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Freedom Train

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Patricia Vaccarino
December 31, 2016

 

I’m looking for a ride to take me where I need to go. I’m looking for the freedom train. I know it’s there. I’ve seen it before. I’m going to find it again. I’m going to take that ride. I’m going to get where I need to go.

Deep down inside I know the truth about America and so do you. Democracy is fundamentally stewardship in action. Being a good steward means that we take care of things. Money, cars, houses, jobs,...

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How To Make Good Ski Photographs

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December 19, 2016

by William Lulow

With the ski season coming up, here are a couple of tips for getting good ski shots.  As I usually take a camera with me whenever I go just about anywhere, and since skiing has been a passion for the last 40 years or so, I love to make skiing images. The best advice I can give for those interested in making good ski shots is to separate the skiing from the photography. If you are going skiing to challenge...

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Ilya Moshenskiy | Joyful Photographer

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December 15, 2016

What is Joy? Is it a thought, a feeling or a fleeting notion touching us one moment and gone the next? Is Joy deeper and more meaningful than happiness. Here are some photos created by our extraordinary photographer Ilya Moshenskiy who shows us what Joy means to him.

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Experience Joy | Kiyon Gaines

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Patricia Vaccarino
December 13, 2016

Kiyon Gaines is from Baltimore, Maryland. He trained at Baltimore School of the Arts, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, the School of American Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. He joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2001 and was promoted to soloist in 2012. As a choreographer, Mr. Gaines created blitz…Fantasy, ə {SCHWA}, Infinite Intricacies, and Interrupted Pri’si’zh’en for PNB’s annual...

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The Future for Kiyon Gaines | Next Step and Beyond

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Patricia Vaccarino
December 11, 2016

In his second year of retirement, choreography is in the forefront of his mind—to create ballets for companies across the nation.  For the next two and a half years, he’s the resident choreographer for Ballet Arkansas and will be heading there in January. He is currently the Next Step Program Manager at Pacific Northwest Ballet. Under his management, he has expanded the Next Step Program to meet the needs of aspiring choreographers.

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Interview with Kiyon Gaines

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Patricia Vaccarino
December 09, 2016

Kiyon grew up in Laytonsville, Maryland, a small suburb outside of Baltimore. His mom was a single parent who raised him and his two older siblings, a brother and a sister, with help from his aunt and grandmother. Kiyon describes his mother, grandmother and aunt as very strong women who emphasized the core values of hard work, extreme perseverance as not only the building blocks for achievement, but also the...

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J O Y  F U L L N E S S

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Tim Girvin
December 08, 2016

Finding joy in aligning symbology with the poetry of experience, 

memory and storytelling, meaning and discovery. 

There is something metaphorically symbolic about the wave.  

In the waves — 

the big ones, the farther out set, 

 what I call the third tier of rollers — 

I find unbridled...

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Dancing for Joy | Extraordinary Teacher

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Patricia Vaccarino
December 07, 2016

Kiyon Gaines teaches students in both the Men’s Professional Division and the Open Adult Classes at Pacific Northwest Ballet

When Kiyon Gaines walks into the studio and lights up the room with his mega-watt presence, saying Good morning, Everybody, dancers feel his energy drawing them in. Soon dancers of all levels and abilities, from seasoned and aspiring professionals to weekend hobbyists, are...

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