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Packing for London
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Today I’m heading to London with NYC Ballet for their engagement at the London Coliseum, March 12 through March 22. We’ll be documenting the first four days of the tour, uploading short videos as fast a we can, so that you’ll be able to follow us along in our journey. You’ll be able to find the videos on NYCB’s website, as well as on our YouTube channel.
I’m trying to make sure I have everything I need in terms of equipment and documents, cords and power converts. Probably means I’ll end up forgetting simple and important things… passport!
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Dance/USA this weekend + Congrats to Misnomer
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It was recently announced that Chris Elam and Misnomer Dance Theater succeeded in their quest for Ideablob’s $10K monthly giveaway! You can see more details on their idea here, but basically it sounds like they are looking to use the money to develop a web site with lots of new tools for dance companies to use in presenting and increasing access and awareness on the web.
From the IdeaBlob Press Release:
“Our goal is to create innovative ways to expand our fan base and at the same time bring dance to theater fans and supporters when they are not able to make it to the theater,” explained Elam. “Ideablob has proven to be a perfect, non-traditional way to get support for our non-traditional idea of promoting artists and their work.”
Congrats guys!
And on that note, I thought I’d let you know what I’ll be up to this weekend.
I am co-facilitating a workshop on online video for dance companies at Dance/USA’s Winter Forum. The Winter Forum’s focus this year is on marketing and the use of technology.
What makes this information relevant to this post is that my co-facilitators are Chris Elam and Jaki Levy from Misnomer Dance Theater. The conference officially starts tomorrow, although most people arrived in LA today (myself included) and there will be an introductory sort of get together tonight. Should be an interesting new experience.
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Art Basel
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KRISTIN SLOAN |
Doug and I popped down to Miami for the weekend to catch a bit of Art Basel.
Unfortunately though, I got sick again the week before we were supposed to go, so it’s been a really low-key trip. But I figured if I could make it through the flight, perhaps the warm air would help cure me better than the anti-biotics.
Saw some fun things at our brief stop at the convention center including a few dance related art pieces, some more successful than others, which I’ll post about when we get back.
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Travels thus far…
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DAVID HALLBERG |
As the City Center season winded down and ABT went on a week tour to Berkeley, CA, bringing some of the rep. that we did in NYC, the dancers then embarked on a four week lay off. My travels brought me all over the country, and then to Europe for a week of preparations for an upcoming debut.
The week in Berkeley was filled not only with performing repetoire that I enjoy very much, Ballo Della Regina and Benjamin Millepied’s From Here on Out, but also all the advantages that Northern California can bring. I had a wonderful meal at Chez Panisse, hailed as one of the best restaurants in the country, and soaked up some great art, the photography especially interesting, at San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA).
Outside my house, Camelback Mountain
With the tour finished and with the reason that I don’t get home to Phoenix as often as I would like, I spent a quick 48 hours being pampered by the ‘rents’ as only ‘rents’ could do. But most importantly, seeing my BEAUTIFUL GOLDENS, as I have shared with you in past enteries.
On to Minneapolis, where I spent another 48 hours gawking at the architecturally stunning Walker Art Center, newly redone by Herzog and De Meuron, the same architects that completed the refurbishment of the De Young Museum in San Fran, as Sloan pointed out on a recent visit. I had a much anticipated meeting with a very well respected artist that might possibly turn into a future project. We shall see…
The Opera House in Amsterdam
I only stopped over in New York, to do a little laundry and re pack my bags, to go onto Amsterdam for a week. Guillaume Graffin, a former Paris Opera trained and 17 year principal/ballet master with ABT, moved to Amsterdam 2 years ago and joined the Dutch National Ballet as ballet master. When he was working over at ABT, we formed a certain bond in the studio… he having coached me in my first full length ballet with the company, Swan Lake. I have always wanted to go over there and work with him, continuing my desire to learn from him as an artist, and I finally had the free time to do so. I am going to debut Giselle in the spring, with none other than Stella Abrera, GORGEOUS dancer with the company, dancing the lead. One of Guillaume’s great roles was Albrecht in Giselle, and I found the opportunity of him passing on his expertise to a fresh Albrecht something that I couldn’t pass up.
Guillaume in Giselle
The week was an intense one, mainly just talking about the character of Albrecht, and dissecting what to portray through out the story. Guillaume is such an intuitive artist, that I can only try and absorb what he tells me ‘he did’ or chose ‘not to do’ when he was dancing the role. It will take much more preparation for the actual debut but it was really nice to break the ice with someone I respect so much.
And that leads me here… back home, working on more preparations for the Met Season, and at my computer, finally with internet service and The WInger.
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From the side
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MIKI ORIHARA |
I don’t even remember where we were.
“El Penitente” sets by Isamu Noguchi. This is one of my favorite pieces to dance. I started to dance “El Penitente” when I was in the Ensemble. This is one of the pieces that I worked on with Yuriko and Martha, and it was a hard but wonderful experience.
(Here David Zurak as Christ figure changing behind the sail. and death cart on the floor)
(Tadej Brdnik is Penitent)
This is the “Applachian Spring” set viewed from down stage right. Another beautiful Isamu Noguchi set!!!
From the left, David Zurak as Husband Man, Maurizio Nardi as Preature, Four Followers are Jacqueline Elder, Atsuko Tonohata, Jackie Bulnes and Mariya Dashkina Maddux, Katherine Crocket as Pionerring Woman in the last prayer during Bride’s solo.
more to come…
