They clap whenever they please, not just between movements but each time a dancer does something impressive.

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But a chance encounter with dancer Gregory Hines, who was on the lookout for old-time Pittsburgh dancers, got Belcher dancing again.

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"I don't call myself a dancer, but I think this sort of dancing suits my body very well, " says Miller.

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Toole has been a professional dancer for 20 years, but the Paralympics were on a different scale to anything he had done before.

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" Ms. Brown formed her Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1970, the same year she created the straightforward but eerie event for a solo male dancer, matter-of-factly called "Man Walking Down the Side of a Building.

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But they don't worry Rohayu Ramli, a former Malay cultural dancer who has a very personal idea of what constitutes fun.

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But she said she still had high hopes for his future development as a dancer, if he survives the public vote.

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Ms Novikova, the Bolshoi spokeswoman, says there may have been a meeting between Filin and Tsiskaridze's student, but she believes the principal dancer is overreacting.

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But even there, they have taken the trouble to make Brains dance like a puppet trying to dance like a real dancer.

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