“We’re not just cookies and basketballs,” said Principal Kilian Betlach, who keeps tabs on his students as he roams the halls with a baseball bat (“It’s a prop”) and a sense of humor. “We have a real moral imperative to provide kids from low-income backgrounds with the services and opportunities that middle-class kids get. We don’t do just hard academics. We offer access and opportunities.”. The school of 375 students — in the middle of a tough Oakland neighborhood where the shooting of a 13-year-old boy on New Year’s Day was the city’s first homicide — has been promoted as a national model for how to create and finance an after-school program that supports both enrichment activities and academic success.
While the school and dance company are still ballet flats j crew reeling from Das’ death, there was never any question about canceling performances, The CDDC presents “Shiva” at Zellerbach Hall on March 28-29, continuing the strong ties that Das forged with Cal Performances over the years, I got a delightful reminder of his impish humor and charisma at last year’s Zellerbach news conference announcing the 2014-15 season, when he stole the show by discoursing on the way Hindu gods can embody masculine and feminine natures, and illustrating with elegantly executed poses..
Idul, laser-beam focused on framing the ballet’s playful divertissements and adequately lighting the theater’s “huge space,” says this year’s new props and sets will “help dress the stage and work with the theater rather than against it.”. Assisted by Associate Artistic Director Alexandra Lengyel, Idul remains devoted to her hometown and sharing the ballet in the same theater where her dreams began. It’s no surprise to learn that Idul was once a 3-year-old, gazing upon the arabesque of a Black Diamond Ballet Theatre Sugar Plum Fairy and plotting her future.
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“We had to let go the executive director, so my duty was to consult the board and also act like acting executive director at the same time,” she said. She served in that role for one year. Lo ran for city council for the first time in 2008, but was unsuccessful. She ran again in 2010 and won. She credited her friends and family for encouraging her to go into public service, despite her initial bashfulness about asking for endorsements. Now that she’s become comfortable in the role, she plans to run for re-election after her term ends in 2014.