pherank Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 (edited) Proving that the extended down time has its uses(!) - Jennifer Stahl is now the proud mother of a baby daughter, River Stella Weitz: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJFW6erAKRg/https://www.instagram.com/p/CIezb9PAigb/ Congratulations to Jen and Eric. Edited January 9 by pherank Link to comment
pherank Posted January 10 Author Share Posted January 10 Madison Keesler sings (she doesn't credit the guitarist in the posting): https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ146X-HG4Q/ Link to comment
pherank Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 17 hours ago, Josette said: Interesting lyrics 😉 Link to comment
pherank Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 I just liked the photo (Joe Walsh and SVP) Link to comment
pherank Posted January 26 Author Share Posted January 26 Sasha De Sola informs McKenna Ulbrick that she will be De Sola's latest "mentee" in the Pointe People mentorship program: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKg-mWIDbMN/ As luck would have it, Ulbrick is currently an SFB school student - so closer to home. De Sola's first mentee lived in Guatemala. Link to comment
pherank Posted January 29 Author Share Posted January 29 For anyone interested in seeing more of Nikisha Fogo - here she is with the Vienna State Ballet in Manuel Legris' Sylvia... [If needed, choose English as language to use on the interface]https://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/ Then register with the websitehttps://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/register Sylvia ballet loginhttps://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/c7bf158f-63f4-4a03-8dce-bd9ab1b2045f Link to comment
pherank Posted February 5 Author Share Posted February 5 (edited) SF Ballet School Auditions Students Virtually for the 2021 Summer Session "This year, auditioning students had two options: participate in a live ballet class audition over Zoom, or send in a recorded video. The School offered 16 Zoom auditions and had just over 700 students attend. Another 100 students have submitted recorded videos—and all are vying for 120 spots in the School’s summer session." https://www.sfballet.org/taking-the-audition-tour-on-the-digital-road/ Edited February 5 by pherank Link to comment
pherank Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 Kimberly Marie Olivier talks about diversification in the ballet world - Exploring ballet: Ballerina’s journey toward diversifying the art form https://www.kron4.com/hidden-history/black-history-month/exploring-ballet-ballerinas-journey-toward-diversifying-the-art-form/ Related: SF Ballet’s 2021 Visiting Scholar, Nyama McCarthy-Brown, PhD, presents her research, Skin Colored Pointes: Women of Color in Ballet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-eIPucKlag Link to comment
pherank Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 Today's sobering e-mail from SFB: Dear SF Ballet Advocates, As many news outlets have recently reported, the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community has been targeted in a growing number of racially motivated attacks. On Friday, February 26, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would investigate the rising tide of hate crimes against Asian Americans. In addition, members of our SF Ballet community have experienced a range of hate activity as part of their everyday activities that is disturbing and unacceptable. We stand in solidarity with our AAPI community. We join others within the arts community in sharing the following resources and inviting you to become an advocate for stopping hate wherever and whenever it occurs in our community.GET THE WORD OUT We realize that this is just one step in developing our will and commitment to showing up as authentic partners for all our communities, throughout and beyond crises. Below, we have offered some resources to share. Connect with the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (@cccsanfrancisco) for resources to support Chinatown. Visit http://StopAPPIHate.org for more on how to stay informed, act, and stand together to show up for the Asian and Asian American Pacific Islander community. Sign up to volunteer to escort AAPI elders in Oakland here. If you know of anyone who has been affected by hate violence, urge them to report it here. A useful toolkit is available from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. Elevate anti-hate solidarity by using these hash-tags on social media: #StopAAPIHate #ArtAndActivism #HonorAllOurElders Link to comment
pherank Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 Some bad news: Sasha Mukhamedov is recovering from surgery for a torn ACL. https://www.instagram.com/p/CMc-RXbg9I9/ Link to comment
pherank Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 (edited) This is neat: Tiit Helimets partnering demonstration with Misa Kuranaga - https://www.instagram.com/p/CMk8IOnnc8f/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CMnbwWRHDA4/ Edited March 20 by pherank Link to comment
pherank Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 YYT working on the same movement as above with Tiit Helimets: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMv6sLNhSBb/ Link to comment
pherank Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 I found out about this rather late - Conversations on Dance talk with Mind Luke, Principal Guest Conductor at SFB and now the Principal Conductor of the Nashville Ballet: https://conversationsondancepod.com/2020/09/25/ming-luke/ It's quite interesting to hear about ballet from the conductor's point of view. Link to comment
pherank Posted March 31 Author Share Posted March 31 (edited) Some great photos of Julien MacKay and Nikisha Fogo taken by Julien's brother Nicholas: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNDZGdNrHgw/ Edited March 31 by pherank Link to comment
pherank Posted March 31 Author Share Posted March 31 (edited) SFB has posted a short class excerpt on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/530923083/9018e4d1f7 It's more Ricardo Bustamante than class 😉 but it's still fun to see the dancers moving around together in the same room. And SFB is raising funds as they "reinvent for the digital world". https://give.sfballet.org/campaign/reinvention/c301306 Edited March 31 by pherank Link to comment
