November 5, 2025 • 25 mins
Adam Schnell invites us to "An Interpratation of Double Portraits," a collaboration of Ballet Vero Beach and Vero Beach Museum of Art. Enjoy two shows on Saturday, November 15th. Tickets and details can be found at BalletVeroBeach.org. We also discuss BVB Films and the documentary now available online, as well as "Nutcracker on the Indian River," December 11-14 at Riverside Theatre.
We're then joined by Rob Volsky of the Vero Beach Theatre Guild, who gets us excited to see "Dancing on the Dingle," an original Irish Christmas Musical on the last week of November. We also dicuss a collaboration with the Vero Opera. Details can be found at VeroBeachTheatreGuild.com
We're then joined by Rob Volsky of the Vero Beach Theatre Guild, who gets us excited to see "Dancing on the Dingle," an original Irish Christmas Musical on the last week of November. We also dicuss a collaboration with the Vero Opera. Details can be found at VeroBeachTheatreGuild.com
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, welcome to Arts Blast on the Air, a podcast,
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Arts.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
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(00:44):
Riverside Theater. Ask about the new VIP add on experience
and learn about everything at Ballet Vero Beach dot org.
And now on with the show guests Rob Volski and
Speaking of the Devil, Adam Schnell and friend Frankie the Devil. Whoopsie,
(01:08):
You're not a devil. You might be a little rascal sometimes.
Adam's Ballet Vero Beach. You got some big stuff coming up?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
We do.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, it's that time of year where we're doing our
first collaboration with the Vero Beach Museum of Art. Coming
up November fifteenth, we have two performances interpreting the phenomenal
exhibit Double Portraits. Yeah, it's an exciting I can't say
start to our season. I feel like our seasons don't
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end anymore. But officially we all know it's past November
first people are back, so our officials start to the
season coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Do you think that people are actually leaving the way
they used to do? It seems to be there.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
It's very different.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It's very different than it used to be. How many
years ago did you start up.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
We are in our thirteenth season, so about twelve and
a half years, and I feel like it's just to
a person now. Some people stay longer, some people come
at different times. Some people are specifically here during the summer.
Who knew?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But yeah, yeah, so as long as they fill the seats,
we're okay.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
As long as they fill the seats, were okay, and
we do usually sell out at the Vera Beach Museum
of Art. So if you're listening to this and you're
thinking about coming over on the fifteenth, get your tickets
now either Balletvio Beach dot org or vbmuseum dot org.
You can call the museum as.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well as I recall and tell me if I'm wrong.
They seat only three hundred less.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The auditorium at the museum currently seats two hundred and
forty people.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Okay, wow, okay, how do I get my ticket?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
So ballytvio Beach dot org or vbmuseum dot org. You
can also call the the Museum of Art, but I
would not wait until the day.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Of no no, unless you're planning on staying home and
missing it and missing it. Yes.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Well, And the interesting thing about we've been working with
the museum almost since our inception, so it's been about
twelve years. They have been bringing us in to take
whatever's on exhibit and interpret interpret it in dance and
sort of enrich the experience of going into the galleries
and seeing the phenomenal exhibits they have, and in recent years,
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the last couple of years, it's really turned into an
opportunity for our dancers in the company to try their
hand at choreography. And I did just watch the first
full run through of the program the other day, and
I was really impressed at how these artists, who you
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think of as highly trained dancers, or maybe they're also
excellent teachers, they also have something to say when it
comes to creating dances. And there are four works on
the program for this particular performance, and they all took
a different slant on the Exit xhibit. They all brought
their own sense of what kind of music they wanted
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to use. And it's always interesting for me to see
what happens when they work on their peers, right, because
they're dancing next to the dancers in their pieces every day,
working on different ballets, different productions, And when they get
in the front of the room, how do they translate that?
