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March 14, 2003, Diablo Ballet: Rescued Diablo Ballet survives, and shines "The dancers don't look too anxious. But then such wardrobe concerns are minor compared with the worries that plagued Diablo Ballet last September, when the troupe was literally fighting for its existence. Only a last-minute appeal and an outpouring of support from the community kept the company afloat. This weekend it returns to the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek to celebrate its ninth anniversary."
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January 30, 2003, Oakland's Artship: Gallery plans sinking quickly "The Oakland Port Commission has scuttled hopes for the Artship, an experiment that would have made the waterfront home to one of the Bay Area's most unique cultural spaces."
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January 17, 2003, Kim Epifano: Idea for 'Einstein's Daughters' fell from the sky "The work is a nonlinear swoop into the story of Mileva Maric, Albert Einstein's first wife and scientific collaborator. It is a mix of theater, dance, music and aerial work in which Epifano, Louise and 11-year-old Keefer trade off the roles of Maric and her daughter in a fluid interpretation of the former's inner life. The show continues at the Cowell Theater in Fort Mason Center."
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January 1, 2003, Roundup: Nine things we're looking forward to in 2003 "After a 20-year hiatus, the Bay Area has a chance to see one of Europe's greatest dance companies, the 400-year-old Stuttgart Ballet, appearing this March both in Davis and in Berkeley, bringing two superb but very different programs."
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October 6, 2002, LINES Contemporary Ballet: Still dancing between the LINES "Alonzo King is exhausted. His company, LINES Contemporary Ballet, is amid a whirlwind of preparations for its upcoming 20th anniversary season at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, so perhaps that explains why he's a little stressed."
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September 9, 2002, Diablo Ballet: Diablo's dilemma inspires donor "Ron Huxley has a challenge for the Contra Costa community. He's donating $10,000 in matching funds to Diablo Ballet, which he hopes will help spur people to pitch in to help save the company."
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September 8, 2002, 9/11, One Year After: Companies work to keep focus on future "For the dance world, as for everyone, memories of 9/11 remain fresh. Nearly everyone in the dance community was personally and professionally affected by events last fall. As artists, dancers wanted to respond to what happened, and as citizens, they wanted to show their solidarity. At the same time, their livelihood underwent dramatic changes as performance dates were cut and, in some instances, entire tours canceled."
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September 1, 2002, Fall Arts: Introducing dance styles from around the world "A world of dance comes to the Bay Area this fall, bringing with it companies and artists from Spain, France, Sweden, Mexico and Russia, to perform alongside homegrown favorites such as the Axis Dance Company and the Oakland Ballet."
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August 25, 2002, Diablo Ballet under financial pressure"What is it worth to keep a critically acclaimed professional ballet company in a community? What is it worth to keep the regional arts alive here?
Diablo Ballet's current financial crisis brings these questions to the Contra Costa community at a time when most Americans are thinking about things besides the stability of our arts and nonprofit groups."
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June 30, 2002, Under the Radar: Five unusual dance venues around the Bay Area "The art-deco Alice Arts Center exudes a comfortable classiness. Home to groups ranging from Citicentre Dance to Oakland Ballet to the Bay Area Blues Society, this restored turn-of-the-last-century building also houses dance studios, offices and a hotel for artists involved with the center."
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June 23, 2002, San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival: A profile of tango dancers Marcelo & Valesa Solís "The couple on the floor is completely immersed, focused on each other and moving precisely, but with great pleasure in a meandering pattern through space. They're so close that in movies, it would be a clinch. This, however, is the embrace of tango, a dance of intimacy and refinement."
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June 20, 2002, Savage Jazz Dance Company: Dancing jazz Savage style "Reginald Ray-Savage wants to clear up one thing from the start: His Savage Jazz Dance Company doesn't specialize in what the average person thinks of as "jazz dance." Rather, the Oakland-based group performs serious dance pieces to classic jazz.
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April 26, 2002, Moving Arts Dance: Anderson brings experience to Moving Arts "Charlie Anderson wants to put even more 'moving'in Moving Arts Dance. 'I just really want beautifully moving dancers,' says Anderson, a former dancer with New York City Ballet and new artistic director of Moving Arts Dance, based in Walnut Creek and considered one of the East Bay's top modern dance companies. "
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April 17, 2002, San Francisco Ballet: A preview of Yuri Possokhov's Damned
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April , 2002, National Dance Week: A preview of free events around the Bay Area
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