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IT'S A QUIET Friday on the sprawling campus of Dean College in Franklin, MA. That is, until you get near the Performing Arts Center, where from the street choreographer and Broadway, tap, and jazz legend Maurice Hines can be heard shouting, "Full out, divas! Full out!"
At an audition the night before, Hines chose 10 young women, his new-found "divas," to learn his rapid-fire choreography. The next night, they'll perform the challenging dance to a packed house of 600.
Hines had planned to teach the dancers an excerpt from his latest project, Hot Feet, a re-working of the classic film The Red Shoes, set to music by Earth, Wind & Fire. "They were so spectacular," he says during a rehearsal break, "that I ended up starting to create instead of just re-creating." He's added an intricate foot-slapping passage inspired by a dance...
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