Dance companies have known for a long time that digital streaming would have to be part of their artistic package. Yet Covid-19 has certainly accelerated that agenda. With theatres closed for most of
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LAUSANNE (Reuters) - In a normal year, the dozens of teenaged ballet dancers eyeing the prestigious Prix de Lausanne award would leap in from all across the world to the Swiss city to compete beneath the bright lights of the theatre.
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With COVID-19 restrictions, dancers are showing pre-recorded routines on a flat screen instead, before socially distanced judges in a hotel ballroom, with no live audience.
Donning black masks, the nine judges scribble notes on desks as they watch Maia Rose Roberts, 16, from Britain go through a ballet class on her own.
Nicolas Le Riche, a former Paris Opera Ballet etoile, or principal dancer, saw no major difference from judging live performances and said he felt moved at “discovering the dancers through the screen.”
Prosecutors can t use some statements from DCFS workers in AJ Freund case Former Illinois Department of Children and Family Services supervisor Andrew Polovin, front, leaves court Wednesday after a hearing in Judge Robert Wilbrandt s courtroom in Woodstock. Polovin supervised DCFS caseworker Carlos Acosta, who was assigned to a 20189 DCFS investigation involving AJ Freund s family. Both men face reckless conduct and child endangerment charges in connection with that investigation. Matthew Apgar/Shaw Media
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Certain statements made by two former child welfare workers charged after the 2019 death of Crystal Lake boy AJ Freund cannot be used in the men s criminal prosecutions, according to the Illinois attorney general s office.
Certain child welfare statements ruled out in AJ Freund case
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Carlos Acosta (left) and Andrew Polovin | McHenry County sheriff’s office
WOODSTOCK, Ill., - Certain statements made by two former child welfare workers who investigated abuse allegations involving a 5-year-old boy who was later
beaten to death cannot be used in their criminal prosecutions, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office said.
Before their interviews for an inspector general’s investigation, Andrew Polovin and Carlos Acosta were informed that their statements could not be used against them, Assistant Attorney General Michelle Camp said in a Jan. 7 court filing,