Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 132
October 19, 2015
Sergei Polunin Performing to Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” & Directed by David LaChapelle….
Originally posted on NYC Dance Stuff:
Sergei Polunin
“Take me to Church” by Hozier
Directed by David LaChapelle
Choreography by Jade Hale-Christofi
Sergei Polunin Performing to Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” & Directed by David LaChapelle
Spotlight on the Dancer: Kirsten Bloom Allen
Originally posted on California Ballet Company's Blog:
For our first program of the season, Septime Webre’s The Great Gatsby, we are extremely fortunate to have principal guest artists Jared Nelson and Kirsten Bloom Allen join us to portray Jay Gatsby and Daisy Fay Buchanan. Mr. Nelson retired from The Washington Ballet this past spring and has come out of retirement to reprise this role which he originated. Mrs. Allen retired from the Sacramento Ballet in 2010 to start her family, but perfo...
Vote for Ben – for Mills & Boon (Harlequin UK) Man of the Year 2016!
Originally posted on Ben Starling:
Mills & Boon (Harlequin UK) is searching for a Man of the Year 2016 – and Ben is is the running!
The winner will be featured on the front of their Valentine’s Day blockbuster release – and Ben has now been selected for the Top 3 to be featured in The Daily Mail on Saturday October 24th.
Help Ben stay in with a chance – please vote for him here!
Press Release: No Beauty Without Strangeness
Originally posted on horroraddicts.net:
No Beauty Without Strangeness – Coming this October to Los Angeles County
SugarMynt Gallery is excited to announce its upcoming Halloween themed exhibition, No Beauty Without Strangeness. As SugarMynt’s third themed exhibition, excitement is gaining for this new show. No Beauty Without Strangeness will display new works that are dark, daring, and out of the norm for the Los Angeles art scene, presenting a combination of the darker side of fine and con...
Mary Lindell Part 1
Originally posted on Born on 11th September 1895, Mary Ghita Lindell was on course to live an intriguing life. She wasnearly 19 when the Great War broke out and her father said ‘The honour of Great Britain is saved.We are now at war with Germany. Mary you will have to go.’
So Mary Lindell, as expected, enlistedin the Red Cross’s Volunteer Aid Detachment. While with the VAD she had her first run in withhierarchy; this would lead to her being imprisoned for one night in a stable block, takin...
Call For Art and Photography
Originally posted on Art Quench Magazine:
October 18, 2015
‘In This Song I Will Make Mention of the Sons of Erin’: Researching Irish Songs from the American Civil War
Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:
From early in the American Civil War songs began to emerge focusing on aspects of the Irish experience of the conflict. Many of these tunes remain familiar to us today, but beyond their often rousing lyrics, what were they originally intended to convey? To explore this further I am delighted to welcome a guest post from an expert in the area, friend of the site Catherine Bateson of the University of Edinburgh. Catherine is one of a number...
Jane Pierce: First Lady of Sorrows
Originally posted on Presidential History Blog:
Some people are born with a melancholy gene. Like Jane Appleton Pierce.
A Solemn Girl
Jane Appleton Pierce, First Lady 1853-57) was always a sad figure. The adjective used to describe her was “woebegone.”
There was nothing in Jane Appleton’s (1806-63) childhood that suggested merriment. She was a New Englander, her father a Congregational minister, and strict religious observance was key to her personality and character. But it was morbid de...
How Did The Victorians Celebrate Halloween?
Originally posted on For Whom the Gear Turns:
In some ways Halloween is fairly recent phenomena, and incredibly old in others. The roots of this holiday we all know and love come from around 2,500 years ago in Celtic tradition. The festival of Samhain, or Summer’s End, was celebrated on October 31 and was all about the transition between seasons and preparations for the harvest. In later years, the powers that be in the Christian church sought to bring pagans into the fold and appropriate ma...
War Horse Part 4: The Persians
Originally posted on If It Happened Yesterday, It's History:
Painting of Cyrus The Great in battle.
The rise of the Achaemenid or Persian Empire in the sixth century BC was swift, arguably due to the endeavours of Persia’s first influential king, Cyrus The Great. Although, the Achaemenid empire’s power never truly extended west beyond the fringes of the Balkans, its glorious reign over two centuries, nonetheless left a remarkable legacy on the people’s and cultures of Babylon, Egypt, Greece...
