Pirate fashion: argh, mateys Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest broke box office records in its first few weeks of release (the current take: more than $300 million). With such a huge profit generated by a swashbuckling adventure, it’s no wonder that other pop-culture-based industries are scrambling to board the pirate ship. Fashionistas […]
Jenna Chard
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RCDC steps into the spotlight
Eight dancers fly across the studio, jumping and spinning with technical prowess in time to the speeding music. A man in full business attire accompanies his pedestrian movements with an ever-changing, politically charged vocal soundtrack. Changing the pace, a woman in flowing white gently glides about the empty stage, pausing to contemplate the one movement […]
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Thoroughbreds of the performing arts
Outside it was a cold, snowy Rochester night. But inside a quiet Chestnut Street building, the Garth Fagan Dance studio was warm and bustling. A week before the start of its Rochester season, the award-winning company was in the midst of an intense rehearsal schedule. As the dancers trickled in and out of the studio, […]
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Land of the sweets
A little girl watches her Christmas dreams come to life on a magical journey through a land of dancing toys and sweets. By now this is a familiar story for most: The Nutcracker is performed on stages across the world year after year. And this year the Rochester City Ballet and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra […]
