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Catalans Told Not to Dance With Strangers

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
coronavirus, dance, hotels, Restaurants, Spain

BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Barcelona disco owners on Tuesday condemned a regional decision to maintain a ban on dancing, unless

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Entertainment Health International Technology 

Pandemic Pushes Japan Geisha to Get Online

June 16, 2020June 16, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
dance, history, internet, Japan

Japanese geisha “Chacha” sits on her knees with her fingertips neatly placed on the wooden floor, gracefully bowing to an audience sitting not in front of her but miles away, watching online.

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Entertainment Health Sports 

Dancing With Myself: Ballet Stars Stay on Their Toes in Virus Lockdown

March 20, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
athletes, coronavirus, dance

From using their sofas as a barre, keeping up their classes by video conference, or posting stretching tutorials on Instagram, dancers from some of the world’s top companies are not letting the layup caused by the virus erode the iron discipline they need to keep in peak physical form. 

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Arts Employment 

Greensboro Ballet

January 6, 2020January 6, 2020 BRIEF
dance, wages

The Greensboro (N.C.) Ballet owes its former executive director $79,668 in back wages, and the former director of its ballet school $7,546, they claim in Guilford County Court.

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Employment Entertainment International 

Ballet Dancers Down Tutus in Longest Strike Ever at Paris Opera

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
dance, Paris, pension, strike, theater

Paris Opera has lost more than $13.3 million in a month-long strike by ballet dancers fighting to cling onto pension rights that date back to the “Sun King” Louis XIV.

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Consumers Employment Entertainment Government National Politics 

Ballroom Dancers Say Immigration Clampdown Hurting Business

December 2, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
dance, immigration, Visas

With a steady interest in learning iconic dances like the foxtrot and tango, fueled in part by “Dancing with the Stars,” studio owners say their efforts to hire professional instructors are hampered without overseas help.

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Education Regional Sports 

Panel Takes Up Ban on Boys Joining Dance Teams

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 DIONNE CORDELL-WHITNEY
dance, discrimination, Eighth Circuit, Minnesota, schools, sex, student-athletes, Title IX

The Eighth Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday in two Minnesota boys’ challenge to the state high school arts and athletics association’s policy of barring boys from participating on competitive dance teams.

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Appeals Arts Employment Entertainment International 

Ballet Dancer Wins Contract Fight at Top EU Court

October 25, 2018October 26, 2018 BARBARA LEONARD
contract, dance, eldSports, European Court of Justice

Siding with an Italian ballerina, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that operatic and orchestra workers are entitled to challenge abuses in fixed-term employment contracts.

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Education Regional Sports 

Dance Team

July 26, 2018 BRIEF
dance, discrimination, Minnesota, schools, sex

Two Minnesota boys filed a federal sex-discrimination lawsuit against the state’s high school fine arts and athletics association, challenging its policy of barring boys from participating in competitive dance teams.

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Civil Rights Criminal Technology 

Iranian Teen Detained Over Instagram Dance Videos

July 9, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
dance, gender, Instagram, Iran, teens

Iran has detained a teenage girl who posted dance videos on Instagram and attracted tens of thousands of followers.

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Government International Politics 

Berlin Councilwoman Wants to Shut Legendary Berghain Club

April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin, dance, Music, nightclub

A nationalist councilwoman in Berlin has been ridiculed online for proposing the closure of one the city’s most famous techno clubs because of its long opening hours as well as partygoers’ drug consumption and lascivious behavior on the dance floor.

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Criminal Entertainment International 

Feds Say Visa Fraudsters Donned Clients in Folk Costumes

February 8, 2018February 8, 2018 AMANDA OTTAWAY
dance, Fraud, NYC, Visas

Federal prosecutors unveiled visa-fraud charges against a trio they say doctored fliers for Armenian folk concerts and staged photos of immigrants dressed in traditional dance costumes.

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Entertainment Law Regional 

NYC Mayor Repeals 1920s Ban on Dancing in Bars

November 28, 2017November 29, 2017 AMANDA OTTAWAY
dance, nightclub, NYC, ordinance

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a law Monday repealing the “Footloose”-esque Cabaret Law, a Prohibition-era mandate that banned dancing in New York City bars that didn’t hold a special license.

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Civil Rights Education Sports Trials 

Oregon School Hazing Case Goes to Jury

November 3, 2017November 6, 2017 KARINA BROWN
bullying, dance, hazing, Oregon, schools, teens

At a high school in an affluent suburb, sports team “initiations” were the norm. Now, a federal jury is deciding whether the school’s dance team initiations amounted to hazing. And whether coaches and administrators are responsible.

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Civil Rights Education Entertainment 

Ahead of Prom, Gay Teen Takes Old-Fashioned School to Court

May 11, 2017May 12, 2017 JOSH RUSSELL
dance, discrimination, LGBT, New York, schools, students

As his school gears up for yet another prom where he says the principal will literally separate same-sex couples on the dance floor, a Buffalo teen brought a federal complaint Wednesday to put the community’s old-fashioned notions in the dustbin.

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Business Employment Entertainment Government Regional 

Judge Blocks Enforcement of Louisiana Stripper Law

March 10, 2017May 24, 2017 SABRINA CANFIELD
dance, Louisiana, nudity, regulation, strip club

A federal judge temporarily blocked Louisiana from enforcing a law that would keep strippers under the age of 21 from dancing nude in the state.

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Civil Rights 

LGBT Activists ‘Freak Out’ at Texas Governor’s Mansion

February 24, 2017February 24, 2017 KELSEY JUKAM
bathroom bills, dance, governors, LGBT, protests, Texas

Adorned with glitter, spandex and drag, nearly 100 people flocked to the Texas governor’s mansion Thursday night for a dance-party protest against legislation that targets the LGBT community.

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Law 

Oklahoma Town Repeals ‘Footloose’ Ordinance

February 23, 2017May 25, 2017 DAVID LEE
dance, Oklahoma, ordinance

A small Oklahoma town repealed a long-standing “Footloose” ordinance on Wednesday that banned public dancing within 500 feet of a church or public school.

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Religion 

Oklahomans Can’t Dance Too Close to a Church

February 9, 2017May 1, 2018 DAVID LEE
churches, dance, holidays, Oklahoma, ordinance

A small Oklahoma town has canceled its Valentine’s Day dance because it would violate a morality ordinance that prohibits dancing within 500 feet of a church.

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