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Shen Wei’s colorful ‘Undivided Divided’ defies our expectation


It was standing-room only for Shen Wei Dance Arts at the Kennedy Center on Thursday night. Except for the dancers, who were lying on the floor.

Sometimes they’d sit up on one hip or lean on one of the plastic cubes nearby. Because the dancers were naked, except for flesh-colored underpants, it was thoughtful of Shen to devise the cubes out of clear plastic. (He created the visual design as well as the choreography.) Even when the dancers hugged the cubes or curled up behind a stack of them, their bodies were never hidden.

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ArtsBeat: New York Live Arts Announces New Season


The 2013-14 season will include will include more than 100 performances and more than 40 artists, with an emphasis on international performers.

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Dance Review: ‘Hoo-Ha (for your eyes only)’ at Danspace Project


Darrel Jones has returned to Danspace Project to present “Hoo-Ha (for your eyes only),’ the full version of a work presented in excerpt last year.

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Onegin at ABT


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Sara Mearns: WHAT IS YOUR BEAUTY?


Welcome to Barre None, my new video blog exclusively on Huffington Post. I'm Sara Mearns and I hope to be your tour guide into the world of classical ...

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New burlesque encourages all shapes, sizes and sexes


There are some for whom glitter-tracking is an occupational hazard. Sadie Hawkins and Buster Britches are two of those people.

“Glitter gets all over your house; it gets all over everything,” observes Hawkins, an Atlanta-based aerial burlesque virtuoso who’s all too familiar with the sparkly nuisance, a decorative staple of burlesque acts. “I find glitter in my dog’s ears,” she says.

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Two D.C. theaters test new models for putting new plays onstage


Theaters keep rolling out new ways to premiere plays, and two fresh Washington initiatives are in full flower — or in full beast mode — right now. Theater J’s initiative, called Locally Grown, puts the company’s muscle behind Washington-based writers, while Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s Free the Beast program is raising $4 million to produce 25 new plays in the next 10 years.

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Kennedy Center unmasks ‘The Guardsman’


“The Guardsman”? Really?

That Paleolithic bit of Broadway foolery? The farcical vehicle that once upon a time (1924, to be exact) starred the erstwhile duke and duchess of the American stage, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne? The one about the actor who tries to win back his restless actress wife’s affections by disguising himself as a dashing gallant?

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Wyatt Closs: 10 Simmering Summer Songs


BBC Radio's Gilles Peterson, who I met about 12 years ago, has been connecting musical dots for over a generation. He is now blending soul, funk, latin, house, jazz, hip-hop in an effortless manner that makes it seem like jumbling those genres is exactly how it should be.

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Pina Bausch's Successor Named At Tanztheater Wuppertal


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Was This Modern Dance Pioneer Forgotten Because She Got Too Cozy With The Nazis?


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Images From The Birth Of British Modern Dance


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Signature Theatre gets $250,000 grant from Arlington County to get it up to date on taxes


The Arlington County Board approved a $250,000 grant to Signature Theatre on Tuesday as the parties reconsider Signature’s lease and tax arrangements. The move, approved in a 5 to 0 vote, covers $85,000 of Signature’s tax bill and is part of ongoing financial discussions between the county and the theater.

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Dance Review: ‘Blush’ by Gallim Dance at BAM Fisher


In “Blush,” by Andrea Miller, dancers start off with skin powdered white that melts off as their exertion turns them red.

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Dance Listings for May 24-30


A selected guide to dance performances in the New York area.

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Art Review: ‘Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes,’ at National Gallery


The exhibition “Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929,” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, celebrates the synergy of dance with music and visual arts.

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Björk plays the part of stunning mad scientist at the Craneway Pavilion