Troupes from the Andes and Laos danced in resplendent costumes.
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Hawaii forbids motor caravans, parades, entertainment troupes and prize giveaways.
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It serves as a dramatic backdrop for arts troupes' performances.
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These offer language classes, host dance troupes and teach Chinese cooking.
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His own company has been one of the world's superlative troupes.
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Playhouses and troupes beyond Broadway generate $241 million in economic benefit.
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For centuries, these troupes defined popular culture in much of the world.
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Good to see that several of these Joyce troupes exemplified ethnic genres.
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Celebrations will include shows by music and dance troupes from around China.
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Commedia-dell'arte troupes entertained Renaissance townspeople with plays contrived on the spot.
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Theatre troupes performed in public squares and colourful murals went up across Cairo.
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The school has supplied generations of dancers for Cuba's national and regional ballet troupes.
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But the main difference between the troupes goes deeper than current repertory — it's style.
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Tradespeople as well as artists, the troupes operated according to a flexible organizational chart.
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He created poignant and exuberant works that entered the repertory of numerous dance troupes.
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His own company, eloquent and athletic, has been one of the world's superlative troupes.
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Troupes of Quran-memorizers once walked these alleyways reciting verses from their holy book.
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Ohler found evidence that 35 million doses of methamphetamine were shipped to the tank troupes.
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Front runner Moon Jae-in, of the leftist Democratic Party, has his own dance troupes.
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She also appeared with other troupes before founding Camille A. Brown & Dancers several years ago.
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This year's edition, which began on Tuesday and continues through next week, features five troupes.
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He has enriched both troupes; they, in turn, have led his art in fresh directions.
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Venerable troupes like Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía make an appearance, as do dynamic stars like Farruquito.
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Feb. 11-March 6 This festival features theater, dance and music troupes from around the world.
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Dancing troupes and singers performed for Kadyrov and his guests, with Salah grim-faced at times.
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If you were leader of an army, would you expect your troupes to do that, Aries?
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He does live shows with two different comedy troupes, appears on variety shows, and does commercials.
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The new settlers established hospitals, banks and theaters; published newspapers; and founded ballet troupes and orchestras.
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Here's hoping the Joyce can now build a larger audience for these and other visiting troupes.
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Morris dance troupes across the country will still perform, and the occasional maypole dance will pop up.
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U2 frontman Bono has a novel idea for Congress: send in the comedy troupes to combat ISIS.
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Check the rosters of American ballet troupes — San Francisco, Boston, Houston, Pennsylvania, Arizona — and you'll find Cubans.
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Opening night includes a performance by Baby Wants Candy, a favorite among troupes specializing in musical improv.
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BALLET ACROSS AMERICA This popular sampler of regional ballet troupes returns to the Kennedy Center in Washington.
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Hundreds of its alumni fill the ranks of the most prominent troupes in America and the world.
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One of Mr. Gray's dance troupes competed on the MTV program "America's Best Dance Crew" in 2009.
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They merged their troupes for economic reasons in 1989, calling the new company Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance.
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They encouraged them to join Lithuanian choirs, dancing troupes and Scouts—and to date Lithuanian boys and girls.
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Training is rigorous and the troupes are strictly hierarchical, with designated "top stars" and ranks of junior performers.
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Yet a few minutes into it, you'll wonder why more troupes don't take such strange and smart chances.
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They lost their TV deal in 2006 but continued to produce lavish events with pyro and drum troupes.
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Among the troupes that gained recognition at the festival are Elevator Repair Service and the Belarus Free Theater.
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Beginning in 2017, additional Kidz Bop Kids troupes were introduced in Britain, then Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
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These were short performances with which centuries of troupes and circuses traveling around France had attracted paying customers.
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Usually, the repertory of the D.I.Y. troupes tends toward the Baroque, bel canto, and twentieth-century chamber opera.
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Just this year, the weekly dance performance at the kraton features a rotating series of the area's top troupes.
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The sprawling troupes traveled around America by train, wowing audiences with the sheer scale of entertainment and exotic animals.
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Later that year, Disney began recruiting 1,000 performers from art schools and performing troupes as singers, dancers and musicians.
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Thursday's opening night performances include a show by Baby Wants Candy, a favorite among troupes specializing in musical improv.
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Since last year, People's Park has ordered bands and dance troupes to keep their noise level below 80 decibels.
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Future young stars like Roland Petit and Jean Babilée also left for the Nouveau Ballet before forming new troupes.
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From about 30 dance forms that first year, the array has expanded, with many troupes returning as newcomers join.
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While armies around the world have marching bands and musical troupes, South Korea may have the trendiest ones of all.
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Instead, he's mainly toured the country with comedy troupes to perform in skits and make audiences laugh, experts tell me.
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Spanish-born and of a similar age (either side of 50), both lead troupes with their names in the title.
