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.
Read moreThe 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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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.
Read moreWith 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreSiding 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.
Read moreIran has detained a teenage girl who posted dance videos on Instagram and attracted tens of thousands of followers.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreFederal 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.
Read moreNew 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.
Read moreAt 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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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.
Read moreAdorned 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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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.
Read moreA 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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