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Nevaeh McCarthy and her mother, Carla Burrell, found inspiration in the same dance program — 20 years apart.

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Nevaeh McCarthy is pursuing dance through the same Sarasota Ballet program her mother, Carla Burrell, attended nearly 20 years ago.

he news was like something out of a bad dream.

Carla Burrell learned she was moving from her hometown of Sarasota to Clemson, S.C. Not only would the young Bay Haven student have to leave behind her friends, but she would also be leaving Dance — The Next Generation, Sarasota Ballet’s dance-outreach program, which she had come to love.

Burrell joined the relatively new initiative in 1993, at her grandmother’s encouragement. The program, founded by Pavel Fomin to inspire young students to pursue dance, quickly piqued her interest, and leaving it behind was devastating.

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Dancing into the Next Generation

CHILDHOOD DANCING DREAMS Nevaeh McCarthy isn’t the only one who’s experienced the power of dance. Ballet has also inspired many of the adults in her life.

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“I stopped dancing after that,” she says. “I was homesick, and I was sad that I couldn’t dance anymore.”

Now, 20 years later, Burrell is back in Sarasota with her 10-yearold daughter, Nevaeh McCarthy.

A lot of things are the same: The program she fell in love with is still here; the Sarasota Ballet is still here, more robust than ever; even Fomin is still here. It wasn’t long until Nevaeh followed in her mother’s artistic steps.

“I knew DNG would come by the schools and ask students to audition,” she says. “I didn’t say anything when she came home with the sign-up paper, but I was really excited. It was like history repeating itself.”

DEX HONEA Education director, Sarasota Ballet “The first time I saw ballet was in the movie ‘White Nights.’ It was 1985 when it first came out. I saw it in Bangkok, and it was translated into Thai, so I didn’t really know what was going on. Two years later, I moved to Canada. I couldn’t even speak English. I had a Thai-to-English dictionary with me while I was trying to learn. I would come home at night and watch movie reruns and try to learn and speak along with the actors. One night ‘White Nights’ came on, and it’s in English now. The first scene is a Roland Petit piece, ‘Le Jeune Homme et la Mort,’ and right away, that captured me. I knew that’s what I wanted to do. The next day I went out, and there was one little ballet school, and I signed up.”

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Fomin formed DNG in 1991 after immigrating to the United States from Ukraine. Since then, he’s used the program to reach young students who are interested in dance or are at risk of dropping out of school. He says dance training teaches students focus, discipline and how to express themselves.

“At first, I didn’t know what to do with these kids,” he says. “They were running all over, climbing on trees and running around the building.”

But once he got his students into the rehearsal space on the New College campus, he saw them begin to flourish.

Burrell remembers how nervous she was in the beginning

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Nevaeh McCarthy and Carla Burrell share a love of dance.

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“I’d never had any any dance training before,” she says. “It was very intimidating, because we were around all the professionals.”

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LISA TOWNSEND Program director, DNG “When I was growing up in Arkansas, my dance teacher died, and none of her students wanted to take on the responsibility of running the school.

Another woman came in and bought the school, and she was turning things around to a professional track. She was so dedicated and committed to

what she did, and she brought in this discipline to what she did. No one could talk in class, and you had to focus. Everyone thought it was too hard, and all my friends disappeared. I wound up teaching the little kid classes when I was 12. I would open the studio every day and keep things going until she got there, and I would close up at night.”

PAVEL FOMIN Ballet master and founder, DNG “I was born in the Ukraine during World War II, and of course, at the time, it was very bad for everyone. No food, no clothes, nothing. I was born in a small town by the Danube River, on the border. I was singing and dancing, because I didn’t want to be at home. I wanted to get out of reality and my very bad life. Some girls in the town invited us to dance classes.

It was a very good program, and it was a few years after World War II. The program in the Soviet Union for professional people traveled around the country and looked for talented kids to give them a professional education in the arts. I was selected for them to dance, and I loved to move.

I’ve always loved to just move. I was selected, and they brought me to Odessa into a professional school. I went there, and I danced in one of the most beautiful opera and ballet houses in the world.”

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That’s something I always recognized with her. I wanted to nurture what I saw in her and expose her to the arts.”

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Three years after she first started DNG, McCarthy sees what her mother knew all along: She was born to dance.

“It’s a creative way to express myself,” she says. “You get to be a different person on the stage.

When you love something, it’s like your second home.”

Every day, she wakes up at 7 a.m. to prepare for school at Bay Haven. She’s focused and happy in class, but after school three days a week, it’s all about ballet.

Everything else fades away.

The aspiring ballerina recently auditioned for the ballet school’s production of “The Nutcracker,” and Nevaeh is prepping as if the show were this week. Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays are a barrage of ballet, jazz classes and character dancing.

It’s a packed schedule for any elementary school student, but with support from her family and dance teachers, Nevaeh has grown as a dancer. She’s even advanced, on scholarship, to the Sarasota Ballet School, the ballet’s second-tier dance-training program.

“I have noticed a change,” says Burrell. “She’s grown a lot. I see a big difference, not only in her dancing, but also in her maturity.”

And though she’s just 10, Nevaeh has the determination of an artist twice her age. This is more than just an after-school activity. It’s her dream profession.

“I just love it,” she says. “This is something I’ll always want to be a part of.”

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Lee collaborated with fifth-generation Japanese puppet master Koryu Nishikawa V on the production, which depicts a fable of two disparate men.

