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Show C-4 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, September 19-21, 2018 Continued from C-1 Dancer competes Sunday when I was 7,” Mick said. “I was very scared because it was my first experience with a real Russian teacher.” Mick was enrolled in an afternoon program at Park City Dance Academy, which has since become the Peggy Bergmann Ballet West Academy. “After a couple of months with Natalia, I realized that I needed to become more focused, so I started to take dance more seriously,” Mick said. “So I asked her if she would give me private lessons, because I wanted to strengthen myself and work on my flexibility.” Mick enjoyed learning from Chapourskaya-Lobachkova. “I would watch her dance PARK CITY FILM SERIES.ORG CREATING COMMUNITY THROUGH FILM THE BIG BAD FOX AND OTHER TALES THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS SEPT 21 SEPT 22 SEPT 23 PG-13 Rated G SEPT 23 Sun 3:30pm Fri 8pm Sat 8pm Sun 6pm Tickets: $5, includes popcorn! Part of Art House Theatre Day, underwritten by Summit County RAP Tax Underwritten by KPCW Radio JIM SANTY AUDITORIUM 1255 PARK AVE, PARK CITY • 435.615.8291 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Natalia Chapourskaya-Lobachkova, a former prima ballerina with the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Russia, fixes McCallister “Callie” Mick’s hair. Mick will perform two works — “Medora” from “Le Corsaire” and a variation from “Giselle” — at the World Ballet Art Competition Grand Prix. Chapourskaya-Lobachkova is also known for dancing “Giselle,” as seen in the background photograph. and she became a huge inspiration,” Mick said. “She never made me feel like I had to do things to better myself. She left that to me.” After a while, Chapourskaya-Lobachkova suggested Mick find a school to enhance her private training. So, the young dancer began taking classes at Salt Lake City Ballet. “It was so much fun, and I had some great teachers and experiences, but I grew out of their curriculum at 13,” Mick said. “I started to feel that I needed to dance with girls who were more advanced in technique to help me grow.” A former teacher referred Mick to the Indiana Ballet Conservatory. “I left Utah and spent two years there, and did some competitions,” she said. A short time later, Mick learned that one of her Salt Lake City Ballet teachers had moved to Spain to treach ballet. With the permission of her parents — Shawn and Jay — Mick, then 14, moved to Spain to study. Mick is grateful for her parents’ support. “My dad, Jay, told me if I worked hard, he would make sure my family would help me get to where I want to be,” Mick said. “My mom on the other hand is my travel buddy. The L.A. Times crossword puzzle “GO FIGURE” By GAIL GRABOWSKI ACROSS 1 Abacus unit 5 Brother of Lucrezia Borgia 11 Lipstick shade 15 Insignificant 19 Drivetrain component 20 Rhododendron variety 21 Sport with masks 22 “Cake Boss” competitor, at times 23 Usually retrospective assessment 25 Cop (to), as a lesser charge 27 Service that manages network messages 28 Ingenuous one 29 Kemper who plays Kimmy Schmidt 30 Feed a line 31 “About time!” 34 Grabs with a toothpick 35 Brazen crime time 40 Palate-cleansing serving 41 Way to go 42 Winds into rings 43 Common scale extreme 44 Cathedral section 45 Shade of pink 46 It’s often designed to rise 53 Pull in 54 Zebra mom 55 Sound quality? 57 First Nations tribe 58 Cash or credit, e.g. 59 California county or its seat 60 Pub orders 62 Kilt features 65 South Beach, say 68 Ribs 69 It isn’t negotiable 70 “That’s not true!” 71 Go over 72 Barcelona-born muralist 73 Lightly washed 75 Comedy club sound 76 Old school dance 79 Tire measurement that can be checked by the “penny test” 82 “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie” author 84 “Arbitrage” actor 85 Apples run on it 86 Bush, for one 87 Where van Gogh painted “Sunflowers” 88 Letter writing, sadly 92 Place to buy a train ticket 95 Fifth-century conqueror 96 Washington airport 97 Sushi bar offering 98 Put away for later 99 Unveiling shout 100 Showbiz honors 106 Buffet stack item 108 Combine ... and a hint to what’s hidden in eight long answers 110 Had to fork over 111 Letters before a viewpoint 112 Lowlife, slangily 113 Actress Watson 114 Pollster’s enc. 115 Ravioli filling 116 “Hear me out” 117 Resale caveat She’s in no way a dance mom. In fact, she always tells me not to teach her any dance terms, because she doesn’t want to know.” In addition to studying ballet in Spain, Mick took advantage of her time in Europe to take master classes and compete in Paris, Brussels and Italy. “Dancing in Europe was very eye opening, because it’s more of a friendly community there,” she said. “All the dancers in Europe that I have competed against not only have more respect for the teachers, they are also more supportive of each other. While competing In the United States, I sometimes feel like I’m getting sized up from other dancers when we’re all backstage.” Two-and-a-half years ago, Mick was accepted to compete in