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Advance tickets are $15, available online at BrownPaperTickets.com, or $20 at the door. Concert sponsors include the California Jazz Conservatory, Ifshin Violins, American String Teachers Association, Point Richmond Music, and Strings Magazine. For more details visit prjazz.org. Proceeds help fund coaching assistants, equipment, special training, and extras not covered by the school district. For tickets contact Lisa Berrios Foley at whirlydog@yahoo.com or 510-304-8993; or Nora Hirose at Nhirose@sbcglobal.net or 510-367-9295.
Michael Boitz, the school’s visual and performing arts chairman, is organizing the trip, He said the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles invited Saratoga High to participate after members of the music department applied “on a whim” last year, Four schools in the East Bay and other youth bands and orchestras in Europe will also be taking part, but Saratoga students will be among the youngest, he said, “We look awfully young compared to a lot of groups that will be seen,” Boitz said, “So we have to work really hard and focus diligently on preparation for it, because we’re sharing satin pastel flower girl shoe, baby, toddler ballet slipper, ballet flat, girls wedding shoe, special occasion, holiday dress up the stage with really fantastic groups.”..
“The Dance That Documents Itself” features four dancers — Curtis, Rachael Dichter, Abby Crain and Dag Andersson — who are all collaborating on creating the piece, while Sheldon Smith is doing the sound design and David Szlasa is responsible for video and lighting. The title refers to Susan Leigh Foster’s fascinating book “Dances that Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull.”. Curtis is interested not just in the way that dance reveals itself onstage, but in the way technology changes the experience of dance for both performers and audiences. He started from the ground up, creating a Facebook page on which the creative team has documented the entire process with regular postings (Facebook.com/TheDanceThatDocumentsItself).
“Where do you put this at the Lucie Stern?” Ragey asked rhetorically, “We did do it, and it looks spectacular on stage, It has a tremendous sense of magical realism on the forestage, and as we go upstage, it becomes more and more abstract and theatrical, There are scrim-like patterns floating in the sky, a forest that moves, grows and changes, “And into all this, you have to have the Winnie Foster house, which needs an inside satin pastel flower girl shoe, baby, toddler ballet slipper, ballet flat, girls wedding shoe, special occasion, holiday dress up and an outside, and the Tuck house, which has an inside, an outside, a kitchen, an attic, a carnival, all for different scenes, There are 12 major scenes, but they break into many mini-scenes, They all need locations.”..
“We don’t have the best stage, but we do have the best audience,” he said. Oakland Ballet Artistic Director Graham Lustig added that company dancers also will visit senior centers this year to do similar mini performances. “We are incredibly committed to making sure what happens on these stages is available to the community of all ages, to share the magic and beauty of our world,” Lustig said. The company will be performing its sixth annual production of “The Nutcracker” this year on Dec. 19 and Dec. 20 at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland.
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