September 23, another busy day, read it as "a lot of photographs!" The day started at the Covent Garden Market, a combination of a shopping mall with various eating places, antique and flea-market. But this is not your father's flea market, they sell high quality, high-caliber items. I even came … [Read more...]
London 2013 – 4
Jan makes excellent pot roast and Yorkshire pudding as she learned from her grandparents. While in London, we wanted to try local pot roast dinners and Jan did some research to find a very old pub called The Grapes which served it on Sundays. It was a bit outside the central London, but Google maps … [Read more...]
Pietà
A few weeks ago the Festival Ballet Providence dancers Vilia Putrius and Mindaugas Bauzys performed a very nice blend of theater and ballet, Pietà. They depicted in dance, motion, and acting the famous sculpture with the same name by Michelangelo in the St. Peter's Basilica (*) as if it came to … [Read more...]
London 2013 – 3
Saturday was quite busy, we started the day at Portobello Road. On that long road was a mixture of a flea and antique markets with the passers-by providing a colorful backdrop. The taxi dropped us at the top of Portobello Road, at the intersection of Westbourne Grove and Protobello Road to be … [Read more...]
Greta Hodgkinson: Disarmed
Festival Ballet Providence started the season with Together We Dance, a program featuring many guest dancers from Canada to Miami, from Boston Ballet to Dutch National Ballet as well as the FBP company dancers. They were all fantastic and I will post more about the performance but I would like to … [Read more...]
London 2013 – 2: Sheffield Trip
Happy birthday Jan, this post is for you. - Love! Jan and I decided to take a ride to Sheffield to pay homage to her grandfather Septimus Rhodes. He was born and raised there; got married and won a long shot horse race bet which allowed them to come to the US. Jan had researched the locations and … [Read more...]
London 2013 – 1
Jan and I visited London in September as guests of my sister Binnaz and brother-in-law Ergun. We had a grand time and I will post more about our experience, things and places we saw, and the good time we had there between September 17 - 27. The car that Ergun had arranged was waiting for us as we … [Read more...]
Festival Ballet Providence a New Season Begins
Festival Ballet Providence started its new season with a great list of ballets, Orchis is coming back in March 2014 for a repeat performance. Of course, what makes the program possible is a group of great dancers, choreographers, teachers, staff, and all the people who remain behind the scenes. The … [Read more...]
Ballerina In Providence – 2
After I posted the photographs of and a little information about Eugenia and our photo shoot in Providence, several friends who had seen different renderings of the photographs indicated that they preferred the color one or the monochrome versions. Seeing a learning moment, I thought it would be … [Read more...]
Ballerina in Providence
I had a photo shoot with one of the dancers of the Festival Ballet Providence, Eugenia Zinovieva. This was an extension of an idea I had for quite a while where I wanted to photograph the dancer in a different environment than the stage or studio. Eugenia was interested in the idea and approached me … [Read more...]