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Selling new development is, in many ways, akin to putting on an elaborate dance performance.
That is what Corcoran Sunshine agent Crista Villella, who transitioned into real estate after a career in ballet, says of her new role selling units at the boutique Lightstone building in New York’s 40 East End Avenue. Villella was a ballet mistress for Miami City Ballet and a repetiteur (someone who schedules performances and coaches dancers) for Twyla Tharp, and she likens working out of a showroom and selling not-yet-constructed homes to dance in that agents often have to entrance buyers and paint a picture of a particular lifestyle.
Mikhail Baryshnikov: A DANCER whose flight to freedom brought him cult status Getty Images Mikhail Baryshnikov is not one to go unnoticed. A true living legend of ballet, he is one of the greatest dancers in modern history.
Die-hard fans of classical Russian ballet praise Baryshnikov for his powerful leaps and a lifelong passion for freedom, while his younger admirers, who first came to know him as Aleksandr Petrovsky, Carry Bradshaw’s Russian boyfriend on ‘Sex and the City’, worship him for taking contemporary ballet to a whole new level.
It seems like Baryshnikov has been swimming against the tide since childhood. He chose his battles wisely, though, and proved to be a brilliant long-distance “swimmer”. Baryshnikov’s story is an exciting tale of self-actualization and personal growth.
Wood Gaylor, Quietly Dazzling, Helped an Art World Invent Itself
Two shows introduce a forgotten innovator who fused modernism, folk art and documentary to portray his beloved New York scene.
Wood Gaylor made gregarious portrayals of New York artists of the Penguin group. In “Posters” (1920), he showed them collaborating on enormous painted posters for a Red Cross bond drive in 1918.Credit.Samuel Gaylor and The Heckscher Museum of Art
Jan. 21, 2021
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. In the early decades of the 20th-century, things happened in the New York art world when painters like Walt Kuhn, Florine Stettheimer and Wood Gaylor took matters into their own hands. They established clubs and professional organizations and mounted exhibitions including the 1913 Armory Show, which jump-started American modernism with heady exposure to the European kind.