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A special performance celebrating Van Patten’s 20 years with the company is planned for April.

Diana Payne-Myers Credit: family Diana Payne-Myers, the dancer and actress, who has died aged 92, had a 70-year stage career of phenomenal variety, beginning in the postwar music hall boom, continuing through the heyday of West End revue, and rising to an unlikely burst of stardom in her seventies and eighties in cutting-edge contemporary dance. Her ballet skit supported Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on their British tours, she danced with Sadler’s Wells Opera Ballet, and she spe...

The tutus, the twirls. with their proud parents looking on, these children whose parents thought they might never dance are now doing just that. this is the come dance with us ballet workshop in orlando, florida. children with special needs from orlando health and the health system hospitals are paired up with ballerinas from the orlando ballet school. under the supervision of doctors, those children and those ballerinas teaching them, suddenly building muscle, building confidence, building hope...