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Digital Trends via Yahoo Canada News· 9 hours agoBut that’s only one of the uniquely American pursuits in which the Sycamores indulge — candy-making, amateur ballet, and, vitally, income ...
‘Like a film noir’: Mikhail Baryshnikov recalls the rainy Toronto night of his dramatic defection...
Toronto Star· 6 days agoMikhail Baryshnikov, 26 and already hailed as one of the greatest ballet dancers of his generation, made his dash to freedom and defected ...
At American Ballet Theater, a New Swan Takes Flight
New York Times· 3 days agoThe rise of the soloist Chloe Misseldine is part of the artistic director Susan Jaffe’s master plan: Start them young and give them time to grow. “I grew...
Mikhail Baryshnikov on Leaving Everything Behind
New York Times· 6 days agoBaryshnikov, then 26 and already one of ballet’s brightest stars, had made the momentous decision to defect from the Soviet Union and build a career in...
Remembering the Artist June Leaf in Her Own Words
WWD via Yahoo Canada News· 1 day agoSchool after only three months, moving to Paris for a stretch of self-study, and gleaning skills from Paul Klee, Mark...met the futurist Buckminster...
25 years after 13-year-old dancer's death, her legacy lives on at L.A. charter schools
Los Angeles Times· 3 days agoSixth grader Annabelle Soriano...González’s play “Two Donuts” — of a Guatemalan American girl who...
Opinion: Fifty years after his defection, we’re still living in the age of Mikhail Baryshnikov
The Globe and Mail· 5 days agoAfter he finished a series of performances at Toronto’s O’Keefe Centre (now Meridian Hall) with a...
There’s Trouble Right Here in Tap City
New York Times· 4 days agoLouis and Rio de Janeiro all have annual festivals celebrating tap dancing, shouldn’t New York City? For almost 25 years, Tap City has been an important...
Rudi von Massow survived a war-torn adolescence to build a new life in Canada
The Globe and Mail· 3 days agoRudi was born on his parents’ farm in Eastern Germany, the thirdof four children. As the war was...
On This Day, June 30: Supreme Court allows religious exemption to contraception mandate
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoOn June 30, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that family-owned corporations can't be required to...