Tag: ballet
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November 28, 2006 05:55 PM EST --
Over the weekend, I attended the winter recital at an excellent local ballet school. The performance was of a whimsical traditional piece called La Boutique Fantasque, about a toy shop that comes . . . more
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October 11, 2007 02:51 PM EDT --
It was the end of WW II and the rolling Russian troops had invaded Poland.
One group had chosen an isolated village in the South of Poland as their camp site for that night. One that would never be forgotten . . . more
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April 28, 2006 03:28 AM EDT --
They were Mr. and Mrs. Prude and son, Jonathan to me. They came into my life in 1956 when I was six, and we moved into a twelve room house in Merriewold Park in upstate New York.
Mr. Walter Prude, . . . more
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February 03, 2007 12:07 PM EST --
Draw me not
From the cocoon of my life
And make of me an omelet.
Rather,
Let my colors unfold
Glossy and wet,
And when I dry have me fly
Through the ether
Whole,
And flit as nature wills . . . . . . more
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September 20, 2007 09:51 PM EDT --
Well it looks like I am back in the movie seat again!! This week I was able to get passes for a free screening of THE GAME PLAN with Dwayne"the rock"Johnson. The theater was packed, they actually . . . more
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August 19, 2007 04:42 PM EDT --
BECKET, Mass. This town in the bucolic Berkshire Mountains is home to Jacob's Pillow, a dance complex whose signature attraction is a summer ballet festival that has endured now for seventy-five . . . more
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December 27, 2007 03:29 PM EST --
You know she's beside you dressed in black as she always is like some perpetual mourner. The silence that surrounds her is like a dark blanket that almost suffocates you with its heaviness. She pushes . . . more
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May 18, 2008 04:56 PM EDT --
BOSTON. The worlds of modern ballet and stock car racing have rarely, if ever, intersected, but there's always a first time, says Jimmy Ray Haggart, a mechanic at Mel's Auto Service in Tuscaloosa, . . . more
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June 30, 2008 03:06 PM EDT --
This film was made in 1951. It won the Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize.
It is a film production of the Jacques Offenbach's phantasmal opera of the same name. It is a color film . . . more
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May 21, 2008 07:35 AM EDT --
We, young and old, have all sat somewhere and enjoyed dancing. Perhaps in a village or perhaps in a grand hall. Wherever we see it, dancing is always a joy to watch.
The energetic jump or the stunning . . . more
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December 10, 2007 07:46 PM EST --
So I thought this local news story was pretty cool: an entire family of ballet!
There are two girls in my town, sisters aged 10 and 12, performing this year in Lincoln Center’s . . . more
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April 09, 2007 08:12 AM EDT --
Anybody who has waded in to the Gather offices to meet Mr. Tom Gerace and the Gather staff should have nothing but the highest praise to heap upon them, but as of this past week I have begun to suspect . . . more
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August 26, 2008 08:21 AM EDT --
Haley has been saying for years now that she wants to be a performer when she grows up - a ballerina and a singer. Most of you have probably seen some of her videos I've posted here on . . . more
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August 08, 2007 08:50 PM EDT --
So what comes after the dream? Can anything be as alluring?
The pursuit can be.
It can lead the dreamer beyond what could be and into what is.
But the pursuit can cause pain. . . . more
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August 10, 2007 07:24 PM EDT --
We’ve enjoyed the dream, explored the pursuit. What’s next? If we choose to move forward without abandoning the dream, what’s left?
The fulfillment.
Fulfillment . . . more
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October 05, 2007 11:37 PM EDT --
I just received this in my email.
<b>Hi Parent's and Student's,
It has been brought to our attention and we have noticed that there is some confusion in regards to ballet class attire. . . . more
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November 26, 2007 04:50 PM EST --
You may have read by now that the winner of the Miss Puerto Rico Universe pageant had to overcome a dash of pepper spray that an unknown competitor dumped in her evening gown.
Ingrid Marie Rivera: . . . more
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August 31, 2008 11:25 PM EDT --
Angela has been dancing over 7 years now, but this is the first time I actually took photos back stage. It's total organized chaos....
Angela in her musical theater costume.
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September 01, 2008 01:45 AM EDT --
Being backstage at a dance recital is different. I end up helping out, but I'm just not good at most of the stuff that needs to be done. After almost 8 years one would think I could put in a bun...NOPE, . . . more
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August 11, 2008 09:40 PM EDT --
"T he Bright Stream", a ballet by Dmitri Shostakovich set on a collective farm that featured dancers carrying 5-foot-long potatoes, was forced to close after a bad review by Josef . . . more
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