One of the Bay Area’s top dance companies, a slavery-era drama and a Russian pianist with a thing for Carnegie Hall top our list of cool stuff to do in the Bay Area. 1 Alonzo King LINES Ballet: This is one of the most consistently rewarding dance companies in the Bay Area, not just because of King’s compelling choreography and the talent and athleticism of his dancers but also because he is always cooking up intriguing collaborations and drawing world-class guest artists to his troupe’s performances. This company’s latest new work, debuting this week, is no exception. On his as-yet untitled work, King is working again with the superb classical bassist Edgar Meyer and Israeli mezzo-soprano Maya Lahyani, a 2010 San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow now based in New York and a regular performer with the Metropolitan Opera. The new work, set to works by Bach, Handel, Schumann and Purcell (performed live) also marks the return of popular former company dancer Meredith Webster as a guest soloist.
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HONOR ROLL: The Addison-Penzak Jewish Community Center in Los Gatos is honoring three longtime community volunteers at its annual gala Nov. 10. The three women — Cookie Addison of Los Gatos, Doris Davis of San Jose and Sylvia Metz of Saratoga — have combined for more than 150 years of service. All three have served as president of the JCC’s board of directors and were major funders of the capital campaign that resulted in the construction of the Levy Family Campus on Oka Road in 2004. More information on the event is available at www.apjcc.org/gala.
Nick Lazzarini won the first season’s competition on “So You Think You Can Dance” in 2005, He was 21 at the time, But he had already been dancing for 17 years, For him, dance had always been a vital form of self-expression, “If I didn’t have dance, I don’t know what I would have done,” Lazzarini, who hails from Mountain View, says, “At school, people were mean, If I didn’t have an outlet where I could go and just be myself, and not be afraid of being made fun of, I don’t know what would have 25% off children's knitted ballet slippers, ballerina shoes, handmade knitted slippers happened..
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