Top Spring Dance Performances

Top Spring Dance Performances

Compiled by Staff   Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet: Swan Lake Presented by Virginia Arts Festival March 31 – April 2 Chrysler Hall Granted its “Royal” title in 1953 by the just-crowned Queen Elizabeth II, this legendary troupe is one of the world’s oldest premier...
Send in the Clowns

Send in the Clowns

By Jim Roberts Ivan Vargas is a happy clown, but he broke character last May at the final Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus performance that featured elephants. “I usually keep my emotions in check because I’m out there performing,” he said in a recent...
Paris, je t’aime

Paris, je t’aime

Words & Photos by Tom Robotham How is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city? You can’t. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form. ~...