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 Feb 9 2009, 04:41 PM
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QUOTE (sandik @ Feb 9 2009, 11:48 AM)  QUOTE (Helene @ Feb 9 2009, 03:50 PM) I have forgotten the name of the former PNB corps member who has become a real estate agent, and I suspect there is more than one. It's so frustrating because I can visualize her. Wasn't that Erin Joseph? Yes! Thank you (IMG:http://ballettalk.invisionzone.com/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Feb 9 2009, 05:43 PM
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The food industry seems to be popular among retired dancers, Jock Soto and Christopher Stowell being examples.
Must have something to do with all those years of starvation. And wasn't Rachel Moore, Executive Director of ABT, a former dancer? |
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Feb 9 2009, 10:13 PM
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Jennifer Gelfand, former principal with Boston Ballet, is also a real estate agent.
Jennifer Gelfand -- Realtor |
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Feb 10 2009, 03:26 AM
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Stephen Wicks and Mark Welford, ex-BRB, opened a very posh (and very attractive) florists in Covent Garden. I think they also do after-dinner talks combining dance and floristry experiences.
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Feb 10 2009, 02:15 PM
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Rahm Emmanuel, White House Chief of Staff.
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Feb 10 2009, 02:55 PM
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Svetlana Zakharova has not retired but she has embarked on a new career in Russian politics, as a member of the Duma (United Russia party). Link to article in the Times of London's Sunday edition:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...amp;attr=797093 I did not post another link -- to the UK tabloid, The Sun -- because of racy topless pics of some female athletes who also joined the Duma along with Zakharova. The photo of Zakharova is G-rated (a lovely Kitri) and accompanies the following quotable quotes from the ballerina: SVETLANA ZAKHAROVA The 28-year-old principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet said: “Everything about the Kremlin excites me. “There is some mighty energy concentrated there. “Even the air is different.” .... Finally, a link to a USA newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor, which does NOT contain racy photos. (IMG:http://ballettalk.invisionzone.com/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0805/p07s01-woeu.html |
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Feb 10 2009, 08:28 PM
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Ron Reagan -- former Joffrey dancer and son of President Ronald Reagan -- now works as a political correspondent for MSNBC and covers dog shows for Animal Planet.
Ron Reagan |
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Feb 10 2009, 08:48 PM
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Audrey Hepburn was originally a ballerina but quit due to her height (which was unusually tall at the time). But she carried the ballerina grace with her for the rest of her life. (IMG:http://ballettalk.invisionzone.com/style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)
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Feb 11 2009, 01:33 PM
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Vicky Powell a dancer with Sadler's Wells (now Birmingham) Royal Ballet studied law, qualified as a solicitor and is now prominent in London local politics. She was made DBE for services to the community and is now Dame Sally (her real name) Powell.
And I seem to remember Arthur Mitchell saying that one of his dancers had become a surgeon, but I don't think he mentioned a name. |
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Feb 11 2009, 03:35 PM
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QUOTE (zerbinetta @ Feb 9 2009, 11:43 PM) The food industry seems to be popular among retired dancers, Jock Soto and Christopher Stowell being examples. Must have something to do with all those years of starvation. I don't know about the starving part, but I know lots of dancers who are very thoughtful cooks. Kari Brunson, from the Pacific Northwest Ballet, blogs for a local paper on food and cooking. anticiplate |
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Feb 12 2009, 04:14 PM
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New Mexico's snow survey program director for the Natural Resources Conservation Service is named Wayne Sleep.
I think it may be safe to assume there is more than one Wayne Sleep on the planet. |
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Feb 12 2009, 05:50 PM
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QUOTE (ViolinConcerto @ Feb 9 2009, 01:34 PM) Loudes Lopez is the executive director of Morphoses! Lourdes, of course, was ED of the Balanchine Foundation before she went to work for Morphoses, but before the Foundation, she had a brief stint as an arts beat reporter for NBC's flagship station here in New York! That was both surprising and, in a way, not. After seeing Lourdes lead a lecture-demo on the NYST stage when she was still a fairly new principal dancer, I had the feeling that she wanted her next career to be acting. (IMG:http://ballettalk.invisionzone.com/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Feb 12 2009, 11:28 PM
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QUOTE (Cygnet @ Feb 10 2009, 08:15 PM) Rahm Emmanuel, White House Chief of Staff. I've seen this piece of information several places, but no one has said anything about his training -- where was he studying? |
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Feb 12 2009, 11:29 PM
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I think Karen Kain did some broadcast journalism with the CBC when she first retired.
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Feb 12 2009, 11:56 PM
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I don't know about Karen, but your post made me think of Veronica Tennant, an award-winning screenwriter, director, and producer as well as an author of children’s books, a narrator and TV host, since her retirement.
Veronica Tennant |
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