#graphic: medora | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

doubleattitude · 3 years

Text

NUVO Dance Convention, Houston, TX: RESULTS

High Scores by Age:

NUbie Solo

1st: Navy Forrest-’Imagine’

2nd: Harper Schwalb-’Do What I Do’

3rd: Haddie Templet-’Do What I Do’

4th: Rose Ramirez-’Into the Unknown’

4th: Lucia Ruiz-’Popular’

5th: Anika Argueta-’Hallelujah’

6th: Alegria Jilpas-’Pure Imagination’

7th: Sloane Harris-’Never Enough’

8th: Maria Rosales-’Despacito’

8th: MJ Mackey-’I Don’t Want To Show Off’

9th: Mackenzie Griffin-’Small World’

Mini Solo

1st: Alexis Alvarez-’Welcome Home’

2nd: Landry Silas-’Cheek to Cheek’

2nd: Winter Eberts-’Dreamlike’

2nd: Diana Kouznetsova-’It’s In His Kiss’

3rd: Kylie Lawrence-’Breathe In’

3rd: Naiya Abalos-’Forces’

3rd: Tessa Ohran-’Knock 1-2-3′

3rd: Ava Grace Olson-’Tides of Time’

3rd: Isabella Kouznetsova-’Trouble’

4th: Claire Hansen-’By The Roses’

4th: Joli Vernon-’Joy’

5th: Ava Morford-’17 Hours’

5th: Faith Crain-’Notes of the Nymph’

5th: Harper Hammes-’Tu Quieres Volver’

5th: Justin Nguyen-’You Caused It’

6th: Lyla Terry-’Rescue’

6th: Jenesis Jackson-’Single Ladies’

7th: Rory Frye-’Amen’

7th: Brynlee Fitzgerald-’Can’t Get It Out’

7th: Hadlee Heriford-’Unbroken’

8th: Camille Foreman-’Boogie Woogie’

8th: London Smith-’Feel My Love’

9th: Natalie Gerami-’Evil Twin’

9th: Neve Colyn-?

10th: Hadley Richard-’Applause’

10th: Ella Williamson-’Experience’

10th: Khloe Kramer-’Giants’

Junior Solo

1st: Colby Rich-’I Lie’

2nd: Maya Ordonez-’For All That’s Lost’

2nd: Nyah Jackson-’Slow Meadows’

2nd: Kynadi Crain-’So Close, So Far’

3rd: Brooke Toro-’As The Dust Settles’

3rd: Brooke Vorst-’Girl From Ipanema’

3rd: Kinley Bertrand-’Rock With You’

3rd: Stella Vince-’Steep Turn’

4th: Taylor Harrison-’Dawn Chorus’

4th: Beyli Shah-’Heavy Hand’

4th: Anya Inger-’Quiet Thoughts’

4th: Bella Fernandez-’She Was Running’

5th: Brooke Dubbs-’I Know’

5th: Kara Yuan-’Petite Fleur’

5th: Elyse Tompkins-’Power of Love’

5th: Ellie Randolph-’Swan Song’

5th: Baileigh McKenzie-’Take Me’

5th: Emma Fontenot-’The Gate’

6th: Jaelynn Gatchett-’A Place of Peace’

6th: Haiden Neuville-’Before You Go’

6th: Campbell Thurow-’Can’t Touch This’

6th: Elyse Armstrong-’Hard to Love’

7th: Lena Hirsch-’Forsaken’

7th: Jocelyn Nguyen-’I Am Not Myself’

8th: Maegan Abadie-’Infinite’

8th: Juliana Reyes-’She Leads’

8th: Ava Grace Craig-’Sophie’s Choice’

8th: Madelyn McCauley-’Weightless’

9th: Julia Jacob-’Emotional Conclusions’

9th: Keira Kingsmore-’Medora Variation’

9th: Ansley Harris-’The Absence of Time’

9th: Jisselle Garza-’Waiting Game’

10th: Va’Shira Newborne-’Heat’

10th: Ava Grace Gallagher-’The Greatest’

Teen Solo

1st: Mariella Saunders-’Until We Break’

2nd: Chloe Slone-’As The Dust Settles’

2nd: Kate Abernathy-’Doomed’

2nd: Gianna Garwacki-’Epiphany’

2nd: Brecklyn Brown-’Fall On Me’

2nd: Cambry Bethke-’Sacred Space’