How do you get someone who you may in the
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next hour be relying on to lift you over your
head to do what you want them to do in
this hour that you're currently working on. So it's really
fascinating for me to watch, and I feel incredibly fortunate
that I'm giving these young artists a chance to express
themselves in this way, and the museum is as well.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Obviously, is this relatively new? How long have you been
letting surging?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
We have, We've done it sporadically, but now that we
have so many dancers living and working here. We're always
between nine or ten dancers a season, and we're looking
to expand even more and come years. It's a really
great way to offer them sort of another angle and
another slant on the career. And if they don't stay
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with us forever, you know, if they decide to move
on to other things, then they have professional choreography on
their resume. So it's been a couple seasons now where
we've really leaned into this, and I the season before
I say these are the exhibits, the museum has told
us these are the performance states. Please submit a proposal,
and you know, we pretty much we pretty much just
select who puts in the best proposal.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh okay, that's interesting. Is it usually a first for them?
Is that something that they're offered to other places?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
In terms of a lot of companies have started to
do this, especially in the past ten years, but in
terms of this particular program. The four choreographers are Camillo Rodriguez,
our ballet master, who you know, fans of us know
that he's been choreographing our entire our entire history.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Marlee S. Noble, who is a graduate of our Fellowship initiative,
and she took her first runs at choreography last year,
so she's been at this for a year or so.
And then the other two are brand new in terms
of professional choreographers. Katherine Epink our longtime principal dancer and
our director of marketing. She has a piece. I was
very happy to get a proposal from her. And then
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Amy Gillespie, who is still currently in our Fellowship initiative.
It's her first foray into choreographing on professional dancers. So
it's a real mix and I don't think by looking
at the show, you could say, oh, that was someone's
first time. Good job, you did a nice effort of
the first time, which is what's so impressive. You just
never know what you're going to get.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Do any of them go on to become choreographers.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I think that Marlee would really like to. She's one
of the four on the program. You know, some people
decide that that's where they want to go after dancing.
They feel like they still have something to contry artistically
and would like to use what they've learned in a
different way. Some people hate it. Some people never want
to choreograph. Some people never want to teach. It's very Again,
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we were talking about when people are in Indian River
County for the season, and it's a very personal choice.
It's a very personal choice with dancers. Do you like
to teach? Do you like to choreograph?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Do you like either? Are?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I mean, are you going to go build houses when
you're done dancing? I just never know when we engage
these artists.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Is it fairly recent that people that the dancers are
living here now? Didn't they used to just so come
in for season.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yes, we have had since the middle of the pandemic. Actually,
we brought our first resident dancers to town, so it's
been about five or six years. We still have a
sister company, Dimensions Dance Theater of Miami, who we bring
in for larger productions to augment our own company. But
really both companies, ourselves and Dimensions, we're growing. We're looking
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to add more artists, more staff, just because the demand
for our services has increased exponentially. It became right around
the pandemic it became untenable for us to only have
artists living and only have artists in for the shows
because we couldn't do the engagement initiatives, the education initiatives.
We need folks to be able to work full time.
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So it's been a really amazing time and our growth
to have that happen, and especially to have so many
dancers here now. And like I said, we're looking to
add more.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
How does that become possible financially? You have a lot
of community support.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I know it's radio. You couldn't see my eyebrows just
flip over the back of my head, but we have
such tremendous philanthropy in this town, both for the arts
and social services and at Ballet Vio Begi in particular.
We are incredibly well supported by individuals and family foundations,
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to the point that when we see fluxes in grant funding,
if we tell our individual donors about that, they come
through in spades and they usually keep their annual support
increased at that level. We've been really lucky in that department,
and we're really focused now in making sure as many
people see us as possible, because that's a huge that
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could be a huge jump in revenue as well. But
really it's the generosity of this community that has allowed
us to grow.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Okay, that leads me to Lance Glenn. You are starting
something new that will let people see you forever.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
So Lance is our technical director, but he's also our
resident filmmaker. We debuted on our website a few weeks
ago BBB Films. We've always made films, but now we
have our own streaming platform where people can watch what
we've made. They can rent it for a few days,
including the ten year anniversary documentary that everyone has been asking,
when can they see it again? It's back on the website.
