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| Ballet; pics | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 26 2007, 12:42 PM (346 Views) | |
| DivaDeb | Dec 26 2007, 12:42 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I posted a couple of these at Larry's. Merry's big show was weekend before last. It went really well. We had great crowds. The theatre is really beautiful, and it's a big house, so it's something that we fill it for five shows. It was Snow White set to Prokofiev's Cinderella (such MARVELOUS music!!!). The choreographer didn't want any of her beautiful ballerinas being grumpy dwarfs, so instead of 7 dwarfs, there are five Beautiful Belles of the Forest. Meredith is the blue Belle, Claudette. A few pics in costume, a couple from rehearsal, and a couple from the very fun cast party. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| M&M's | Dec 26 2007, 12:54 PM Post #2 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Very pretty young lady Deb! |
| My child shows GOOD CHARACTERIZATION in an ongoing game of D&D | |
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| ivorythumper | Dec 26 2007, 12:54 PM Post #3 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Wonderful! They are so graceful. I love the one of Merry signing an autograph for her adoring public!
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| dolmansaxlil | Dec 26 2007, 12:55 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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She's beautiful! |
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"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson My Flickr Photostream | |
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| DivaDeb | Dec 26 2007, 12:59 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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thanks! IT...I think the autograph picture is my favorite. The girl scouts come out in troops for the show...the little girl came up with her pen and asked if Merry would sign her program...she said, "Absolutely, I'd be honored!" and I thought...what a cool response. The little girls who come to the show are SO precious. A lot of them come really dressed up. Some of them come in costume. It's just so fun. |
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| Lindy | Dec 26 2007, 01:11 PM Post #6 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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Beautiful! She's got red cheeks just like her momma. |
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| justme | Dec 26 2007, 01:13 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Beautiful!!!!!! You must be so proud! Lots of hard work and it seems as if it's all paid off!! |
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"Men sway more towards hussies." G-D3 | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Dec 26 2007, 01:30 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Must have been one of the highlights of your Christmas. Very cool. |
| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| Optimistic | Dec 26 2007, 01:37 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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What poise!! Keep your eye on that young man around her, Deb.
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| Mark | Dec 26 2007, 01:47 PM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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How wonderful Deb! |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| Frank_W | Dec 26 2007, 03:27 PM Post #11 |
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Beautiful!! Julia likes the pictures, too!
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| musicasacra | Dec 26 2007, 03:41 PM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Way cool! |
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| DivaDeb | Dec 26 2007, 04:24 PM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Frank, how did Julia's Nutcracker go? Do you have photos? Merry says, "Hi dancer girl!" |
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| Frank_W | Dec 26 2007, 04:32 PM Post #14 |
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The Nutcracker was brilliant!! Julia didn't have much of a part in it -- (She was one of Drosselmeyer's helpers), but the whole performance was very enjoyable. I may actually like watching ballet after all... It's like opera: I like certain things, and dislike others.Julia says hello back to Merry. I have photos, but they will have to be scanned. I'll post them when I can.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| DivaDeb | Dec 26 2007, 04:39 PM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I knew you'd come around to dance...especially if you got to watch someone special on the stage! The Nutcracker is timeless magical stuff. You'd have to be really cynical not to 'get' a well done Nutcracker. It's not deep nutritious art...it's candy...but it's really GOOD candy. You're right, as an artform, it is very much like opera. You really have to explore quite a bit of repertoire to be able to make the statement "I don't like the artform" because the music, the theatre, the style of dancing or singing varies so greatly within the repertoire that you can see quite a lot of ballets or operas and never see anything that looks/sounds anything like the last one you saw. |
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| Frank_W | Dec 26 2007, 04:51 PM Post #16 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Well, "Dracula" as a ballet was surprisingly good. The snippet from "Valse Fantasie" was also enjoyable. The 40-minute ballet tango, was NOT. LOL There's a ballet/modern dance program coming up, that's intended "for mature audiences only," and I think Mrs. Frank_W and I will go see that.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Axtremus | Dec 26 2007, 05:28 PM Post #17 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| big al | Dec 26 2007, 06:18 PM Post #18 |
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Lovely, deb. Her form looks excellent (but I'm no expert). I am certain that she has an excellent teacher in how to be a marvelous young lady. And I must have missed your earlier posts, Frank. I was totally unaware that you had a dancer in you family as well. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| DivaDeb | Dec 26 2007, 07:50 PM Post #19 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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All of you who have kids, or those of you who were kids will understand what an incredible blessing it is to find a situation for a child where they can get the kind of training they need in their area of interest that is not only technically excellent, but also a healthy, supportive, and nurturing environment. The man and woman with Merry in the last picture are her teachers/directors. The company they built is a wonderful family in which young artists thrive and grow. We're just so fortunate to have them in our daughter's life. They love their dancers, and the dancers love them. They're husband and wife and danced together as children. Such a wonderful couple. The man danced with Joanne Woodward in a scene in Mr. and Mrs. Bridge. Wish you could see him dance. He's so elegant when he'd doing ballroom or teaching a ballet class, and cute as a button when he taps. He's also a fine pianist...he's teaching me to play class. I'm really having fun with that. |
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| Phlebas | Dec 26 2007, 08:03 PM Post #20 |
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Late to this. Wonderful pics, and lovely daughter Deb. |
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