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Brooklyn, New York's Liberty Science Center is partnering with five dance companies in a new yearlong series of residencies funded by AT&T called Body Instruments: Connecting Movement and Science. Each dance company shows how its art relates to a scientific principle. The multimedia dance theater company Troika Ranch shows how dancers control their environment with movement and voice using custom-designed sensory devices embedded into costumes or set pieces. The group uses a MIDI microcomputer and radio transmitter, a three-dimensional set of laser beams manipulated by the dancers to trigger music and video, and interactive set pieces that adjust theatrical lighting in response to the dancers' contact. Other companies in the series are Terpsichore SAND (space), Forces of Nature (environment), Rhombus Dance (health), and Everett Dance Theater (gravity).

The Royal Academy of Dancing marks its 25th anniversary by inviting all past graduates to join in this year's graduation ceremony on June 25 at Academy headquarters in London. RAD is readying itself for the next twenty-five by adding four part-time distance learning diplomas and degrees so students can gain their qualifications at times and locations best suited to their needs, interests, and career aspirations at any place in the world. Using fax, phone, mail, or e-mail, students contact their tutors for guidance, get administrative support from RAD headquarters, and remain part of a worldwide electronic and professional network. Validated by the University of Durham, these degrees in dance will also allow students to continue postgraduate study at other universities' Certificate in Classical Ballet Teaching; Diploma in Classical Ballet Teaching; B.A. (Hons.) Classical Ballet Teaching; B. Philosophy (Hons.) Ballet and Contextual Studies. For further information, contact the Routemaster Program, School of Education, RAD, [phone], fax [phone], [e-mail], http://www.rad.org.uk or the international offices in Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, and South Africa.

Watch for National Ballet School of Canada's satellite-linked Global Conference to Advance Health, Well-Being and Excellence in Dance and Dancers, November 12-14, www.notjustanybody.com.