Chazz Busby’s Ballet Academy
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KRISTIN SLOAN |
Ha!
From the Simpsons… and Hulu.
Box-O-Memories
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NOELANI |
As I pack up all of my dance memorabilia, I see what eleven years looks like!
I found some things from before I became a professional dancer that I thought you would appreciate. The first is this picture I found of me when I was 10. This was taken at my very first ballet school, Ballet New England. My father was in the military when I was younger, and we moved every two years. As you can imagine, I wasn’t able to stay commited to after school activities, but I tried anything from soccer to gymanstics. I was in and out of ballet twice in New Hampshire, and the third time it finally stuck! A year after this was taken, my family moved once more to Pennsylvania, where I began training at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet.
This next picture is actually my first publicity in Seattle. The date on the article is August 14, 1996. I was a ripe 16 years old! All I remember is being really nervous about the interview. I froze up & didn’t know what to say, and that’s pretty evident in the article 
I think I gave them one sentence to work with - ha!
Hope you enjoyed! I’ll be posting again soon!!
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Paris Opera/Four T’s/NY Times
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DAVID HALLBERG |
A review and an interesting slide show caught my eye this morning in the Times.
To read the review click HERE
To see the complete slide show click HERE
Wilfred Romoli danced his farewell in Phlegmatic, which I had the opportunity to dance a month ago. (note the beauties with him in the first photo)
Also, my dear friend, Isabelle Ciaravola, in the lead of Raymonda. A beauty herself!
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Got Gaga?
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DEBORAH FRIEDES |
Due to popular demand . . .
Since I’ve been posting about my experiences with Gaga, I have gotten a few questions about where people can take classes. Here’s some answers:
First, there is a Gaga intensive going on this summer in Tel Aviv, Israel. Above is the advertisement, and for more information, you can contact Reut directly at the e-mail listed there.
Not in Israel or not able to come here? There are going to be a few summer Gaga and repertory intensives in the U.S. Ariel Freedman, an American who has been dancing with the Batsheva Ensemble, will be teaching from July 14-26 at the Baryshnikov Art Center in New York. The classes are already full, but there may be a wait list. To learn more about this workshop, go to this link: http://www.baryshnikovdancefoundation.org/schedules_gaga.html
If you’re on the West Coast, Bobbi Smith - another American who has been dancing with the Ensemble - will be teaching at an intensive held by the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. You can check out this program at the following link: http://www.sfconservatoryofdance.org/intensives/index.htm
Enjoy! If anyone takes either of these workshops, I’d love to hear about it!
I still browse the New York Times arts page every morning, and I saw that Cedar Lake performed Ohad Naharin’s Decadance as part of the Joyce Theater’s 25th anniversary festivities; did anyone in NYC make it to the concert? Back here in Israel, the Batsheva company is *very* busy. In the next month and a half, I’ll be seeing Naharin’s MAX and Shalosh (Three), Sharon Eyal’s Makarova Kabisa (a new work which premiered earlier this year), and Furo, a collaboration between Naharin and the Japanese animation artist Tabaimo which will be at Tel Aviv’s port over the course of a few weeks. Plus there are plenty of concerts by other companies which I’m planning to attend, as well as end-of-year performances at arts high schools and academies. Spring is busy here!
Meanwhile, I’m off to join in festivities for Israel’s 60th birthday. There’s supposed to be some folk dancing near the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, so perhaps I’ll get to experience a different kind of Israeli dance . . .
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On my way to work…Guggenheim Edition
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DAVID HALLBERG |
As of lately, New York is having the spring days its famous for. Total Euphoria.
This weekend I participated in a lecture at the Guggenheim titled ‘Preserving the Classics’, which acted as a preview to the upcoming Met season. Being that my apartment is across the Central Park from the museum, I decided to walk there, basking in the day. Here is a step by step visual of my “walk to work”.
Near the West Side of the Park, around 72nd st. and Strawberry Fields.
The famed Fountain of Bethesda. You can see the apartment buildings popping up on outskirts of the park.
Approaching the East Side, around 77th St.. This is the Hans Christian Andersen statue that kids adore playing on!
The Conservatory Water, where people sail their motorized boats, hence ‘Stuart Little’. On top of the building in the middle lives the famed Pale Male and Lola.
Alice in Wonderland
As I was approaching the Met Museum, I realized I was walking by the arrivals of the Costume Institute Gala. Which is praised as the best party in New York. Hosted by Anna Wintour and Vouge, every actress and designer attends this gala. Read more about it HERE
The chaos that is a red carpet
And finally at the Guggenheim, under going renovations which makes it looks like the Globe Theatre in London.
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CELLspace
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MEGAN KURASHIGE |
Hello!
This past weekend I jumped into rehearsal for a dance theater piece by Jacques Poulin-Denis. But wait, you say. Aren’t you still gimpy? Why yes I am, thank you very much. I don’t have to do anything too strenuous though, just a bit of improvisation on the themes of sleep, dreams, and discomfort. It’s fun and something different.
We worked at CELLspace, which is this really interesting performance/work space in the Mission. It’s a big warehouse-type building with little self-contained rooms that serve as artists’ studios, and a large, open area for performing artists. It was founded as an artists’ collective, so there are all these quirky touches.
I like the lobby. It has white walls and stuck to all of them are these small, white squares of paper with line drawings on them. The squares are neatly lined up, edge to edge, so that when you look at them all together, they look like one big map.
CELLspace is very close to Theater Artaud where we performed for WestWave, but I never knew it existed. I love discovering new places like this in the city. It’s such a treat to meet a different group of artists and to see how they work.
In other news, I can jump now! Tiny, tiny jumps, but still… Jumps in first position were never so exciting!
