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Love for this show-stealing breed is personal
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All of my friends and relatives warned me not to adopt a Jack Russell terrier.
This was the summer of 2009. My previous dog, a wonderfully mellow 14-year-old sheltie, had passed away that year, and I was finally ready to adopt a new pet. While searching the shelter for dogs one afternoon, I fell in love with a 3-year-old Jack Russell whose previous owners had to leave the country.But everyone I asked told me to steer clear: "Too energetic and high-strung." "Stubborn and willful." "You'll spend half your day walking him, and the other half buying new shoes to replace the ones he will chew up."Lucky for me, I ignored them and brought Tucker home on June 30, 2010. Little did I know I'd be on the vanguard of a trend, one that reaches its culmination on Oscar night, as The Artist -- and its adorable Jack Russell, Uggie -- competes for 10 Academy Awards.Jack Russells, the scrappy little fox hunters that were first bred by the Rev. John Russell in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, have been on the Hollywood radar screen for decades, on TV shows like Frasier and in movies like The Mask. Among celebrities who own the dogs are Mariah Carey, Bette Midler and Paul McCartney. But it all came together for the breed in 2011.First came Beginners, which featured Cosmo, a Jack Russell that plays Arthur, the loyal companion to the aging gay father played by Oscar nominee Christopher Plummer. That high-pitched bark, that nervous yelp whenever you leave the house, the quiet and simple pleasure he takes in plopping down on your lap: Cosmos' was a performance that brilliantly inhabited the Jack Russell experience.Soon after, Uggie began his fabulous run. A longtime bit player in commercials and forgotten movies like Mr. Fix It and Paul Blart: Mall Cop, he first garnered attention in 2011 in Water for Elephants. He had a small supporting role as Queenie, the dog of the circus dwarf Kinko (Mark Povinelli). Uggie followed that, of course, with his dazzling work in The Artist. Without so much as an audible bark to let us know what he was thinking, he powerfully captured his character's devotion to his master and his deep bravery.The awards for that performance have been considerable -- a Pawscar, a Golden Collar, the Palme Dog at last year's Cannes Film Festival -- and justifiably so. Not since Asta, the wire-haired fox terrier in the "Thin Man" films, has one canine so quickly entered the pop-culture galaxy.Hollywood is fickle. Tastes quickly change, especially when it comes to dogs. Uggie and his owners, no doubt preferring to avoid the post-Oscar curse, recently announced that the now-10-year-old Jack Russell would be retiring. He will busy himself instead as the first ever "spokesdog" for Nintendo, and lounge by the pool.Already there are signs that, by this time next year, we'll be buzzing about another breed entirely. Last month, director Martin Scorsese wrote a letter to the Los Angeles Times protesting that the Doberman pinscher from Hugo hadn't gotten nearly the attention it deserved. A Pekingese named Malachy (ugly even by the standards of Pekingese, if you ask me) recently won the Westminster Kennel Club "Best in Show" prize.But as a proud Jack Russell terrier owner, and a fan of both The Artist and Beginners, I can only thank the likes of Cosmo and Uggie for letting the world in on my little secret: They may require a little extra energy and attention. They may bark when you leave the house and jump all over you when you return, even if only 15 seconds have elapsed. They may eat more peanut butter treats than you can afford.But if it's companionship, affection, personality, spirit, protectiveness and intelligence you're after in a dog, then every year is the year of the Jack Russell.
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Srishti Dances of India reflects on personal stories in 'Samudra'
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Srishti Dances of India will collaborate with The Spilling Ink Project to present "Samudra: Churning Oceans."
Indian dance often is revered for its ornate costumes, highly stylized steps and routines steeped in rich religious references.
But for Srishti Dances of India, an Odissi/Indian classical dance company founded in 1997 in Pittsburgh, the art form is more than just a museum piece.
"We're moving away from the exotic aspect of it to thinking of it more as a rich vocabulary for contemporary expression," says artistic director Sreyashi Dey.
Her troupe of six dancers, now based in Ann Arbor, Mich., will challenge audiences to find the here and now in the dance style's history with "Samudra: Churning Oceans," which has its world premiere this weekend at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater as part of the East Liberty venue's 2011-12 "KST Presents" season.
'Samudra: Churning Oceans'
Where: Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty.
When: 8 p.m. today and Saturday
Tickets: $25 in advance, $30 at the door, $20 for residents of 15206 and $15 for students and artists. 1-800-838-3006 or http://www.kelly-strayhorn.org.
Information: A pre-show mixer will be held at 7 p.m. both evenings. A post-show talk with artists will follow Saturday's performance.
Regulars at the Kelly-Strayhorn may remember Srishti Dances of India from its performance in fall 2010. This time, the group will collaborate with The Spilling Ink Project, a Washington, D.C-based classical Indian dance company founded in 2007 by Carnegie Mellon University graduate Vijay Palaparty. Next weekend, they'll perform together in Washington, D.C., and hope to tour the piece more widely in the future, Ms. Dey says.
In "Samudra," dancers tap historical Indian dance forms to present a choreographic collection of personal narratives, highlighted with multimedia projections.
"You can think of the whole thing as a journey where we explore our own personal journeys as dancers, as artists, as human beings [and] also as people who have at some point ... migrated from one country to another," says Ms. Dey, who moved to the United States from India about 25 years ago.
Costuming will be more contemporary than what is typical for classical Indian dance.
"We want to focus more on the ideas and on the journey and the personal identity and issues like that rather than leading the audience to focus more on the heavy cultural aspects in terms of the very traditional jewelry and heavy makeup," she says.
Music for the production was recorded in India and in Washington, D.C., and weaves together the traditional and more modern aspects of the different types of Indian dance audiences will see.
"The objective of the performance isn't to compare and contrast the two styles," Ms. Dey says. "It's focusing more on the synergies and the combined expressions of these ideas."
Audiences do not need to be familiar with any of the styles to connect with the program.
"What we are trying to do is reach a larger audience," says Nalini Prakash, co-artistic director of The Spilling Ink Project. "We try to go just beyond the storytelling aspects" of gods and goddesses.
"I would say the main thing would be to not think of the classical dance forms from only a cultural perspective, to not think of them as these exotic dance forms with pretty costumes," Ms. Dey says. "That's not what we would like people to come away with. We would like people to think of it as a medium of expression."
First published on February 24, 2012 at 12:00 am
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Posted: February 23, 2012 at 2:08 pm
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