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- Audience Favorites Feature Captain Abu Raed Fields of Fuel Man on…
- Daughter of Opera
- Luke Jennings on this week’s dance | Stage | The Observer
- Breathe in breathe out. Then get crazy.
- Lack of satisfaction is secret to Woods’ success
- Healing arts give Converse students a more expressive feel to therapy
Audience Favorites Feature Captain Abu Raed Fields of Fuel Man on…
Rolling Stone – Jan 27, 2008
The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to FROZEN RIVER directed by Courtney Hunt about a desperate trailer mom and a Mohawk Indian girl who team up to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States from Canada. The film chronicles French artist Philippe Petit’s daring dance on a wire suspended between New York’s Twin Towers and his subsequent arrest for what would become known as ?the artistic crime of the century. An ostracized and bullied teenager who excels only in ping pong descends into an acrimonious struggle with his younger more popular brother when the truth about their family history and their father surfaces over the course of their spring break. The Audience Awards are presented to both a dramatic and documentary film in four Competition categories as voted by Sundance Film Festival audiences. The 2008 Sundance Film Festival Audience Awards are presented by Volkswagen of America Inc… The film chronicles French artist Philippe Petit’s daring dance on a wire suspended between New York’s Twin Towers and his subsequent arrest for what would become known as ?the artistic crime of the century. An ostracized and bullied teenager who excels only in ping pong descends into an acrimonious struggle with his younger more popular brother when the truth about their family history and their father surfaces over the course of their spring break. The Audience Awards are presented to both a dramatic and documentary film in four Competition categories as voted by Sundance Film Festival audiences. The 2008 Sundance Film Festival Audience Awards are presented by Volkswagen of America Inc. The Audience Award: Documentary was presented to FIELDS OF FUEL directed by Josh Tickell. A look at America’s addiction to oil Tickell is a man with a plan and a Veggie Van who is taking on big oil big government and big soy to find solutions in places few people have looked.
Daughter of Opera
NEWS.com.au – Jan 27, 2008
article-tools –> January 27 2008 11:20pm. content-row clearfloat –> ART really has imitated life for Adelaide performer Nadia Komazec. She’s back in town on a break from performing as the dance teacher’s daughter Meg Giry in the epic musical Phantom of the Opera. Nadia’s been singing and dancing since age two taught by her own mother Barbara. "I play this little ballet girl who’s always running around in ballet shoes.
Luke Jennings on this week’s dance | Stage | The Observer
The Observer – Jan 27, 2008
Created in 1952 as a vehicle for Fonteyn it provides a wonderfully varied ballerina role. In Act 1 as the virginal nymph Yanowsky is steely and athletic all taut gaze and stage-devouring bounds. Struck by Eros’s arrow she is suddenly and flutteringly in love her longing for the fallen Aminta expressed through dancing of soft satiny breadth. In Act 2 as the captive of Avis’s Orion a suitor whose bling-draped tent clearly offers all manner of dark excitements she is willowy and evasive. And in Act 3 a homage to the great Tsarist choreographer Marius Petipa she is the grand poised ballerina drawing exultant curves and lavish arabesques. The famous pizzicato solo is particularly subtly handled with all of the ballet’s thematic tensions finding expression in the counterpoint between Yanowsky’s lush épaulement and precision footwork. And if the men are less strongly drawn than the women Makhateli is perfectly serviceable in the eye-candy role of Aminta just as Avis is suitably villainous… And all of this because Orpheus disobeyed Pluto. Only the gods get to break the rules.
Breathe in breathe out. Then get crazy.
San Francisco Chronicle – Jan 27, 2008
A workshop called Mandala Namaskar: The Healing Power of Circular Movement Within Yoga was led by Shiva Rea leading teacher of transformational Vinyasa flow yoga and yoga trance dance worldwide. Rea led students through variations of standard yoga poses that extended and flowed beyond typical postures. Done to music the practice was akin to dance. Crank up the music” she instructed her assistants and to the students she exhorted “break out of the box” whether that box was the rectangular yoga mat rigid linear movement or another stifling aspect of one’s life. The ecstatic joyful nature of music carried through Franti’s Move and Be Moved: Music and Yoga workshop as well. Franti and his guitarist Bowman got participants up off their mats with their hands up in the air and soon the almost entirely female group broke into freeform dancing and cheering.
Lack of satisfaction is secret to Woods’ success
ESPN – Jan 27, 2008
‘ I hit it short of the green. … On 15 I was trying to hit kind of a low cut and to be honest with you I hit it a little bit off the toe and hit kind of a low draw. …”I’ve gotten some pretty good breaks the past couple days some pretty good lies in the rough … I got a lucky break and it stayed up. … I got a couple of good bounces on the greens. …” Based on Woods’ words — and yes these are all quotes from his truly this past week — you’d get the feeling he had been shanking it around Torrey Pines like an 18-handicapper not winning in dominant fashion. He might not be an eternal pessimist but the five bogeys Woods carded this week (four of which came on Sunday) will stick in his craw longer than the 24 birdies will leave him smiling. He’ll be able to see some clouds peeking through that great big silver lining… Although his peers look at Woods’ game and see an unbeatable dominant presence the game’s top-ranked player views himself as a work in progress never quite reaching the level of perfection others allow him. Should any other player procure an eight-shot PGA Tour victory it would take a crowbar to pry the smile from his face. Copies of all four rounds would find a permanent place in the home DVD player and thoughts of the win would dance in the mind for the remainder of the season. Not so for Woods of course. With a straight face he declared Sunday “I still have holes in my game that I need to fix and need to improve on. I just think that what I’ve been working on I’m headed in the right direction. Yes he’s headed in the right direction.
Healing arts give Converse students a more expressive feel to therapy
Spartanburg Herald Journal – Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription… – Jan 27, 2008
She said the art therapy course offers an alternative to conventional therapy. By EMILY DAGOSTINOemily. com Published: Sunday January 27 2008 at 3:15 a… “There are some things that art therapy can offer a client that maybe play therapy can’t” Bagwell said. “It just helps you develop a lot of respect for therapy as a career and for the expressive therapies which people don’t know a whole lot about. “They added that they hoped using the different modalities in their own careers would expand future clients’ horizons and help break down the traditional therapy stereotype and some of the skepticism that exists about therapy in general. The course also was meant to help reintegrate some of the original healing rituals that came before psychology and the science of medicine Hurlbut said. “We’ve switched over to the medical model” she added. “But now there’s a more integrative approach that’s coming back. People are saying ‘Well yeah I took the medications but something’s still not right.