3rd: Hudson Pletcher-’Forged Imitation’

3rd: Madison Morita-’Lily of the Valley’

3rd: Paroma Pillay-’You’re Gonna Be Okay’

4th: Sarah Linn-’Under the Skin’

4th: Audrey Berg-’Schim’

4th: Ellie Tostenrude-’Mirror of the Mind’

4th: Grace Lundbom-’Filter’

4th: Hallie Hanes-’Escalate’

5th: William Huguet-’Sinister Heart’

5th: Sofia Ulloa-’Rainy Days and Mondays’

5th: Trista Brackin-’Marathon’

5th: Laila McGuire-’Albatross’

6th: Isabella Ferrara-’The Choir’

6th: Kieran Holmes-’Hear The Bells’

6th: Camille Reynolds-’Breakout’

7th: Nicole Larson-’Absence of Light’

7th: Fayeth Tippett-’Initiate’

7th: Gracie Booth-’Nature of Life’

7th: Jenna Laurent-’Regenerative’

8th: Arden Peterson-’To This Day’

8th: Avery Pesson-’Make My Cry’

8th: Rylie Rios-’Lost Without You’

8th: Rhylan Robicheaux-’An Evening I Will Not Forget’

9th: Kendall Wenmohs-’Carry You’

9th: Braden Ward-’Drilling An Ocean’

9th: Tessa Horsley-’Reflections’

9th: Reagan Wright-’Unearth’

10th: Libby Jo Parsons-’Free’

10th: Mason Ward-’Stones’

10th: Trent Grappe-’White’

Senior Solo

1st: Sarah Bratby-’Paracosm’

1st: Onye Stevenson-’Sleep’

2nd: Sophia Seymour-’Broken’

2nd: Elizabeth Perry-’Still Standing’

2nd: Damaris Salazar-’Unraveling’

3rd: Charlee Fagan-’Veils’

3rd: Selena Hamilton-’Keep An Eye Out’

3rd: Morgan Manning-’Change Gonna Come’

4th: Natalie Wong-’Tributary’

4th: Jaycee Mya Piper-’Happiness’

4th: Madi Autry-’A Face I Used to Know’

5th: Olivia Abadie-’Drawn To You’

5th: Alexa Williams-’Lost’

5th: Lainey Myers-’You Are The Reason’

6th: Camry Blackhurst-’Airstrike’

6th: Amelia Bradford-’Weightless’

7th: Carissa Dowling-’Lonely’

7th: Kaylie Wood-’The Shift’

8th: Camryn Guarino-’Shout’

8th: Presley Gouge-’Shadow Self’

8th: Isabel Ulloa-’Rose In Flames’

8th: Nyla Staes-’Let Go’

9th: Taelynn Ritchie-’If You Could Do It Again’

9th: Hayden Folse-’Particles’

9th: Sarah Hladky-’Swim’

9th: McKenzie Shaffer-’Whispers’

10th: Caroline Cottrell-’Let Him Go’

10th: Sophia Burns-’Rewind’

10th: Madison Morris-’She Used To Be Mine’

NUbie Duo/Trio

1st: Main Street Dance-’Glow’

Mini Duo/Trio

1st: Project 21-’I Am The Cute One’

2nd: Machita Dance Company-’Let’s Do It’

3rd: The Dance Kollective-’Reflection’

Junior Duo/Trio

1st: The Dance Kollective-’Both of Us’

2nd: Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’Pace of Change’

3rd: Modern Conceptions of Dance-’Deuterium’

3rd: Artistic Dance Project-’Spies’

Teen Duo/Trio

1st: Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’At Least For Now’

1st: Dance Institute-’Comme Les Anges Volent’

2nd: Main Street Dance-’Destinations’

2nd: The Dance Kollective-’Alter Ego’

3rd: The Dance Kollective-’Ascending’

3rd: Dance Du Coeur-’Hiding Place’

Senior Duo/Trio

1st: The Dance Kollective-’Exhumed’

1st: Artistic Soul Dance Company-’Sunder’

2nd: The Dance Kollective-’I Don’t Believe In Us’

3rd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Wild Love’

NUbie Group

1st: Machita Dance Company-’Land of 1000 Dances’

2nd: Dance Graphics-’Boogie Fever’

3rd: Main Street Dance-’Mom’

Mini Group

1st: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’We Love to Bebop’

2nd: Lancaster Dance Academy-’Want You Back’

3rd: Lancaster Dance Academy-’A Children’s Dream’

Junior Group

1st: The Dance Kollective-’Dreaming’

1st: Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’Give Me More’

2nd: The Dance Kollective-’Like Lovers Do’

2nd: Dance Du Coeur-’Scapegoat’

3rd: Dance Du Coeur-’Wind It Up!’