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One of several important troupes in Philadelphia, it has terrific performers, with high energy and marvelous fullness of physical texture.
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"Having this work in bodies is a good thing," Lent said of the transfer of Cunningham dances to new troupes.
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"SNL" typically recruits new cast members from improv troupes like The Groundlings, The Second City, and The Upright Citizens Brigade.
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Instead, he mainly toured the country with comedy troupes to perform in skits and make audiences laugh, experts told me.
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America has a number of excellent Balanchine troupes, yet the value of Suzanne Farrell Ballet, however few its performances, remains bright.
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And both have made important dances for BalletX, the smaller, younger and far more experimental of Philadelphia's two chief ballet troupes.
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His works entered the repertoire of numerous dance companies, and his own company has been one of the world's superlative troupes.
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Other troupes appeared as guests under the Taylor Modern Dance aegis, performing choreography by Merce Cunningham, Donald McKayle and Trisha Brown.
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This annual summer series features an array of local dance troupes who each contribute a short work to the eclectic program.
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Of all the ballet troupes who have visited the Koch in recent years, none looks so truly and completely a company.
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Founded to showcase the diversity of dance in the Bay Area, it has grown to include troupes from across Northern California.
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After graduating from Brooklyn College, he became a dancer and performed with several modern-dance troupes, including the Pearl Lang company.
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Besides being a live/work space for artists, the Bell Foundry functioned as a venue for live musicians, theatre troupes and more.
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Troupes complained that they were told to submit lyrics to a censor this year by the first democratic government in 50 years.
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Like most dance troupes there was one clear star, but we'll let you decide for yourself who the real stand-out was.
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This showcase of domestic dance arrives at the Joyce with four pairings of stylistically and geographically diverse troupes from around the country.
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South Korea had planned to send K-pop bands and other musicians to perform alongside North Korean art troupes at Mount Kumgang.
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But she resisted her father's orders to stop singing and joined Malian musical troupes in the northern cities of Timbuktu and Gao.
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He said he knew of only a handful of dance troupes in the United States, like AXIS Dance Company in Oakland, Calif.
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There's a new group piece that he has choreographed for his company, A.I.M., one of the most consistently excellent troupes working today.
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The Kennedy Center is my favorite place in D.C. and I appreciate that they offer free daily performances of dance troupes, singers, etc.
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When they were told it was unavailable, they went ahead anyway, becoming one of very few Cuban troupes not reliant on government money.
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Yet the festival is likely to be less about how the City Center years were distinct than about distinctions among the participating troupes.
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But the Auckland Theater Company, among the nation's most acclaimed troupes, already calls it home with the ASB Waterfront Theater, opened in 2016.
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Doppelganger has long been one of New York's best improv troupes, with the rare ability to weave social issues deftly into absurdist scenes.
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Like most American ballet troupes, the Joffrey depends heavily on the box-office revenues of its Christmas-season "Nutcracker" to balance the books.
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I heard from women who felt forced out of sketch and improv troupes because their harassment was treated like part of the joke.
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Thousands of magic lantern show troupes traveled to perform shows using moving images and visual effects on glass slides behind brightly lit lantern lights.
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There have also been public performances, including cheerleaders dancing to a peppy song about recycling and traditional drumming troupes battering away at rubbish bins.
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Oga had 120 Namahage troupes in 1989 but just 85 in 2015; that only young men were allowed to take part didn't help matters.
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The festival will include the long-running sketch shows Murderfist and Political Subversities and performances by the improv troupes Dagger, BBC2 and the Baldwins.
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Mr. Creed's passion for music is apparent in small troupes — four instrumentalists, one singer with megaphone — that rove through the show at all times.
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Kabuki — Noh's somewhat newer, livelier cousin — was pioneered by all-female troupes, until a 17th-century public-morals crackdown put them out of business.
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This year's edition featured folklórico troupes from 11 high schools, all from the San Joaquin Valley, a vast agricultural region in the state's midsection.
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Boxing tents, with their troupes of fighters, have been a part of Australia's traveling fairs since the gold rush of the late 19th century.
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São Miguel is also home to a burgeoning art and music scene — the annual Tremor festival brings experimental bands and performance troupes every spring.
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There aren't many dance troupes whose performers range in age from their 20s to 60s, but that is the situation in the company today.
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Ms. Kent instantly became one of the few women leading ballet troupes in the United States, something she had neither expected nor planned for.
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Costs are rising — Ringling's two troupes, known as the Blue Unit and the Red Unit, rumble from city to city on mile-long trains.
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Thailand, which has one of the largest Chinese communities outside China, is home to a variety of troupes that keep the ancient practice alive.
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Mr. Riester has noted that regional ballet troupes, which lack the pension resources of the Paris Opera, find local employment for dancers who retire.
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But this interpenetration is going on also in younger troupes, companies where you'd expect the founding choreographer to be jealous of his stage time.
