Ballet Hawaii

Executive Director of Ballet Hawaii, Richard Vida talks with Classical Pacific host Sharene Taba about the upcoming Ballet Hawaii performance at the Honolulu Museum of Art. A Night at the Paris Opera Ballet has 18 ballet dancers bringing to life, the paintings of Mary Cassatt. www.ballethawaii.orgwww.honolulumuseum.org/events

Sisters Emma Belatti and Elyana Belatti join "Classical Pacific" host Sharene Taba in a conversation about growing up in ballet. The dancers with Ballet Hawaii will be in this weekendʻs performance of A Night at the Paris Opera Ballet, bringing the paintings of Mary Cassatt to life at the Honolulu Museum of Art. Emma is at the University of Hawai`i-Manoa, minoring in dance, and Ely is in the 10th grade at Roosevelt High School. The sisters have their own paths in life, but they always include dance, and each other.

Ann Krinitsky has a busy week of rehearsals and performances conducting the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra in the film concert of How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Nutcracker with Ballet Hawaiʻi.

Hanahau`oli School harpist, Leia Kandell is also a dancer. She is interviewed by her father, Jordan Kandell before running off to a rehearsal for Ballet Hawaii's Nutcracker.

David Robinson studies dance at University of San Francisco. The classically trained ballet dancer from Ballet Hawaii talks to Mid-Pacific Institute classmate, musician Matin Boulos. Robinson and Boulos recently performed in San Francisco Conservatory of Musicʻs Maui Benefit Concert- a collaboration of music and interpretive dance. They share this recorded interview as Robinson starts his second year at USF.

Courtney Schenberger was a student at Maʻemaʻe Elementary in Nuʻuanu when visions of sugar plums danced in her head. The Conversation's Catherine Cruz talked to Schenberger to reveal what made her return to the islands.