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  • Nov
    30
    2009
    Written by Ronald E. McNair Elementary
    Two letters from Ronald E. McNair Elementary... READ MORE
  • Apr
    03
    2008
    Written by Lucinda Breeding
    Collage Dance Festival has always jam packed its performance with style and substance. Denton City Contemporary Ballet stages the 16th Festival Friday and Saturday and is familiar in its bang-for-buck ratio. Audiences will see contemporary ballet, modern, tap and hip hop and they will see both students and professionals share the same stage. Not that Collage has been heavy handed . It isn't. Themes of conflict and war, the sheer difficulty of human relations has lent abstractions to the Collage stage over the years. It's dance rather than rant. Racina sees that current events still feed the creative process and the imagination of choreographers...... READ MORE
  • Aug
    29
    2004
    Written by Lucinda Breeding
    After being called DancExpress 16 years, the Denton dance company -- which has staged dance in ballet, modern, jazz and tap-- says goodbye to its name. Now, the company is Contemporary Ballet of Denton (subsequently changed to Denton City Contemporary Ballet).... READ MORE
  • Jun
    01
    2003
    Written by Lucinda Breeding
    "Lisa Racina should take a bow. Over the last 11 years Ms. Racina, the founder and artistic director of DancExpress and owner of Denton Dance Conservatory, has done something difficult. She has put emerging dancers--students really -- on the same stage as professional dancers in the annual Collage Dance Festival."... READ MORE
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