Teen Group

1st: The Dance Kollective-’Tap Is Life’

2nd: The Dance Kollective-’Killing Me Softly’

2nd: The Dance Kollective-’The Heaven Complex’

2nd: Dance Du Coeur-’Truth’

3rd: Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’Hymne a l’amour’

Senior Group

1st: The Dance Kollective-’Before I Go’

2nd: Artistic Dance Project-’Letting Go’

3rd: The Dance Kollective-’Give Me Love’

NUbie Line

1st: The Movement Dance Academy-’Crazy In Love’

2nd: Rios Dance-’Anaconda’

Mini Line

1st: Machita Dance Company-’In The Convent’

2nd: Dance Graphics-’Cover Girl’

3rd: Dance Graphics-’Like Jesus’

Junior Line

1st: The Dance Kollective-’Handful of Keys’

2nd: Artistic Dance Project-’Bright Horses’

2nd: Dance Du Coeur-’Small Hours’

3rd: The Movement Dance Academy-’War Child’

Teen Line

1st: Artistic Dance Project-’Greed’

2nd: Dance Du Coeur-’Leave Me My Name’

2nd: The Dance Kollective-’Sing It Back’

2nd: Dance Du Coeur-’Somewhere’

3rd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Trust Me Again’

NUbie Extended Line

1st: The Movement Dance Academy-’Strut’

Mini Extended Line

1st: Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’Blow, Gabriel, Blow’

2nd: Main Street Dance-’Bom Bom Bom’

Junior Extended Line

1st: Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’Reasonable Doubt’

2nd: Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’Knock On Wood’

3rd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Mean Girls’

Teen Extended Line

1st: Artistic Dance Project-’Can’t Pretend’

2nd: Dance De Coeur-’Takeoff’

3rd: The Dance Kollective-’Goliath’

3rd: Tari’s School of Dance-’The Hive’

Senior Extended Line

1st: Artistic Dance Project-’Knocking On Heavens Door’

2nd: Artistic Dance Project-’GO!’

Teen Production

1st: Dance Institute-’Valse Romantique’

2nd: Dance Graphics-’What’s Poppin’

3rd: Main Street Dance-’Work Me Down’

High Scores by Performance Division:

NUbie Jazz

1st: Machita Dance Company-’Land of 1000 Dances’ 2nd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Crazy In Love’ 2nd: Dance Graphics-’Boogie Fever’ 3rd: Main Street Dance-’Mom’

NUbie Hip-Hop

1st: The Movement Dance Academy-’Strut’ 2nd: Rios Dance-’Anaconda’

NUbie Lyrical

1st: Modern Conceptions of Dance-’Ashes’

Mini Jazz

1st: Lancaster Dance Academy-’Want You Back’ 2nd: Machita Dance Company-’Shake; 3rd: Dance Graphics-’Glamorous Life’

Mini Hip-Hop

1st: Avant Dance LLC-’Bad to the Bone’ 2nd: Main Street Dance-’Cruising Cuties’

Mini Tap

1st: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’We Love to Bebop’ 2nd: Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’Blow, Gabriel, Blow’ 3rd: Main Street Dance-’All Aboard’

Mini Contemporary

1st: Lancaster Dance Academy-’A Children’s Dream’ 2nd: Avant Dance LLC-’La Vie En Rose’ 3rd: Dance Institute-’And So It Begins’

Mini Lyrical

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Happiness’ 2nd: Lancaster Dance Academy-’Sparrow’ 3rd: Dance Graphics-’Salvation’

Mini Musical Theatre

1st: Machita Dance Company-’In The Convent’ 2nd: Dance Graphics-’It’s Party Time’ 3rd: Dance Graphics-’Stupid Cupid’

Junior Jazz

1st: Dance Du Coeur-’Wind It Up!’ 2nd: Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’Knock On Wood’ 3rd: Dance Graphics-’Tip Toe’

Junior Ballet

1st: Collective Dance Artistry-’Promenade’ 2nd: Artistic Dance Project-’Marco Polo’

