Geri Jeter
Story Archive
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Culture
Someone to Watch: Martha Banks
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 This past spring in New York, soprano and UNLV doctoral candidate Martha Banks took top honors at the Classical Singer magazine competition.
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Entertainment
Dancer from the dance
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 A Choreographers’ Showcase blends artists from the various Cirque du Soleil productions and Nevada Ballet Theatre in a collaboration that reveals the depth of Las Vegas’s choreographic and dance talent.
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Culture
CSN Fall Dance Concert
Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009 This performance could have gone seriously wrong.
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Entertainment
Three questions with pianist Joel Fan
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 The billboard top-10 classical artist will accompany the Las Vegas Philharmonic for Gershwin’s “Piano Concerto in F.”
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Nevada Ballet Theatre
Ballet season-opener leaves room for improvement
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 It’s always exciting to attend the first performance of a new ballet season—especially one that showcases the efforts of a new artistic director. If only the results had equaled the anticipation.
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Fine Art
Las Vegas Philharmonic Pops Series’ A Night at the Movies
Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 Film meets Philarmonic at the Pops Series' A Night at the Movies.
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Dance
The future of local dance
Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009 If you are neither friend nor relative of a student dancer, why should you spend the money on a ticket to see them? Here's why...
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Entertainment
Praise the Lord
Thursday, July 2, 2009 Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance is a welcome change from the latest Cirque shows' overstaged, under-choreographed spectacles. Loosely held together by its Irish folklore-based, good-versus-evil plot, the show revolves around Irish step dancing and its modern variations.
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A&E
Celebrating Roth
Thursday, June 18, 2009 Thirty years after Kelly Roth & Dancers’ New York debut, the company will present a retrospective of dances and multimedia projects created by its choreographer and director, Kelly Roth.
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UNLV
Two of a kind
Thursday, March 19, 2009 The paired works on this weekend’s UNLV Opera Theatre bill abandon the upper classes and the mythical characters that form the basis for most grand opera, instead focusing on the plight of ordinary people. How refreshing.
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Dining
60-second grocery shopper
Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 One of the most popular protein sources in the American diet, not all tuna is created equal.
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Entertainment
Canoodling with Tchaikovsky
Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 From its passionate opening symphony to its romantic finish, the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s All-Tchaikovsky Program is the perfect choice for a Valentine’s Day date.
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Dining
60-second grocery shopper
Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009 When you work late or have a million things to do before you finally go home, it’s tempting to do the fast-food thing or resume your friendship with the local pizza-delivery guy. An alternative is to cruise your local Trader Joe’s.
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Dining
60-second grocery shopper
Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008 Masala and stir-fry dishes often depend on making a ginger and garlic paste to act as an integral layer of flavor. Laxmi Ginger-Garlic Paste is one good shortcut.
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Dining
60-second grocery shopper
Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008 Winter is here, and what better way to revel in the cold than with ice cream? Yup. Nothing like ice cream on a cold day to make you forget those 100-degree moments in July.
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Culture
Dance the night away
Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008 For its fall outing, the College of Southern Nevada Dance Department offered a bill mixing an abstract and intellectually distant duet with a large-scale cynical view of interpersonal relationships, stopping along the way for an introspective solo and a psychedelic trip down Boomer memory lane.
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Entertainment
Dance … with a twist
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008 One year it’s a ballerina escaping the Nazis, the next year Princess Diana shares the stage with the Heaven’s Gate mass-suicide cult—mixing it up is the name of the game for Kelly Roth and the College of Southern Nevada dance department.
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Entertainment
‘A living gallery’
Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008 Co-directors Richard Havey and Gail Gilbert have created the Nevada Dance Project—a dance umbrella that offers the opportunity for contemporary choreographers and dancers to show their best work, new or preexisting, but always original.
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Entertainment
Partners in choreography
Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008 One of the recent highlights of the local dance scene has been the unique collaboration between the high-concept Cirque du Soleil and the classically oriented Nevada Ballet Theatre.
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Entertainment
It’s more than the steps
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008 Giselle tops most ballet companies’ wish lists. One of the most significant works of the Romantic era, the ballet has challenged dancers and directors since its 1841 debut in Paris.
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Features
Fall A+E Guide: Performing Arts
Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008 From ballet based on Chinese folklore to the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Geri Jeter offers the fall forecast in the performing arts.
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Four Queens
Love Downtown!
Thursday, May 22, 2008 A gentle reminder that the most kick-ass deals are still Downtown