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Check out the films and definitely come see us at
the Vero Beach Museum of Art on November fifteenth, two
shows of the Interpretation of Double Portraits. It will still out,
so please get your tickets now. And we have to
talk about the Nutcracker, do we yes?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yes, Nutcracker on the Indian River. It's become such such
an institution here now we're.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
An institution who would have ever thought twelve and a
half years ago. Yeah, it's really exciting. It's a homecoming
of sorts this year. We debuted the production in twenty
seventeen and it's being brought home to Riverside Theater, who
we've always collaborated with. Riverside. We have such a special
relationship with that organization. And for the first time, it
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will be on the Stark Stage at Riverside Theater December
eleventh through fourteenth. We have the full length, we have
our accessible, family friendly series. We have a VIP add
on experience. I've heard there might be some holiday cocktails
and food you can imbibe as part of Riverside's amazing
fooded Beverage department. So check it all out on the
website ballet vero Beach dot Oregon. We really hope people
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will make plans to enjoy are programming all season long.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, and you'll have Nutcracker for all and all of
sad information will also be on the website all there.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And single tickets went on sale eleven one, November first,
so they're going fast.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I'm sure they are. Okay, So ballet Verobeach dot Org,
Adam Stell, friend Frankie, and we're looking forward to a
big season. Thank you, congratulations, Thanks, great to see you.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Great to see you.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Sucks gosh, Okay, I'm going to take a break down
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Speaker 1 (14:16):
And we are back with the arts Past on the Era.
Im Willie Miller talking to Rob Bolsky. Now, Hi, Willie, Hey,
good to see you.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Good to see you too.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It doesn't seem very long since we talked about your
your Halloween thing.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
I know, It's been a very active season for me. Yeah,
I feel like I'm a theater major again.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Is it going to stay that way through the season.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
I have a couple more things coming up. Dancing on
the Dingle is the show coming up in around Thanksgiving time,
and then after that I'm working on helping with makeup
for the Via Opera.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Oh oh, I bet that's exciting.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
It is exciting people from all over the world come
and perform. That's a great exposure for them and for
new people that are getting interested. So lots on the table,
lots on the stove right now, lots of pots.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And pansk Is there a difference to you're approach to
put it to making up people for say the Vero
Beach Theater Gil dancing on the dingle against the opera
something like that, or is it just put your face
over here and let me do it.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Well, it's a little bit different with dingle because I'm
in the show. Okay, I play two parts, so I'm
kind of like looking to my right, looking to my
left to see if anyone needs any help while I'm
putting my own side burns on for a quick change
to act too. But dancing on the dingle, that's It's
a wonderful little of musical. It's an original musical written
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by Larry Strauss and music is by doctor Jacob Craig.
So it's a very very well thought out process.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
It would be well known names learn.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
It took three years to make this and in considering
a trip to Ireland, he started seeing these wonderful little
names of towns in Ireland and that was the seeds.
Those are the first seeds of his idea to create
a musical about little characters in Ireland and elves and leprechauns,
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and link it to the origins of Santa Claus and
Missus Claws, and he added a few other characters just
for fun. So it's a it's a wonderful little show
that we're in.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, I saw, I think it was on Netflix some
a show about the Dingle the actual location. Did you
see that?
Speaker 8 (16:46):
I did not. I did not realize it was an
actual thing. I thought that he had made up all
of these names. But in the script he has a
full page of close to one hundred actual references to
places in Ireland and events and history that are woven
into the show. You know the concept of an Easter egg,
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little hidden things that you pick up when you're watching
a movie or TV show. He's done that with this show.
So it's entertaining for all ages to follow the little
insets that he's put into the show. It's wonderful now, I.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Remember, was it last year or the year before that?
You all did it at.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
First Press First Presbyterian Church was our world premiere and
our performance at Via Beach Theater Guild on November twenty
eighth and twenty ninth will be our theatrical premiere, first
time on stage at the Vera Beach Theater Guild.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Wait wait, wait, wait, wait wait, I have on here
November twenty ninth and thirtieth.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Okay, well call the theater Guild and make sure that
you get confirm. Yeah, confirm the dates. It's easy to
find out at Vera Beach Theater Guild. It's online and
it's under special events. Okay, yeah, it will be special,
it will be very special.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Okay. Talk about the story a little bit.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Well, an anthropologist by the name of Winslow Welk goes
to Ireland to find out what the origin of the
elves and the leprechauns was. And in his travels he
meets a school teacher there and they establish a good rapport,
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shall we say, and talk about the culture, the culture
of Ireland, the culture of how elves came about and
how they look strikingly similar similar to human beings. And
he goes on and he decides he would like to travel. Actually,
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they're planning a trip to go to the North Pole,
and he wants to go along, and they're going to
include them, include him in this journey to meet who
would become Santa Claus or Saint Nicholas.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
And they do.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
They meet him and there's a little adventure, a little
sidetrack along the way. They happen they have to take
a Russian ship in order to get there.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Of course they get it's.