“This project is a really exciting one for me personally,” says Lee. “It’s been 10 years in the making since I first went to Japan and began studying Japanese traditional puppetry and theater. It’s the culmination of Western puppetry and Japanese puppetry in one form.”

Shyu is a similar artistic alchemist who takes raw artistic traditions and creates performances that are wholly new and her own.

Her show, “Solo Rites: Seven Breaths,” was created from a years-long journey through Asian countries. And in its own way, it’s a microcosm of the entire festival.

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I could expand on my initial plot summary, but what’s the point? Cross-dressing, forest, twins — you get the picture.

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To the gob-smackingly welldrawn characters of this play — characters other writers have ripped off for hundreds of years.

They come through loud and clear in Wineman’s adaptation.

Just assume they all work in a summer camp (one somehow devoid of children) as counselors, cooks and athletic directors, and it all makes sense.

Viola (Kelsey Petersen) is unconvincingly disguised as a young guy named Cesario.

Viola and Orsino (Kevin Barber) feel the thunderbolt of mutual attraction—which creeps Orsino out mightily, until the big reveal that he wasn’t actually attracted to a young man.

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It’s the one that takes place in summer camp.

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No surprise. Wineman pulled the same trick with last year’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

As before, this is not highchurch Shakespeare. The original text remains, if condensed to diamond-hard simplicity. But there’s new stuff, too.

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To complicate matters, Olivia (Lisa Egan Woods) goes gaga for Cesario—triggering an attack response from Olivia’s rejected male suitor and his pals. They assume Cesario fights like a girl and try to put a hurt on “him.”

When they attack Sebastian by mistake, Viola’s identical male twin opens up a jumbo can of whoop-ass. Andrew Aguecheek (Josh James) is the suitor in question. He’s a spoiled little rich boy—the camp riding instructor, judging by his everpresent riding crop.

James steals the show with hilarious physical comedy. Toby Belch (Mark Comer) is basically Falstaff without the weight problem. Feste the jester is a fool but no fool. Said madcap is played winningly by Ally Farzet-

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Asolo Repertory Theatre’s New Stages tour reimagines Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” as a summer camp comedy.

ta, with sexy shades of the Harley Quinn character. Joe Knispel slouches through the role of Fabian like a So-Cal surfer dude floating through the redwoods in a perpetual buzz. (Said happy hippy performs a marriage. He was probably ordained online).

Malvolio (Tom Harney) is a prig (a Puritan, originally) who can’t stand the thought that somebody, somewhere is having fun. Harney plays him as a camp counselor who goes on a power trip when handed a whistle.

Instant karma arrives in the form of a bogus love letter. This prank has Malvolio making a doomed love play to Olivia, a woman who hates him. He does so dressed in yellow socks and grinning like an idiot while the pranksters, watching in hiding, laugh their socks off. Always a great scene.

Greatly played here.

It’s all fun and games—with a pedagogic purpose, of course.

Future actors will say “I want to play that.” Future scribblers will say, “I want to write like that.”

Future performing arts fans might see a Shakespeare play or rent a Kenneth Branagh movie.

Big lessons aside, this is a great adaptation. But Shakespeare is so amazingly adaptable. You can set “The Tempest” on another planet, turn Richard III into a fascist dictator in a parallelreality Britain, or plop Macbeth down in feudal Japan. Somehow, it still works. Universal stories work in any universe, after all.

OK. But a summer camp?

What’s the point?

Well, getting high school students to get into Shakespeare, obviously. But this isn’t “Shakespeare for Dummies.” Or a substitute for the uncondensed original. It’s a doorway into the worlds of Shakespeare’s imagination. His mercurial language.

His X-ray eyes that saw so deep into the human heart.

The point of the play? Shakespeare loved the messy tribe of humanity, drunks, lovers, liars, fools and all. He had to, or he wouldn’t have seen people so clearly. You can’t be a comic writer and hate people.

Malvolio would definitely suck as a playwright.

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Ringling Underground brings in the fall arts season

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ands The Bird Tribe, Redfeather and Megan Jean & The KFB performed Oct. 1, in the open air of the John and Mable Ringling Museum courtyard. Artists Noelle McCleaf, Eska Palmer and Leslie Reed exhibited their latest work to Sarasota art lovers.

For three hours, fans explored the John and Mable Ringling Museum while enjoying live music, new art and the museum's classic collection.

– NICK REICHERT

Morgan Soltes and Susie Webb

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taste PR ESE NTE D BY ST. AR MAN DS CI RCLE ASSOCIATION & WAG N E R R EALTY

A sampling of St. Armands most mouthwatering dishes.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015 • 5:30 - 8:30 PM

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Advanced Purchase

RAIN DATE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2015 • 5:30 - 8:30 PM

St. Armands Circle Park | Open to the Public

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Day of Event

• Crab & Fin • Daiquiri Deck • 15 South Ristorante Enoteca • Blue Dolphin Cafe • • Cafe L’Europe • ChaCha Coconuts • Columbia • Hamba Lounge • Hotel Indigo Sarasota • • Lido Beach Resort • Lynches Pub & Grub • Settimi’s • Shore • Surf Shack Coastal Kitchen • • The Peanut Shop • The Spice & Tea Exchange • Tommy Bahama Restaurant & Bar • A Decadent “TASTE OF FASHION” presented by

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For Advanced Ticket Purchases please contact 941.388.1554 or visit www.StArmandsCircleAssoc.com for more information.

Portion of the proceeds to benefit Take Stock in Children

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