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In addition to receiving commissions from other troupes, including the Limón and Martha Graham Dance Companies, he has also been a longtime stage choreographer.
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Corporations and business schools now regularly hire troupes like Second City to teach them how the principles of improv can help their bottom line.
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One of Israel's top contemporary troupes, Vertigo is celebrated for its theatrical flair and meditative athleticism, both of which will be on display here.
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Wrestlers, boxers, strongmen and women toured with troupes across the United States and in England, performing their athletic feats alongside of jugglers and acrobats.
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" He sees Drag Syndrome as a way to encourage arts organizations and performance troupes to "open up" to people with "learning disabilities, and include them.
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Anand Chhabra and Sarvjit Sra's photos of the Prince of Wales in West Bromwich show beaming local bhangra troupes adorning the walls like football teams.
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Several cities around the world have more than one important ballet company, but New York's two foremost troupes, fascinatingly unalike, make a duo without peer.
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But Ms. Bond — who, like Mr. Gomes, has choreographed for several troupes in recent years — is the most individual, the most capable of dance poetry.
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Then, instead of joining a company, she struck out on her own, creating evenings of dance and sometimes appearing as a guest with other troupes.
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The piece resembles early, less rigorous works by devised theater troupes like The Debate Society and The Mad Ones, who would eventually produce splendid stuff.
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In other instances, from California to Brooklyn, American venues have hosted performances by Russian troupes whose operations are underwritten by companies or individuals under sanctions.
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These Miamians, above all, deserve the same kind of packed houses that are often to be found for troupes visiting the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Later accounts would attempt to debunk his feat, but by then Mr. Brodie had joined theatrical troupes and gone on tour, re-enacting his leap.
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He collaborated with sculptors, dance troupes, and performance artists, and co-wrote, with Bruce Sterling, "The Difference Engine," a novel that popularized the "steampunk" aesthetic.
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There are plenty of modern dance companies and troupes; why is putting herself through the ABA wringer the only chance she has to go pro?
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On the expansive grounds of the Sultan's Palace at the center of the old city, dance troupes and gamelan ensembles perform every day at 10 a.m.
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And improv troupes like the Upright Citizens Brigade manage to arrange themselves into compelling scenes at the drop of a hat, all without any explicit coordination.
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During Wednesday's elimination round, many fan favorites failed to advance to the finals round as the acts to go home were mostly singers and dance troupes.
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Podcasters recorded live episodes in Altspace, improv comedy troupes put on shows—and perhaps most enduringly, musician and comic Reggie Watts held a monthly Altspace residency.
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Another show, Thunder From Down Under, hails from Australia and has two troupes of men touring the country, as well as one permanent residency in Vegas.
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In an effort to understand the strange world of the Girl Scouts, Broadly spoke with women and transgender adults who once had troupes of their own.
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Each of the dance troupes will spend a month in 2017 visiting three countries, with an eye toward connecting with marginalized people through performance and education.
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Its two resident troupes — this one (founded in 1963) and BalletX (founded in 2005) — usually perform in theaters across from each other on South Broad Street.
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Grab a blanket, prepare a picnic and enjoy some al fresco dance at this annual summer series that brings together an array of local dance troupes.
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For New Yorkers, busking dance troupes on the subways have been a spectacle (or scourge) since the 303s, when they first began appearing on moving trains.
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He danced with various troupes and collaborated with fellow choreographers while creating relatively few pieces, which were often more like installation works than conventional dance performances.
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Television footage of sporting events has been interspersed with scenes of buses pulling up and North Korea's brightly-uniformed cheering squads and art troupes filing out.
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For New Yorkers, busking dance troupes on the subways have been a spectacle (or scourge) since the 1980s, when they first began appearing on moving trains.
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Wright said the theater was "quite a force" when it was open and credited it with a rebirth of dedicated Shakespeare theaters and troupes across the country.
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A century later, Takarazuka operates five sub-troupes and puts on 900 shows a year, in company-owned theaters in Tokyo and its original western Japanese base.
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In the annual Juilliard Dances Repertory program, these dancers of the future, many of them destined for troupes like Mr. Taylor's, train on works of the past.
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"In some ways, it's just a way to get all these theater troupes of people, people who love interactive stories, together to make fun stuff," Myers says.
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The sublime silliness of Monty Python has always had an intellectual underpinning; not many comedy troupes have sung about Heidegger and Descartes or joked about summarizing Proust.
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The novel's success prompted theatrical troupes across the country to adapt "Uncle Tom's Cabin" into what became one of the most popular stage shows of all time.
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Sure, New York City is home to lots of dance troupes, but if you're a dance fan these two groups may not even be on your radar.
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These all-women dance troupes combined the energy of the high-step marching style of black college bands with lyrical, West African, jazz, contemporary, and hip-hop choreography.
