
cubanmiamiboy
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Connection to/interest in ballet** (Please describe. Examples: fan, teacher, dancer, writer, avid balletgoer)
avid balletgoer, fan
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Miami Beach
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Florida
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Fairies and Fairy tales in Sleeping Beauty
cubanmiamiboy replied to Tom47's topic in Sleeping Beauty
I saw Vikharev's recon once. If I'm not mistaken I believe I remember seeing them. -
Liam Scarlett dead at 35
cubanmiamiboy replied to volcanohunter's topic in Ballet Obituaries and Memorials
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San Francisco Ballet and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
cubanmiamiboy replied to pherank's topic in San Francisco Ballet
It is not a secret than certain chains of hospitals, like the one I work now, don't hire new grads. There are others than do...but not that many. Usually a nurse starts in a nursing home or home health setting to eventually jump to a hospital. With a couple of years on one's back, at least management can guess the nurse has been at least in one code blue. All this, of course, if you depend only on your resume...and you don't have someone who gets you in-( as it was my case many years ago). In other words, and to link this with the ballet discussion. I hope that, if a quota starts in -
San Francisco Ballet and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
cubanmiamiboy replied to pherank's topic in San Francisco Ballet
Got a little lost here. Sorry, Helene.😆 Nursing is a black and white thing. Hospitals don't hire new grads. They don't want newbies in a code blue. So that's why I wonder if things are getting more....relaxed, now that there's pressure from all types of new diversity boards or diversity managers. As per ballet, well.... Swan Lake is not a code blue, and nobody's gonna die after seeing Misty and her 12 traveling fouettes. But hey....they definitely opened a whole Pandora's box. -
San Francisco Ballet and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
cubanmiamiboy replied to pherank's topic in San Francisco Ballet
And.... I'm both Latin and gay. And boy...would I hate if I would know that I'm part of that hiring quota and not because of my long nursing resume....🤨 But I guess I'll never know. How does the hiring part approaches that on your workplace...? After you tell the hired party that they are hired....do you tell them that they're part of a quota...? -
San Francisco Ballet and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
cubanmiamiboy replied to pherank's topic in San Francisco Ballet
I wonder if they would pull another Misty Copeland number. (And no...no need to get into a discussion about her....again. We all know all very well all the "in favor" or "against" theories that her controversial appointment as Principal generated) I am a nurse, and in my hospital there is a hiring quota for nurses. Certain amount of LGBT and certain amount of certain minorities are to be hired. I wonder if they can start doing that in ballet as well.... -
Liam Scarlett dead at 35
cubanmiamiboy replied to volcanohunter's topic in Ballet Obituaries and Memorials
What a disgrace. Nothing was proved and still he was cancelled and vilified. And now he killed himself. This is horrid. Bring on the acussers. Publicly. Ask them to publicly prove their case. Yes. Publicly because the vilifying and destruction of their lives and careers was public. So if there's no prove, that needs to be seen in public too. -
Liam Scarlett dead at 35
cubanmiamiboy replied to volcanohunter's topic in Ballet Obituaries and Memorials
It's Sunday. Get out there to brunch. 😉 -
Liam Scarlett dead at 35
cubanmiamiboy replied to volcanohunter's topic in Ballet Obituaries and Memorials
Who knows.... Let's luxuriate in Scarlet's White Sean pdd. -
Liam Scarlett dead at 35
cubanmiamiboy replied to volcanohunter's topic in Ballet Obituaries and Memorials
This are times to be tough. Generally speaking. Cancel culture and bullying are running wild and rampant. Allegations are being taken as proof, and people really have to have their heads well centered not to succumb. Just last night I was watching a prominent politician-( a certain Governor)- speak about it, and his demeanor stroke a note on me. I thought..."wow....I would be crawling in a corner....but look at this guy. So strong and unafraid". And just a few hours later, this.... What a shame. My deep condolences. I truly hate all this. It makes me want to vomit. -
Limon Dance Company
cubanmiamiboy replied to miliosr's topic in Modern, Contemporary, and Other Dance
"After a year's absence from performing in front of live audiences due to COVID-19, Dance NOW! Miami (DNM) returns to the stage on Saturday, April 3 at 8:30 pm, bringing their second program of the season to the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. One of the leading contemporary companies in Florida, they will perform the reconstruction of José Limón's iconic La Malinche, as part of their annual Masterpiece In Motion series, along with other works. La Malinche is the first piece Limón choreographed for his own company in 1947. It is based on the real life story of an indigenous Nahua wom -
Ballet within a ballet..?
cubanmiamiboy replied to cubanmiamiboy's topic in Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Funding Projects
But THAT'S the thing...it doesn't has to be necessarily the same composer! You see...I'm thinking more on the lines of what Petipa's ballerinas did, and many times with his own approval, which was to interpolate dances from other ballets....in many cases pieces that were good enough to survive on their own without the rest. Pieces that they knew had tested the balletomannes waters and would be safe tickets to new creations. -
Ballet within a ballet..?
cubanmiamiboy replied to cubanmiamiboy's topic in Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Funding Projects
Bingo! Like "La Mort du Cygne" on a 1 act ballet ! I mean, even if we love the piece as a gala item.... wouldn't it be more... exciting to see it as part of a larger work...? My point is that, given that the pieces are 1- Popular, for which they have survived as solos, and 2- that they are quite not much seen given their restricted frame of gala nights, they could be of better use!