Junior Tap

1st: The Dance Kollective-’Handful of Keys’ 2nd: Artistic Dance Project-’Finesse’ 3rd: Avant Dance LLC-’Seville’

Junior Contemporary

1st: Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’Give Me More’ 1st: The Dance Kollective-’Dreaming’ 2nd: Dance Du Coeur-’Scapegoat’ 3rd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Unraveling’

Junior Lyrical

1st: Artistic Dance Project-’Bright Horses’ 1st: Dance Du Coeur-’Small Hours’ 2nd: The Movement Dance Academy-’War Child’ 3rd: Dance Graphics-’The Light That Never Fails’

Junior Musical Theatre

1st: Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’Reasonable Doubt’ 2nd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Mean Girls’

Junior Specialty

1st: The Dance Kollective-’Like Lovers Do’ 2nd: Main Street Dance-’1977′ 3rd: Paloma Limas & Company-’My Way’

Teen Jazz

1st: Dance Du Coeur-’Last Dance’ 2nd: The Dance Kollective-’Bringing It Back’ 3rd: The Movement Dance Academy-’Vibeology’

Teen Ballet

1st: Dance Institute-’Valse Romantique’ 2nd: Dance Institute-’Amore Argentine’ 3rd: Collective Dance Artistry-’Sylvia’

Teen Hip-Hop

1st: Dance Graphics-’What’s Poppin’ 2nd: Tari’s School of Dance-’Fame and Fortune’ 3rd: Main Street Dance-’Pinky Ring’

Teen Tap

1st: The Dance Kollective-’Tap Is Life’ 2nd: The Dance Kollective-’Killing Me Softly’ 3rd: Palm Valley Gymnastics and Dance-’Juice’

Teen Contemporary

1st: Dance Du Coeur-’Truth’ 1st: Dance Du Coeur-’Leave Me My Name’ 2nd: Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’Hymne a l’amour’ 3rd: Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’The Path’

Teen Lyrical

1st: Dance Du Coeur-’Somewhere’ 2nd: The Dance Kollective-’Remember Her’ 3rd: Creative Dance Studio-’Memory’ 3rd: Artistic Dance Project-’Journey’

Teen Musical Theatre

1st: Modern Conceptions of Dance-’Don’t Rain On My Parade’ 2nd: Avant Dance LLC-’C’mon Everybody’

Teen Ballroom

1st: The Dance Kollective-’Boss’ 2nd: Rios Dance-’Azucar’

Teen Specialty

1st: Artistic Dance Project-’Greed’ 2nd: The Dance Kollective-’The Heaven Complex’ 2nd: The Dance Kollective-’Sing It Back’ 3rd: Collective Dance Artistry-’The One Who Goes Astray’

Senior Jazz

1st: Lancaster Dance Academy-’Gimmie Dat’ 2nd: Pivotal Academy of Dance-’Born This Way’

Senior Hip-Hop

1st: Artistic Dance Project-’GO!’

Senior Tap

1st: Artistic Dance Project-’I Wanna Dance’

Senior Contemporary

1st: The Dance Kollective-’Before I Go’ 2nd: Artistic Dance Project-’Mother’ 3rd: Main Street Dance-’9 Crimes’

Senior Lyrical

1st: Artistic Dance Project-’Letting Go’ 2nd: The Dance Kollective-’Give Me Love’ 3rd: Dance Graphics-’Let You Know’

Senior Specialty

1st: Artistic Dance Project-’Knocking On Heavens Door’ 2nd: Texas Academy of Dance Arts-’You Always Hurt The One You Love’

Best NU Groups:

NUbie

The Movement Dance Academy-’Crazy In Love’

Machita Dance Company-’Land of 1000 Dances’

Dance Graphics-’Boogie Fever’

Mini

Dance Graphics-’Salvation’

Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’Blow, Gabriel, Blow’

Machita Dance Company-’In The Convent’

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Happiness’

Lancaster Dance Academy-’Want You Back’

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’We Love to Bebop’

Junior

Dance Du Coeur-’Scapegoat’

Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’Give Me More’

The Dance Kollective-’Dreaming’

Artistic Dance Project-’Bright Horses’

The Movement Dance Academy-’Unraveling’

Dance Du Coeur-’Small Hours’

Teen

Jean Leigh Academy of Dance-’Hymne a l’amour’

Artistic Dance Project-’Greed’

