Page 12 - Southern Exposure - April '22

Page 12, Southern Exposure

artS & entertainMent

Jay Markov And Lily Loveland Dance Title Roles

In Peter Pan And Tinker Bell

When you see the premiere production of Peter Pan and many favorite roles are the roles of Juliet, Giselle, Marie/
Tinker Bell at The Kravis Center between April 14 and 16 Sugarplum, Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky Pas De Deux and
you will see a new face in one of the title roles. Jay Markov Who Cares?. Colleen Smith’s In The Mood, Turtle B, Simple
is new to Ballet Palm Beach, joining the company in August Symphony, and Because I Said So stand out as her personal
2021 from Festival Ballet at Providence in Rhode Island, favorites. She is excited to premiere this original production
where he was both a company member and a teacher. Jay of Peter Pan and Tinker Bell with brand-new costumes,
began his professional dance career at age 17 with Ballet music, and choreography by Colleen Smith.
Arizona where he danced various roles in productions of Peter Pan and Tinker Bell premiers Thursday through
Swan Lake, La Bayadere, Napoli, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Saturday, April 14 to 16, in the Rinker Playhouse at The
Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Don Quixote, Kravis Center. Peter Pan and Tinker Bell tells the story of
and Western Symphony. Jay continued his professional Peter Pan, “the boy who never grew up,” and his feisty fairy
dance career with Los Angeles Ballet where he performed friend, Tinker Bell, before Wendy Darling’s appearance in
contemporary works by Meghan Lou, Aszure Barton, and Peter’s life. Peter and Tink’s fantastical adventures take
Alejandro Cerrudo. Jay has also performed in many of them through Neverland, where they encounter the often
Balanchine’s Ballets such as Theme and Variations, Serenade, ill-behaved Lost Boys, mischievous mermaids, Princess Lily Loveland Jay Markov
Movements and Monumento, Violin Concerto, Who Cares?, Tiger Lily, a crocodile of monstrous proportions, and of
Four Temperaments, Prodigal Son, and Tarantella. course, the fearsome Captain Hook and his pirates! This Tickets at www.balletpalmbeach.org or call the Kravis
Lily Loveland, dancing the role of Tinker Bell, is in performance is partially underwritten by a grant from PNC’s Center Box Office at (561) 832-7469 or (800) 572-8471.
her 13th season with Ballet Palm Beach. Among her Arts Alive program.

Benzaiten Center’s Last Visiting Artist Of The Season:

Benjamin Cobb

And Then Gearing Up For The Center’s Free Kids’ Programming

The last visiting the Benzaiten Center for bringing this illustrious artist team of five to six glassblowers: the guest artist, our own
artist to demonstrate to our community! staff, plus other local artists who want to work with this
his glassblowing Cobb works on a very large scale so his muscular well-known artist. This type of muscular, large-scale
skills at the Benzaiten three-hour demos on Friday and Saturday, April 8 and
Center for Creative 9 will be something to see. He will be working with a Arts & Entertainment on page 13
Arts is internationally
renowned glassblower
Benjamin Cobb.
Since 2002 to the
present he has been
working as the lead
gaffer and then Hot
Shop director for Benjamin Cobb working on a large
the prestigious Hot hand-blown piece connected to a
Shop at the Museum blowpipe
of Glass in Tacoma,
Wash. During that time Benjamin has also participated
in symposiums, teaching and demonstrating as a visiting
artist in multiple world-renowned glass centers in the
Czech Republic, Sweden, Italy and France. He’s taught
at the Penland School of Crafts, the Pilchuck Glass
School and many other glass programs throughout this
country. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of
Northwest Art in LaConner, Wash.; Museum of Glass;
and dozens of galleries
across the United States.
We are indeed indebted to

30-inch blown Red Mollusk
by Benjamin Cobb

30-inch blown glass Green
Mollusk by Benjamin Cobb
Licensed and Insured

Closeup of Green Mollusk by
Benjamin Cobb Skinny Jimmy Stingray