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A Coppélia Vision

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It could have been a Degas painting: twenty-four young girls silhouetted against the pale blue backside of the rear projection screen. Gold sequined, lace appliqués sparkle on stiff-standing pink tutus. Tiara jewels quiver and twinkle with the slightest movement. We are standing all the way to the rear, behind the stage, safely out of the way of [...]
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A Lesson in Swordfighting

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BRAVO volunteers have five children to chaperone in each performance of Romeo & Juliet. Backstage with the children this evening, I had a special treat: watching Marty Pistone, the fight director on this production, teach them stage combat techniques for the performance. In the production, the two little boys mimic their elders with some mock [...]
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Petrouchka Vignette

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As a BRAVO chaperone for the thirteen children in Fokine’s Petrouchka, I was amazed and rather moved when I went downstairs in the Opera House backstage and saw stacks of  the hampers that the production’s costumes came to us in, shipped all the way from the Birmingham Royal Ballet in the United Kingdom.  So old-fashioned!  [...]
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Welcome to Club Nut!

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Last night a group of volunteers spent a couple of hours transforming Lucy and Fritz Jewett Studio from a ballet practice space into . . . Club Nut. Outside in the hallway, a cluster of pale blue-leotarded girls peeked in. “I’m in Club Nut! Are you?” Today when our youngest cast members leave the Opera House [...]
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