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Big names at Croatia fest; UB40 drummer and friends established Garden Zadar venue Clubs.(News)
Birmingham Mail (England)
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February 20, 2009
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Byline: By Will Oliphant
THE WEST Midlands is not known for its sun-kissed shores and all-night beach parties - which is why a group of Birmingham music fans decided to move to Croatia.
Three Birmingham music industry stalwarts - including UB40 drummer Jimmy Brown - have set up a dance music festival in an idylic setting on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.
Even though many will not have heard of it - until recently it's been promoted exclusively by word of mouth - it attracts big-name acts and has made waves in the industry.
But it wasn't ...
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Michel Fokine
Magazine article from: Dance Teacher
; ...As a choreographer and teacher, Michel Fokine transformed 19th-century ballet...Petersburg, Mikhail Mikhailovich Fokine was the youngest of five surviving children, four boys and one girl. Fokine's father, a merchant, did not...
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Rediscovering Michel Fokine: by challenging Russian tradition, this modernist choreographer wrestled ballet into the twentieth century.(Biography)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine
; In 1942, when choreographer Michel Fokine died in New York, the dance world...called) made its debut in 1940, Fokine headed the roster of choreographers...ballerina. Despite his success, Fokine began to chafe at the company's...
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Fokine favorites on tour.(Kirov Ballet tours United States performing works by choreographer Michel Fokine)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine
; ...Kirov Ballet (the company on which Michel Fokine cut his choreographic teeth, then...Frederic Chopin; although it was Fokine's attempt to evoke the atmosphere...Bulgakov, Julie Sedova, and Vera Fokine. Renamed Les Sylphides in 1909...
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Kirov ballerina fired up for all-Fokine program at the Wang.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...Nioradze has danced, the lead part in Michel Fokine's "The Firebird" is her favorite...she said. It's a sad fact that Fokine's broad repertory (some 60 dances...Theatre this weekend in an all-Fokine program presented by FleetBoston...
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Attitudes.(Michael Fokine, father of the modern ballet, coreographer)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine
; ...of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Michel Fokine and Leonide Massine. Both were regarded...This is possibly fair enough, yet Fokine in particular had an enormous effect...way back in the 18th century. FOKINE, born in St. Petersburg in 1880...
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Fokine family Nutcrackers: a trio of productions shows holiday favorite's Russian roots.(Irine Fokine)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine
; ...months rehearsing at the studio of the Irine Fokine School of Ballet in New Jersey. I love this ballet. Irine Fokine, niece of the great choreographer Michel Fokine, produces her forty-fifth Nutcracker this...
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Fokine and The Dust Bunnies; ABT Visits Its Attic, With Uneven Results
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...early-20th-century choreographer Michel Fokine last weekend at the Kennedy Center...out of storage is no easy task -- Fokine's deep expressiveness and fluidity...resuscitated. It is thanks in large part to Fokine that ABT exists. The Russian master...
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Kirov brings Fokine ballets from Russia with love.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...by the great Russian choreographer Michel Fokine. All nearly 100 years old now...have an old-fashioned look. But Fokine was an intensely modern dancemaker...knowing delicacy of these folks. But Fokine's not all about purity. The Kirov...
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Nutcracker sweet.(ACROSS THE FLOOR)(Irine Fokine School of Ballet's Nutcracker)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine
; ...authentic Nutcrackers performed today. The Irine Fokine School of Ballet in Ridgewood mounts the ballet with...but then she wouldn't be Mona Lisa," says Irine Fokine, niece of Michel Fokine. Her mother, Alexandra Fedorova performed in Petipa...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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GOLDEN SLIPPERS
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; ...choreographer Mikhail Mikhailovich Fokine or Michel Fokine as he was known when he came to...moved to the United States to join Michel and Irine's older brother...were running from the war," Fokine recalled. "We were not. We...
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