Festival Ballet Providence closed its season with one of the most popular ballet productions, Sleeping Beauty. I was at the two dress rehearsals to watch two different casts do their magic and dazzle the viewers. The costumes and the stage set were very richly colored, at moments the stage and the dancers looked like a tableau vivant as you will … [Read more...]
Practice, Practice, …
The Sleeping Beauty preparations are going full force. The Festival Ballet Providence dancers have been rehearsing almost every day and many hours each time. Remember to visit Festival Ballet Providence site about Sleeping Beauty and get your tickets for this weekend's performances. They work so much and so hard, it is almost not fair for us "just … [Read more...]
Sleeping Beauty Rehearsal 2
Rehearsals are forever! At least it seems that way to me. I watch them practice, photograph the dancers, and I get tired while they still move and jump as if they have been sitting all along. This is from the rehearsal on April 27, I was there for a couple of hours and when I left they had about 4 more hours of rehearsal! Phew! … [Read more...]
Sleeping Beauty Rehearsal 1
Festival Ballet Providence is busy getting ready for the upcoming performance of Sleeping Beauty, one of be best known and most loved ballets. I attended a rehearsal about a week ago, April 20, and watched the junior dancers rehearse for one segment of the ballet, the Garland Waltz. You will see in the short video the repetition, correction, … [Read more...]
Citation
On the opening day of Orchis, the mayor of Providence Angel Taveras issued citations to the collaborators on the Orchis project. Due to a spelling error, my citation had to be redone and I have received it recently. I want to share it with my family, friends, and readers, and thank Mayor Taveras for his kind gesture. I am honored to have received … [Read more...]
Festival Ballet Students Practice Cancan
A couple of weeks ago I watched, and recorded the rehearsal for French Cancan dance. The students seemed to enjoy the lively rhythm and high-energy dance as Misha coached them to be even livelier. It was quite enjoyable as they did a couple of runs. See for yourself! … [Read more...]
Up Close on Hope – 2
The second performance of UCoH series was this weekend, Friday and Saturday. I visited the dress rehearsal again to photograph the alternate cast perform the same pieces. Despite my little knowledge of ballet, different interpretations were evident in the pieces and highly enjoyable. You have one more weekend opportunity to catch the ten little … [Read more...]
Up Close on Hope
One of the popular programs Festival Ballet Providence offers is Up Close on Hope (UCoH) with a reference to being very close, almost touching close to the dancers, and their small studio on Hope Street. This year, UCoH opened with ten short, and delightful pieces. I took the photographs in this post during the last dress rehearsal on the first day … [Read more...]
Orchis Prints Available
A small collection of photographs from the Orchis Collection are now available in the Kept Light Store. They are lab-printed on metallic paper, all are 10" x 15". See the detail and the collection in the store page. The introductory price of these prints are $50 each until the end of April 2013 after which it will be $100 each. As the introductory … [Read more...]
Orchis Closed
Watch a segment of Orchis photography and music On all three shows, the audiences loved Orchis! Some came second and third time to see it again. It was a fine example of great collaboration and everything fit together like a fine jigsaw puzzle. The result was truly enchanting. Here are some comments: Orchis then becomes like the beautiful … [Read more...]