dirac Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 A profile of Berkeley ballet teacher Vala Bovie. Quote But what Guy and his family learned in 2019, 26 years after Vala Bovie’s death, came out of the blue. In her 2019 memoir, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, Kamala Harris recalled how a few French phrases had been drilled into her as a young girl by her ballet instructor. Later, when Harris enrolled at a mostly French-speaking high school in Montreal, the words of Guy’s mother made up the entirety of the future vice president’s vocabulary. Link to comment
dirac Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 A review of Complexions Contemporary Ballet by Victoria Looseleaf for Fjord Review. Quote Can we talk power, technique, style and, well, terpsichorean oomph? We can, as the troupe served up the West Coast premiere of “Snatched Back From the Edges” (2021) and the eternal crowd-pleaser, “StarDust,” a balletic tribute to the late great David Bowie. Both numbers were choreographed by Rhoden, who described the former as a piece that “celebrates the strength and resilience of humanity.” Link to comment
dirac Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 An obituary for dancer Arnott Mader. Quote He received his dance education in Toronto at the Royal Academy of Dance and then went to London on scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dance. As a young dancer there, he appeared in two musicals before joining the Royal Ballet, with which he made four American tours and several European tours. While in the Royal Ballet, he danced the part of Von Rothbart beside Margot Fonteyn's Swan Queen. Link to comment
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