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The Music Center - Cyber Monday!
11.26.10
I’m thrilled to share the good news that Cyber Monday—the big online shopping day after Thanksgiving—is marketing to arts and culture enthusiasts too! The Music Center in Downtown Los Angeles is offering 25% off on all six remaining engagements of its 2010/2011 Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center season.
Starting Monday, November 29 at 8 a.m. for 25 hours only, save on the following select performances:
Grupo Corpo
Friday, January 28, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Nederlands Dans Theater
Wednesday and Thursday March 23-24, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Alvin Ailey® American Dance Theater
Wednesday and Thursday, April 13-14, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Mark Morris Dance Group
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Ballet Nacional de Cuba
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
American Ballet Theatre
Thursday and Friday July 14-15, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are available here, just enter promo code: 14616
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John Van Hamersveld
11.23.10
1. If you had to begin a different career, what would you do?
If I was not dyslexic as a child the career might have been different.
2. What’s your most prized possession?
My talent, the ability to invent.
3. Favorite drink?
S. Pellegrino.
4. What are you cutting out because of the economy?
Daydreaming.
5. Fantasy purchase?
Leica M8.2 Digital camera.
6. What can you live without?
Pets. I have too much art everywhere for them to pee on.
7. What’s next on your “to do” list?
Sell my new autobiography, My Art, My Life.
8. Biggest regret?
Not have not gone to Harvard.
9. Cause that you’re most interested/involved in?
Getting rid of “The Plastic Patch” in the oceans around the world.
10. Your dream day in Orange County?
Surfing San Onofre.
11. Favorite place for breakfast?
Taco Mesa in Costa Mesa.
12. What was the best day of your life?
Meeting Mick Jagger.
13. Last concert that you went to?
Steve Winwood/Eric Clapton at the Hollywood Bowl.
14. Favorite vacation spot?
San Francisco and Napa Valley.
15. If you had to live somewhere else, where would you like to move?
London for two years only.
16. Favorite books?
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
17. Favorite restaurants in Orange County?
The Crab Cooker with the family.
18. Biggest accomplishment?
Writing the new book.
19. What’s your biggest fear?
Dying.
20. Secret most people don’t know about you?
I lived in the east before I came to California.
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