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Marina Piredda
Marina Piredda (born 28 September 2002) is an Italian figure skater. She is the 2019 Toruń Cup champion, 2019 Cup of Tyrol bronze medalist, 2019 Dragon Trophy bronze medalist and 2020 Italian national silver medalist. Career Early years Piredda began learning to skate in 2006. Joanna Szczypa became her coach when she was about five years old. Making her junior international debut, Piredda won silver at the Cup of Tyrol in February 2017. Continuing in the junior ranks, she took gold at the Dragon Trophy in February 2018 and Egna Trophy in April 2018. 2018–2019 season In September, Piredda debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing 13th in British Columbia, Canada. In December, she won the junior ladies title at the Italian Championships. Piredda's senior international debut came in January 2019 at the Toruń Cup. After winning gold in Poland, she medalled at two other senior events, taking bronze at the Dragon Trophy in Slovenia and Cup of Tyrol in Austria. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 World Figure Skating Championships
The 2019 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Saitama, Japan, from March 18–24, 2019. Records The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition: Qualification Age and minimum TES requirements Skaters are eligible for the 2019 World Championships if they turned 15 years of age before July 1, 2018, and have met the minimum technical elements score requirements. The ISU accepts scores if they were obtained at senior-level ISU-recognized international competitions at least 21 days before the first official practice day of the championships. Due to the difference in the rules for the 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons, the required minimum scores have been adjusted separately for scores reached in the 2017–18 and the 2018–19 season. Number of entries per discipline Based on the results of the 2018 World Championships, each ISU member nation can field one to three entries per discipline. Entries Member nations began announcing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimash Qudaibergen
Dinmuhammed Qanatuly Qudaibergen ( kk, Дінмұхаммед Қанатұлы Құдайберген, ''Dınmūhammed Qanatūly Qūdaibergen'', born 24 May 1994) known professionally as Dimash Qudaibergen, is a Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is university-trained in classical as well as contemporary music, and is known for his exceptionally wide vocal range. He has performed songs in thirteen languages. Although offered a position at the Astana Opera, he decided to carve out his career in contemporary music, mixing classical elements and traditional Kazakh music with pop music. He gained significant popularity in Kazakhstan and other post-Soviet countries in 2015 upon becoming the Grand Prix winner of ''Slavianski Bazaar'' in Vitebsk, Belarus. He rose to fame in China with his participation as a "wildcard competitor" in Hunan TV's '' Singer 2017'' ( zh, link=no, 歌手2017), finishing second overall. Early life Dinmuhammed Qanatuly Qudaibergen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Dupéré
René Dupéré (born 1946) is a Canadian composer from Mont-Joli, Québec, Canada. Biography Dupéré is best known as the composer and arranger of music for contemporary circus productions by the Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil. Among the Cirque du Soleil stage shows he has scored are: ''Le Grand Tour du Cirque du Soleil'' (1984), ''La Magie Continue'' (1986), '' Le Cirque Réinventé'' (1987), ''Nouvelle Expérience'' (1990), ''Saltimbanco'' (1992), '' Mystère'' (1993), '' Alegría'' (1994), ''Kà'' (2004), and ''Zed'' (2009). According to press releases from Cirque du Soleil, "René Dupéré played a key role in shaping the artistic universe of Cirque du Soleil during its first ten years.""Cirque du Sole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alegría (Cirque Du Soleil)
''Alegría'' is a Cirque du Soleil touring production, created in 1994 by director Franco Dragone and director of creation Gilles Ste-Croix. It takes its name from the Spanish word for "joy". Since April 1994 the show has been performed over 5000 times, and has been seen by over 14 million spectators in more than 250 cities around the world. Acts Acts in the show included: * aerial cube * contortion * fast track * fire * flying man * handbalancing * high bar * juggling * manipulation * power track * Russian bars * shoulder pole wire * slackwire * strong man * synchro trapeze * tightwire Costumes ''Alegría's'' costumes have a dichotomy relating to the Old Order and the New Order. The Old Order has costumes which are reminiscent of New York's Gilded Age as they are finely decorated with feathers, lace, and other adornments. The New Order, on the other hand, representing the youth of tomorrow, have the same rich hues as the old order, while the fabrics used are lighter and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun Miyake
Jun Miyake (Japanese: 三宅 純 Hepburn: ''Miyake Jun'', January 7, 1958 in Kyoto) is a Japanese composer. His music (e.g., the songs "Lilies in the Valley" and "The Here and After") was used in the film Pina, nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature in January 2012. He has also been awarded by the German critic's award, Der Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, as Best Album of the Year for his last three albums, "Stolen from Strangers", "Lost Memory Theatre act-1", and "Lost Memory Theatre act-2". Discovered by Japanese jazz trumpeter Terumasa Hino, Miyake started his career as a jazz trumpet player, having studied at Berklee College of Music from 1976 to 1981. In 1981, he won the prize at the Massachusetts Artist Foundation award for his composition. After returning to Tokyo, he became an influential artist, as well as a successful composer. Miyake has now released 27 solo albums, and has worked on films, documentaries, dances, advertisement, theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pina (film)