The Dance Kollective-’Tap Is Life’

Modern Conceptions of Dance-’Distortion’

Collective Dance Artistry-’The One Who Goes Astray’

Dance Du Coeur-’Somewhere’

Machita Dance Company-’Holding On’

Creative Dance Studio-’Memory’

Main Street Dance-’Crash Test Dummies’

Tari’s School of Dance-’The Hive’

Dance Institute-’Valse Romantique’

The Movement Dance Academy-’Trust Me Again’

Dance Graphics-’What’s Poppin’

Senior

Lancaster Dance Academy-’Humanity’

Texas Academy of Dance Arts-’Love Lost’

Main Street Dance-’9 Crimes’

The Dance Kollective-’Before I Go’

Artistic Dance Project-’Letting Go’

Studio Pick:

Dance Graphics-’What’s Poppin’

Lancaster Dance Academy-’Humanity’

Dance Institute-’Valse Romantique’

Artistic Dance Project-’Greed’

Collective Dance Artistry-’The One Who Goes Astray’

Avant Dance LLC-’Clap, Clap’

Modern Conceptions of Dance-’Distortion’

Dance Du Coeur-’Somewhere’

West Austin Dance Academy-’Missionary Man’

The Movement Dance Academy-’Trust Me Again’

The Dance Kollective-’Tap Is Life’

Main Street Dance-’Crash Test Dummies’

Machita Dance Company-’Holding On’

#nuvo #dance #houston #texas #2021

23 notes · View notes

incensuous · 3 years

Note

As today (April 15th) is not only my birthday but the birthday of Lord Byron's incest baby, Medora Leigh, let me tell you of the Hallmark miniseries of Frankenstein - starring Donald Sutherland as Captain Walton and (young) Matthew Crawley from Downton Abbey as Henry Clerval - and how they made it an accidentally incestuous mess.

In the book, Captain Walton has a sister, Margaret Saville. I assume she's his older sister but whatever. She never appears in the actual story, she is only mentioned in her brother's letters to her. Early on in the first half of the miniseries, Victor Frankenstein asks Walton if he's ever known love. Walton responds by showing him a picture of Margaret and says "My sister is my only love".

Now, this next bit is the part that killed me. In the book, The Monster hangs out on that old guys farm and reads his books and does nice stuff for him yeah? The old blind guy lives w/ his son Felix, Felix's Middle Eastern gf, and his sister Agatha. Now, I assume since this was the early 2000s and due to certain things the GF was wrote out. And they made Agatha and Felix A WHOLE ASS MARRIED COUPLE. WITH A KID (and maybe one on the way bc The Monster watches them do it - its not even graphic but you know they boning - at one point). THEY'RE SIBLINGS. WAS THAT ALLOWED IN BACKWOODS GERMANY? I mean its a cute af idea but why Hallmark?

Also the whole Victor and Elizabeth either being raised as siblings or cousins, which my mom thought was nasty but if they are blood they're only distantly related, so its okay actually?

Between the accidental incest and two implied sex scenes, Hallmark was balls to the wall two decades ago.

a;dngl;adns Happy Belated Birthday <3 hope you had a good one!

"My sister is my only love” okay tell me what you really think Walton!!! i honestly i can’t write fic as romantic as some canon/real life siblings actually are, because they can just be THAT Romantique

wait so... in the miniseries are Felix and Agatha still siblings at all?! even if they’re not, damn we love accidental incest lmao

#shipcest #consanguinamory #pastelclub #replies

13 notes · View notes

mastcomm · 4 years

Text

Skylar Brandt: A Ballerina Invests in Herself

On Mondays, the day most ballet dancers spend soaking their aching feet, Skylar Brandt, a soloist at American Ballet Theater, takes a different route. First, she has ballet class, then Pilates; next, a two-hour private coaching session at a City Center studio and, finally, a visit to the chiropractor.

“Sometimes my days off are harder than my days at A.B.T. just because I make it that way,” she said. “It’s a total investment in myself.”

She likes to work. Soloists, generally, have down time — too much for Ms. Brandt’s taste. “I just turned 27, and I feel like at this point I should be starting to experience more growth,” she said. Or some growth. It’s not just about being promoted; she really just wants to dance.

At Ballet Theater, Ms. Brandt has found that her best opportunities have arisen from filling in for injured dancers in prominent parts like Medora in “Le Corsaire,” Princess Praline in “Whipped Cream” and Columbine in “Harlequinade.”

