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A Lesson in Swordfighting

Christina
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

Christina
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!

Christina
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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What is there to Love about BRAVO?

Christina
I’ve written about BRAVO (the Ballet Resource and Volunteer Organization) in earlier posts, but this time I wanted to share BRAVO members’ own feedback. So at our general membership meeting last week, I did a little survey. Methods:  Randomized, retrospective written survey posing three questions. Materials:  Paper, pen, and goodwill. Results:  BRAVO members love BRAVO [...]
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