Sitting a little too close to Clay, she exchanges a few pleasantries before the dance of death begins.

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Ian McKellen, whose new show "Dance of Death" opens October 11, is unconcerned by the ups and downs of ticket sales.

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Mr. Watkins said that "some of the harmonies and the wildness of the rhythms" in "Tanec" have elements of a dance of death.

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But Conservative leader David Cameron said Mr Brown and his critics were locked in "a slow dance of political death".

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For the "Danse Sacrale, " Stravinsky's climactic dance to the death, Mr. Twist tweaks his creation "without dancers" by capping it with one featured dancer.

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"His death puts a period to an era in the dance world, " McKenzie said.

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For a week before the final Nongkrem dance, Sing and his sister, who took over as priestess after their mother's death two years ago, go through ritual prayers, dances and sacrifices to propitiate the gods and seek blessings for the people.

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As the last set of fiscal policy negotiations lead to the failure of the super committee and the death of Simpson-Bowles, trust in the fact that the government would not dance at the edge of the fiscal cliff has been compromised.

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