Tony Foster Art Exhibit: 6:30 p.m. Jan. 22, 940 Commercial St., Palo Alto. See Foster’s wilderness landscape watercolors and listen to a presentation on the art and science of wildlife tracking by Meghan Walla-Murphy. Free. National Geographic Live! “Bob Poole — Nature Roars Back”: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 23, Hammer Theatre Center, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose. Join the acclaimed filmmaker for images and stories of Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park’s animals and scenery—and learn how the wild places we’ve broken can be put back together. $35-$45. www.hammertheatre.com.
At the dance parties, all teachers participate and encourage their students, They also keep a watchful eye out to see whose moves may need some finessing, “If we see someone going ‘astray,’ we know what we need to tackle in the next lesson, Mostly we encourage everyone to dance with each other, to get that feeling of variety,” says Garcia, On any given week, the husband-and-wife team will coach approximately 75 students, ranging in age from 8 to 80, Prospective dancers floral shoes for women, off white flat shoes, slip on shoes, indian shoes, ballet shoes, handmade designer shoes/juttis or mojar primarily come from the West Valley region, but several travel from Watsonville, Santa Cruz and other locales, Though at any time a select few students may be tuning up for competitions, the overwhelming majority are amateurs looking for an enjoyable way to get (and stay) fit, change up their exercise routine, and push beyond their comfort zone, The chance to make new friends is an added benefit, says Truong..
Sledge and her sisters Debbie, Kim and Kathy formed the Sister Sledge in 1971 in Philadelphia, their hometown, but struggled for years before success came. “The four of us had been in the music business for eight years and we were frustrated. We were saying: ‘Well, maybe we should go to college and just become lawyers or something other than music, because it really is tough,'” Joni told The Guardian in an interview last year. But then they met Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers of the hit group Chic, and their breakout soon came. The pair wrote and produced their album “We Are Family,” and soon the women had their first major hit with disco jam “The Greatest Dancer,” which became a top 10 hit in May 1979. (It would sampled years later for Will Smith’s hit “Getting Jiggy Wit It.”).
Formerly known as the Imperial Russian Ballet and later the Kirov, the St, Petersburg-based company features an extravagantly talented cast of ballerinas, including Alina Somova, Victoria Tereshkina, Ekaterina Kondaurova and Danila Korsuntsev, Set to Tchaikovsky’s soul-stirring score, Konstantin Sergeyev’s production is based on Petipa and Ivanov’s classic floral shoes for women, off white flat shoes, slip on shoes, indian shoes, ballet shoes, handmade designer shoes/juttis or mojar 1895 Imperial Ballet production, “Swan Lake” will be performed Oct, 10-14 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, Tickets are $30-$175; call 510-642-9988 or go to www.calperfs.berkeley.edu..
It’s not that “Shrek the Musical” is all that different from Disney stories, really — it’s just that, like the Oscar-winning DreamWorks animated movie on which the stage show is based (itself very loosely based on a children’s picture book by William Steig), it pokes fun at fairy-tale princess tropes and competitor Disney in particular. So it’s only natural that “Shrek” was also DreamWorks’ first foray into the Broadway business that had proved so lucrative for the Mouse House.
