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Alvin Ailey's Dancers in Paris

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The dance company that was part of a civil rights movement - the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - opens its summer season in Paris to standing ovations. Also on the programme, the Soweto string orchestra wows audiences and the baroque composer Handel takes over the corridors and gardens of Versailles.

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