Now open for a year, the Children’s Discovery Museum of Central Maine is hitting its stride with events for both children and adults.
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Portland Ballet goes to Colby College. The assignment? Create a new work from scratch.
Eleven Colby students are working alongside the professional dance company on a new piece inspired by Maine’s landscape, history and lighthouses to be performed in Westbrook and Waterville.
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Cringy moves and a white b-girl’s durag prompt questions about Olympic breaking’s authenticity
From the Australian b-girl with the meme-worthy “kangaroo” dance move to the silver-medal winning Lithuanian in a durag, breaking’s Olympic debut had a few moments that raised questions.
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Seniors to be featured in solo dances in Annual Spring Dance Concert
The Lakeside Dance Academy
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Carlos Acosta brings the streets of Havana to ‘The Nutcracker’ with new take on holiday ballet
The Cuban-born ballet star has danced ‘The Nutcracker’ countless times in his glittering career.
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Trinity Commons to host a contradance
An evening of dancing – featuring a contradance – will be held Friday, Feb. 16, at Trinity Commons in Lewiston. A family dance with music provided by an “all-comers” band will be held from 6:30-7:30 p.m.; a contradance will be held from 8-10:30 p.m. Maggie Robinson will do the teaching and calling, with the music […]
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Dance is the air this Jay student breathes
Mallory Merrill of Jay loves dancing and is studying to become a dance teacher.
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Bolshoi pulls Nureyev ballet citing Russian ban on LGBT ‘propaganda’
Russia has banned any ‘demonstration of non-traditional relations’ and the ballet touches on the homosexuality of Rudolph Nureyev, one of the world’s greatest dancers.
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Dance group to share Earth Day performances along the Kennebec River
Three performances will be given moving from Augusta to Hallowell to Gardiner
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Randolph woman finds balance in belly dancing after overcoming cancer
Karen Ferroni, formerly a high-ranking hospital administrator, turned 70 this year and is now teaching a belly dancing class in Augusta.