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Dainty ballet slippers and matching hat made for that perfect newborn shoot.Size: NewbornAvailable in a variety of soft pastels, let me know your color choices:Cream, pale pink as shown, powder blue, soft greenThank You to RainDancer Studios for the beauitful photographyPattern By Sunset Crochet

Philharmonia Baroque also plans to return to its popular “PBO Sessions” series of informal talks, insights and demonstrations, with events scheduled on Nov. 8 and March 7, 2019 and April 9, 2019. The orchestra will tour this season, too, with concert stops in Connecticut, New York, Costa Mesa, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles. Tickets for the 2018-19 season go on sale Aug. 1; for prices and venue information, visit www.philharmonia.org. CZECH YOUR CALENDAR: Having completed last month’s survey of Romanian music, the Gold Coast Chamber Players are setting their sights on works by Czech composers. “Czech Mate” features an appearance by the Boston Trio in Josef Suk’s “Elegie,” Op. 23, and Smetana’s “Trio” in G minor, Op. 15. Gold Coast artistic director, violist Pamela Freund-Striplen, joins the Boston players in Dvorak’s mighty Quartet No. 2, Op. 87, for piano, violin, viola, and cello.

Details: 7:30 p.m. March 10, Lafayette Library Community Hall; $45 general, $40 seniors, $15 students; 925-283-3728; www.gcplayers.org, MYTH AND MUSIC AT LEFT COAST: With its story of love and loss, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has inspired — and continues to inspire — composers through the centuries, This sugar plum hat and ballet slippers week’s program by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, titled “Sonnets to Orpheus,” samples a few of the enduring ones, including excerpts from Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” and Gluck’s “Dance of the Blessed Spirits.” Capping the program are new and recent works by Eric Moe, Aida Shirazi, and Chiayu Hsu..

Rudyard Kipling’s cultural footprint is a whole lot bigger in Great Britain than on this side of the Atlantic, and Graham Lustig grew up well-ensconced in a realm shaped by the writer’s imagination. As a boy in London, the budding dancer often escaped the city’s fog and bustle going on camping trips with the Boy Scouts, an organization inspired partly by Kipling’s “Jungle Book” stories. “I was a cub in the Boy Scouts, and the leader of the pack is the Akela,” said Lustig, Oakland Ballet’s artistic director, referring to the “Jungle Book” wolf who helps oversee the feral boy Mowgli’s upbringing. “That mythology was part of my childhood. I knew the stories and the characters.”.

Lustig drew on his deep affinity for Kipling’s tale in his family-friendly dance theater production “Jangala,” which is distilled from several “Jungle Book” stories (which are set in India), But rather than simply transferring beloved characters from page to stage, he reimagines the tale by mingling contemporary ballet with elements of bharatanatyam, the South sugar plum hat and ballet slippers Indian classical dance form, “I was fascinated that no one had approached ‘Jungle Book’ from an Indian arts perspective,” he said, adding that his many treasured experiences in India while dancing with the Royal Ballet contributed to the project, “I have very strong and beautiful memories, like meeting Ravi Shankar at his house, Growing up in London with a lot of Indian communities around me I was drawn to Indian arts and culture.”..

Oakland Ballet Company presents the Bay Area premiere Lustig’s “Jangala” on March 10 at Oakland’s Skyline High School Performing Arts Center and March 13 at the Castro Valley High School Performing Arts Center. The piece premiered at New Jersey’s Middlesex County College in 2013. The hope is that “Jangala” becomes part of Oakland Ballet’s regular repertoire, providing a vivid point of entry for young audiences. For these performances, the company is joined by bharatanatyam dancer Nadhi Thekkek in the role of Mowgli’s human mother, Messua. Her San Francisco company, Nava Dance Theatre, opens the performance with a newly commissioned narrative dance work in the bharatanatyam tradition, created for these performances and featuring live music.

In reimagining Kipling’s tale, Lustig moves the action from one jungle to another, setting “Jangala” in a chaotic urban landscape marked by discos, junkyards and construction sites, With a cast of 11 sugar plum hat and ballet slippers female and five male dancers, the piece features New Delhi-born Ailey School alumnus Sanchit Babbar in the lead role of Mowgli, The recorded score draws on energetic bhangra and Bollywood music as well as classical ragas and folkloric music from across India, Rather than using elaborate masks, Lustig wanted to emphasize the contemporary setting, “It’s an urban jungle with everyone wearing suits,” he says, “The characters start to emerge through movement, The beautiful thing is that bharatanatyam is this 2,000-year-old southern dance style with a hand gesture to become a wolf, a head gesture to become a tiger.”..

Details: 2:30 p.m. March 10, Skyline High School Performing Arts Center, 12250 Skyline Blvd., Oakland; and 7 p.m. March 13, Castro Valley High School Performing Arts Center, 19501 Redwood Rd., Castro Valley; $15-50; 510-893-3132, oaklandballet.org. SF Performances presents British choreographer Wayne McGregor’s latest work “Autobiography,” an evening-length work partly inspired by the information gleaned from getting his DNA sequenced. The piece pairs 23 formative experiences/memories with the 23 chromosomes, offering another step in his ongoing work enfolding dance, science, technology, philosophy, and current events within his kinetic movement vocabulary.Details: 7:30 p.m. March 8-10; YCBA Theater, 700 Howard St., San Francisco; $40-$65; 415-392-2545; sfperformances.org.

(Click here, if you are unable to view this video on your mobile device.), DEAR MISS MANNERS: Several times, friends, acquaintances sugar plum hat and ballet slippers and family members have apologized to me (face to face) for their not having written a sympathy or thank-you note, I did not know how to respond to, for example, “I heard that your father died, and I should have sent you a note, but I didn’t and now I feel bad about it.”, I’m afraid I said something like, “Yes, there was lots of sorrow all around,” but I really feel doubly offended..

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