Media release: Jock McFadyen – Lost Boat Party
SCOTLAND’S Dovecot Studios, in partnership with The Scottish Gallery, will mark the artist, Jock McFadyen’s 70th birthday year with an exhibition of recent paintings which describe the romance and grandeur of the Scottish landscape, alongside the urban dystopia for which the artist is known.
Says Christina Jansen, director of The Scottish Gallery: “McFadyen paints the exterior world with a cool detachment that carries an emotional punch, and Lost Boat Party perfectly describes his approach – floating through the landscape to find and show the strange enigmatic portion only seen when looking for something else.
Texas Ballet Theater Adds Former Houston Ballet Dancers to School Staff
Both Elise Elliott and Rhodes Elliott will begin their new positions at TBT in June 2021.by BWW News Desk
Texas Ballet Theater has announced the appointment of Elise and Rhodes Elliott, retired Houston Ballet dancers, to faculty and staff positions within Texas Ballet Theater School.
Elise Elliott will join TBT as School Business Manager and Rhodes Elliott will be the new Advanced and Professional Training Division Instructor. I am thrilled to welcome Elise and Rhodes to our family, TBT Artistic Director Ben Stevenson, O.B.E. said. They are not only great dancers, but wonderful actors as well. It is so beneficial for our students to learn from professional dancers who can share their experience, as there is so much more to ballet than just technique.