“For me, when I saw people doing Acro and being upside down and talking and laughing, I knew that’s what I wanted,” Mihic says. “It’s like being a kid, trying new things, playing in the park. You’re having so much fun, you don’t even realize you’re getting one of the best core workouts possible.”. Medha Garg, 29, of Oakland, has been taking Acro classes for about a year, and was one of the more advanced students in Avitzur’s intro class last week.

But my dreams were dashed when I learned that the mansion bedrooms aren’t included in the special-use permit just approved by the city, The century-old rooms probably don’t have much in the way of modern amenities, anyway, Instead, the sleepovers — which are still in the very early planning stages — would happen in the buildings that surround the sprawling Victorian mansion, like the Foreman’s House — a two-story home that was occupied by John Hanson, Sarah Winchester’s foreman for 30 years — the ballet flats with heel Pump House and a caretaker’s apartment..

She has appeared in productions mounted by such companies as Hillbarn Theatre, Palo Alto Players and Sunnyvale Community Players. More recently, her focus has shifted to cabaret performance. She hopes to take her one-woman show, “Lies My Mother Told Me,” to New York. “With cabaret, I love that I get to pull from my theater background, use different musical styles, do new arrangements or put them in new contexts, and create stories. I love storytelling.”. Three years ago, she did her first solo Christmas show at Angelica’s in Redwood City. It didn’t quite fulfill her vision.

“It’s so motivating for them,” Mullan said, CHIME is a nonprofit organization founded in 1968 to directly address a then-dire music education situation, But the group doesn’t only support orchestra and band, it also covers vocal music, dance and drama with things like paying for an accompanist, buying costumes or even throwing a cast party, The organization has given around $26,000 each year over the past few years to the district, ballet flats with heel according to Mirjana Kelava, CHIME’s president..

The girls — who hail from San Jose, Cupertino and Fremont — have been training together for years at Nor-Cal. Whether they win or not, it’ll be a big moment for them and Nor-Cal owner Tawnya Kuzio. She grew up in East San Jose, graduated from San Jose State and started a career in choreography in Hollywood before returning to her hometown to open her own studio in 2006. GRADS GET A BOOST: Rigo Chacon may be retired from broadcast journalism, but he’s working as hard as ever with Abrazos and Books, the scholarship program he started that’s now in its 27th year. Chacon says the nonprofit will again offer a minimum of 20 scholarships of up to $2,000 each to graduating high school seniors from Santa Clara County schools, both public and private.