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		<title>On Stage: Freejazz with Freeing Emotion</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/06/12/on-stage-freejazz-with-freeing-emotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvranish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free jazz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearlann Porter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Pillow Project]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pearlann Porter called it “( ),” an artist-known-as-Prince way to engage audience members. I saw a hug, a way to connect. As it turned out, there was, of course, much more to the piece than that. There was traffic noise as we entered (or so I assumed). And the piece was performed with a dual [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4958&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Stage: CLO&#8217;s Brides/Brothers a Match Made in Heaven</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/06/12/on-stage-clos-bridesbrothers-a-match-made-in-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvranish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Keel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seven Brides For Seven Brothers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Civic Light Opera’s Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is that rarest of breeds &#8212; the truly manly musical. Mountain-brewed with a panoramic  sweep, it’s the kind of tuneful show that had the audience humming as they went out the Benedum Center doors. Not that the tunes were not that familiar, not like Broadway’s groundbreaking [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4964&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Film: Swan Lake in 3D</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/06/11/on-film-swan-lake-in-3d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvranish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3d ballet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ballet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mariinsky ballet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mariinsky Theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was quite a lot of buzz over James Cameron’s latest project, the first live 3D dance film. Maybe he didn’t like Pina, Wim Vandekeybus’ brilliant Oscar-nominated film about Pina Bausch. After all, Cameron made Titanic and Avatar and is considered a pioneer in 3D filmmaking. But instead of breaking new ground &#8212; a new [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4954&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Stage: Beth&#8217;s &#8220;Remains&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/06/10/on-stage-beths-remains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvranish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beth Corning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dance theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new hazlett theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physical theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solo work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Beth Corning watched her life unfold around her and for New Hazlett Theater audiences. Read about her fearlessness and the drama of it all in her latest piece, the solo work Remains in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Tagged: Beth Corning, dance, dance theater, new hazlett theater, physical theater, solo work<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4950&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Stage: A Life Lived and Danced</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/06/05/on-stage-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvranish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beth Corning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominique Serrand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new hazlett theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physical theater]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beth Corning was running on empty. Over the past several years she had stared at one loss after another &#8212; her company (Dance Alloy Theater), her mother, her friends. But what she could still control was her work. Not just the steps, though. “I wanted to grow at a cellular level,” she explains after a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4940&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Stage: Just Ducky!</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/06/03/on-stage-just-ducky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvranish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[duck]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rubber duck]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[But it’s not the bathtub-sized bird of Rubber Ducky fame. This is Studio Florentijn Hofman’s The Rubber Duck, four stories high (about 40 feet) and it will open the third Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts. This installment will run four weeks (Sept. 27 &#8211; Oct. 26, 2013) and will include an international array of theater, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4931&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Stage: Dancing Feet</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/06/03/on-stage-dancing-feet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvranish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[42nd Street]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gower Champion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joey Fatone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tap dancing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; You’re going out there a youngster, but you have to come back a star! Yes, it’s the dream of any current Broadway hopeful, to step on stage at the last minute and hit the equivalent of a home run with the bases loaded. That’s what gives 42nd Street, a 1933 film that morphed into [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4923&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Stage: Kiridi/Cinderella</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/05/30/on-stage-kiridicinderella/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 22:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvranish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Balafon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cinderella]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We most often think of Cinderella as a blonde, blue-eyed heroine who overcomes difficult circumstances to meet her perfect prince and live in a castle happily ever after. That’s the Disney model. But in Europe, which spawned our images, there are actually 500 different versions. And the iconic fairy tale goes back further than that, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4908&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Stage: Hear/Now</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/05/18/on-stage-hearnow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 19:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Bernabo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experimental dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hip hop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelly-Strayhorn Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maree DeMalia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ever-lengthening arm of the Kelly Strayhorn Theater continues to operate at Dance Alloy studios, not only with dance classes, but an increasing number of performances that take advantage of the intimate performing space that is available. The latest was HEAR/NOW, a periodic series devoted to experimental music and sometimes dance. It is raw, spare, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4903&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dance Beat: 3D &#8220;Lake,&#8221; Dancing Classrooms</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/05/17/dance-beat-3d-lake-dancing-classrooms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvranish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dancing Classrooms Pittsburgh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mariinsky Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swan Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yekaterina Kondaurova]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[3D SWAN. Those feathers will seem so real you can touch them in James Cameron’s new technological wonder, Swan Lake. The director of Avatar collaborated with Valery Gergiev, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, but more importantly the general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. It will star [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4898&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dance Beat: Jacob&#8217;s Pillow, PPU, PBT</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/05/16/dance-beat-jacobs-pillow-ppu-pbt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacob's Pillow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Dorrance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nutcracker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Point Park University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TAP-ETTE? I’m still surprised as I write this, that Michelle Dorrance received the 2013 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award (the same one awarded to Pittsburgher Kyle Abraham last year), which carries a cash award of $25,000. In a dance form dominated by men, she evidently taps like a butterfly while her rhythms sting like a bee. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4894&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dance Beat: Dancing Classrooms, PBT, Freddie Franklin</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/05/13/dance-beat-dancing-classrooms-pbt-freddie-franklin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 19:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[American Ballet Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dancing Classrooms Pittsburgh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frederic Franklin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[COLORS OF THE RAINBOW. That’s what Dancing Classrooms Pittsburgh calls its competition events. Well, it’s all over, but we’re still cheering for this year’s dancers, who looked better than ever and made the finals at Pittsburgh Allderdice extremely close. When the dust had settled, it was Lincoln K-5 who took the trophy. Others participating in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4887&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Stage: The Delectable Mark Morris</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/05/12/on-stage-the-delectable-mark-morris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 22:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twyla Tharp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you ever wondered why Mark Morris&#8217; choreography had such breadth and wit and intelligence, you only have to talk with him. I found that over the course of several interviews over the years and the Pittsburgh Dance Council audience saw it for themselves after Mark Morris Dance Group&#8217;s performance at the Byham Theater (click [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4881&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Stage: Celebrating the Spirit &#8212; The Dybbuk</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/05/10/on-stage-celebrating-the-spirit-the-dybbuk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[jewish music festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaballah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multi-media production.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new hazlett theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texture Contemporary Ballet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dybbuk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that large arts organizations are generally the face of a city. But it is the small arts organizations that are the pulse, able to present rare and original works on a regular basis. Sometimes the twain do meet, though, as in a recent, largely fascinating performance of The Dybbuk: Between Two [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4875&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Stage: Pittsburgh Dance Council 2013-14 Season</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/05/05/on-stage-pittsburgh-dance-council-2013-14-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 23:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[american premieres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ballet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brooklyn academy of music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[circus arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compagnie Kafig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemporary dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eric satie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hip hop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marie chouinard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City Ballet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physical theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Dance Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Royal Ballet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wendy Whelan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They say you can’t go back, but the Pittsburgh Dance Council is ignoring that with its upcoming 2013-14 season. Executive director Paul Organisak, perhaps inspired by the Pittsburgh Festival of Firsts (exciting news in itself!) this fall and which he curated as well, has gone back to the adventuresome, experimental, what-the-hell-was-that programming that many of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4864&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Film: It Seems That They Just Keep Getting Younger&#8230;Evian</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/05/01/on-film-it-seems-that-they-just-keep-getting-younger-evian/</link>
		<comments>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/05/01/on-film-it-seems-that-they-just-keep-getting-younger-evian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 17:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvranish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youtube]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tagged: Evian, Youtube<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4862&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Stage: Clock-ing The Dirty Ball</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/04/29/on-stage-clock-ing-the-dirty-ballet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Attack Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martha Rial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dirty Ball]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With Pittsburgh a city rooted in ethnic and neighborhood traditions of every ilk, a cultural  lifestyle that sometimes keeps us pinned down, it’s refreshing to see ‘Burghites erupt once a year at Attack Theatre’s Dirty Ball. And why not? This small company looms large with a volunteer army that bedecks different large urban spaces around [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4843&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Stage: Point Park&#8217;s New Byham Collection</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/04/27/on-stage-point-parks-new-byham-collection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Alejandro Cerrudo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ballet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Stevenson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hip hop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hubbard Street Dance Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jose Limon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Point Park University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rennie Harris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was something old, something new and, yes, something a little blue as Point Park University’s Conservatory Dance Company took to the Byham Theater for its annual formal showcase. And, of course, Point Park borrowed four distinctly different works from around the country to construct an evening that had a balanced zest about it. For [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4836&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Stage: Nora!</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/04/24/on-stage-nora/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvranish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelly-Strayhorn Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nora Chipaumire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nora Chipaumire made a welcome return to Pittsburgh with her latest piece, Miriam, based on the South African singer and activist. But it was so much more, which you can read about in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. An added kudo to her behind-the-scenes collaborators director Eric ting, composer Omar Sosa, lighting designer Olivier Clausse and scenic design [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4831&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Stage: Which &#8220;Cinderella?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://pittsburghcrosscurrents.com/2013/04/24/on-stage-which-cinderella/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Alexei Ratmansky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ballet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bolshoi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Wheeldon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cinderella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Francisco Ballet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing how we have managed to Disney-fy very dark and scary European fairy tales, which have been tapped for glittering full-length ballets: The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, but most of all, Cinderella. Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre brought back Septime Webre&#8217;s version, a bit of a patchwork quilt on its own with references to other tales. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pittsburghcrosscurrents.com&#038;blog=7503284&#038;post=4819&#038;subd=pittsburghcrosscurrents&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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