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He has choreographed for the Royal Ballet, and his works are in the repertory of major European dance troupes and American ones like Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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As both traveling troupes push on to their next destinations, either abroad or at home, their work is creating a better environment for circus to thrive in Ethiopia.
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Performers dressed as bears unicycle through the streets while troupes of dancers in sequined costumes parade through town, performing extravagant folk dances telling stories about the country's history.
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Comedy This yearly festival celebrates the tricky art of musical improv, which features troupes from around the world spontaneously composing one-off musicals in a variety of styles.
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Now 40 or so officially approved music and dance troupes must stick to a schedule that assigns them a space with sound monitors and sound barriers, participants said.
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That experience is the foundation of the festival, happening this Saturday and Sunday, when roughly 13 dance troupes perform newly commissioned works at spots along the Queens waterfront.
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"Back then, every Italian neighborhood had marionettes and a theater," said Susie Bruno, 78, whose family, the Manteos, were the longest lasting of New York City's puppet troupes.
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There are lots of hip hop dance troupes at Berkeley, and this is her first time doing anything like this, so I definitely want to go and support her.
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"We used a variety of tools such as street plays, mobile exhibitions and were joined by puppeteers, dance troupes and musicians at various stops," said Ananya Bhattacharya from banglanatak.
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Before the floats and dance troupes and steel-band drummers went through, yet another friend, parked nearby, mentioned that she'd known my husband's paternal grandmother, affectionately called Aunt Vic.
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Troupes of men suit up for 90-second stints hauling chunks of dense radioactive rock off the edge of the roof, into the pit where it will be buried.
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But Ms. Hyon has proved to be not only alive but active in North Korean leadership, leading art troupes to South Korea when inter-Korean relations blossomed last year.
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" Ms. Chavkin values what she calls "heterogeneity" in her troupes, and thought Mr. Hughes would fit into "the rust belt/heavy industry world in which our ensemble is rooted.
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Now Lyric, like other major American opera companies, as well as symphony orchestras, theater troupes and many sports teams, is grappling with a long-term decline in season subscribers.
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The writer Andrea Mantell Seidel will discuss her new book on Duncan, and the troupes of Lori Belilove, Jeanne Bresciani, Catherine Gallant, Beth Jucovy and Adrienne Ramm will perform.
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By the early 1980s, the growing number of male strip joints and traveling troupes indicated the male stripper was a new and growing part of North America's sexual landscape.
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Around 1905, she got her start singing with a jubilee choir, one of the dozens of choral troupes that formed in the wake of the Fisk Jubilee Singers' global success.
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The delirious "acid drag" art of San Francisco's Cockettes and Angels of Light troupes liberated gender as a social performance decades before that concept was theorized by philosopher Judith Butler.
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"They're troupes of dancers," she writes: Not all of them are wearing their assigned costumes, their choreographer called in sick, and they don't all share the same sense of rhythm.
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Although many theatrical troupes would shudder at the thought of 294-year-old audience members, the Argentine-Mexican Compañía Teatro al Vacío happily welcomes children as young as 2653 months.
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In 1904, Rainey married the comedian, dancer and vocalist Will Rainey, and they toured as a duo with a variety of minstrel troupes, billing themselves as Ma and Pa Rainey.
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But it also features dance companies, including the Mark Morris Dance Group and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; theater troupes from around the world; and the creation of new work.
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She took those movements to the stage with the Katherine Dunham Company, which for 30 years was one of the few self-sustaining black dance troupes in the United States.
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Billing itself as part festival, part conference, and part "political science fair," the 10-day affair features an impressive lineup of nearly 60 artists, duos, collectives, performance troupes, and more.
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This excellent company, one of the country's best ballet troupes, makes a rare New York appearance with a contemporary program comprising works by Mark Morris, Aszure Barton and Justin Peck.
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The Staatsballett, though one of Germany's leading ballet companies, is still relatively young: It was founded in 2004 through a consolidation of the dance troupes from Berlin's three opera houses.
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Its hard-working, unaffected dancers have been presenting repertory gems and worthwhile curios overlooked by major troupes, alongside new works by choreographers sometimes also unjustly neglected by the big guns.
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A cosmopolitan balletomane, he can compare New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater not only with each other but also with the Paris Opera Ballet and other top troupes.
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The outdoor concerts he organized at the 21990rd Street Beach, where dance troupes performed and vegetarian food was sold, became a citywide phenomenon, with crowds often numbering in the thousands.
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Glitter — long maligned for its close association with middle-school dance troupes and that whole thing about how it spreads like the plague — made one hell of a comeback in 2016.
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Detail-produced "2 Minute Warning," which features K-Ci and JoJo of Jodeci, fittingly sounds like a homage to forgotten mid-'90s R&B troupes like Kut Klose, Brownstone and Allure.
