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Slowly building momentum since his appointment as artistic director in 2010 while keeping a tight rein on the budget — a necessity after the company almost folded due to financial straits — he displayed particularly sure footing in marking Oakland Ballet’s 50th season last spring. The recent Special Award from the Isadora Duncan Awards Committee recognizing the company’s golden anniversary celebration, which highlighted Oakland Ballet’s glorious Sergei Diaghilev legacy, came as a delight but no surprise. The British-born Lustig took a break from rehearsing the ballet for the start of its sixth decade to talk, and his reaction to the Izzie sounded more California teen than stiff upper lip.

As the strains of “If We Were a Movie” play out, the kids go through their routine, At the end of the song, the girls chase Tyler, the only boy in the 6- to 11-year-old group, all around the room, “That’s the best part,” Tyler said, “because I get to run away from them.”, Santi also teaches ballroom dancing to children as young as 3 years old, as well as teens and adults, “The adults want to dance socially and be functional at events,” Santi said, “My hope is these kids will grow up feeling confident to go ballet bracelet out and dance at events, Dancing builds self-confidence and can lead to partnerships and teamwork.”..

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Joo grew up in Norwich, England, began piano around age 7 and met Igudesman about five years later, in the mid-1980s, at the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey, England, named after and then run by the famous violinist, Menuhin wasn’t a classical purist, With his freewheeling interests, and his collaborations with Ravi Shankar and jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli, he became a model for Igudesman and Joo, “We’re born of the same pea pod,” Joo says, “And we were so in love with the classical music that we heard and played,” Igudesman says, “But ballet bracelet sometimes we went to concerts, where the attitude was more like the air of a funeral, not a celebration, The audience would not be allowed to make noise, And the musicians came in somberly, all dressed up, And we thought it was really strange — and then they would play this ecstatic, incredible music.”..

Suddenly, the mass of brass instruments and woodwinds, drums, cymbals and bells burst into the group’s jubilant signature opening half-time show drill. As the dress rehearsal got underway, former Band Director Orrin Cross watched his legacy with a mixture of pride and nostalgia. “It was not all in vain — it’s continued, it’s growing, and that’s healthy,” he said, his voice cracking. Still sprightly at 80, Cross poured 25 years of his life into building a handful of inexperienced musicians into this 160-member award-winning machine that has earned accolades far beyond Pittsburg. The band has performed at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and will appear in London’s New Year’s Day Parade in January. Cross also was honored last month for his accomplishments in the performing arts as one the first inductees into the Pittsburg Entertainment &Arts Hall of Fame.