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The year in arts

In 2011, Boston audiences saw a wealth of dance

Solid repertoires, wealth of variety

By Jeffrey Gantz

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  December 25, 2011

This wasn’t a watershed year for dance in Boston. No star choreographers emerged here in 2011. No outstanding new troupes formed. No internationally renowned ballet companies visited. And yet it was an almost unimaginably rich year for dance in Boston. From Savion Glover to George Balanchine, we saw every kind of hoofing imaginable. Dance companies came from South Korea, from China, from Spain, from Switzerland, from Cuba, from Brazil - and the home folks weren’t just sitting back and watching.

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