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IN NEW Orleans, they call Carnival "the greatest free show on earth"—a three-week season of parades full of satirical floats, high-school marching bands, dance troupes and walking clubs.
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His energetic rhythms made him a favorite of dance troupes; his scores for films like "The Truman Show" (1998), "The Hours" (2002) and "Notes on a Scandal" (2006) made him omnipresent.
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Partly a fluke of timing, this engagement with the United States has become central to Malpaso's mission, setting it apart from other Cuban troupes, of which there are a surprising number.
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The "Hamlet" tour grew out of the company's "Globe to Globe" festival in 2012, which brought troupes from across the world to London to stage Shakespeare's plays in their own languages.
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He added that members of Ma Ba Tha, a group led by ultranationalist monks who gained prominence before 2016 by promoting the military junta's policies, had physically threatened troupes during performances.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Formed on Cinco de Mayo in 1984, in San Francisco's Mission District, Culture Clash has developed into one of the country's preeminent Chicano performance troupes.
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Il aurait assassiné le Parti socialiste, caporalisé les communistes, volé des troupes aux Républicains et aux frontistes et contrevenu aux règles de la soumission en appelant son mouvement La France insoumise.
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Ms. Sarabhai was one of the first women to perform Kathakali, a classical dance form based on Hindu epics that was usually performed by all-male troupes in elaborate makeup and costumes.
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We set off into the park together and hike around the rainforest for a couple of hours, spotting two troupes of monkeys and a pair of blue-headed birds we can't name.
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Rio's spectacular Carnival parade of top samba troupes suffered the accident on Sunday when spectators were pushed against a wall by a faulty float at the start of the famed Sambadrome show.
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Fund-raisers have become folklórico fixtures, with troupes performing at church fiestas, weddings and even casinos to raise money for stock costumes, and parents selling tamales and T-shirts outside packed auditoriums.
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The Uffizi says that before retreating from Florence in 1944 as Allied troupes advanced, German soldiers shipped artworks north at the same moment that "Vase of Flowers" disappeared from the public record.
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Female comedy duos — steeped in some mix of improv troupes, cabaret, web series and "Saturday Night Live" before scoring their own television shows — are establishing a small but growing beachhead in prime time.
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In April, at a performance by Chocolate Cake City, one of the many campus sketch-comedy troupes, a group of students further along in their comedy training put that theory to the test.
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Mr. Assaf, Mr. Berg and Mr. Graf are part of a recent wave of independent dance artists working outside of established troupes like the Batsheva Dance Company and the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company.
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Han Seo-hee, 35, a North Korean defector to the South, who was picked to be a cheerleader 16 years ago, said squad members were drawn from various performance troupes around the capital.
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But when asked if Ballet Theater might join troupes, like the Bolshoi Ballet and the Royal Ballet, that have expanded their reach through live simulcasts to cinemas, she said that it was worth considering.
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In 1958, a small group of African-American dancers performed at the 92Y, and now, six decades later, that company is one of the largest and most popular modern dance troupes in the country.
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Several oligarchs, or the companies they control, help underwrite the operations of the Mariinsky Theater, which coordinates cultural activities for several troupes that regularly tour in the West, including the world famous Mariinsky Orchestra.
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Debates on these troupes' individual merits in "Jewels" will continue until Sunday: the Bolshoi and City Ballet are taking turns dancing "Rubies" and "Diamonds," while the Parisians and the Bolshoi offer changes of casts.
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From that country comes Ingoma Kwazulu Natal Dance Company, a composite of several traditional and contemporary dance troupes performing a variety of indigenous dance styles, as well as contemporary dance by Siwela Sonke Dance Theater.
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In 13, a small group of African-American dancers performed at the 92nd Street Y, and six decades later, that company is one of the largest and most popular modern dance troupes in the country.
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This festival of small and enterprising ballet troupes continues with Claudia Schreier & Company (Friday and Saturday), Cirio Collective (Sunday and Monday), Gemma Bond Dance (Tuesday and Wednesday), and Amy Seiwert's Imagery (Thursday through July 29).
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After a military coup in 1962 plunged Myanmar into decades of isolation and extreme poverty, Mr. Tin kept his day job and mostly steered clear of the regime's state-sponsored traditional music and dance troupes.
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Soon-Tek Oh, 85, a veteran actor who worked to broaden the range of dramatic roles available to Asian-Americans, first through East West Players and later through other theater troupes that he founded or guided.
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Farmer beat out nine other finalists including singers Kechi Okwuchi, Evie Clair, Angelica Hale, Chase Goehring, and Mandy Harvey in addition to comedian Preacher Lawson, dog trainer Sara & Hero, and dance troupes Light Balance and Diavolo.
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The Studio Company serves as a kind of steppingstone from ballet training to professional life; many of its members, ages 16 to 20, wind up in the main company or other leading troupes around the country.