Speaker 8 (19:28):
The least expensive way. And this is in the early
nineteen hundreds. And there's a lot happening in the early
nineteen hundreds, a lot of there's war coming along, and
the Russian boat captain gets an order to turn back,
and the godfather of the elves, Killarney, is upset about this.
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And there's a little snippet, a little scene. If you
would like to hear just a little piece of the.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Show, Absolutely, I want to hear a little song right
here or there.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Oh well, if we're nice, we'll sing to you too.
So Professor Wilk narrates a lot of the show, and
in this particular section, Act two, Scene three, he's talking
about in June of nineteen twelve, on board a Russian
ice cutter above the Arctic Circle, in the land of
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the midnight Sun, I had deep circles under my eyes.
I couldn't sleep. The elves, on the other hand, loved it.
They had set up a woodworking shop on the upper
deck of the Vladimir and the extra Daylight was improving
their production ratios. One morning, however, our solitude was interrupted
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by the sounds of a Russian of Russian expletives in
the Vladimir's radio room.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Business or stop your nose ages, don't course, Captain Iven?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Russian prime minister shot dead in Kiev? All hell break
Turk's attack Odessa. We have orders go back Baltic Petersburg.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
But we're so close to Siberia, only two days from
the monastery.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Yet this stop, Denmark, Lord, call you get off Denmark.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Petrovitch, that's a thousand mile back track, Denmark. No more
talk at that moment, With no time for thought about consequences,
Killarney concocted a plan only a madman would consider. Captain Petrovitch.
The Vladimir has six lifeboats. Can you spare two of them?
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Why?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
One for passengers and one for tools and supplies?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yet out of question storm common lifeboat you die.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Think of it this way without us on board, You'll
never again have to listen to my rendition of Danny Boy.
One boat, water and tim can food.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
No tools.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
The tools are worth a fortune, they're irreplaceable. Solar life
boats be keep tools, take or leave.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
That's the end of the scene.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Have there been any serious changes since your first performance.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Yes, we have a couple of characters in the show
original show that couldn't make it back, and so we've
including our pianist, Jacob Craig, and so he has been
replaced by what I must describe as a prodigy, an
eleven year old performer. I will not say her name
because I did not get permission of her mother. But
you must come and see.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Okay, this child.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
Prodigy, she's just a genius at the piano. Wonderful to hear.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
And a few other characters we replaced as well, including
some veterans from Verer Beach Theater Guild.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Okay, it's going to be fun. This could be the
new holiday.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Well, we'll float that idea forward to the guild and see.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Okay, that's that's okay. I'll go along with that. I'll
raising my hand. Okay, what else do we need to
talk about?
Speaker 8 (23:14):
Well, the important details are let's get those dates right.
Call the vere Beach Theater Guild.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It's on the website.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
It's almost better to make a mistake like this because
then you can get people interested in finding out what
the real dates are and they get on the phone
and find out and they say, oh, it's going to
be a great show to see.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Hey, well, why don't we just say, well, thank October November, No, no, November.
We better go to the website and find out for sure.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
November, right after Thanksgiving. It's a great family activity for
those people that are coming to visit you.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Okay, and we need to mention that are.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Quagonic Wagonic is directing. He's back, He's come back to
the theater Guild. Thank you, Mark.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Okay. I see the pianost's name here, but I won't
say it either. Oa and Carol Strauss is stage managing. Oh,
we've run out of time, so once again it is
Dancing on the dingle An Irish Christmas Musical at Vera
Beach Theater Guild. Go to the website to get the
dates and what it is after Thanksgiving weekend after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
Great idea.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Okay, Rob Bolsked, Great to talk to you again. Thank you,
thanks for having me, Willie, my pleasure, and thanks again
to Adam Schnell and thank you listeners as always for
joining us again this week for Arts Blast on the
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Well, welcome to Arts Blast on the Air, a podcast,
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Arts.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Blast on the Air is so proud to be supported
by a Ballet Vero Beach. Subscriptions and single seats for
the exciting new season are available online. Now are you
thinking holiday gifts and stocking stuffers too? Maybe tickets for
the Nutcracker on the Indian River earlier and in a
new venue this year December eleventh through the thirteenth at
(00:44):
Riverside Theater. Ask about the new VIP add on experience
and learn about everything at Ballet Vero Beach dot org.
