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Breaking Pointe Episode Four: Tempo Very Slow
It’s hard to write about this week’s episode of the CW’s Breaking Pointe, featuring the Salt Lake City regional ballet company Ballet West, because nothing really happened. It felt like a filler...
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A Week of Dance
It’s a busy dance-filled week! From social dancing to ballet to dance in pop culture, my week spans quite the diverse dance spectrum. Feel free to join me and escape from your day-to-day routine...
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Breaking Pointe: Opening Night Jitters
For the dancers of Ballet West, the ‘moment of truth’ arrives in episode 5 of the melodramatic CW reality series Breaking Pointe. After weeks of rehearsing Paquita—ballet in its purest classical...
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Breaking Pointe: Curtain Call
Unashamedly, I have been a fan of the CW’s latest reality show, Breaking Pointe, for the entirety of its run. Because of this, I’ve take quite a bit of heat from friends, both in and out of the ballet...
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Dd Chats with Breaking Pointe’s Allison DeBona
This past week, Dd contributor Matthew Donnell and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Allison DeBona, a featured dancer on the CW show Breaking Pointe. Joined by her brother Jared, the four of us...
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Feminist Dance Mom Speaks…
Parents for better or for worse are often an integral part of a young dancer’s career. The emotions that a potential dance career for your child garners swings from “this a lot like advocating for an...
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Meg Howrey’s The Cranes Dance: A Dd Book Review
Since the psychological dance thriller Black Swan hit movie theaters in 2010, ballet has slipped into the entertainment mainstream more rapidly, and perhaps more successfully, than ever before. This...
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Ballet in Cleveland’s Big Break: Bringing Allison DeBona to Cleveland
Ballet in Cleveland presents Allison DeBona on March 2, 2013. Never underestimate the power of a seemingly uneventful night in front of the TV… Last summer after a tiring day, all I wanted to do was...
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Doodle Day: Bid on Doodles to Help Fund Research for Neurofibromatosis!
I jokingly like to refer to this time of my year as “Doodle Season.” For two years now, I’ve helped out with this awesome project called National Doodle Day where actors/celebrities/artists doodle...
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Dance on TV: Is bad publicity better than no publicity?
Dance is everywhere nowadays. Movie musicals have made a comeback. Shows such as So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars, America’s Got Talent, and Breaking Pointe have refocused the...
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