pherank Posted April 1 Author Share Posted April 1 More (seemingly effortless) partnering techniques with Tiit Helimets and Misa Kuranaga: https://www.instagram.com/p/CND6DoMHOUi/ Link to comment
pherank Posted April 9 Author Share Posted April 9 Mathilde Froustey is pregnant. After a few miscarriages (reported by Mathilde on IG), this pregnancy seems to be A-OK. Congratulations! https://www.instagram.com/p/CNYD6hzBvPM/ Link to comment
PeggyTulle Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 2 hours ago, pherank said: Mathilde Froustey is pregnant. After a few miscarriages (reported by Mathilde on IG), this pregnancy seems to be A-OK. Congratulations! https://www.instagram.com/p/CNYD6hzBvPM/ Such wonderful news! Link to comment
Phrenchphry11 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 On 4/8/2021 at 7:21 PM, pherank said: Mathilde Froustey is pregnant. After a few miscarriages (reported by Mathilde on IG), this pregnancy seems to be A-OK. Congratulations! https://www.instagram.com/p/CNYD6hzBvPM/ Wow, I'm so happy for her! I remember a few months back she linked to a podcast she gave about struggling with infertility. It was so heartbreaking to hear how she really felt she gave up so much to dance, so I'm glad she was able to get pregnant after what seemed like many many ups and downs. Link to comment
pherank Posted April 20 Author Share Posted April 20 (edited) On a less happy note... dancers at SFB have reacted to the death of Liam Scarlett with some nice tributes: Madison Keeslerhttps://www.instagram.com/p/CNxhQqVA0e3/ Misa Kuranagahttps://www.instagram.com/p/CN0zX23nyzR/ Joseph Walshhttps://www.instagram.com/p/CN0bsirAALc/ Ellen Rose Hummelhttps://www.instagram.com/p/CN5Lr1vgOOh/ Frances Chunghttps://www.instagram.com/p/CN_5TYtA8fK/ Helgi Tomasson:https://www.instagram.com/p/CNxw0zQrwh8/ I'm including these comments and photos "for the record". Any discussion of Mr. Scarlett really should go here, please. Edited April 23 by pherank Link to comment
pherank Posted April 23 Author Share Posted April 23 (edited) A thank you from the SFB organization: "San Francisco Ballet is grateful to our elected officials and civic organizations for remembering that the arts and artists matter. Because of your advocacy and legislation, we’ve been able to safely create and keep our audiences engaged. Thank you!" Various staff participate in the video, talking about how things have gone over the past year.https://www.instagram.com/p/CN8XROGh4Jn/ Edited April 23 by pherank Link to comment
Jane Simpson Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 Ulrik Birkjaer leads a group of SFB dancers for a short visit to Copenhagen in September - details and programme here Link to comment
pherank Posted April 23 Author Share Posted April 23 (edited) 8 hours ago, Jane Simpson said: Ulrik Birkjaer leads a group of SFB dancers for a short visit to Copenhagen in September - details and programme here Great find, Jane Simpson. The loose translation: "Join us on a journey through the history of ballet, when eleven solo dancers from the San Francisco Ballet unfold great dramas and intimate moments across three centuries. København Danser (Copenhagen Dancer) has put together a sumptuous program that includes both the ballet's major highlights and completely new works created on the occasion of the festival. Audiences will feel the buzz of history in the excerpt of Le Corsaire pas de deux, created by the founder of the Russian ballet Marius Petipa more than two hundred years ago. They will experience how significant choreographers like George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins in the 1960s and 1970s renewed the ballet genre with masterpieces like Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and In the Night. In addition, three brand new works will have a world premiere when the young choreographers present their bid for the ballet in 2021. Based on their own experiences as a woman, POC (Person of color) and LGBT activist, respectively, the three choreographers Danielle Rowe, Babatunji Johnson [LINES Ballet] and Myles Thatcher have created their personal works on equality and diversity. It is unusual for these kinds of narratives to be conveyed on stage because the most popular ballets were created many years ago where other ideals and norms were governing. But with great respect for the ballet's tradition, the solo dancers from the San Francisco Ballet will give the audience a taste of how modern ballet is on its way. The San Francisco Ballet is among the best companies in the world, and Copenhagen Dancer artistic director Ulrik Birkkjær is a principal dancer with the American company in his everyday life. Look forward to seeing him and his colleagues on stage accompanied by live music from the acclaimed ensemble Trio Vitruvi." [The Johnson, Rowe and Thatcher premieres are as yet unnamed. Note that Sebastian Kloborg, Maria Kochetkova's partner, is one of the artistic advisors of this festival.] We could probably figure out who some of the dancers will be. Le Corsaire PDD has got to be Kuranaga and Greco. The website is showing images of Sofiane Sylve which is really interesting. Technically no longer a company member, but, If Sofiane is taking part then she may be dancing in Forsythe's In the Middle and Robbins' In the Night. Thatcher tends to create on De Sola, so she's a possibility. I could see Frances Chung and Birkkjaer together in Tchai Pas. Tiit Helimets partnering Sofiane? (if she's actually participating) Certain dancers have a real reason to return to Europe - to visit family and old friends. So I wonder if that will have something to do with the casting. The new works are presumably group numbers. Or perhaps more PDD/TDD oriented to keep things simple? Edited April 23 by pherank Link to comment
PeggyTulle Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Kimberly Olivier confirmed on IG yesterday that she decided not to sign her contract for the coming year. She doesn't know what she'll be doing yet, but she wants to grow. https://instagram.com/stories/mulattaballerina/2578834737128836142?utm_medium=share_sheet https://www.instagram.com/p/CPJ--OYAWgo/?utm_medium=copy_link Kimberly also posted a story of Jahna's final bow. https://instagram.com/stories/mulattaballerina/2578854125945112185?utm_medium=share_sheet Link to comment
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