Ballet Hawaii

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.