "Writing about music is like dancing to architecture". So hats off to Northern Ballet, which has had a crack at portraying F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the medium of dance.
• Make-A-Wish gives dream ballet studio to little girl _{2013-03-22, 07:58 pm}
  An extra special wish was granted for a young girl battling cancer. Little Mia loves to dance and now has her very own studio, thanks to Make-a-Wish of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.