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Bay Area Dance Week, one of the nation's largest, most inclusive celebrations of movement and dance, returns this April 26 - May 5, 2019, to hundreds of venues throughout the Bay Area. Each year the Bay Area Dance community throws open its doors and invites the public to experience its rich and vibrant dance scene, completely free of charge.

Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson's The Sleeping Beauty returns to San Francisco Ballet on March 9 with performances through March 17 at SF War Memorial Opera House. Tomasson's staging, which premiered with the Company in 1990, updates Marius Petipa's original choreography from 1890, which debuted at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Set to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's beloved score, The Sleeping Beauty is a pinnacle of classical repertory.

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS dances its way gracefully to Hale Centre Theatre in its regional premiere.

The Cleveland Havana Ballet Project Returns To Cleveland with Cuban dance legend, Laura Alonso. Verb Ballets and Pro Danza continue their international collaboration with a month-long cultural exchange in Cleveland. Alonso will travel to Cleveland to reunite with the dancers of Verb Ballets for the third year of cultural exchange. 

The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) tonight announced the winners of the 2019 Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for film, television, new media, videogames, news, radio/audio, promotional, and graphic animation categories at concurrent ceremonies at the Edison Ballroom in New York City and The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.

The New York Times calls Ballet Tech Kids Dance “a New York City Treasure.” And here they are again, ready to dance Eliot Feld's frabjous repertory. Company premiere 'Play Bach,' audience-favorite 'Hello Fancy,' and bubbly Balkan 'KYDZNY' will be effervescently danced by the remarkably poised and impeccably rehearsed kids. 'Pointing 1' and 'Pointing 3' are sure to delight audiences of all ages – and yup, they're danced in pointe shoes. Kids Dance will have you movin' and groovin' in your seat!

The San Francisco Early Music Society (SFEMS) and its Board of Directors announced today that Derek Tam will become the organization's new executive director, effective March 1, 2019. Tam succeeds Harvey Malloy, who served from 2009 until his retirement last fall.

Due to popular demand, Moscow Ballet announces week-long Summer Intensive sessions for American Ballet Students ages 8 to 20 years in 7 cities across the country. The Summer Intensives will be taught by Moscow Ballet Soloists Alisa Bolotnikova and Yuriy Kuzo, both members of the performing company and experienced ballet teachers. The Russian trained dancers started their ballet studies at an early age and graduated from highly respected ballet academies per Russian standards. 

Wilton's Music Hall today announces its spectacular summer season, featuring collaborations with some of the UK's most exciting production companies.

Grosse Pointe Theatre invites audiences to the hallowed halls of Harvard Law as it continues its 71st Season with a production of Legally Blonde The Musical. The eight performance runs starts on January 20, 2019, at Pierce Auditorium, located at 15430 Kercheval Ave, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230. Parking is free. Complimentary valet is available. In 1948, Grosse Pointe Theatre staged their inaugural show, Clarence by Booth Tarkington at Pierce Auditorium.

When the American Ballet Theatre came to Washington, D.C. last year, they served up a delectable Whipped Cream at the Kennedy Center. In 2019, the company has returned with a similarly infectious Harlequinade which, even when viewed independent of Whipped Cream, never reaches the technical heights expected of such a revered company. At Tuesday's performance, the murmurs I overheard at intermission were largely mixed with one audience member calling the dance 'enjoyable but so thin it was like looking through cellophane.' Harlequinade is a fun evening-but it plays more as an introduction to ballet then as a truly triumphant production.

Carnegie Hall today announced that street dance pioneer Drew Dollaz will join longtime collaborators spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph and composer/violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain as they reunite for the world premiere of The Just and the Blind, a pressing and poignant new work commissioned by Carnegie Hall that explores fatherhood, racial profiling, and the justice system, in Zankel Hall on Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. The performance will be followed by a post-concert discussion with the artists, hosted by Justus Jones of the Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network (AIYN).

BroadwayWorld presents a comprehensive weekly roundup of regional stories around our Broadway World, which include videos, editor spotlights, regional reviews and more. This week, we feature IN THE HEIGHTS, CRAZY FOR YOU, and More!

An hilarious wild ride back to the fabulous 80's - it's glam, glorious and gaudy NEON is an unapologetic, funny and downright dirty dancing cabaret where circus meets comedy and song.

In a concert inspired by adventure and Spanish exoticism, the Columbus Symphony will perform the Spanish Flamenco Festival at the newly renovated Palace Theatre on March 1 and 2. The auditorium of the 1926 historic venue received a six-month, $2.5 million facelift, and was reopened to the public in November 2018. Guest conducted by John Axelrod, musical director of the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra, the program will feature local flamenco star Griset Damas and the Flamenco Company of Columbus. The full program includes Turina's Danzas fantasticas, Falla's La Vida Breve: Danse Espagnole No. 1, and concludes with the enchanting, rhythmic vitality of Dvo?ak's richly melodic New World Symphony (Symphony No. 9).

Ballet Hispanico, America's leading Latino dance organization, announces this year's School of Dance 2019 Summer Programs. The Ballet Hispanico School of Dance is a leading center of excellence in dance education accessible to the community at large. Located at 167 W. 89th Street, NYC, the School offers something for students of all ages.

Ballet Hispánico, America's leading Latino dance organization, announces this year's School of Dance 2019 Summer Programs. The Ballet Hispánico School of Dance is a leading center of excellence in dance education accessible to the community at large. Located at 167 W. 89th Street, NYC, the School offers something for students of all ages.

Jack O'Brien's (Director) updated take on CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: THE NEW MUSICAL arrives in Sydney with a celebration of sweetness and childhood fantasy.

Dances Patrelle announces auditions for the brand new ballet The American Dream: It's Only Business

The weekend before Christmas, The Los Angeles Youth Ballet presented a gorgeous, colorful and professional performance of The Nutcracker at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA. The production was very carefully constructed, with an emphasis on good technique, passion and commitment in performance and lovingly re-created by Artistic Director and Choreographer, Andrea Paris-Gutierrez. It was staged and choreographed optimally for each age group performing. Enchanting might be an adjective to describe the feeling the performers were emitting to the viewers, who's rapt attention was a sign of both enjoyment and endorsement. The Nutcracker Suite was composed by Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky, and has long been the favorite balletic composition to be performed during the Christmas Season.

Synchronicity Theatre will produce Bob Marley's Three Little Birds, written by the late reggae legend's eldest daughter, Cedella, February 1 - 24, 2019. The musical, based on Cedella's children's book, Three Little Birds, includes the songs "Three Little Birds," "Jamming," "Roots Rock Reggae," "I Shot the Sheriff," "Is This Love," and others, and is recommended for children ages three and up. For tickets or more information, please visit synchrotheatre.com or call 404-484-8636.

Grosse Pointe Theatre invites audiences to the hallowed halls of Harvard Law as it continues its 71st Season with a production of Legally Blonde The Musical. The eight performance runs starts on January 20, 2019, at Pierce Auditorium, located at 15430 Kercheval Ave, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230. Parking is free. Complimentary valet is available. In 1948, Grosse Pointe Theatre staged their inaugural show, Clarence by Booth Tarkington at Pierce Auditorium.

A&A BALLET (A&A), under the artistic direction of Anna Reznik and Alexei Kremnev, holds open auditions for the production of Alexei Kremnev's "Sleeping Beauty," Saturday, January 5, 2019 from 4-5 p.m. A&A welcomes dancers from ages six to twenty-four to audition for various roles, which will premiere at Chicago's Studebaker Theatre (410 S. Michigan Ave) May 4, 2019 for two performances.