Wednesday, April 10

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Q&A with Tamara Rojo about her favorite places in the Bay Area.

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What's your favorite thing about living in the Marina?

I love that it's flat and that it has lots of parks around—great parks like the Presidio and the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge, which allows you to just go to Sausalito and beautiful places really quickly. But also, it has lots of shops, cafes and little stores. It has a real personality.

 

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The International Ballet Company is hosting a gala in Majorca.

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The company has stepped in (or rather danced in) to fill the gap left by Moscow Ballet and is becoming something of a regular feature in Mallorca. And it is extending this presence by putting on a special Gala of Soloists. Rather than whole ballets, there are specific scenes, with eight soloists performing a range from Swan Lake and Don Quixote to Nutcracker and Esmeralda.

 

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A student ballet company presents "Giselle" in Monterey County.

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“Working with students and adults seeking to become the best they can be through dance and the arts is my life’s work,” said [Janette] Harkness, who directed and choreographed “Giselle.” “Taking on challenges and going beyond mediocrity is important. The student company of Monterey County Dance Theatre is an example of just that. The dance classes are but one aspect of their education. The other is the enrichment it provides for not only them but for our communities.”

 

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A preview of Beth Gill's "Nail Biter" by Gia Kourlas in The New York Times.

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You see that care in all of Gill’s productions, including “Nail Biter,” which incorporates a drop from a scene — its tag read, “The Witch’s Palace” — in a [Rose-Marie] Menes ballet. Even before Menes died, Gill had been thinking about her training: How do her ballet roots connect with her path in experimental dance? She’s interested in a new kind of traditionalism that could draw on both. That idea is evoked in “Nail Biter” in a solo for Cloud.