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Article: MEDIA CITY TROUPE ATTEMPTS TO STAY EN POINTE WITH TRIBUTE TO BALLET RUSSE.(LA.COM)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- April 25, 2008
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Byline: Carley Dryden
Staff Writer
Natasha Middleton, artistic director of Media City Ballet of Burbank, likens the heightened expressions of Sunday's season-opening program, "Ballet Russe Remembered," to those of a silent film.
"We're not trying to step in anyone's shoes, we're just keeping it alive," Middleton said. "Nobody can be like the Ballet Russe."
She hopes it that will serve as a fitting tribute to one of the most influential dance companies of the 20th century. Ballet Russe was founded in Paris in 1909 by Russian cultural impresario Sergei Diaghilev and played a major role in the development of contemporary ballet.
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