Tag: ballet

My preview of the ballet Don Quixote…

…being presented this week by Class Act Performing Arts Studio and Do It With Class Young People’s Theatre (and in which, full disclosure, my daughter Alice is playing a chicken), is in today’s Regina LeaderPost. An excerpt: Eduardo Ventura, one of the ballet instructors at Class Act and Do It With Class, will dance Basilio. …

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My preview of the Youth Ballet of Saskatchewan’s year-end performances…

…is in today’s Regina LeaderPost. An excerpt: More than 350 dance students from age three on up will take to the stage of the Conexus Arts Centre this weekend as the Youth Ballet Company of Saskatchewan, celebrating its 25th anniversary, presents two year-end performances. “There’s a little bit of duplication, but not very much,” says …

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Photo of the Week: The Widow Simone

Here I am in all my glory as the Widow Simone in Class Act Studio‘s upcoming production of the comic ballet La Fille mal Gardée: Perhaps I should ask that this be used as my photo on book covers from now on…?

Professional entertainment, amateur audiences

Last night I attended the Conservatory of Performing Arts Ballet Program’s outstanding production of La Fille mal Gardée at the University Theatre at the University of Regina. The production was just one more example of the incredible depth of talent we have here in Regina, demonstrated both by the young people who did the dancing …

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