She has been placed on standby — waiting backstage in costume and makeup, just in case — for Kitri in “Don Quixote” and Lise in “La Fille Mal Gardée.” She has never performed those parts, but she knows them because of those Mondays spent working on roles she might, at some point, get the chance to dance. As Kevin McKenzie, Ballet Theater’s artistic director, put it, she “has her focus so in place that nothing seems to rattle her.”

But while she is happy that Mr. McKenzie trusts her enough to give her “three days’ notice to learn a three-act ballet like ‘Le Corsaire,’” she said, she doesn’t want to build a career that’s dependent on her friends’ getting injured or sick.

Now she has a part to call her own. And it’s not a hand-me-down. It’s Giselle — though for just one show.

Securing the coveted debut — opposite Joo Won Ahn on Feb. 16 at the Kennedy Center in Washington — wasn’t easy. Each year, after Ballet Theater’s spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, Ms. Brandt meets with Mr. McKenzie to discuss what she might want to work on over the summer. This year she took a bold approach and flat-out asked him what she would be dancing the next year.

“He mentioned ‘Giselle’ and said something like, ‘keep a strong eye on it,’” she said. “So he alluded to it, but it didn’t seem definitive.”

Still, that was enough for Ms. Brandt to delve into the role under the guidance of the husband-and-wife team Maxim Beloserkovsky and Irina Dvorovenko, former American Ballet Theater principals who have been coaching her privately for four years.

The three worked on “Giselle” the summer. But when Ms. Brandt checked in with Mr. McKenzie in the fall, it seemed as though the part was no longer an option. She noticed, though, that there was a performance at the Kennedy Center with a cast to be announced. “I had to basically push for that show myself,” she said. “It would have been nice if I didn’t have to go in and keep pushing, but I also understand that sometimes that’s what you have to do to move forward.”

Or at least that’s what she has recently started to understand. Ms. Brandt, who has been part of the Ballet Theater world longer than most — she began studying at its Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in 2005 before joining the company in 2011 — doesn’t like to ask for parts. She prefers to operate on the assumption that good work is rewarded.

Ms. Brandt will debut as Aurora in Alexei Ratmansky’s “The Sleeping Beauty” in New York this spring, but she sees “Giselle” as presenting a different kind of artistic stretch. During the course of its two acts, the heroine — a peasant girl with a weak heart — falls in love with Albrecht, a nobleman disguising his true identity. When she realizes that he is betrothed to another, she goes mad and dies, ending up in the land of the Wilis, or spirits of women who died before they could marry. Ms. Brandt, tiny and radiant, is a technical virtuoso; Giselle calls for that and more.

“I have never been really great at adagio and moving slowly,” she said. “But I don’t know if I’ve ever tried or been coached in that kind of thing. In the second act especially, you have to be graphically precise because it’s so bare and so raw. That’s why I’m grateful to Irina and Max for sculpting and shaping me.”

Mr. Beloserkovsky, in a joint interview with his wife, called Ms. Brandt “the pioneer of the Irina and Max training program.”

In coaching a specific part, they like to give options. “We highlight what looks better, what looks more exciting,” Ms. Dvorovenko said. “But it’s her choice. You need to be in your skin. If you feel good, but it doesn’t project we’ll say that we need to try to do something else.”

Because of Ms. Brandt’s improved artistry and posts of her rehearsals on Instagram, many other dancers — including Isabella Boylston and Calvin Royal III of Ballet Theater — have also worked privately with the couple. The coaches know that their 360-degree approach isn’t for everyone. “Me screaming in one ear and Max in another,” Ms. Dvorovenko said, with a laugh. “It’s 3-D. Or 4-D.”

Because there are so many dancers at Ballet Theater, finding enough one-on-one time with coaches be difficult. Ms. Brandt said that even if she has one hour of variations coaching with the highly respected ballet mistress Irina Kolpakova — and that’s a lot of time to devote to one dancer — it’s still not enough.

But two consecutive hours is transformative. “It’s going to sink in a lot better because I don’t have the pressure of it ending,” she said.

At a recent rehearsal, Mr. Beloserkovsky hummed around Ms. Brandt like a bee while Ms. Dvorovenko sat in front, tapping a foot to emphasize certain counts as she narrated the action of the mad scene. At that moment, Giselle relives a memory from earlier in the ballet when she and Albrecht counted the petals of a flower in a game of “he loves me, he loves me not.” Albrecht had discarded a petal so that the answer would land on the affirmative. As Giselle realizes Albrecht’s duplicity, the memory comes flooding back.

“It’s like, the flower told me the truth,” Ms. Dvorovenko said.

Ms. Brandt nodded, but added, “I’m wary of making faces.”

Ms. Dvorovenko said: “You don’t need to make faces. It’s strong enough. You’re in the zone. You relive it. And also, you’re delaying everything because you’re still recalling everything.”

Mr. Beloserkovsky explained that’s why she needed to be slightly behind the beat: “I need somewhere that look of a crazy person.”

Ms. Brandt tried the moment again. Ms. Dvorovenko gasped. “That’s it,” she said. “Oh my God, it looks so fragile.”

Ms. Brandt wants her Giselle to stand out: not to look like just another village girl. After all, Albrecht chooses her. “I think it might be something about the eyes,” she said. “It’s like there’s got to be a little bit of mystery to her.”

She sighed. “I think my face moves a lot, so that’s something I’ve been working on,” she said. “Sometimes you need to have a half smile. It’s so hard, because you could be feeling something, but you almost have to pull it back. And the use of the eyes. It’s so minute.”

Mr. Beloserkovsky is big on projection; the eyes are everything. At one point, Ms. Brandt made her eyes ancient and luminous, like an icon. “I explained to her, ‘I’ve seen the ballet maybe 3,000 times, but what you just did I felt my skin,” he said. “We need to keep this.’”

The couple, who will also coach her on Aurora, see her shot at “Giselle” as huge. “It’s a ballerina role,” Mr. Beloserkovsky said. “It’s a lottery ticket.”

Growing up in Westchester and New York City, where she shared an apartment with her parents when her training intensified — her two sisters, one, a former Knick City Dancer, were by then enrolled in college — Ballet Theater was the only company she was interested in. Her mother, Barbara Brandt was a well-known fitness trainer in the 1990s; she trained John McEnroe, Joan Lunden and the football player Butch Woolfolk.

“I’m really close with my family,” she said. “Everyone knows my parents. They’re super open and because they’re in New York, they always welcome everyone with open arms into their house, so any friends that I have that have parents in China or wherever they are, my parents are practically surrogate parents to a lot of people.”

For Ms. Brandt, “Giselle” is more than a role, however important. It shows that she’s standing up for herself. And of course she would like to be promoted. “I definitely hope to achieve whatever I can at A.B.T., but if for whatever reason A.B.T. is not able to give me those things, then I’m open to going elsewhere,” she said. “I think I’ve been extremely narrow-minded my whole life.”

Now she is trying to be smart about her future and to put herself out there no matter what happens. “If I decide A.B.T. is the place for me, at least I will be staying from an empowered place versus feeling like I’m waiting for life to happen to me.”

And if she stays no matter what? “Maybe I still would prefer it over being elsewhere,” she said. “Because I chose to be there.”

from WordPress https://mastcomm.com/entertainment/skylar-brandt-a-ballerina-invests-in-herself-2/

#Entertainment

0 notes

classysandwichcollection-world · 7 years

Text

Marc Fisher LTD - Sunny 4

Find the low prices on women shoes flats dorsay Compare ratings and read reviews on Clothing stores to find best deals plus discount offers At: . There are many deals onwomen shoes flats dorsay in the Shops online, so research before you buy. Whether you are looking for women shoes flats dorsay, Can help you save money with online discounts and coupons on affordable selections - find a women shoes flats dorsay that is right for you.

Rerate Posts

Women Shoes Flats Mary Jane

Women Shoes Flats Dorsay

Women Shoes Flats Ballerina

Women Shoes Flats Comfort

Isola - Bricen

Rockport - Total Motion 20mm Cap Toe Skimmer w/ Medallion

VIONIC - Lively

Eric Michael - Iguana

Rialto - Sunnyside

Marc Fisher LTD - Sunny 4

Nine West - Munchkin

Nine West - Starship

Sam Edelman - Rosie

Betsey Johnson - HAZYL

Helle Comfort - Charis

Soft Style - Veda

ara - Barbara

Clarks - Danelly Alanza

PUMA - Bixley Glamm

Clarks - Medora Ally

Melissa Shoes - JW + Jean V

MICHAEL Michael Kors - Tabby Flat

Rieker - 41383 Doris 83

Steve Madden - Klaraa

Stuart Weitzman - Chicflat

Earth - Monarch

Sanuk - Yoga Ballet

J. Renee - Tabetha

ECCO - Touch Ballerina 2.0 Perf

Vaneli - Baffle

Sesto Meucci - Averil

Spring Step - Shrive

Blowfish - Ruckus

Vaneli - Garson

Wolky - Passion

Comfortiva - Satara

Bernardo - Dina

Franco Sarto - Spiral

LAUREN Ralph Lauren - Farrel

Annie - Easily

Reef - Shaded Summer ES

Nina - Pauline

Sofft - Benton

Crocs - Lina Graphic Flat

Cole Haan - Alice Detail Skimmer

Nine West - Gemma

J. Renee - Edie

Marc Fisher LTD - Salia

Marc Jacobs - Sienna Flat Espadrille

Keen - Sienna MJ Canvas

Naturalizer - Kana

Dirty Laundry - Limelight

Nine West - Onlee3

Walking Cradles - Dee

Steven - Anniie

Crocs - Kadee Flat Realtree Max-5

Jack Rogers - Rebecca

Stuart Weitzman - Chicflat

Camper - Right Nina - 21595

Stuart Weitzman - Rialto

Marc by Marc Jacobs - Sneaker Mouse

ECCO - Touch Ballerina Bow

PATRIZIA - Polly

Lucky Brand - Emmie

Marc Jacobs - Claudia Ghillie Ballerina Flat

Hush Puppies - Chaste Ballet

Clarks - Helina Alessia

Crocs - Lina Flat

Frye - Leo 2 Piece

El Naturalista - Stella N030

Rocket Dog - Acosta

CL By Laundry - Go Ahead

Trotters - Simmy

Bare Traps - Maiya

Marc Fisher LTD - Sunny 3

Gabor - Gabor 54.160

Walking Cradles - Dee

Rialto - Genevieve

Sanuk - Isabel

Naturalizer - Ivan

Summit by White Mountain - Madigan

Athena Alexander - Toffy

ECCO - Cayla Mary Jane

Cole Haan - Manhattan Demi Ballet

Report - Report Signature - Sphinx

SoftWalk - Naperville

French Sole - League

Think! - 86238

Yosi Samra - Lara

Nine West - Adelphine

Roxy - Malibu Espadrille

Soft Style - Darlene

MIA - Britta

Gabor - Gabor 44.169

Clarks - Cordella Alto

UGG - Perrie

ALDO - Shann

J. Renee - Geezel

SKECHERS - Career - Flower Power

Vaneli - Baldy

Naot Footwear - Gale

Stuart Weitzman - Chicflat

Sam Edelman - Francis

SKECHERS - Earth Fest - Repurpose

0 notes

mastcomm · 4 years

Text

Skylar Brandt: A Ballerina Invests in Herself

“Sometimes my days off are harder than my days at A.B.T. just because I make it that way,” she said. “It’s a total investment in myself.”

Now she has a part to call her own. And it’s not a hand-me-down. It’s Giselle — though for just one show.

“He mentioned ‘Giselle’ and said something like, ‘keep a strong eye on it,’” she said. “So he alluded to it, but it didn’t seem definitive.”

Mr. Beloserkovsky, in a joint interview with his wife, called Ms. Brandt “the pioneer of the Irina and Max training program.”

But two consecutive hours is transformative. “It’s going to sink in a lot better because I don’t have the pressure of it ending,” she said.

“It’s like, the flower told me the truth,” Ms. Dvorovenko said.

Ms. Brandt nodded, but added, “I’m wary of making faces.”

Mr. Beloserkovsky explained that’s why she needed to be slightly behind the beat: “I need somewhere that look of a crazy person.”

Ms. Brandt tried the moment again. Ms. Dvorovenko gasped. “That’s it,” she said. “Oh my God, it looks so fragile.”

The couple, who will also coach her on Aurora, see her shot at “Giselle” as huge. “It’s a ballerina role,” Mr. Beloserkovsky said. “It’s a lottery ticket.”

And if she stays no matter what? “Maybe I still would prefer it over being elsewhere,” she said. “Because I chose to be there.”

from WordPress https://mastcomm.com/skylar-brandt-a-ballerina-invests-in-herself/

#Entertainment

0 notes