And now on with the show guests Rob Volski and
Speaking of the Devil, Adam Schnell and friend Frankie the Devil. Whoopsie,
(01:08):
You're not a devil. You might be a little rascal sometimes.
Adam's Ballet Vero Beach. You got some big stuff coming up?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
We do.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, it's that time of year where we're doing our
first collaboration with the Vero Beach Museum of Art. Coming
up November fifteenth, we have two performances interpreting the phenomenal
exhibit Double Portraits. Yeah, it's an exciting I can't say
start to our season. I feel like our seasons don't
(01:41):
end anymore. But officially we all know it's past November
first people are back, so our officials start to the
season coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Do you think that people are actually leaving the way
they used to do? It seems to be there.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
It's very different.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It's very different than it used to be. How many
years ago did you start up.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
We are in our thirteenth season, so about twelve and
a half years, and I feel like it's just to
a person now. Some people stay longer, some people come
at different times. Some people are specifically here during the summer.
Who knew?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But yeah, yeah, so as long as they fill the seats,
we're okay.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
As long as they fill the seats, were okay, and
we do usually sell out at the Vera Beach Museum
of Art. So if you're listening to this and you're
thinking about coming over on the fifteenth, get your tickets
now either Balletvio Beach dot org or vbmuseum dot org.
You can call the museum as.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well as I recall and tell me if I'm wrong.
They seat only three hundred less.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The auditorium at the museum currently seats two hundred and
forty people.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Okay, wow, okay, how do I get my ticket?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
So ballytvio Beach dot org or vbmuseum dot org. You
can also call the the Museum of Art, but I
would not wait until the day.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Of no no, unless you're planning on staying home and
missing it and missing it. Yes.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Well, And the interesting thing about we've been working with
the museum almost since our inception, so it's been about
twelve years. They have been bringing us in to take
whatever's on exhibit and interpret interpret it in dance and
sort of enrich the experience of going into the galleries
and seeing the phenomenal exhibits they have, and in recent years,
(03:21):
the last couple of years, it's really turned into an
opportunity for our dancers in the company to try their
hand at choreography. And I did just watch the first
full run through of the program the other day, and
I was really impressed at how these artists, who you
(03:42):
think of as highly trained dancers, or maybe they're also
excellent teachers, they also have something to say when it
comes to creating dances. And there are four works on
the program for this particular performance, and they all took
a different slant on the Exit xhibit. They all brought
their own sense of what kind of music they wanted
(04:03):
to use. And it's always interesting for me to see
what happens when they work on their peers, right, because
they're dancing next to the dancers in their pieces every day,
working on different ballets, different productions, And when they get
in the front of the room, how do they translate that?
How do you get someone who you may in the
(04:25):
next hour be relying on to lift you over your
head to do what you want them to do in
this hour that you're currently working on. So it's really
fascinating for me to watch, and I feel incredibly fortunate
that I'm giving these young artists a chance to express
themselves in this way, and the museum is as well.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Obviously, is this relatively new? How long have you been
letting surging?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
We have, We've done it sporadically, but now that we
have so many dancers living and working here. We're always
between nine or ten dancers a season, and we're looking
to expand even more and come years. It's a really
great way to offer them sort of another angle and
another slant on the career. And if they don't stay
(05:09):
with us forever, you know, if they decide to move
on to other things, then they have professional choreography on
their resume. So it's been a couple seasons now where
we've really leaned into this, and I the season before
I say these are the exhibits, the museum has told
us these are the performance states. Please submit a proposal,
and you know, we pretty much we pretty much just
select who puts in the best proposal.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh okay, that's interesting. Is it usually a first for them?
