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My preview of the ballet Don Quixote…

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog, Columns
June 15, 2009
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…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. …

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

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog
May 21, 2009
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…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 …

My preview of Fortier Danse Creation’s Cabane

By Edward Willett in Blog
April 23, 2009
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My preview of New Dance Horizon’s presentation of Montreal’s Fortier Danse Creation’s Cabane is in today’s LeaderPost. It begins: Cabane, says Paul-Andre Fortier of Montreal’s Fortier Danse Creation, is not your typical dance show: instead, it’s “somewhere between dance, theatre, performance art, installation and site-specific.” Presented by New Dance Horizons tonight at 8 p.m. in …

Photo of the Week: The Widow Simone

By Edward Willett in Blog
June 26, 2007
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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…?

My alma mater makes the news…

By Edward Willett in Blog
February 2, 2007
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…albeit it in slightly embarrassing fashion: “Mayhem at Harding: Dancing Breaks Out.” Oh, and there’s video.

Photo of the Weekend: Ballerina

By Edward Willett in Blog
December 11, 2006
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My daughter Alice, at rehearsal Saturday morning on stage at the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts (Conexus Arts Centre) in the final rehearsal for her apperance that night with her pre-ballet class from the Conservatory of Performing Arts. They danced the sugarplum fairy dance from The Nutcracker at the Regina Symphony Orchestra’s annual Christmas concert. …

Photo of the Day: Backstage

By Edward Willett in Blog
December 10, 2006
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Specifically, backstage at what is officially known as the Conexus Arts Centre, but most of us around here refuse to call anything other than the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts. (Conexus is a credit union, if you’re not from around here.) My darling daughter Alice appeared on stage tonight as one of the five-year-old ballerinas …

Prairie women remembered in dance

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog, Columns
March 29, 2000
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“Modern dance” and “prairie pioneer life” are two phrases that don’t get used together very often. This weekend at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, however, they’ll merge, under the direction of local dancer and choreographer Tracy Houser. On the Edge: Prairie Women , presented Saturday, April 1, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 2, at …