Lucire
The global fashion magazine May 3, 2024 
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The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Allegro journeys from classical to science fiction

August 15, 2014/15.57

Ross Brown Top A classical approach for Allegro Brillante. Above Larry Keigwin’s Megalopolis. The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Allegro: Five Short Ballets, was a bittersweet performance, knowing it would be the last time many in the audience would see the company’s principal guest artist, Gillian Murphy, dance.    Murphy and her fiancé, RNZB artistic director […]

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Whitney Houston farewelled in 1,500-strong funeral service

February 18, 2012/21.41

The sombre occasion of Whitney Houston’s funeral in Newark, NJ, has been carried by international media and streamed online.    Some 1,500 people attended the service at the New Hope Baptist Church, where Houston herself performed in the gospel choir run by her mother, Cissy.    The current gospel choir opened the funeral, and speeches […]

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