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Nine colleges have offered Sarah Simon, of Wellesley, Mass., a spot in their class of 2012: Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Princeton, Stanford, University of Chicago, Vassar and Williams. But she's a dancer--ballet six times a week, modern twice, jazz once--and Columbia University in New York City would give her access not only to an exceptional ballet program at its sister school Barnard but also to the epicenter of the dance world. Unfortunately, Columbia has put her on the waitlist. Though she's not whining about her wealth of options, Simon, a senior at Noble and Greenough School...
...awkward and forced, as if these students who had just celebrated their 21st birthdays were play-acting themselves in 30 years, when they would be grinning at younger dancing partners, having again consumed (and spilled) one too many glasses of wine. With her bleached hair and fearsome tan, one dancer looked more “Girls Gone Wild” than Givenchy. Her partner was shimmying in his shiny shoes, but she only stumbled in a circle as he twirled her around. When he dipped her, her mouth gaped open in a smile. But slowly the jazz worked its magic...
...April 16 story, "Nude Dancer Faces Felony Charge," misstated the charge that defendant Ria Ora is facing. She is facing charges for gross and open lewdness, not for indecent exposure...
...world, one they are delighted to be a part of. The students are no new-comers to Irish step-dancing, though their careers did have different origins. O’Brien’s exposure to step-dancing began at home; her mother was a dancer. At first a spectator at dance performances, she is now entering her sixth year stepping. Fallon’s parents do not dance; he was first exposed to it at Irish festivals and began taking lessons at the age of five. “I thought it was cool,” he said...
...also known as "Frosty Freeze," had been developing his signature style since the 1970s, later joining the influential Rock Steady Crew. He appeared as the face of the break-dancing craze on the cover of the Village Voice and later performed in the movie Beat Street. An acrobatic, charismatic dancer, Frost created gravity-defying moves that persist today as some of the most challenging and daring in hip-hop, like the "suicide," in which a dancer must land a full flip flat on his back. He died at 44 after a long illness...