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But like all art troupes in the North, Samjiyon remains a tool of propaganda for Mr. Kim's government, which uses music, movies, paintings and novels to disseminate the state's ideology and inspire loyalty to its leadership.
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Even Shakespearean acting troupes have gotten in on the Macbeth gag, while also spreading helpful hand-washing instructions: Public health tip: If you aren't sure how long to wash your hands, just remember Lady Macbeth's speech!
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So it's not exactly as groundbreaking as some of Sony's marketing videos make it seem, where whole dance troupes are creating elaborate, multi-track tunes as if their entire bodies are controlling two or three instruments simultaneously.
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In addition to brASS, troupes like "Brown Girls Burlesque" in New York City (also co-founded by Ms. Crandell) and "Chocolate City Burlesque" in Washington D.C. have been established as a response to the lack of opportunities.
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To take another example: Ben Stiller, a fixture of several distinct, overlapping quasi-troupes (including his own), shows up in "Greenberg," Noah Baumbach's 2010 romantic comedy, as the misanthropic, underachieving brother of a successful Los Angeles hotelier.
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It's an event that the community looks forward to every year: Giggling children spray each other with canned silly string while lion dance troupes undulate and swerve to the beat of a pounding drum and clanging cymbals.
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The show, which is to have its premiere Tuesday, May 30, on NBC, features 47 acts from around the world battling in divisions based on age (the youngest is 9) and group size (from soloists to large troupes).
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As the center's director she keeps track of dance troupes, musical ensembles and theater companies, telling you who's doing a pop-up performance that night and who's conducting open rehearsals, helpful when so little information is available in English.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The top of a towering float collapsed during the final night of the parade by Rio's elite samba troupes early on Tuesday, injuring 12 people in the second accident to mar Brazil's glittering Carnival show.
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Besides her talent for playing off Williams's topic of choice—a skill they both acquired through years spent in improvisational troupes—I admired her absolute candor, especially in regard to sexual positions and the perils of dating through Tinder.
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The company, formerly one of the foremost troupes in America's Balanchine diaspora, still performs as many ballets by Balanchine as it has in decades past, although there are signs that it now dances his work with an alien accent.
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Mr. Spalding, who said that trips to check on the progress of Acosta Danza in Havana are "one of the great pleasures of my life," believes that there is little risk of the company looking like other repertory troupes.
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But the experience of watching the company's "Dragon Boat Racing" at the David H. Koch Theater would have been familiar to anyone who has caught another of the state-run Chinese troupes that have visited the Koch in recent years.
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They're also about to hit the road with Fister, one of my favorite ultra-nihilistic sludge troupes, so check them out if they're scheduled to desecrate your village—they play NYC with Usnea and Monolord on Monday night, don't sleep!
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Dozens of dancers from New York City's top ballet and modern dance troupes — many of whom trained with Ms. Hirabayashi — will pay homage to her in works by Graham, Merce Cunningham, Antony Tudor, Ohad Naharin, Kyle Abraham and more (1:40).
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And as a depiction of earnest amateurs' being creative (the marathon's proposed themes include a Genesis concept album), "Miles for Mary" flirts with the condescension that occasionally surfaces in Christopher Guest's mockumentaries about small-time theater troupes and dog shows.
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Hosted by Battery Dance Company, the annual festival — free as always — returns to Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park in Battery Park City with troupes from India, Botswana, Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Canada and Spain, along with a host of New York City ensembles.
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More recently, she worked to create and organize the Tilt Kids Festival, a more family-friendly version of Crossing the Line that featured performances by troupes like Les 7 Doigts de la Main (7 Fingers) and the French choreographer Jérôme Bel.
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A Georgia native, Rainey began her career on the tent-show circuit, traveling with performance troupes that set up their own stages in towns across the South and Midwest, honing her own gregarious brew of music, comedy and social commentary.
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One of the country's premier comedy troupes, All India Bakchod, edged to the brink of collapse with accusations by a comedian, Mahima Kukreja, that a former member of the group had sent her lewd messages and a picture of his genitals.
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Benefiting the Actors Fund, which supports various health initiatives for artists, this charity concert presents performances by dancers representing a long list of troupes, including the Martha Graham Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Pam Tanowitz Dance and Carolyn Dorfman Dance.
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Franchisees get caps and shirts with distinctive blue raindrops, and street theater troupes help uneducated people make the connection between dirty water and diarrhea, which sickens millions of children every day and, when chronic, can leave them mentally and physically stunted.
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The main event features the Ingoma Kwazulu Natal Dance Company — a conglomerate of four South African troupes joining forces especially for the occasion — alongside the Durban-based group Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre and Brooklyn's own electrifying BAM/Restoration Dance Youth Ensemble.
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As official photographer first for New York City Ballet and then for an honor roll of other dance troupes, Ms. Swope chronicled the working lives of George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Mr. Robbins and other key figures in 20th-century dance.
