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HER NEXT STEP Dancer Dierdre Myles will move behind the curtain at Boston Ballet
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`And here's where Romeo lifts Juliet," says Dierdre Myles,
pointing not to a passionate embrace by a pair of lovesick
teen-agers, but to a bunch of triangles, dots and lines.
Those lines are Labanotation, a means of recording dance that will
become Myles' next career. After her June 19 performance as Juliet,
during Boston Ballet's revival of Choo San Goh's "Romeo and Juliet"
at the Wang Center tomorrow night through June 20, Myles, 37, will
retire from dancing and become a professiona...
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HER NEXT STEP Dancer Dierdre Myles will move behind the curtain at Boston Ballet
The Boston Globe
; `And here's where Romeo lifts Juliet," says Dierdre Myles, pointing not to a passionate embrace by a pair of lovesick teen-agers, but to a bunch of triangles, dots and lines. Those lines are Labanotation, a means of recording dance that will become Myles' next career. After her June 19 performance
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Boston Ballet to part company with Artistic Director Anna-Marie Holmes.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald
; ... that she was confronted with the death of corps de ballet dancer Heidi Guenther. Her reaction to the situation made national news and brought to the forefront eating disorder-related issues in the dance world. From day one, said Mateo, it wasn't the easiest ...
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NOW SHE'S CALLING THE SHOTS; She's a second soloist, not a star. But Heather Myers has been given the rare chance to choreograph a major piece for her fellow Boston Ballet dancers.
The Boston Globe
; DANCE "Very nice," says choreographer Heather Myers with a big smile and a delicate little clap of the hands. It's the first day of full run-throughs for Boston Ballet's "Next Generation" program of contemporary ballets, and her piece, despite one leap's botched landing (because of a too-long pair
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Are Boston Ballet cuts to the corps.
The Boston Herald
; Boston Ballet's recent announcement that it has managed to balance the budget for FY1999 is very much a good news/bad news affair. The good news is that after a difficult six-month process of budget and strategy analyses, the company has found a way ...
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BOSTON BALLET MAKES CUTS IN BUDGET, STAFF
The Boston Globe
; [A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.] Reeling from lackluster ticket sales for "The Nutcracker," Boston Ballet managers are dancing as fast as they can to keep the company on its feet in the current unstable economy. The company has eliminated 11 administrative and teaching jobs
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Boston Ballet celebrating 40th anniversary
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
; Artistic director Mikko Nissinen has announced Boston Ballet's 40th anniversary season. "The 40th anniversary season will take us in two directions," said Nissinen, "to commemorate Boston Ballet's achievements over the past four decades and to break new ground as we begin our fifth. We'll open with
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Boston Ballet denies responsibility for dancer's death.(News)
The Boston Herald
; Boston Ballet yesterday described the 1997 death of dancer Heidi Guenther as a terrible tragedy that deeply touched all of us but refused to take any responsibility for Guenther's death. Boston Ballet feels strongly that Heidi's death was not our fault, general director Jeffrey Babcock said in a
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BOSTON BALLET MAKES A FINANCIAL TURNAROUND
The Boston Globe
; Boston Ballet posted a $650,000 operating surplus for the fiscal year that ended in June, executive director Valerie Wilder announced yesterday. The surplus, which represents approximately 3 percent of the company's $20 million operating budget for fiscal year 2003-2004, marks a turnaround. Boston
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Nureyev's `Don Quixote' marks farewell for Boston Ballet's Gelfand.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald
; Byline: Theodore Bale Of all the existing classical ballets, Rudolf Nureyev's staging of Don Quixote is easily the most rousing and animated. It's a great choice to open Boston Ballet's 40th season on Thursday. This version focuses mostly on the flirtatious relationship between Kitri and Basilio.
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BOSTON BALLET CUTS SALARIES
The Boston Globe
; After a disappointing holiday "Nutcracker" run, Boston Ballet has cut the salaries of virtually all its employees, with some workers taking short, unpaid leaves. The move is part of an expense-cutting plan meant to keep Boston Ballet on track for a balanced annual budget, said Valerie Wilder, the
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