Elton John goes to the dance with Alberta Ballet

The singer-songwriter taps the troupe, now on tour with a Joni Mitchell piece, to make a ballet about him. 'Love Lies Bleeding' opens May 6. Twenty toned and lithe dancers shook their hips in exaggerated movements, pounding Dodger blue baseball bats into the ballet studio floor in time to the staccato beats of Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets." "You're giving me hips, but you're giving me ballet hips. I w...

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