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The four split-bill programs pair established troupes, like the Martha Graham Dance Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Alonzo King's Lines Ballet, with young collectives that are generating buzz, like TU Dance out of St. Paul and Ate21242 from Los Angeles.
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The four split-bill programs will pair established troupes, like the Martha Graham Dance Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Alonzo King's Lines Ballet, with young collectives that are generating buzz, like TU Dance out of St. Paul and Ate9 from Los Angeles.
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The tradition, featuring a mix of comedy and slam poetry set to drums, has sparked controversy this year, with troupes in Yangon, the commercial capital, saying the first democratic government in 50 years forced them to submit lyrics to a censor panel.
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These include a clause that gives the government the power to punish acts of "delegitimization of the state" — burning the Israeli flag during a play, for example — and provides financial incentives to troupes that perform in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
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As the group leaves the area where the body was found, Mr. Paul, who has television experience and has trained with comedy troupes, begins to engage in the kinds of behavior most familiar to his viewers: exaggerated reaction shots and nervous laughter.
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Skinny as a sylph, clad in sleek black, her blond hair doing a bit of disco dancing of its own, Ms. Burns, a founding member of the comedy troupes Unitard and the Nellie Olesons, flips through her memories in roughly chronological order.
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There are certainly other examples of comedy troupes that continue to come together for new projects, like Christopher Guest's troupe and the Judd Apatow folks, but I really think this is definitely one of the most unique stories in the history of comedy.
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Its pride of place suggests White Light is working to fill the gap that was left by the demise of the Lincoln Center Festival, the ambitious summer event that was discontinued in 2017 and regularly brought international theater troupes to New York.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The spectacular Carnival parade of Rio's top samba troupes was marred by the injury of 20 people who where pushed against a wall by a faulty float at the start of the famed Sambadrome show, organizers said on Monday.
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" His closest role models were his two brothers: Derrick, the eldest, now a preacher in Tennessee; and Kevin in the middle, a dancer who has performed with the Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey troupes and toured with the stage adaptation of "The Lion King.
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Companies appearing during the festival include a mix of ballet and contemporary dance troupes: the Wayne McGregor Company, the Los Angeles-based Bodytraffic, the Gautier Dance Company from Stuttgart and the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater with a triple bill of Stravinsky by Russian choreographers.
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Issues of white dancers portraying African and Asian characters with dark face and body makeup have been much remarked on in performances by 21st-century French and Russian companies; it's not meant to offend, but those troupes seem not to appreciate that, today, it does.
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Paris is where Chanel trucks in tons of sand to make a beach, or ice to float an iceberg; where Dior books dance troupes; where Givenchy takes over no less august an edifice than the Palais de Justice on the Île de la Cité.
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After 52 million votes were cast, the 12-year-old singing ventriloquist was crowned the winner of season 12, beating out a variety of contestants from comedians, dance troupes, powerhouse vocalists and even dog trainers to become the second ventriloquist to win the NBC reality competition show.
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It is hard to take seriously a film in which Anna Halprin, a 96-year-old American artist, leads troupes of followers in a "healing" dance, an action to "reclaim" Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco where several women were murdered in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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In the early 1900s Indian acting troupes performed Agha Hashr Kashmiri's "Saidi Havas", a blend of "Richard III" and "King John", in makeshift theatres in Mombasa; there were versions of "Hamlet" set on Mughal battlefields, and snake-bitten Juliets who merged with the character of Cleopatra.
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Kim O'Bomsawin, an Indigenous film director whose documentary "Quiet Killing" deals with the assassination and disappearance of Indigenous women, said that the omission was particularly worrying given the dearth of Indigenous roles in the theater and the availability of talented Indigenous actors in theater troupes in Canada.
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The operation — there are two traveling troupes — is gargantuan: Two mile-long circus trains to move people and equipment; more than 243 performers and crew members to pay and house; 213 animals to care for and feed; 27 costumes; and a universe of props, sound and lights.
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Frequently a producer of shows as well as the theater owner, he presented troupes including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Bolshoi Ballet; Ibsen's "Ghosts" and Pinter's "Betrayal," and "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby," David Edgar's adaptation, a two-part, eight-hour marathon, of Dickens's novel.
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Chengdu Journal CHENGDU, China — As the Happy Runxin and Glad Tidings performing troupes squared off in the Chengdu People's Park on a recent morning, the newly installed noise monitors flashed to life, their red digits registering each potential transgression by the park's famously boisterous amateur dancers and musicians.
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This year's edition, "Global Beat of the Bronx: From Bambara to Breakbeats," brought together four Bronx-based troupes to show the wealth of cultural traditions flowing to, and from, that northernmost borough: Bombazo Dance Company, Chief Joseph Chatoyer Dance Company, Bambara Drum and Dance Ensemble and Full Circle Souljahs.