Is that something that they're offered to other places?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
In terms of a lot of companies have started to
do this, especially in the past ten years, but in
terms of this particular program. The four choreographers are Camillo Rodriguez,
our ballet master, who you know, fans of us know
that he's been choreographing our entire our entire history.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Marlee S. Noble, who is a graduate of our Fellowship initiative,
and she took her first runs at choreography last year,
so she's been at this for a year or so.
And then the other two are brand new in terms
of professional choreographers. Katherine Epink our longtime principal dancer and
our director of marketing. She has a piece. I was
very happy to get a proposal from her. And then
(06:22):
Amy Gillespie, who is still currently in our Fellowship initiative.
It's her first foray into choreographing on professional dancers. So
it's a real mix and I don't think by looking
at the show, you could say, oh, that was someone's
first time. Good job, you did a nice effort of
the first time, which is what's so impressive. You just
never know what you're going to get.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Do any of them go on to become choreographers.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I think that Marlee would really like to. She's one
of the four on the program. You know, some people
decide that that's where they want to go after dancing.
They feel like they still have something to contry artistically
and would like to use what they've learned in a
different way. Some people hate it. Some people never want
to choreograph. Some people never want to teach. It's very Again,
(07:09):
we were talking about when people are in Indian River
County for the season, and it's a very personal choice.
It's a very personal choice with dancers. Do you like
to teach? Do you like to choreograph?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Do you like either? Are?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I mean, are you going to go build houses when
you're done dancing? I just never know when we engage
these artists.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Is it fairly recent that people that the dancers are
living here now? Didn't they used to just so come
in for season.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yes, we have had since the middle of the pandemic. Actually,
we brought our first resident dancers to town, so it's
been about five or six years. We still have a
sister company, Dimensions Dance Theater of Miami, who we bring
in for larger productions to augment our own company. But
really both companies, ourselves and Dimensions, we're growing. We're looking
(07:55):
to add more artists, more staff, just because the demand
for our services has increased exponentially. It became right around
the pandemic it became untenable for us to only have
artists living and only have artists in for the shows
because we couldn't do the engagement initiatives, the education initiatives.
We need folks to be able to work full time.
(08:16):
So it's been a really amazing time and our growth
to have that happen, and especially to have so many
dancers here now. And like I said, we're looking to
add more.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
How does that become possible financially? You have a lot
of community support.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I know it's radio. You couldn't see my eyebrows just
flip over the back of my head, but we have
such tremendous philanthropy in this town, both for the arts
and social services and at Ballet Vio Begi in particular.
We are incredibly well supported by individuals and family foundations,
(08:54):
to the point that when we see fluxes in grant funding,
if we tell our individual donors about that, they come
through in spades and they usually keep their annual support
increased at that level. We've been really lucky in that department,
and we're really focused now in making sure as many
people see us as possible, because that's a huge that
(09:14):
could be a huge jump in revenue as well. But
really it's the generosity of this community that has allowed
us to grow.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Okay, that leads me to Lance Glenn. You are starting
something new that will let people see you forever.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
So Lance is our technical director, but he's also our
resident filmmaker. We debuted on our website a few weeks
ago BBB Films. We've always made films, but now we
have our own streaming platform where people can watch what
we've made. They can rent it for a few days,
including the ten year anniversary documentary that everyone has been asking,
when can they see it again? It's back on the website.
(09:50):
Check out the films and definitely come see us at
the Vero Beach Museum of Art on November fifteenth, two
shows of the Interpretation of Double Portraits. It will still out,
so please get your tickets now. And we have to
talk about the Nutcracker, do we yes?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yes, Nutcracker on the Indian River. It's become such such
an institution here now we're.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
An institution who would have ever thought twelve and a
half years ago. Yeah, it's really exciting. It's a homecoming
of sorts this year. We debuted the production in twenty
seventeen and it's being brought home to Riverside Theater, who
we've always collaborated with. Riverside. We have such a special
relationship with that organization. And for the first time, it
(10:38):
will be on the Stark Stage at Riverside Theater December
eleventh through fourteenth. We have the full length, we have
our accessible, family friendly series. We have a VIP add
on experience. I've heard there might be some holiday cocktails
and food you can imbibe as part of Riverside's amazing
fooded Beverage department. So check it all out on the
website ballet vero Beach dot Oregon. We really hope people
(10:58):
will make plans to enjoy are programming all season long.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, and you'll have Nutcracker for all and all of
sad information will also be on the website all there.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And single tickets went on sale eleven one, November first,
so they're going fast.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I'm sure they are. Okay, So ballet Verobeach dot Org,
Adam Stell, friend Frankie, and we're looking forward to a
big season. Thank you, congratulations, Thanks, great to see you.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Great to see you.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Sucks gosh, Okay, I'm going to take a break down
to talk about Riverside Theater. Let's go to the website
learn about the coming season plus everything happening right now.
