The girl will be dancing as the Gold Fairy in Laurel Ballet's Sleeping Beauty tonight at 7.

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“If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix It” Cogsworth Broadway Supercut

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More rehearsing. More dancing.

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Updated a “Gender Neutral Language” handout

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Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

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The Language of Gender Violence

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Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense

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I had a singular time voicing Sherlock Holmes in The Mystery of Dr. Watson (WAOB Audio Theatre)

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