the Youth American Grand Prix in New York City, but suffered a stress fracture in her foot before the event. “Not only was I disappointed, the fracture ruined some of my confidence because I cut down on my mobility,” she said. “Getting back into the studio was hard for me, so I took a break to clear my head.” During that break, Mick enrolled in the University of North Carolina School of Art, but dropped out because she needed to dance more than what the curriculum offered. “I returned to Spain for a couple of months and returnedE to the United States, with theM feeling that I needed to find a place here that would fulfill my desire to dance,” she said. “I also needed to figure out if I wanted to become a trainee or if I wanted to shoot for a company position.” Last year, the Academy of Russian Ballet in Michigan offered Mick a trainee position. “It was the best training that I’ve ever had,” she said. “I loved rehearsals, even though they lasted nine hours at a time.” However, Mick suffered another injury just before “The Nutcracker” last winter. “I tore my lateral collateral ligament, and I had to come back to Park City because my physical therapist is here,” she said. Mick started a six-month physical therapy program, during which she phoned Chapourskaya-Lobachkova. “I asked if I could come back, because I needed to start dancing from scratch, and I always felt at home with her and the Russian philosophy,” Mick said. “She said of course, and we embarked on an intense training session and physical therapy, and I now feel ready to compete.” Continued from C-2 girl, and that scenario has taken on disturbing connotations with the #metoo movement,” he said. “So we worked in some tough female vampires in the mix to make the work more about vampires feeding, rather than a group of boys attacking a girl.” Adding new twists and new dancers are the secret of keeping “Thriller” fresh after 23 years, Yeager said. “I’m always taking new notes,” he said. “And when we bring in new dancers, we tell them that the bar has been set really high. If they are going to dance in ‘Thriller,’ they can’t fake it. They have to know what they’re doing, and they have to do it well.” Odyssey Dance Theatre will present its annual Halloween production of “Thriller,” for a three-week run — Friday through Sunday, Sept. 21-23; Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 27-30 and Wednesday through Sunday, Oct. 3-7, at the Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St. Times vary. The production may be too intense for younger children. For information, visit www.parkcityshows.com. ‘Thriller’ returns to Park City “I always tell the men that they have to act like they have 200-pound weights on your feet, like deep-sea divers,” he said. “They also have to make sure their fingers are stretched and extended, because if they relax their fingers, their whole body tends to relax. And that’s not what the Frankenstein monster is all about. He needs to be rigid, because he is made from a lot of different people’s body parts.” Other “Thriller” highlights include the tap dancing skeletons in “Dem Bones” and the vampiric “Lost Boys.” Yeager decided to add some female vampires in “Lost Boys” this year. “In the past we’ve had a group of boy vampires attack a SUDOKU DOWN 1 Sonny & Cher’s “I Got You __” 2 Class struggle? 3 “Same Time, Next Year” actor 4 Inscribe personally 5 Hidden 6 Basso Pinza 7 Fresh words 8 Carrier with a hub in Fiumicino 9 1906 Runabout, e.g. 10 Suffix with Jacob 11 Meal 12 Illuminated indirectly 13 Complaint 14 Word of support 15 “The Rose” singer 16 Big name in food safety 17 Do some electrical updating 18 Gallo family brother 24 Lose, as a tail 26 Be contingent (on) 28 “Doubt it” 32 Cash holders 33 Some HDTVs 34 Place for a rototiller 35 Fiber source 36 Boxing ring boundary 37 Kick out 38 Nut with a hat 39 40 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 54 56 58 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 71 73 74 75 Time long past Stick it out Protest principle __ B’rith Smelly Nouveau-Mexique, par exemple Vast expanse “Topaz” novelist Code carrier Company with toy trucks Sunbeam floater Watts at a keyboard 1990s trade acronym Annual parade VIP Sign of remorse Subtle summons Look the wrong way? Raison d’__ Wig out “It __ Necessarily So”: Gershwin song Smidgen More or less, informally Interval of inactivity “Don’t You Know?” singer Reese City near the California-Nevada border 76 Pitch in 77 Cookie with a Thins Bites variety 78 Bug or brat 80 Increased in intensity, with “up” 81 Kid-vid explorer 83 Lines at the grocery 84 Beverage with antioxidants 86 Sizable hole 87 Really fancy 88 Catchers on the range 89 North American capital, or its river 90 Some wraps 91 Vehement speech 92 Sizzling 93 Battery choice 94 Jackie Paper’s imaginary friend is one 96 Recent White House daughter 99 Smartphone display 101 Newsroom cancellation 102 Roll with the punches 103 Electrical units 104 Patrick’s “Ghost” co-star 105 Ladies of Sp. 107 Barely lit 108 Knee injury initials 109 Nike’s __-FIT fabric |