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Ballet Academy East Studio Showing (Friday and Saturday) Young dance aficionados can catch rising stars their own age at these performances by the Student Company of Ballet Academy East, a Manhattan school whose alumni have gone on to careers in major troupes like New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater.
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I think you're going to have immersive theatre troupes in VR, and then AI starts to take on those roles and you start to have these incredibly ornate, boundless immersive experiences in any sort of setting that you want with a cast of characters that is there with you, responding.
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From the postmodern pioneering choreographer Douglas Dunn to the vogueing prowess of the venerable House of Ninja, each location will feature a 75-minute set comprising four or five troupes that will repeat throughout the day so you can park-hop around Long Island City, Queens, to see every performance.insitudancefestival.
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In an email interview, Mr. Hallberg, who is currently performing with Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera House, said that he had begun to write down his experiences of dancing with different companies during the period when he joined the Bolshoi and was still working frequently with other international troupes.
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The tribute featured three guest troupes dancing McKayle's work: Dayton Contemporary Dance Company in "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" (1959), first presented by Taylor in 2016; students of the Juilliard School in "Crossing the Rubicon: Passing the Point of No Return" (2017); and Ronald K. Brown/Evidence in "Songs of the Disinherited" (1972).
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In his most recent trip to the United States, President Moon Jae In urged Washington to take steps such as declaring an end to the Korean War, establishing a liaison office in Pyongyang, providing humanitarian aid, and exchanging business delegations and art troupes as means to reassure North Korea and win its trust.
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Since it moved to its current location in the heart of downtown Houston in 1968, it has hosted world premieres from Paula Vogel, Tony Kushner and two earlier works from Mr. Joseph, among others, all featuring performers in its esteemed resident acting company — one of the last such troupes remaining in the country.
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Since 2015 the PLA has shed 300,000 men, most of them from the land forces, which have lost one-third of their commissioned officers and shrunk from 70% of the PLA's total strength to less than half (though happily the army has kept its dance troupes, which it had been told it would lose).
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While the parade has progressed significantly — this year adding a new division that aimed to increase diversity with an African-American drill team, Hispanic performance groups, and an LGBT contingent — blackface, brownface, white people dressed as Native Americans, and troupes denigrating Caitlin Jenner's transition while members shout gay slurs have all been witnessed in recent years.
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With 231 posters, playbills, photographs, film clips, set designs, costumes and other artifacts, it shows how what began as traveling troupes performing for poor Jewish audiences in Europe turned into a major New York entertainment center that provided a vital escape for the Lower East Side's sweatshop workers and pushcart peddlers at the start of the 21220th century.
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A black tunic and matching pompom shorts from the spring/summer 2014 "Vicious" collection by Paris-based American designer Rick Owens is complemented by a video of Owens' Paris fashion week presentation of the same collection, featuring members of four American step dance troupes (Washington Divas, Soul Steppers, Momentum, and Zetas) performing an 11-minute routine.
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The orchestra, known as the Samjiyon Band, one of the North's top arts troupes, will enter South Korea by crossing over at Panmunjom, a border village, and will perform twice in the South: once in Seoul, the South Korean capital, and once in Gangneung, a city on the east coast where some of the Olympic competitions will be held.
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As a rule, this dance theater presents one company a week — but here it featured eight, in four programs, under the aegis of American Dance Platform, an annual fixture and part of the big early-January dance splurge across New York, with presenters coming in from around the country to sample as many troupes as possible.
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On Program Three, the storied Mariinsky Ballet will dance the American premiere of Alexander Sergeev's "At the Wrong Time"; the evening's other troupes are the English National Ballet, performing a work by Akram Khan; Skanes Dansteater of Sweden; and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, presenting a portion of Rennie Harris's "Lazarus," which had its premiere last season.
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On Program Three, the storied Mariinsky Ballet will dance the American premiere of Alexander Sergeev's "At the Wrong Time"; the evening's other troupes are the English National Ballet, performing a work by Akram Khan; Skanes Dansteater of Sweden; and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, presenting a portion of Rennie Harris's "Lazarus," which had its premiere last season.
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While many troupes try to put their own spins on the classic "Peter and the Wolf," Lionheart Youth Theater's production doesn't so much revise as reconceive it: Peter has become Petra, granddaughter of the original hero, and her odyssey, with dialogue and narration, unfolds not to the familiar Russian music but to an entirely new score by Mother Falcon, an intense young Austin, Tex.
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While many troupes try to put their own spins on the classic "Peter and the Wolf," Lionheart Youth Theater's production doesn't so much revise as reconceive it: Peter has become Petra (Gricelda Silva), granddaughter of the original hero, and her odyssey, with dialogue and narration, unfolds not to the familiar Russian music, but to an entirely new score by Mother Falcon, an intense young Austin, Tex.
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