DALTON â Dalton has a new Main Street. Thatâs what construction crews are calling the long and spacious expanse that stretches south inside the new regional high school taking shape.
Progress on the new Wahconah Regional High School, which will serve students in the Central Berkshire Regional School District, is close to completion.BEN GARVER â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
âThis will be the central artery, the social life of the school,â said Jim Moran of Skanska USA Building, the company hired to manage the project. âWe like to think it fits with our community.â
The space reaches all the way to the back of the new Wahconah Regional High School and was abuzz with crews during a recent tour â from a main entrance to be sheathed with a curtain of bullet-resistant glass, past future administrative offices on the right, the fitness center on the left, and the wide stairs with stadium-style seating at the heart of the soon-to-be Student Commons, where stu
Rachel Howard March 31, 2021Updated: March 31, 2021, 7:24 pm
The San Francisco Ballet performs Balanchine’s “Emeralds.” Photo: Erik Tomasson
Stagers are the dance world’s unsung keepers of beauty, credited only in the program’s small print, but responsible for the nuances of gesture, style and manner that constitute a ballet’s soul. Elyse Borne last staged George Balanchine’s “Emeralds” for the San Francisco Ballet in December 2019 and died later that month. One long pandemic year later, the Ballet has recorded a fresh performance of “Emeralds,” following all COVID-19 safety protocols, and dedicated it to Borne’s memory.
Released online Thursday, April 1, the video is a tribute that would have made Borne and even Balanchine proud, and it’s a feast for Ballet fans hungry to see dancer debuts. Despite its baubles and glitter, “Emeralds” the opening ballet of Balanchine’s three-part “Jewels” has a complex inner depth that is fully
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Australian choreographer Danielle Rowe has a clutch of stage works under her belt, but in lockdown she has turned to film-making. First it was funny ballet skits, and now sheâs made her first major work for San Francisco Ballet, in their latest online triple bill. Wooden Dimes is the tale of a talented but naive 1920s showgirl named Betty (Sarah Van Patten), corrupted by success that splinters her marriage to solid but stressed-out accountant type Robert (Luke Ingham). It is not a wildly original conceit, but it has fizz, drama and vintage glamour â who doesnât love drop waists, bobs and minimally styled deco designs? (Thereâs a story in the colour schemes of Emma Kingsburyâs costumes, which are nicely done.)
Rachel Howard March 4, 2021Updated: March 14, 2021, 12:57 pm
Betty Fine (Sarah Van Patten) is a vaudeville chorus girl in “Wooden Dimes.” Photo: Lindsay Gauthier, San Francisco Ballet
If a choreographer wants to make the most of this pandemic era, Sarah Van Patten is the woman to put on the screen. Van Patten, who joined the San Francisco Ballet in 2002, is the finest actress-dancer in the company, so it is good to have a beautifully directed record of her theatrical genius in Danielle Rowe’s new dance film, “Wooden Dimes,” the clever Art Deco centerpiece of the Ballet’s digital Program 3, which begins streaming Thursday, March 4.