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November 17, 2007 at 5:33 pm · Filed under dance, CARLA, seattle, apparel, design, carla korbes, modetta perfromance gear, tony lavilla, activewear, pafci northwest ballet, chalnessa eames
Hello Wingers!
I would like to share with all of you this great sports clothing company, MPG, Mondetta Performance Gear from the Canadian clothing company, Mondetta!! Here at the Pacific Northwest Ballet we are lucky to have direct contact with MPG’s clothes and development because one of our soloists, Chalnessa Eames, is married to one of the principals and the CEO of MPG. Chalnessa has shared with us dancers her husband’s passion in creating fashionable and at the same time comfortable clothing for all types of people with an active lifestyle, and of course for us dancers.
MPG’s clothes are great for ballet or doing errands around the city. All the pants are flexible and fit nicely on the body and the best part of all they always look great. Their shirts and jackets are perfect because they keep you warm in class and in rehearsal but they are breathable so you never feel too hot or the opposite, wet and cold. As well as using many of the dancers as models, MPG has created a SOUL card program, which gives a discount to athletes and professionals that embody the dedication, drive, and passion that the creators at MPG respect. If you are a dancer or a professional athlete check your mail boxes to see if you have received your SOUL card. If you didn’t get one, contact Tony Lavilla, Brand director of MPG, and he will get you one. His e-mail is: tony@mondetta.com . You guys can also check their clothes at their website: http://www.mpgsport.com/
But wait, I still have more to tell you about MPG. To add to their incredible clothes, MPG is also reaching out to help the world. This feels very important to me and I want to make sure people are aware about their efforts. The more people that reach out for others the better our world can become. Here is some information, from Tony Lavilla, about how MPG is helping many families in Africa.
GIVES BACK PROGRAM
MONDETTA CHARITY FOUNDATION
At MPG, we believe going forward includes giving back.
From our beginning, we have dedicated 1% of gross sales to the
Mondetta Charity Foundation (MCF), a completely separate entity from
the Mondetta Clothing Company. The MCF was established to provide
assistance to ease some of the suffering in Africa due to devastating
problems such as AIDS and the ravages of poverty.
Four principals of the Mondetta Clothing Company were born in Uganda
and Kenya and have deep-seated emotional ties and a strong allegiance to the African Continent. While the problem of AIDS remains enormous,
MCF aims to tackle the hardships of life in these regions by taking
action where it counts, and push toward the vision of a better,
healthier future for those nations.
Tony Lavilla, Brand Director
Bravo to them!! Here is what our dancers are saying about MPG:
“I can stretch, keep warm and show clean lines. MPG has brought fashion into
performance.” Chalnessa Eames
“MPG is so multi-use, so fashionable you wouldn’t expect it to be
comfortable too.” Rachel Foster
“Knowing the background of the company, I love that MPG is created by
people who are passionate about creating high quality clothes and
giving back to their community at the same time.” Kaori Nakamura
“Up until now, you couldn’t move in beautiful clothes. That’s no
longer true with MPG. I feel comfortable, totally at ease, and I look
amazing. MPG is going where no one else has gone.” Olivier Wevers
Hope you guys enjoy MPG as much as we at PNB (dancers, ballets masters, employees, all our significant others) are enjoying it!!!
Chalnessa Eames
Casey Herd
Kaori Nakamura
Peter Boal teaching class. Sorry about the blurry picture, I didn’t want to disturb class too much and one try to get the picture is all could do!!!
Ben Griffiths posing to show off his MPG shirt before class. Jordan and Seth are also at the barre wearing MPG.
Kaori Nakamura watching rehearsal.
Recent Posts by carla korbes
July 25, 2007 at 6:40 am · Filed under dance, travel, CARLA, pacific northwest ballet, vail, morphoses, photography, festival, angela sterling, damian woetzel, chirstopher wheeldon, gigs, pnb
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 2007 Summer Vacation was definitely a quick one! We got back 2 ½ weeks ago to get ready for our tour to Vail, Colorado, where we will be performing at the 2007 VAIL INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL. Damian Woetzel was named the new artistic director for the festival and we are very honored to be invited to perform during his first Festival. PNB will perform three shows, July 29th and 30th and August 1st. We are bringing incredible ballets to Vail, from Balanchine to Nacho Duato to William Forsythe to Twyla Tharp. These performances should be very exciting.
Additionally to these shows I will also be dancing on August 3rd and 4th at the International Evenings of Dance, an evening Damian organized that will show stars from the Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey, Pacific Northwest Ballet and many others. Bold and I will dance a Pas de Deux from Rassemblement, a Nacho Duato piece, and Balanchine’s Diamonds.
