A Ca D'Zan fantasy.fantasy might be the important word to remember for audiences attending the Sarasota Ballet of Florida's Ca d'Zan Ca d'Zan, a Mediterranean Revival mansion in Sarasota, Florida, was the dream home of circus magnate John Ringling and his wife, Mable. Lovers of the Venetian esthetic, the Ringlings chose their building plot overlooking the Gulf of Mexico for its view, which reminded them of the lagoon : A Fantasy this month at the Van Wezel. While the starting point of this world premiere is those great circus-themed frescoes that fill John and Mable Ringling's ballroom at the lavish Italianate mansion, choreographer Robert de Warren is weaving something of a psychological journey in presenting how the couple, Mable especially, came to design their fantasy home. Expect more than your standard jetes and plies plies 1 v. Third person singular present tense of ply1. n. Plural of ply1. , too. Circus Sarasota director Pedro Reis is contributing tumblers For other meanings, see Tumbler. Tumblers were proposed by Ted Nelson in "Literary Machines" as a means to address every bit ever written, or a particular span of bits in any text ever written. A tumbler is a unique numerical address of an interesting artifact. , trick topers and aerial performers including wife Dolly Jacobs to the production, which also employs original music by composer David Goldstein (who's worked with the ballet on earlier pieces including Madame Butterfly and Gigabyte) with a '20s '30s sound--think ragtime ragtime: see jazz. ragtime U.S. popular music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries distinguished by its heavily syncopated rhythm. Ragtime found its characteristic expression in formally structured piano compositions, the accented left-hand . At press time the actors playing Mable and John had not been announced; maybe Ringling friends Will Rogers, Flo Ziegfeld and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Mayor Jimmie Walker will turn up, too. Performances are Nov. 20-23; call 351-8000 for ticket info. |
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