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MOMIX Botanica paints beautiful pictures

By On 2011.03.19 · Leave a Comment

MOMIX‘s Botanica shown at the NAC tonight was a fantastic show by this world-renowned company of dancer-illusionists.  Creative, beautiful, and astonishing images with breathtaking backdrops and fantastic costumes.  Would I see this again?   In a flash!

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The Kirov Ballet gave Ottawa quite a show!

By On 2011.02.25 · Leave a Comment

A Russian production on a grand scale, with glittering costumes and exquisite dancers! Virtuoso performances by the Kirov’s lead dancers against a corps background of some 30-40, including special appearances by a number of Ottawa students.  Bravo!

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Kingston/Picton trip

By On 2010.07.15 · Leave a Comment

OK, all right — here’s a (brief!) update from me, too. 

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AutoX, part deux

By On 2009.06.07 · 1 Comment

Day 2 was better.  Walked the course three or four times, then pored over and studied the map hard.  Was rewarded with … DNF!  Aargh!

Second run, finally

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Have I been bitten by the AutoX bug?

By On 2009.05.24 · 2 Comments

Time will tell.  My first autox event behind the wheel was interesting, and humiliating,

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MCO driving school was peanuts…

By On 2009.05.23 · 1 Comment

Peanuts, figure eights, trapezoids and slalom, that is.  Today, I proudly completed the MCO (Motorsports Club of Ottawa) Performance Control School with a certificate to prove it.

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Crystal Pite/Kidd Pivot – Dark Matters

By On 2009.04.26 · Leave a Comment

OK, I’m officially a fan of this choreographer and dancer now!

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Grupo Corpo sizzles in Breu

By On 2009.03.22 · Leave a Comment

The second time seeing this Brazilian dance company, I was not disappointed.

seven or eight pieces for a Ballet and Breu were about as different as it is possible for a dance company to perform, yet the dancers brought these two pieces to life and danced them with grace, agility and sensuality.

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Performance and dance world, I’ve been remiss…!

By On 2009.03.22 · Leave a Comment

My last post was for Midsummer Night’s Dream by Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, a little over a year ago.  To bring this site up to date, since then, we’ve been to the Cirque du Soleil’s Corteo,Estampas Portenas‘s Tango Fire, Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo (not to be confused [...]

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Snowed-In: Update

By On 2008.03.09 · Leave a Comment

“The sun will come out tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow…” I wouldn’t have believed it yesterday when Ottawa was in the throes of one of the worst snowstorms in my memory, but as I look up out the basement window today, the sun is shining.

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