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Seven Lakes Dancers Begin Competition Season With Platinum
Southern Pines Pilot
Local dancers from Seven Lakes Dance competed in the Legacy Talent Competition in Charlotte recently. Six competition troupes competed with tap, jazz, lyrical and hip-hop dances. Itty-Bitty Competition Troupe members include Lexi Keyser, …

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Out&About:Theater
Carlisle Sentinel
The Tap Dancers Collective, a newly formed tap dancing group for current and former tap dancers, will meet Sundays at 5 pm at Nee Danse Company, 2040 Derry St., Harrisburg. The only cost is a shared fee to cover space rental.

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Brian McKnight Refuses to Get Porny at the Blue Note, Still Manages to Drive …
Grantland (blog)
Public-relations digressions aside, after a scan of the crowd, some conversation with our table mates, and a two-second moment of "Wait, did Savion Glover just walk by? Yep, definitely Savion Glover. Is he here for the show, or is he hopping onstage?

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Order of the Buffalo Hunt for Sagkeeng's Finest
MetroNews Canada
O'Laney and the Courchenes were crowned winners this past Monday on the television show Canada's Got Talent, where their fusion of jigging, clogging and tap dancing outshone the competition. “Vince, Dallas and Brandon have inspired Canadians young and …
Dancing to gloryBrandon Sun

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New York Times

Summer Dance Festivals Offer International, Local Performers
New York Times
This year's Chicago Dance Festival features a ballet feast: Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet West, Ballet Arizona and San Francisco Ballet dancers, all on one bill. Also on tap is the Martha Graham Dance Company, Larry Keigwin and Nicholas Leichter; …

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Devils Lake dancers to present 'Sunday Funnies'
Devil’s Lake Daily Journal
Neslie and Sadie will be performing a tap dance with their fathers, Lee and Arlynn. Both dads are enrolled in the adult dance program at Miki's. The men have studied tap for four or five years and the dance is a soft shoe tap entitled “You On My Arm.” …

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Great costumes, genuine talent in 'Mikado' on White Rock stage
Surrey Now
Last but not least by a long shot: This is International Tap Dance week. Well, actually only one day is officially recognized as international tap day, but we have so many tap dance enthusiasts in this area, why not have a whole week?

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Entertainment Listings
Vancouver Sun
$30/$27, 604-536-7535 " " West Coast Tap Dance Collective: Tapistry – 10th Anniversary Tap Day Show New show combines professionals and youth talent to showcase the emerging voice of West Coast Canadian tap. . Massey Theatre, 735 Eighth Ave., …

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Disneyland Looks Beyond 'Aladdin;' Could 'Newsies' Be Far Behind?
Stitch Kingdom (blog)
… which are seeking males who happen to dance… who happen to tap dance.. with singing and tumbling abilities a plus. In addition, DCE is looking for female dancers who are 'strong “show girl types”' with tap dancing a plus. Medda Larkin, perhaps?

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Entertainment Calendar – Issue of May 17, 2012
Pomerado Newspaper Group
Tickets can be purchased a dancer or Susan Kernus at 858-442-4799 or dkernus@aol.com. CStar Productionz is holding Thriller dance classes 10 – 11 am Sundays in front of the fountain in Old Poway Park, 14134 Midland Road, and 6 – 7 pm Wednesday evenings …

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The Daily Jeffersonian

Dance Central Thunder ends season with many awards
The Daily Jeffersonian
The dancers have not only won numerous Overall High Score awards and Judge's Pick awards, but have increased their scores and performance quality in all their dances. The team traveled to the campus of Lorain County Community College in Elyria for the …

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Dein Perry's TAP DOGS Returns to Australia for July-August Tour – Starring …
Broadway World
… the strength and power of workmen with the precision and talent of tap dancing and is pArt Theatre, part dance, part rock concert and positively electrifying. The adrenalin pumped touring cast includes the best tap dancers from around the world.

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Tap time at Massey
The Record (New Westminster)
Stylish: Troy McLaughlin is part of Tapistry, the 10th annual International Tap Day celebration presented by the West Coast Tap Dance Collective. It's onstage at the Massey Theatre May 19. A collection of North America's best tap dancers will be …
Great costumes, genuine talent in 'Mikado' on White Rock stageSurrey Now

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Dancing queen
The Advocate
By Ellyn Couvillion On a recent Thursday evening in the Dance by Trudie studio on Millerville Road diminutive dancers skipped or strolled in alongside their parents for the 3-year-olds' dance class. Their teacher, Trudie Osterberger, sported a shiny …

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Crystal clear
Tbo.com
LINE DANCE AFTERNOONS: The Sun City Center Line Dancer's Club meets Wednesdays, 2 to 4 pm, at Community Hall. All levels of line dancing taught. Open to SCC and KP residents. Call (813) 260-0325. SHUFFLEBOARD: The Sun City Center Shuffleboard Club …

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The Q&A – Could Easter be a Jewish woman's favorite holiday? JEANINE MILLER …
Chinook Observer
I've tap danced for 20 years and we tap dance on Wednesdays at the Eagles and tap dance on Saturdays at the Moose. We're not professional, but we do the best we can. We go to the nursing home and we wear fun costumes. Julie is a very good tap dancer.

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Live Shots: 'Uncertain Weather' at ODC
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Dancers twirled through the “rain” with colorful umbrellas, an ice cream hawker tapped on a sunny beach, and sweaty passengers swayed in a sardine-packed Mission bus ride. Each piece was unique and imaginative. A shoe-free tap dance number was done in …

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CTV.ca

First Nation Dancers Crowned Winners of 'Canada's Got Talent'
Hollywood Reporter
The trio started first with traditional jigging, an First Nations tradition, then fused more modern dance styles, like tap dancing, into their act. Dallas Courchene said they wanted to show young people like themselves what they could do so they might …
Sagkeeng's Finest feted at Manitoba legislatureCBC.ca
Order of the Buffalo Hunt for Sagkeeng's FinestMetroNews Canada
Dancing to gloryBrandon Sun
Winnipeg Free Press -CTV.ca
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Rap and Tap: Jarv Dee Lives With a Tribe and Danced with Gregory Hines
Seattle Weekly (blog)
The pinnacle of his dance career came in 2002, when he was 17 and danced onstage with Gregory Hines at the Paramount, a year before Hines died. Jarv says he'd like to do a reunion with his old tapping group. I ask if he has tap shoes.

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Sagkeeng's tap trio wins Canada's heart
Winnipeg Free Press
The trio topped a field of 12 finalists — including dancers, beatboxers, a country artist, an opera singer, a rapper and a circus performer — and earned the most votes from viewers after Sunday's final performance show. For the final showdown, …

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