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January 11, 2008 at 4:31 pm · Filed under dance, photo shoot, dancewear, candice thompson, CANDICE, LOLAstretch
So it is now 2008 and time for the LOLAstretch 2008 calendar to make its appearance. I had a theme of sorts this year: Best Friends.
I am feeling a bit sentimental about all of my good friends that I have had thus far in my career and I wanted to dedicate it to them. In particular, Miss Dale Jordan who is my 2008 Cover Girl. I have been so lucky to have friends that have shown me this business of being a professional dancer and designer does not have to be competitive and cut-throat, but can instead be an environment where we challenge each other artistically and are there for each other emotionally.
OK enough of the sappy, here is the fun stuff, the outtakes you won’t see in the calendar, that I am going to try to use to tell the tale of two little girls grown up (sort of):
Dale and I back in 2000 at the crack of dawn, or at least it looks like it:-), on our way to Marshfield, WI for our first tour with MBII. The beginning.
Cut to 2008. Dale is in NY on break from Milwaukee Ballet, where she returned the year I left, after dancing with Eugene Ballet and Sarasota Ballet. We are getting ready for said photoshoot, going over some makeup ideas.
I think her look says it all. Candice is up to her antics again. Here we go.
But she obliges me and punches at the air in good humor. Trust is key–she knows I have silly ideas and I know she will look good executing them!
And I can’t help but love her sense of adventure. This photo shows Dale sliding down a curved wall in an attempt to oblige me yet again and I am trying to help, but we can’t stop laughing.
Slowly getting to a more reasonable shot. I am in the way again.
Friends don’t let friends have wedgies when they are balancing precariously on a stool.
Makeup round two. Part of this shoot was to showcase a new line of glitter makeup that will be available on my site! It was brought to my attention by a new friend…
Mr. Ian Grosh, this one’s for you!
I think we were laughing almost the entire time.
Special thanks to Mr. Steven Schreiber for putting up with us girls and capturing so beautifully the images of our playdate. Thanks also to Purespace (the lovely and modern site of this shoot), Frank Bevan, Dale Jordan and all of my friends who helped make this happen or who just inspire me daily with their being.
Happy New Year!
XO
Candice
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May 16, 2007 at 1:48 pm · Filed under ballet, gala, american ballet theater, dancewear, abt, performance, david hallberg, ballerina, miki orihara, MIKI
Posted by Miki Orihara
On May 14th, Monday was the Opening Gala for American Ballet Theater for this season.
Started at 6:30 PM, it is a bit early for the performance but think about the Gala Party after tha , I understand. They want to drink, eat and dance. but it is still Monday…
Curtain opens!!!
Started with the white, illusion of La Bayadère Act II excerpts.
The Sleeping Beauty excerpts:Lilac Fairy Variation by Michele Wiles, Rose Adagio by Veronika Part and 4 men, Aurora Variation by Diana Vishneva, Grand Pas de Deux by Irina Dvorovenko and Mixim Beloserkovsky
Lady’s Choice by Stella Abrera and Sascha Radetsy accompanied by Lang Lang
Piece d’OccasionLang Lang
Romeo & Juliet Balcony Pas de Duex by Xiomara Reyes and Herman Cornejo
Othello Act III Pas de Duex by Alessandra Ferri and Marcelo Gomes
Swan Lake Act III(Black Swan) Pas de Duex by Nina Ananiashvili and Angel Corella
Manon Act I Pas de Duex by Julie Kent and Jose Manuel Carreño
La Bayadère Act I excerpts, temple Pas de Duex by Paloma Herrera and David Hallberg, Gamzatti Pas d’action Variation and Coda by Gillian Murphy, and Solor Pas D’Action Variation by Ethan Stiefel
This is the curtain call in the end.
I really enjoyed the whole evening. Lang Lang played beautifully. His fingers are like a snake on the keys. Cornejo is now mature, dancing beautifully. Gomes’s Othello was nice with mascular presence. “Black Swan” Pas de Duex was exciting. I was sorry about Stiefel’s knee, I hear he has some problems but did not show. And Murphy’s strong technique showed ‘you can trust your technique and forget about technique’ that she nailed all of it.
I attended this year’s Yourth America Grand Prix’s Gala in which I felt all the eyes are on how much you can show (how much you can jump, turn, get your leg up… and so on except for a few dances.) And to see this ABT gala, it was mature and no nervousness or worry. I think I will go next year’s gala too.
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January 5, 2007 at 10:09 pm · Filed under SLOAN, dancewear, discount, recommendation, gear, yumiko
Posted by Sloan
Our friends over at Yumiko (the fantastic dancewear brand started by Yumiko Takeshima who is now dancing with the Dresden Semper Oper) are offering a 15% discount on some of their velvet pieces…
So if it actually happens to be cold where you live (it’s suppsoed to be 68 F tomorrow here in NYC!), it might be nice to cozy up with a new longsleeve velvet leotard, as weird as that may sound.
For the record, I think Yumi’s leotards probably make up at least 60% of all of NYCB dancers’ leotard collections and have even been used for costumes! Good stuff.
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September 12, 2006 at 11:14 pm · Filed under costumes, designers, DAVID, dancewear, gig, japan
| | Posted by David
Another set of costumes, this time designed by Peter Farmer, a Brit that does a lot of Royal Ballet productions back in London.
Les Sylphides is on the right and Paquita on the left.
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July 24, 2006 at 9:41 am · Filed under SLOAN, ballet, dance, dougie, me, resources, DAVID, manhattan, dancewear, teaching
| | Posted by Sloan
I’ll be leaving Tuesday night to teach a summer intensive in Savannah, Georgia.
So… yesterday we took a trip up to the Capezio store at Times Square to purchase some teaching shoes.
Normally, I’d love to be able to teach in pointe shoes (or at least flat shoes), but because of my injury I’m going to try dance sneakers as a way of slowing me down and preventing me from trying to do too much! I never thought I’d have a use for these, and they sure do feel funny, so needless to say it took me some time to decide which ones would be suitable.
(sorry dougie!)
Dance gear palace…
Uhoh - so many choices.
Checking them out.
Here we go.
Patient dougie… I actually ended up getting the first shoes he picked out!
Hmmm. These feel so weird.
Hi David!
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June 30, 2006 at 12:14 pm · Filed under SLOAN, ballet, dance, designers, training, dancewear
| | Posted by Sloan
Stella McCartney’s clothes for Adidas are so fantastic. They’re even great as dancewear. She uses lots of mesh and breathable fabrics, and the seams flow along the lines of the body. It’s so well designed. I picked some stuff up in a little splurge the other day and I love it!
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