It's almost too late to watch demand eating Audrey enjoying
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(11:49):
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Speaker 6 (12:13):
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Speaker 1 (14:16):
And we are back with the arts Past on the Era.
Im Willie Miller talking to Rob Bolsky. Now, Hi, Willie, Hey,
good to see you.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Good to see you too.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It doesn't seem very long since we talked about your
your Halloween thing.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
I know, It's been a very active season for me. Yeah,
I feel like I'm a theater major again.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Is it going to stay that way through the season.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
I have a couple more things coming up. Dancing on
the Dingle is the show coming up in around Thanksgiving time,
and then after that I'm working on helping with makeup
for the Via Opera.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Oh oh, I bet that's exciting.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
It is exciting people from all over the world come
and perform. That's a great exposure for them and for
new people that are getting interested. So lots on the table,
lots on the stove right now, lots of pots.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And pansk Is there a difference to you're approach to
put it to making up people for say the Vero
Beach Theater Gil dancing on the dingle against the opera
something like that, or is it just put your face
over here and let me do it.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Well, it's a little bit different with dingle because I'm
in the show. Okay, I play two parts, so I'm
kind of like looking to my right, looking to my
left to see if anyone needs any help while I'm
putting my own side burns on for a quick change
to act too. But dancing on the dingle, that's It's
a wonderful little of musical. It's an original musical written
(15:53):
by Larry Strauss and music is by doctor Jacob Craig.
So it's a very very well thought out process.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
It would be well known names learn.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
It took three years to make this and in considering
a trip to Ireland, he started seeing these wonderful little
names of towns in Ireland and that was the seeds.
Those are the first seeds of his idea to create
a musical about little characters in Ireland and elves and leprechauns,
(16:26):
and link it to the origins of Santa Claus and
Missus Claws, and he added a few other characters just
for fun. So it's a it's a wonderful little show
that we're in.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, I saw, I think it was on Netflix some
a show about the Dingle the actual location. Did you
see that?
Speaker 8 (16:46):
I did not. I did not realize it was an
actual thing. I thought that he had made up all
of these names. But in the script he has a
full page of close to one hundred actual references to
places in Ireland and events and history that are woven
into the show. You know the concept of an Easter egg,
(17:07):
little hidden things that you pick up when you're watching
a movie or TV show. He's done that with this show.
So it's entertaining for all ages to follow the little
insets that he's put into the show. It's wonderful now, I.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Remember, was it last year or the year before that?
You all did it at.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
First Press First Presbyterian Church was our world premiere and
our performance at Via Beach Theater Guild on November twenty
eighth and twenty ninth will be our theatrical premiere, first
time on stage at the Vera Beach Theater Guild.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Wait wait, wait, wait, wait wait, I have on here
November twenty ninth and thirtieth.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Okay, well call the theater Guild and make sure that
you get confirm. Yeah, confirm the dates. It's easy to
find out at Vera Beach Theater Guild. It's online and
it's under special events. Okay, yeah, it will be special,
it will be very special.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Okay. Talk about the story a little bit.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Well, an anthropologist by the name of Winslow Welk goes
to Ireland to find out what the origin of the
elves and the leprechauns was. And in his travels he
meets a school teacher there and they establish a good rapport,
(18:37):
shall we say, and talk about the culture, the culture
of Ireland, the culture of how elves came about and
how they look strikingly similar similar to human beings. And
he goes on and he decides he would like to travel. Actually,
(18:58):
they're planning a trip to go to the North Pole,
and he wants to go along, and they're going to
include them, include him in this journey to meet who
would become Santa Claus or Saint Nicholas.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
And they do.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
They meet him and there's a little adventure, a little
sidetrack along the way. They happen they have to take
a Russian ship in order to get there.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Of course they get it's.
