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Showing posts with label Dancers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dancers. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Monday, January 15, 2024
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
A word of caution
Dancers are very territorial. If you come upon a dance-off for dominance, make no sudden moves, but back away slowly and in as non-graceful a fashion as possible. Also, be sure to walk without rhythm.
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Ellen's Leg Regimen
Ellen Majewski, one of the Shades of Gray dancers, keeps her leg strength up by doing lifts with a bowling ball thirty minutes each day.
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Monday, July 17, 2023
Musical Monday with Leo Moracchioli
The Shades of Gray Dancers are setting the mood for today's cover song by Leo Moracchioli--by being dust in the wind.
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Is it time to stop?
We've been tracking the dancers in the wild for a year now. Is this where we stop the monthly posts? Will the dancers be left alone until next International Dance Day?
Monday, June 19, 2023
Musical Monday with Incubus
The band may be named after a male demon who preys upon the sexual urges of mortals, but none such creature is anywhere to seen in the video for a somewhat haunting song. Instead, we are treated to some beautiful dancing by Manaho Shimokawa while Brandon Boyd (lead singer of Incubus) croons about the strange and miserable situation he finds himself in.
Loneliest (2017)
Starring: Manaho Shimokawa and Brandon Boyd
Director: Julian Schratter
Rating: Seven of Ten Stars
Sunday, April 30, 2023
The Day of Rest
Saturday, April 29, 2023
International Dance Day with Leslie Caron
Born in 1931 to a chemist father and a retired ballerina mother, Leslie Caron began taking dance lessons at the age of 11. Dedication to the craft and natural ability caused her to be counted among the best ballerinas in France by the time she was 16. When she was 18, she was "drafted" into films by Gene Kelly, who wanted a top-notch co-star for the musical/dance extravaganza "An American in Paris" (1951).
Caron's screen presence and acting abilities were as remarkable as her dancing, and she soon became as big a star in Hollywood musicals as she had been on the stages of Paris. She spent the 1950s and 1960s in big-budget musicals. As the 1970s dawned, she made a successful transition into dramatic roles and was among the few musical stars who kept her career growing after that film genre fell out of favor.
For more than eight decades, Caron has graced us with her poise and beauty and talent on the big screen, on television, and on stage (with her most recent role being in the Swedish made-for-TV movie "Written on Water" (2020).
We're present this small gallery of images in celebration of Caron, as well as International Dance Day.
It's International Dance Day AND Arbor Day!
This year, International Dance Day coincides with Arbor Day, so some of the ballerinas who ran off to dance their way through the wide world are spending it with the trees that have become their friends.
Others are dancing with or for their mighty friends...
... and some, like Irena, are communing with the spirits of trees long gone.
A few of them did return to Shades of Gray HQ for some slightly more traditional International Dance Day activities...
But the question now is... how long will they stay?
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