Ms Bausch exemplifies a trend that is far stronger in German dance than ballet could ever aspire to be.
She started sampling jazz and hip-hop at 18 in her native Japan and moved to the U.S. five years ago for more technical training in modern dance and ballet.
Founded in 1973, Cloud Gate (it gets its name from China's oldest dance, dating back 5, 000 years) is on a nonstop voyage through world cultures, fusing tai chi, meditation, Chinese opera, modern dance and ballet into an art form that has captivated international audiences.
Today it is home to several major companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Eifman Ballet of Saint Petersburg, the Martha Graham Dance Company, and the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, as well as the Encores!
And since concluding her post-Paris stay in Britain's Royal Ballet in 2006, she has concentrated on "contemporary dance, " which eschews ballet's pointe work but keeps some of its positions and physical accents.
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Whether the dancer would leave the rigors of ballet to have children, and whether she would then return to dance, are questions that ballet devotees had long pondered.
Take That ruled the world and Darcey Bussell flew in on a phoenix to dance with the Royal Ballet one last time.
It opened its doors in 1943, with a performance by the New York Philharmonic, and in its early years was host to storied dance companies like the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the Robert Joffrey Ballet.
In late 2006 he started to work at Kampala Ballet and Modern Dance School's new cafe and the following year joined a barista training course held by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority.
The show spectacular has been choreographed by James Taylor, who has produced works for the Sydney Dance Company and The West Australian Ballet.
The National Theatre won the theatre award for its production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, while the dance prize went to the Scottish Ballet for A Streetcar Named Desire.
The company will host a special Sandy fundraiser on Feb. 26, "Fall and Recovery, " featuring stars from other corners of the dance world, including New York City Ballet's Wendy Whelan and American Ballet Theatre's Irina Dvorovenko.
The arts centre in Cardiff Bay aims to provide a new world-class stage for full scale ballet, opera, musical theatre and dance.
But it boasted little in the way of performing arts until its Music Centre opened in 1964, and even then no ballet to speak of and little modern dance.
"The Hard Nut, " an alternative take on the ballet by the Brooklyn-based Mark Morris Dance Group featuring groovy 1960s dance moves and a remote-controlled rat, canceled performances in Berkeley, Calif.
One of the ballet's most physically grueling passages: the dance of the Sugarplum Fairy.
Polunin, who at 19 became the Royal Ballet's youngest male principal, shocked the dance world in January 2012 by unexpectedly quitting a week before he was due to appear as the lead in a production of The Dream.
"She'd compare a step to a flower, or take off her necklace and say how all the beads have to be perfectly put together to form the whole (dance) variation, " said Lola Cooper, a Carolina Ballet dancer who studied with Kostritzky at the School of American Ballet.
Her awards have included dancer of the year in 1990 - as voted for by the readers of Dance and Dancers magazine - and was honoured with the Evening Standard Ballet Award the same year.
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It is not normal - not even for the vast majority of other successful musicians - to get asked to write a ballet for one of the world's most revered dance companies, having never written one before, or shown any real interest in the art form.
He performed a haunting solo dance on his arms before taking off and taking part in an "aerial ballet" high above the stadium.
Korean American visual artist Nam June Paik will make his Scottish debut, 50 years after his first solo exhibition, and Scottish Ballet will return to the Festival Theatre with a four-day dance festival.
MBEs were also awarded to the director general of the Society of British Aerospace Companies, Dr Sally Howe, from Woking in Surrey, as well as the founder and artistic director of the National Youth Ballet of Great Britain, Ms Jill Tookey, for her services to dance.
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School of American Ballet alum Nick Smirnov had just left his first job when he auditioned for a small dance company in Florida and was offered a job on the spot.
The fact that ballet offers such a potentially glamorous and rewarding career has started to attract large numbers of boys wanting to dance.
" Though Mr. Robbins's dance version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was one of the most memorable pieces of choreography ever created for the Broadway stage, Mr. Robin's miniature ballet is a lovely piece of work in its own right, and I liked his "Shall We Dance?
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