Speaker 8 (19:28):
The least expensive way. And this is in the early
nineteen hundreds. And there's a lot happening in the early
nineteen hundreds, a lot of there's war coming along, and
the Russian boat captain gets an order to turn back,
and the godfather of the elves, Killarney, is upset about this.
(19:49):
And there's a little snippet, a little scene. If you
would like to hear just a little piece of the.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Show, Absolutely, I want to hear a little song right
here or there.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Oh well, if we're nice, we'll sing to you too.
So Professor Wilk narrates a lot of the show, and
in this particular section, Act two, Scene three, he's talking
about in June of nineteen twelve, on board a Russian
ice cutter above the Arctic Circle, in the land of
(20:17):
the midnight Sun, I had deep circles under my eyes.
I couldn't sleep. The elves, on the other hand, loved it.
They had set up a woodworking shop on the upper
deck of the Vladimir and the extra Daylight was improving
their production ratios. One morning, however, our solitude was interrupted
(20:37):
by the sounds of a Russian of Russian expletives in
the Vladimir's radio room.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Business or stop your nose ages, don't course, Captain Iven?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Russian prime minister shot dead in Kiev? All hell break
Turk's attack Odessa. We have orders go back Baltic Petersburg.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
But we're so close to Siberia, only two days from
the monastery.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Yet this stop, Denmark, Lord, call you get off Denmark.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Petrovitch, that's a thousand mile back track, Denmark. No more
talk at that moment, With no time for thought about consequences,
Killarney concocted a plan only a madman would consider. Captain Petrovitch.
The Vladimir has six lifeboats. Can you spare two of them?
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Why?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
One for passengers and one for tools and supplies?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yet out of question storm common lifeboat you die.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Think of it this way without us on board, You'll
never again have to listen to my rendition of Danny Boy.
One boat, water and tim can food.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
No tools.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
The tools are worth a fortune, they're irreplaceable. Solar life
boats be keep tools, take or leave.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
That's the end of the scene.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Have there been any serious changes since your first performance.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Yes, we have a couple of characters in the show
original show that couldn't make it back, and so we've
including our pianist, Jacob Craig, and so he has been
replaced by what I must describe as a prodigy, an
eleven year old performer. I will not say her name
because I did not get permission of her mother. But
you must come and see.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Okay, this child.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
Prodigy, she's just a genius at the piano. Wonderful to hear.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
And a few other characters we replaced as well, including
some veterans from Verer Beach Theater Guild.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Okay, it's going to be fun. This could be the
new holiday.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Well, we'll float that idea forward to the guild and see.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Okay, that's that's okay. I'll go along with that. I'll
raising my hand. Okay, what else do we need to
talk about?
Speaker 8 (23:14):
Well, the important details are let's get those dates right.
Call the vere Beach Theater Guild.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It's on the website.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
It's almost better to make a mistake like this because
then you can get people interested in finding out what
the real dates are and they get on the phone
and find out and they say, oh, it's going to
be a great show to see.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Hey, well, why don't we just say, well, thank October November, No, no, November.
We better go to the website and find out for sure.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
November, right after Thanksgiving. It's a great family activity for
those people that are coming to visit you.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Okay, and we need to mention that are.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Quagonic Wagonic is directing. He's back, He's come back to
the theater Guild. Thank you, Mark.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Okay. I see the pianost's name here, but I won't
say it either. Oa and Carol Strauss is stage managing. Oh,
we've run out of time, so once again it is
Dancing on the dingle An Irish Christmas Musical at Vera
Beach Theater Guild. Go to the website to get the
dates and what it is after Thanksgiving weekend after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
Great idea.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Okay, Rob Bolsked, Great to talk to you again. Thank you,
thanks for having me, Willie, my pleasure, and thanks again
to Adam Schnell and thank you listeners as always for
joining us again this week for Arts Blast on the
Air podcast radio show Alexis gill All, presented by Riverside
Theater and Ballet Vero Beach. We're covering the arts online
(24:41):
and an Arts Blast, the free emailed weekly Florida Arts
News magazine. Join us again next week for another edition
of arts Plast on the air. I'm Willie Miller. Thanks
for listening.
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