''Pina'' is a 2011 German 3D film, 3D documentary film about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch. It was directed by Wim Wenders. The film premiered out of competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. During the preparation of the documentary, Pina Bausch died unexpectedly. Wenders cancelled the film production, but the other dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal convinced him to make the film anyway. It showcases these dancers, who talk about Pina and perform some of her best-known pieces inside the Tanztheater Wuppertal and in various outdoor locations around the city of Wuppertal. Synopsis The film presents extracts from some of the most noted dance pieces by Pina Bausch in the Tanztheater ("dance theater") style of which Bausch was a leading exponent. The extracts are from four pieces: ''Le sacre du printemps'' (''The Rite of Spring''), ''Café Müller'', ''Kontakthof,'' and ''Vollmond''. These are complemented with interviews and further dance choreog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers. He pioneered many developments in orchestration, violin technique and Program music, programatic music. He consolidated the emerging concerto form into a widely accepted and followed idiom, which was paramount in the development of Johann Sebastian Bach's instrumental music. Vivaldi composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other musical instruments, as well as Sacred Music, sacred choral works and more than List of operas by Antonio Vivaldi, fifty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as ''The Four Seasons (Vivaldi), the Four Seasons''. Many of his compositions were written for the all-female music ensemble of the ''Ospedale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clint Mansell
Clinton Darryl Mansell (; born 7 January 1963) is an English musician, singer, and composer, born in Coventry. He served as the lead singer and multi-instrumentalist of alt-rock band Pop Will Eat Itself before embarking on a career as a film score composer. Mansell moved to the United States after the dissolution of the group and started working with filmmaker Darren Aronofsky. He has subsequently become an award-winning, Golden Globe and Grammy-nominated film composer, collaborating extensively with Aronofsky and writing scores for dozens of other films (both shorts and features), TV series, and video games. Mansell resides in Los Angeles, composing and occasionally touring live versions of his work. A pioneer of sampling in his own work, Mansell's work is now a favourite with sampling musicians. Career Pop career Mansell was raised in Coventry. For a decade from their foundation in 1986, Mansell was a member of Pop Will Eat Itself, as a lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loving Vincent
''Loving Vincent'' ( pl, Twój Vincent) is a 2017 experimental adult animated biographical drama film about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh, and, in particular, about the circumstances of his death. It is the first fully painted animated feature film. The film, written and directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, is a Polish-UK co-production, funded by the Polish Film Institute, and partially through a Kickstarter campaign. First conceived as a seven-minute short film in 2008, ''Loving Vincent'' was realized by Dorota Kobiela, a painter herself, after studying the techniques and the artist's story through his letters. Each of the film's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas, created using the same techniques as Van Gogh by a team of 125 artists drawn from around the globe. The film premiered at the 2017 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. It won Best Animated Feature Film Award at the 30th European Film Awards in Berlin and was nominated for Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona Gipsy BalKan Orchestra
Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra (BGKO) is a band created in 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. The band draws on many musical influences, including Klezmer music, Jazz Manouche, and Roma music. BGKO also explores the sounds of some Eastern European regions and draws inspiration from music in the regions of South America, Spain, and the Middle East. In 2015 the band changed its name from Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra to Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra, keeping BGKO as its acronym. History The permanent members of BGKO are vocalist Margherita Abita ( Italy), clarinetist Daniel Carbonell ( Spain), accordionist Mattia Schirosa ( Italy), double bassist Ivan Kovačević ( Serbia), guitarist Julien Chanal ( France), and percussionist Stelios Togias ( Greece). BGKO also includes rotating nomad musicians, and the band reflects the style of the various artists that have been a part of it. The group originated in the spring of 2012, when eleven musicians gathered in Barcelona to ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romani Anthem
"Gelem, Gelem" is a song composed by Žarko Jovanović, often used as the anthem of the Romani people. The title has been adapted in many countries by local Roma to match their native orthography and spoken dialect of the Romani language. Names Some of the song's many titles include: * ''"Đelem, Đelem"'' (Latin Serbian and Bosnian orthography) * ''"Djelem, Djelem"'' (German and French orthography) * ''"Dzelem, Dzelem"'' * ''"Dželem, Dželem"'' (Latin Serbian and Bosnian orthography) * ''"Gyelem, Gyelem"'' (Hungarian orthography) * ''"Jelem, Jelem"'' * ''"Opré Roma"'' * ''"Romale Shavale"'' * ''"Ѓелем, Ѓелем"'' (Macedonian orthography) * ''"Джелем, джелем"'' (Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian orthography) * ''"Ђелем, Ђелем"'' (Cyrillic Serbian and Bosnian orthography) * ''"Џелем, Џелем"'' (alternative Cyrillic Serbian and Bosnian orthography) * "Kara Çocuk Raksı" (Turkish version, lit. black child dance) In an interview with reporter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets '' Swan Lake'' and ''The Nutcracker'', the ''1812 Overture'', his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the ''Romeo and Juliet'' Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera ''Eugene Onegin''. Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant as there was little opportunity for a musical career in Russia at the time and no system of public music education. When an opportunity for such an education arose, he entered the nascent Saint Petersburg Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1865. The formal Western-oriented teaching that he received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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