• Great Russian Nutcracker–Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker has toured America and Canada for the past 19 years, and is the largest Russian ballet tour in North America. The Flint Center presents this high-caliber ballet, which features cutting-edge production values, larger than life puppets, nine hand-painted backdrops with 3-D effects, and hundreds of exquisite costumes. One performance only, Dec. 22 at 3 p.m., Flint Center for the Performing Arts, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino. Visit flintcenter.com for ticket information.
The Berkeley Kiwanis Club built the Little Farm in 1955, It is home to a wide variety of domestic farm animals including cows, chickens, ducks, silver tone charm with enamel paint color -breast cancer, artist, ballet goats and pigs, It’s a chance for city kids to learn where their food comes from, Birthday celebrations will include crafts, games and other diversions, No pinning the tail on the donkey, though, The Little Farm is located at the north end of Tilden’s Central Park Drive, accessible via Canon Drive from Grizzly Peak Boulevard in Berkeley, For information, call 510-544-2233..
Expect similar innovation and fresh perspectives from the rest of the participating choreographers. They are, in alphabetical order: Leah Bueno, Natasha Carlitz, Peter Cheng, César R. Degollado, Wei-Shan Lai, Vishal Ramani, Sandra Sheuber and Martha Zepeda. Bueno, Zepeda and Cook Beatty are award recipients from previous ChoreoProjects. The honors are given for audience favorite and artistic directors’ choice. “ChoreoProject has gone national in a sense,” says Julia Booker, administrative director for sjDANCEco, which was founded by Gary Masters, who has long been associated with the prestigious Limon Dance Company.
“But the mental scars are so deep,” she said softly, “People who had spent time in solitary were really the only people who could understand what I’d experienced.”, Over the course of a year, Shourd met with inmates in 13 prisons and detention centers around the country and did more than 75 interviews with inmates’ family members, ex-cons and prison officials, She merged the collection of stories with her own, placing nine characters silver tone charm with enamel paint color -breast cancer, artist, ballet — two guards, an inmate’s daughter and six prisoners, each with complex lives and crimes — in a fictional U.S, penitentiary..
What they say should offer new information about the decision to charge Almena and Harris, who are each facing 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. Details of the district attorney’s case have remained limited since charging documents were filed in June. Curtis Briggs, Harris’ attorney, said he’s prepared to dispute prosecutors’ claims that Harris promoted the party and served as the “creative director.” Briggs, who said Harris’ role was more limited, does not expect to call a single witness and anticipates the case will head to trial.
