troupe
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He wanted to give back and later became a teacher himself before creating the Ghetto Kids dance troupe - formed of homeless children and those who could not afford school fees.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Chip falls in with a troupe of street performers, evades the police, juggles along the Seine and eventually wanders into a smoky bar, where Penelope is strumming her guitar.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
An hour before the climb, I arrive at the Zimmerman Bandstand, where a troupe wearing Navy whites plays jaunty tunes.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
Graham developed her now-familiar modernist principles for working the torso and spine, known as “contraction” and “release,” with her troupe, all female at the time, between 1927 and 1928.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Members of Count Olaf’s theater troupe hurried this way and that, too busy to even glance at the children.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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In the past, he has performed with ballet troupes and choirs, or floated just above the heads of the crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
Until Friday, Amdjarass hosts dance troupes, musicians, traditional storytellers, craftspeople, cooks and nomadic camel drivers from across the vast region.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
Behind him, the production took care of everything else: the energetic dance troupes, sophisticated light and sound backdrops and a full-fledged backing orchestra.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
Immersive Invitational is a way, hopefully, to expose audiences to various troupes to expand their reach.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025
And then he told me that unfortunately he doesn't know any dance squads, dance groups, dance teams, dance troupes, or dance clubs.
From "Sunny" by Jason Reynolds
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So she did what came naturally to her: She trouped.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2016
We trouped down the stairs into a long, narrow, cavelike space burrowing into the hill, taken up almost entirely by a gleaming wood bar.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2015
Outfitted in caps and gowns, the singer Nellie McKay and her musicians trouped onto the stage of Feinstein’s at Loews Regency on Tuesday evening with mischievous smirks on their faces.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2012
Less than 24 hours later, into Victor's recording studio on Manhattan's East Twenty-Fourth Street trouped 16 musicians, followed by Bandleader Vaughn Monroe, in polo coat, grey flannel suit, sunburst tie.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As Sara and Anne and the two boys trouped down the path to the cleft in the cliffs, Mrs. Wellington nodded at Jack.
From Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by J. V. McFall
Not long now: The teams are out on the pitch, Sheffield United trouping out first, closely followed by Liverpool.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2020
That appeal has sent “Hamilton” trouping across the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2017
Katharine Cornell calls her "the best young actress I know," and Helen Hayes, who is trouping this season with APA, says that she is "the Joan of Arc of the old pros."
From Time Magazine Archive
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But there is much less entertainment these days in a France where only trained polar bears would find trouping comfortable.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Taking over the role of Da with only about 20 hours of rehearsal, says Keith, was "just a matter of trouping it."
From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Max Millard
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