And I will also be dancing on a very exciting night. The premiere of Morphoses, Christopher Wheeldon’s new company. The performance will be on August 10th, and a preview on the 8th. I am so excited to be able to dance Polyphonia with his new company. Thank you Chris for inviting me to be part of this special evening.
And if all this preparation wasn’t enough I had some time to do a photo shoot with Angela Sterling this past weekend. Angela and I had a great time together. Angela was shooting for a promotional shoot for PNB. I think I have given the winger readers her link before, but for the ones that haven’t got a chance to see her work you can go to www.angelasterlingphoto.com to check out her amazing photos.
Hope some of you can make it to Vail. It is going to be a very exciting festival.
Packing up our costumes, shoes, thights, headpieces…….
PNB’s programs in Vail.
Angela Sterling doing her magic!
Recent Posts by carla korbes
June 15, 2007 at 5:14 pm · Filed under dance, CARLA, photographers, wingers, peter boal, swan lake, casey herd, irvine, ben majors, susan kim, festival ballet theater, salwa rizkalla, sayat astryan, dave friedman
About a month ago Casey Herd and I were invited to dance Swan Lake in Irving, CA. As some of you might recall Susan posted one picture she took in the wings during our first performance.
So yesterday I received some pictures from Ben Majors. Ben is a dancer and he, like so many of us, is recovering from a serious injury. So to keep himself busy and working he has decided to share with the world his other talent: taking photographs of dancers. Well his pictures are beautiful and by seeing them yesterday I got to relive my experience in California. This trip was special to me in so many ways.
In February Casey and I premiered in Swan Lake together. Dancing this ballet for the first time was for me more that just a physical challenge. It was also a spiritual and mental challenge. Since moving to Seattle I have discovered this dancer that had been tied up inside me for a couple of years. I have had the opportunity to dance all these roles that I had no idea I was capable of dancing anymore. And Swan Lake is just one of the ballets that have awakened this incredible strength and artistry in me. After a rigorous preparation and hours in the studio rehearsing with my Elaine Bauer and Peter Boal, Casey and I only got to perform the ballet two times. So coming to Irving to dance Odette/Odile with Festival Ballet Theater was a big gift to me. I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to recreate what we had created back in February.
Another great thing about the trip was the people I met in Irving. Salwa Rizkalla founded Southland Ballet Academy in 1983 and in 1988 she started Festival Ballet Theater, a company where the dancers can inspire people and also be inspired by the many internationally known artists that Salwa brings to perform with them. Salwa was a great person to work with and we both felt very welcomed by her and her dancers. We also met Sayat Astryan, the most creative do it all person I have ever met!! And Ben, of course. And Dave Friedman, the company’s photographer and he is also a race car photographer. And it is always a pleasure meeting all the dancers and the people that come watch the shows.
Last but definitely not least. A beautiful part about the Winger family is that we artists get to learn about each other and eventually even meet each other. To be able to go to Irving, a place I have never been before, and have someone like Susan calling me wanting to meet with me felt welcoming and exciting. I absolutely loved meeting her. Even with the small amount of time I got to spend with her I could see that she is everything she appears to be at the Winger. Generous, passionate and always willing to help the dance world. I hope I can continue meeting my winger friends and also the people that so passionately read our posts every day.
I am glad I get to share these pictures with you and a little bit of my experience of dancing Swan Lake and being in this world.
Recent Posts by carla korbes
April 3, 2007 at 12:24 am · Filed under CARLA, pacific northwest ballet, seattle, SANDI, camelot, mark morris, peter boal, paul gibson, seattle festival
Hi winger readers. Like so many other contributors of the Winger, I too have my excuses for my lack of contributions to our favorite website! But I do want to share more of what has been happening in my life, which is a lot. So here is a start.
Sandi, as you know, is in Seattle performing Camelot. So we got to meet each other on Friday. Sandi came to an open rehearsal at PNB to watch the final rehearsals for Pacific, a Mark Morris premiere for PNB, and a piece called Sense of Doubt, choreographed by Paul Gibson.
Thursday is the opening night for “The Seattle Festival“. Peter Boal organized this incredible festival where we are performing two weeks of Carmina Burana and Pacific and one week of three different programs with choreographers from the Northwest.
So that is what I am doing right now. But I do need to catch you up on some of the incredible things that have happened to me in the past three months. So please stay tuned for some really cool pictures that I will be posting very soon!
Recent Posts by kristin sloan
March 31, 2007 at 12:36 am · Filed under tour, CARLA, pacific northwest ballet, seattle, SANDI, wingers, visit
Visiting PNB to see Carla rehearse! So excited.
Recent Posts by sandi degeorge
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