<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ballet: News &amp; Videos about Ballet - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Ballet</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Ballet from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:39:29 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Ballet: News &amp; Videos about Ballet - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Ballet</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Ballet from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Emmy Rossum and Adam Duritz Make Sweet Music</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20310985,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20310985,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>The actress and Counting Crows musician have a date night at the ballet</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Patrick Swayze dies of cancer at 57</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/14/patrick.swayze/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/14/patrick.swayze/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Patrick Swayze, whose good looks and sympathetic performances in films such as "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost" made him a romantic idol to millions, died Monday. 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Perhaps the most famous dancer of his generation, his is a career that wasn't meant to be -- a tough kid from the backstreets of Havana who was forced to study ballet and became a reluctant star.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Austin Murphy: Remembering Myron Cope</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/austin_murphy/01/29/cope/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/austin_murphy/01/29/cope/index.html</guid><description>If the seventh Super Bowl in Pittsburgh Steelers history seems just a little saner, more ordinary, a tad quieter than the previous six, it's because this is the club's first title game since the passing of one Myron Cope, the "Yoi!"-spouting radio legend and unofficial poet laureate of the 412, who died last February at the age of 79.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Q &amp;amp; A with Sir Anthony Dowell</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/12/03/Dowell.qanda/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/12/03/Dowell.qanda/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sir Anthony Dowell joined the Royal Ballet in 1961. He was promoted to principal dancer in 1966 and became one of the best classical dancers of his era. Amongst his most notable roles were as Oberon in The Dream (1964) and Troyte in Enigma Variations (1968). As artistic director of the Royal Ballet when Tetsuya Kumakawa arrived at the company Dowell is uniquely positioned to give a professional and personal insight in to the Japanese dancer. Here he explains to CNN what made "Teddy" stand out from the crowd.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Lord of the dance</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/12/03/Kumakawa.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/12/03/Kumakawa.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Not only is Tetsuya Kumakawa the greatest ever Japanese ballet dancer, he is one of the best the world has ever seen. 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Ten years later she was promoted to principal dancer. She has been director of the Royal Ballet since 2002. 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