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Picasso's Guernica used as backdrop to dance performance
Pablo Picasso's anti-war masterpiece "Guernica", one of the world's most iconic paintings, on Sunday served as a backdrop to a dance performance for the first time in its 77-year history.
29 April 2014
Dancing priest brings #2popesaints to Internet flock
A priest dances in a famous piazza in Rome surrounded by four gyrating parishioners. Tourists stare and dozens of children on a school trip from France start to twist and turn to the music.
26 April 2014
Astana Opera ballerina to perform with Eifman Ballet
Astana Opera’s lead ballerina Aigerim Beketova has been invited to preform in Budapest and London with Boris Eifman’s troupe.
10 April 2014
Kazakhstan dancers win 2nd place at Juste Debout in France
Dancers Baurzhan ‘Bauka’ Seifulina and Renat ‘L’eto’ Izmailov made it into the final of the world's most prestigious dance festival Juste Debout 2014 in France.
05 March 2014
Aktau native wins bronze in Sochi
Russian figure skaters Yelena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov have won a bronze medal in the Figure Skating Ice Dance at the Sochi Olympics.
19 February 2014
So you think you can dance and fall in love? Kazakhstan star in Ukrainian Everybody Dance show
The finalist of the Everybody Dance show from Kazakhstan shares his experience and plans.
27 January 2014
Winners of Juste Debout Kazakhstan qualifiers announced
The Juste Debout qualifiers were held in Kazakhstan for the first time.
22 January 2014
Bolshoi dancer gets six years for acid attack
A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced a Bolshoi dancer to six years in a penal colony for masterminding an acid attack that nearly blinded the famed company's artistic director.
04 December 2013
US woman's pre-mastectomy dance video goes viral
A video showing a US woman leading a dance party in an operating theater just before undergoing a double mastectomy has gone viral online.
08 November 2013
Rebel dancer takes Moscow theatre to new heights
Sergei Polunin admits money and fame can be an addiction. He says his hero is bad-boy actor Mickey Rourke. He does not much like rehearsing and sometimes prefers not to show up.
07 November 2013
Kazakhstan’s young ballet dancers win gold in Spain
Young ballet dancers from Kazakhstan have won gold, silver and bronze medals in Spain.
25 July 2013
France's accordion king Andre Verchuren dies aged 92
France's king of the accordion, Andre Verchuren, who entertained generations in the dance halls and on record, died Wednesday aged 92.
11 July 2013
Kazakhstan’s best break dancer selected in Almaty
The contest's jury made of world break dancing stars selected Nikolay Chernikov, a.k.a. B-Boy Killa Kolya, out of 16 contestants.
23 May 2013
Kazakhstan dancers score victories at Open Dance Connect in Russia
Baurzhan Seifullin from Astana won in Hip-Hop 1x1 category and Nikolay Chernikov, a.k.a. Killa-Kolya, won in B-Boy Solo B-Boy category.
01 May 2013
'Harlem Shake' tumbles off top of Hot 100 chart
"The Harlem Shake" is moving on.
28 March 2013
Australian mine workers sacked over Harlem Shake video
Workers at an underground gold mine in Western Australia have been sacked for performing the Harlem Shake dance while on the job.
04 March 2013
'Harlem Shake' fad thrills the US DJ behind it
The up-and-coming Brooklyn DJ behind "Harlem Shake" said Monday he's thrilled to see his cutting-edge electronic dance music (EDM) track going viral in a very big way.
19 February 2013
Leila Alpiyeva invites Kazakhstan dancers to her ballet school in Hong Kong
Vox Populi has told about Kazakhstan's famous ballet dancer Leila Alpiyeva who lives in Hong Kong and gives private ballet lessons in her own school.
01 October 2012
2nd Kazakhstan Championship on Wheelchair Dancing held in Kostanay
The 2nd Kazakhstan Wheelchair Dancing Championship is being held in Kostanay as part of the Boundless Opportunities nation-wide campaign.
22 June 2012
PHOTO: More than one million dollars spent on the first Kazakhstan film about dances
Presentation of the first Kazakhstan movie about dances was held in one of Almaty night clubs.
26 March 2012