| Ryan Boorne to retire as National Ballet principal dancer
Ryan Boorne will retire as principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada at the end of the summer season, completing his final jeté in The Four Seasons on June 9. Boorne, 34, plans to return as a guest artist in 2007/08, taking roles such as Uncle Nikolai in The Nutcracker. Ryan Boorne and Xiao Nan Yu in Swan Lake. Boorne has danced most of the lead roles in classical ballet. (Cylla von Tiedemann/National Ballet of Canada) In The Four Seasons, he will dance the character known as A Man, a role created in 1997 by Rex Harrington, now artist-in-residence at the company. Boorne, who joined the National Ballet in 1992 and has been principal dancer since 2001, was known for creating the role of Emil in the comic ballet An Italian Straw Hat. "Ryan Boorne cut a dashing figure as Anaïs' lover Emil, his grounded, soft-kneed dancing and hangdog expression the perfect foil to Anaïs' hysterics," the Ottawa Citizen wrote of his performance. He will give another performance as Emil next season.
Ballet shoes surge can't halt retail slowdown
SCOTTISH retailers today reported a slowdown in sales growth as last month's colder, wetter weather hit areas such as food, clothing and garden furniture. The latest snapshot of trading from the Scottish Retail Consortium(SRC)/Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) showed like-for-like sales rose just 2.1 per cent in May - the weakest since March 2006. It compares with 4.6 per cent in April. .
SCO, Clickimin Leisure Complex, Lerwick
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra last visited Shetland 17 years ago, but some of the locals who attended the orchestra's concerts at the weekend remember that earlier visit fondly, although it is half a lifetime ago for conductor Garry Walker. The centrepiece of this visit, which also included education projects in some of the local primary schools and a weekend of workshops for older amateur wind players, was a concert given by the full orchestra on Saturday. It was flanked by performances given by the SCO's string and wind sections. The structure makes good economic sense, but it was also of practical interest, showcasing the separate sections of the orchestra and encompassing a wider range of repertoire than would be possible in two full-orchestral performances.
Lap dancer advert angers council
A marketing company is facing a fine of up to 2,500 after the silhouette of a naked lap dancer appeared on a field beneath a busy flight path in Surrey. The 100,000 sq ft advert, promoting a lap dancing website, has been painted under a Gatwick Airport flight path. Tandridge District Council said the advert was illegal and had been painted without proper planning permission. Sports Media Gaming (SMG) has refused to get rid of it, and claimed it was "operating within its rights". .
NOTES FROM BOOMERANG CREEK
A warm breeze moves like a dancer through a nearby grove of trees. The author, dressed in his rumpled, signature summer white linens imagines another scene about to unfold behind the curtain of tired eyes he has closed to capture the drama. A woman in a clingy, carmine-red dress with a flourish of ruffles at the knees brushes past a dark-haired man in a black suit molded to his pencil-thin frame. Their eyes lock, but like the sultry breeze, their bodies pass like cautious strangers, their slight touch only a tease. The author recognizes the move. The couples slow-building lead-in is the classic approach to the tango - a passionate Latin dance the author witnessed in his years of traveling abroad. He has never forgotten that electric moment or felt one quite like it since. When the writer opens his eyes again, the woman and man are nowhere to be seen.
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