ballerina, portrait, ballet dancer, original oil painting 16"x12" / 40x30cm

He recalls with a laugh her lime-green, troll-doll sweater. “Even in my young elementary-school mind, I registered that it was kind of weird.”. Yet, he adds, she gets the last laugh since Mabel is the breakout character. “She’s the one everyone wants to party with.”. Pam Williams, a member of Stand Up to Cancer’s Executive Leadership Council, says the organization jumped on sweaters because people are “sporting these once-shunned garments with pride.”.

It also might have provided Jackson with the time — and perhaps energy — to more fully showcase her personality onstage, She didn’t do much interacting ballerina, portrait, ballet dancer, original oil painting 16"x12" / 40x30cm with the crowd, really waiting until the end of the night to express her feelings for the 5,000 fans in attendance, Yet, the positives definitely outweighed the negatives, Jackson sounded strong, especially on the slower material, and was accompanied by a muscular eight-piece band, which included three backing vocalists, She boogied about the stage, wearing Hammer-style baggy black pants and a black top, joined by as many as nine other dancers, The dance team was one of the definite highlights, stepping through some very colorful, creative routines..

“We have been working on this show for the last three years,” Selissen said. “Through performances in collaboration with dancers Gustavo and Jesica Hornos, Count Glover and Chelsea Eng, we have been able to fine tune our repertoire and design for this show. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work with great dancers such as Leo Landa and Alona Gorer. Another new addition to the show is Irina Martineau who will be the show’s narrator and will share her beautiful singing voice in duets with Claudio Ortega. And we have a brilliant new script written by Leo Landa that we are excited to premiere. So there is a lot of anticipation and excitement surrounding this upcoming Pacifica show for our group.”.

Between rehearsals, Hermesdorf, Wells and I meet in Dance Mission Theater to discuss the pair’s quarter century, surrounded by a plethora of colorful props and costumes for the upcoming shows, Prompted to recount their history of artistic endeavors, ballerina, portrait, ballet dancer, original oil painting 16"x12" / 40x30cm Wells says, “It’s not our 25 years.  We started together, then … .”, Hermesdorf interjects, “We’d converge, diverge, converge, diverge.”, They first met in graduate school at the University of Illinois.  Hermesdorf says, “I fell in love with his work, The first piece I danced was called ‘The Blindness of Our Affection.’  I was moving in this new way and thinking this is how I was built to move, this is what I was born to do, I remember being extremely ecstatic, I had been doing Merce Cunningham technique and ballet, but this was so free, we were just throwing ourselves around, hair down, tresses flying.”..

In medieval times the church nurtured great music and art, and courts encouraged musicians and traveling troubadours to provide song and dance to help their denizens through long evenings in their dank, drafty castles. During the Renaissance, musicians were kept in meat and mead by “royals” such as the English Tudors or dukes of Burgundy and Parma, as well as through the patronage of merchant families like the House of Medici. Music and great art lent stature and meaning to benefactors’ coronations, weddings, deaths, military victories and festivals.