Tune In to Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play April 16-May 2 Thursday, April 8, 2021
Five actors play three dozen characters in “Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play” at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre. Two casts appear on alternating nights. One of them includes, from left, Claire Bartlett, Cris King, Greg Rambin Sr., Dylan Kussman and Emily Adkins. - photo by Julie Van Valkenburg
The ticking of a bomb. The chiming of a clock. A slamming door. Hurried footsteps. Dramatic sounds effects created live on stage accompany the dramatic stories that play out on stage as the Chattanooga Theatre Centre presents Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play, opening April 16 and running through May 2.
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
How a trip to Bunnings got ballet stars through âdevastatingâ lockdown
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During Melbourneâs second, extended lockdown last year, Chengwu Guo wondered if it might be time to quit. Having danced with the Australian Ballet for 13 years and reached the status of principal artist, Guo was worried about a back injury that had kept him off stage for two years. Would time away from the studio â and performing â make it flare up again?
Certainly, he and fellow principal Ako Kondo, who is also his wife, were finding the time away from their artform hard to bear. At the start of the first lockdown in March, the company had given each dancer a small square of tarkett mat to take home and use as a dance floor in whatever space they might have available to them.