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THE JOFFREY BALLET at the Benedum Center. The venerable Chicago-based company kicked off its 50'h-anniversary tour in February with a ballet-lover's program featuring George Balanchine's "Apollo," Laura Dean's "Sometimes It Snows in April" (from Billboards), Gerald Arpino's "RUTH, Ricordi Per Due" and Kurt Jooss's legendary anti-war ballet "The Green Table."
AUSSIE INVASION. March saw the Sydney Dance Company in Graeme Murphy's pianobased tribute Grand, at the Byham Theater, then the Cultural Trust's Australia Festival featured: Circus Oz; the U.S. premiere of Lucy Guerin Inc.'s quirky Aether, a work that combined childish behavior with avant-garde modern dance; and Chunky Move, with "Glow" and the "docudance" "I Want to Dance Better at Parties."DANCE ALLOY THEATER'S Fragile. One of the Alloy's finest hours, the April program at the New Hazlett Theater featured Susan Marshall's "Arms," a duet of intertwining bodies; DAT artistic director Beth Coming's "Flight"; and the premiere of Donald Byrd's "No Consolation," a devastatingly emotional work about how we deal with grief.See the full content of this document
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2007: The Year in Lists
Five shortest purchases -former Councilor Tvoncrfa. Carlisle hvule wifA taxpayer Money
JEWELRY: Acording to prosecutors, Carlisle spent $595.93 at Whitehall Jewelers for a pink-and-white sapphire pendant, ring and earrings, as well as a sensible three-year jewelry service plan. Thanks for protecting the taxpayer's investment, councilor!ELECTRONICS: She went to Circuit City and dropped just $600 on a laptop and $181.87 for two televisions. At least we're not talking 52-inch plasma screens here; that would have been irresponsible.FUR COAT: It was this piece of outerwear that topped every newscast on Oct. 29, the day her trial was originally set to start. She paid the now-closed Jerome WoIk Furs, of Regent Square, $4,494 for the mink. Way to piss off PETA before leaving public life.FICTITIOUS HEALTH STUDY: This was the ...See the full content of this document
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