Geri Jeter
Story Archive
- Someone to Watch: Martha Banks
- Wednesday, June 9, 2010
- This past spring in New York, soprano and UNLV doctoral candidate Martha Banks took top honors at the Classical Singer magazine competition.
- Dancer from the dance
- Wednesday, April 14, 2010
- A Choreographers’ Showcase blends artists from the various Cirque du Soleil productions and Nevada Ballet Theatre in a collaboration that reveals the depth of Las Vegas’s choreographic and dance talent.
- CSN Fall Dance Concert
- Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009
- This performance could have gone seriously wrong.
- Three questions with pianist Joel Fan
- Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009
- The billboard top-10 classical artist will accompany the Las Vegas Philharmonic for Gershwin’s “Piano Concerto in F.”
- Ballet season-opener leaves room for improvement
- Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
- It’s always exciting to attend the first performance of a new ballet season—especially one that showcases the efforts of a new artistic director. If only the results had equaled the anticipation.
- Las Vegas Philharmonic Pops Series’ A Night at the Movies
- Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009
- Film meets Philarmonic at the Pops Series' A Night at the Movies.
- The future of local dance
- Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009
- If you are neither friend nor relative of a student dancer, why should you spend the money on a ticket to see them? Here's why...
- Praise the Lord
- A technical appraisal of Michael Flatley’s famous production
- Thursday, July 2, 2009
- Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance is a welcome change from the latest Cirque shows' overstaged, under-choreographed spectacles. Loosely held together by its Irish folklore-based, good-versus-evil plot, the show revolves around Irish step dancing and its modern variations.
- Celebrating Roth
- Thursday, June 18, 2009
- Thirty years after Kelly Roth & Dancers’ New York debut, the company will present a retrospective of dances and multimedia projects created by its choreographer and director, Kelly Roth.
- Two of a kind
- One-act operas sing most atypical tales
- Thursday, March 19, 2009
- The paired works on this weekend’s UNLV Opera Theatre bill abandon the upper classes and the mythical characters that form the basis for most grand opera, instead focusing on the plight of ordinary people. How refreshing.
- Canoodling with Tchaikovsky
- Philharmonic celebrates V-Day with four-part program
- Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009
- From its passionate opening symphony to its romantic finish, the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s All-Tchaikovsky Program is the perfect choice for a Valentine’s Day date.
- 60-second grocery shopper
- Bumble Bee Prime Fillet Solid White Albacore in Water ($2 in local supermarkets)
- Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009
- One of the most popular protein sources in the American diet, not all tuna is created equal.
- 60-second grocery shopper
- Indian Fare Take-Out Thali ($3.99 at Trader Joe's)
- Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009
- When you work late or have a million things to do before you finally go home, it’s tempting to do the fast-food thing or resume your friendship with the local pizza-delivery guy. An alternative is to cruise your local Trader Joe’s.
- 60-second grocery shopper
- Laxmi Ginger-Garlic Paste (9-oz. jar, $4 at Albertson’s)
- Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008
- Masala and stir-fry dishes often depend on making a ginger and garlic paste to act as an integral layer of flavor. Laxmi Ginger-Garlic Paste is one good shortcut.
- 60-second grocery shopper
- Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008
- Winter is here, and what better way to revel in the cold than with ice cream? Yup. Nothing like ice cream on a cold day to make you forget those 100-degree moments in July.
- Dance the night away
- CSN fall concert wondrous, but overlong
- Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008
- For its fall outing, the College of Southern Nevada Dance Department offered a bill mixing an abstract and intellectually distant duet with a large-scale cynical view of interpersonal relationships, stopping along the way for an introspective solo and a psychedelic trip down Boomer memory lane.
- Dance … with a twist
- Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008
- One year it’s a ballerina escaping the Nazis, the next year Princess Diana shares the stage with the Heaven’s Gate mass-suicide cult—mixing it up is the name of the game for Kelly Roth and the College of Southern Nevada dance department.
- ‘A living gallery’
- Nevada Dance Project provides creative outlet for production dancers
- Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008
- Co-directors Richard Havey and Gail Gilbert have created the Nevada Dance Project—a dance umbrella that offers the opportunity for contemporary choreographers and dancers to show their best work, new or preexisting, but always original.
- Partners in choreography
- Cirque, NBT pair up to offer second annual Showcase
- Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008
- One of the recent highlights of the local dance scene has been the unique collaboration between the high-concept Cirque du Soleil and the classically oriented Nevada Ballet Theatre.
- It’s more than the steps
- Ballet classic Giselle challenges its dancers in many ways
- Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
- Giselle tops most ballet companies’ wish lists. One of the most significant works of the Romantic era, the ballet has challenged dancers and directors since its 1841 debut in Paris.
- Fall A+E Guide: Performing Arts
- Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008
- From ballet based on Chinese folklore to the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Geri Jeter offers the fall forecast in the performing arts.
- Love Downtown!
- You're hungry? You're thirsty? You're broke?
- Thursday, May 22, 2008
- A gentle reminder that the most kick-ass deals are still Downtown
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