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The Critics' Circle National Dance Awards for 2011 took place today in London at The Place's Robin Howard Dance Theatre.

Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), NYC's foremost progressive dance education and performance center, explores theatricality in its third installment of DNA PRESENTS LateNite.

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Flamenco Festival 2012, presented by New York City Center and the Flamenco Festival, will celebrate the tradition of great female flamenco choreographers and will showcase four of today's most acclaimed bailaoras (flamenco dancers): Rafaela Carrasco, Manuela Carrasco, Carmen Cortes and Olga Pericet.

The cross-dressing, all-male troupe, 'The Trocks,' will perform its fusion of classical ballet and slapstick humor at the Alden.

The NYC Dance Alliance Foundation (NYCDAF) will celebrate its first anniversary with a fundraising performance at The Joyce Theater on Monday evening, January 16, 2012 at 7:30 pm.

Karin Averty became a member of the Paris Opera Ballet in 1979.

Heralded by The New York Times for its 'good-time funkiness,' David Dorfman Dancereturns to The Joyce Theater from January 24-29, 2012 with the NYC Premiere of Prophets of Funk, a work that reinvigorates 'boomer memories to the sounds of Sly & the Family Stone.

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre announces its benefit gala White Night II on Saturday, February 25, 2012 from 7pm at Space on White at 81 White Street (between Lafayette and Broadway).

Destiny Rising, the gala dance performance to benefit NYC Dance Alliance Foundation's College Scholarship Program promises to be an even more dazzling evening with the addition of a number of special guests recently announced by NYCDAF Executive Director Joe Lanteri who will direct the performance o

Artists from Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Berlin bring a vast aesthetic to the stage, but come together through their shared insistence on rigour and beauty - beauty that is complex, contemporary and full of life in the TWOBYFOUR Festival of duets.

Harbourfront Centre and Arabesque, in association with Small World Music, present JAMRA, a contemporary production inspired by the dance forms of the nomadic and gypsy (Rom) peoples of Egypt, Turkey, North Africa, Iran and Lebanon.

Twenty-one years ago, Tango Argentino revitalized tango with its triumph on Broadway, and now the same producers, with choreographer Hector Zaraspe, current faculty member of The Juilliard School, proudly present their international tango spectacle, TANGO PASIÓN, on stage for one night only Saturda

Drawing inspiration from the ancient, communal art of folk dance, critically-acclaimed contemporary dance company Staibdance presents "Name Day," a new work premiering at Emory University's Schwartz Center Dance Studio, February 2-4.

Everett Dance Theatre takes audiences on a journey into the universe's most complex structure, the human brain, with Brain Storm on Saturday, January 28, at 8:00pm.

The Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) will present its final performances, a series of Cunningham's signature site-specific Events, December 29 - 31 at Park Avenue Armory in New York City.

Dzul Dance has announced the premiere of their latest choreography, MAYA 2012: a new beginning, to be presented at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue (at 25th Street) in Manhattan, from January 26th, 2012 through January 29th, 2012.

30th Astaire Awards producer Patricia Watt and The Douglas Watt Family Fund for the Performing hosted their annual holiday bash to celebrate the success of the foundation's Dance and movement therapy programs for autistic children.

Spangles Dance Company, founded by Debbie and Teddy Spangles, is a new Dance Company that honors the 80s.

KEIGWIN + COMPANY (K+C) announces the company's 2012 season, including two appearances at The Joyce Theater and a return to the Kennedy Center, as well as the premiere of a commission by Artistic Director Larry Keigwin with the Royal Ballet of New Zealand.

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BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance proudly presents LOS NUTCRACKERS: A CHRISTMAS CARAJO, written by Charles Rice-González and directed by Mark Finley.

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The Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) will present its final performances, a series of Cunningham's signature site-specific Events, December 29 - 31 at Park Avenue Armory in New York City.

Goldstar - the popular membership-based web retailer of half-price live-entertainment tickets-announced the nominees for the 5th annual Goldstar National Nutcracker Award today.