The title of Ballet San Jose's 'Hidden Talents' program, which opened Thursday night at the San Jose Performing Arts Center, would appear to refer to the five young choreographers, all members or former members of the company, but it could just as well describe the dancers - many of them from the corps - who got the chance to step into the spotlight in an entertaining evening.
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Gerald E. Myers, a scholarly expert on the philosopher William James who expressed his missionary zeal for modern dance through the highly unusual position of philosopher in residence of the American Dance Festival, died Feb. 11 at his home in New London, Conn. He was 85.
Although you might associate the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk with the shouts and screams of summer, now, in fact, is one of the best times to visit. Without the sticky crowds there are no lines for the roller coasters or the corn dogs, and from now until the end of May, all of the rides are open on weekends, weather permitting. And when the rumble of the rides and the buzz and jitter of the video games in the arcade become too much, you can always take a walk along the beach and skip stones into Monterey Bay."Get a green cart: Potato peels, lobster shells, chicken bones, coffee grounds, even paper napkins and greasy pizza boxes. Once upon a time, those things went into the garbage, but now through urban compost programs, residents in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and other cities in Alameda, San Mateo and Contra Costa counties can chuck their food scraps into a green cart to be turned into black gold and returned to the soil of Bay Area farms. Apartment renters, ask your landlord to get a green cart for the whole building, and they'll even give you individual kitchen pails for each apartment and instructions on what to compost. Contact your city's public works department for more information."
Sic transit the company of Balanchine...Darci Kistler, the last remaining ballerina at New York City Ballet to have been molded and hired by its co-founder George Balanchine, plans to retire in the 2010 season, she said on Wednesday.Read more at the NYTimes.That would complete three decades with the company, where Balanchine singled her out at the tender age of 17 in 1982 to become a principal, after only two years there.
“As it’s happened with every dancer, there’s a certain point where you realize, ‘I want to go off the stage gracefully,’ ” Ms. Kistler, 44, said in a telephone interview. “I just felt it was time.”
Ms. Kistler said she wanted to devote more of her day to teaching at the School of American Ballet, affiliated with the company, where she has been leading a hefty schedule of classes for 15 years. And the aches and pains that come with age have taken their toll, she said.
Today, after more than a year of planning, 2000 square meters of rooftops have been covered with photos of the eyes and faces of the women of Kibera. The material used is water resistant so that the photo itself will protect the fragile houses in the heavy rain season. The train that passes on this line through Kibera at least twice a day has also been covered with eyes from the women that live below it. With the eyes on the train, the bottom half of the their faces have be pasted on corrugated sheets on the slope that leads down from the tracks to the rooftops. The idea being that for the split second the train passes, their eyes will match their smiles and their faces will be complete.
This new work, by far JR's most ambitious to date, can be seen from space and will be seen in Google Earth.
A decade ago, the word 'foxtrot' might have brought to mind only a newspaper cartoon, and 'tango' conjured up an image of stalking about like Groucho Marx with a rose in his teeth. But when Australian choreographer Jason Gilkison first worked on 'Burn the Floor,' he hoped to evolve the foxtrot and the tango for the 21st century, while getting back to the heart of what moves dance audiences.
These days, identity and the question of how we forge that identity are a hot topic - and a complicated one at that. The fluidity of self-categorization is eloquently investigated in Sean Dorsey's 'Uncovered: The Diary Project,' an evening made up of two dance-theater pieces - 'Lost/Found' and the world-premiere 'Lou' - which opened at the Dance Mission Theater on Thursday and runs through Sunday.
