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When I first heard that Caroline Calouche & Co. were bringing a new collection of choreographies, Spring Forward, to the McBride/Bonnefoux Center, I already surmised that the title might just as easily been Spring Upwards without any loss of accuracy. For Calouche & Co. are proponents of aerial dance in all its varieties.
And indeed, with all the apparatuses that were to be used in the six pieces already in place before the program began, the McBride/Bonnefoux's main studio looked like an aerial dance factory. A trapeze, a suspended hoop, bungee cords, twin aerial silks and slings, and a huge suspended skeleton of a cube were all reasonably secured to the flyloft - no dancers fell, anyway.
Calouche herself was the busiest dancer in her 11-person troupe, particularly when the choreographies went airborne. She can also be a busy choreographer, as her opening piece, "Solo con... ," demonstrated. Less would have been more as this solo unfolded on a trapeze, set to music by Lucovico Einaudi. Held positions were graceful and beautiful, softly dramatized by Jennifer O'Kelly's lighting, but the transitions between them were usually rushed and unmusical.
StillOut Photography Club - an Charlotte LGBT-friendly group with a fancy for snapping pics - is holding an opening reception for its 3rd Annual Photography exhibit at the LGBT Community Center this evening. Admission is free (though donations won't be denied). A portion of donations and sales from art go towards funding at the LGBT Community Center. Check out a sample of featured works from the exhibit below.
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, March 30, 2012 — as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Opening reception for MoNa and Untethered Land exhibits at MoNa Gallery
• SpeakEasy at Prohibition
• Mavis Staples at McGlohon Theatre
• Temperance League, The Bear Romantic, Little Bull Lee and Saint Solitude at Snug Harbor
• Charlotte Symphony: All Tchaikovsky at Belk Theater
Sometimes we journalists get bored. Can you blame us? We sit through hours of meetings, sort through thousands of documents and then rap away at a keyboard all night, only to produce an 800-word article that our social-media department will condense into a far more interesting tweet.
So it should be perfectly understandable why, sometimes, we get a little wild.
Now we know who scored one of the biggest contracts of the Democratic National Convention, worth more than $3 million for transportation management. But there are still sub-contracting and employment opportunities for Charlotte residents and businesses. That's according to the Democratic National Convention Committee, the Committee for Charlotte 2012 and contract-winner representatives who, on Wednesday, rolled up to Bank of America Stadium on a bus. Literal, but effective.
Mirror Mirror - Julia Roberts, Lily Collins
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt
Wrath of the Titans - Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson