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Community School of Music and Arts: “Picture This,” student exhibition. Dec. 9 through Jan. 18; reception 3-5 p.m. Dec. 9. Mohr Gallery, Community School of Music and Arts, Finn Center, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. Free. http://www.arts4all.org or 650-917-6800, ext. 305. Cubberley Artist Studio Program: “Guided Colors,” K-8 exhibition. Dec. 10 through Dec. 15; reception 3-5:30 p.m. Dec. 10. ArtLab Gallery, Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/casp.

Pace Gallery: Adam Pendleton, “Which We Can,” through Dec, toi toi toi ballet wrap skirt extra long style! rehearsal, dance class, performance. gingham. 22, Pace Gallery, 229 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, http://www.pacegallery.com/, Palo Alto Art Center: Tropical Holiday Family Day, 2-4 p.m, Dec, 10; artmaking projects, storytelling, live music; free, Florence Robichon’s “A Brighter Future: Creativity and Learning in a Syrian Refugee Camp in Iraqi Kurdistan,” through Jan, 3, “Through That Which Is Seen,” various artists, Jan, 20 through April 8, Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto, https://www.paacf.org/..

Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” may not boast the century’s weirdest sci-fi movie coupling. That honor probably goes to the 2016 Mexican movie “The Untamed” (if you haven’t seen it, seek it out). But del Toro’s vision of human/fantastic-creature sex is likely to be the most romantic ever filmed. By the time Sally Hawkins’ mute heroine, Elisa Esposito, gets the gilled-and-gorgeous, unnamed fish man — played by del Toro’s regular monster mimer, Doug Jones — alone in her flooding bathroom, their need for each for could not be more palpable. (Elisa’s association of erotic pleasure with water is carefully set up from early in the film.).

“First of all, female sexuality seen in a natural way is very rare in movies,” del Toro says, “It’s always objectifying, always serving glamour or a wink-wink perversity, It doesn’t exist except from the male gaze, What I wanted to do was show how integral water was to her, When you’re blessed to have your first encounter in the bath where you’d been alone, it’s a very special repairing of your soul.”, “I land in her bathtub as my place of refuge,” Jones says about his amphibious character, “Now we have no barriers between us, … so our touching becomes a big love scene, It had a purity and innocence to it that communicated toi toi toi ballet wrap skirt extra long style! rehearsal, dance class, performance. gingham. volumes, I thought.”..

The bathroom set in Elisa’s apartment was re-created in a water tank for when Elisa gets a bright idea for an even more heightened experience. “When she stuffed towels under the door, turned the faucets on and flooded the room, we were in the tank,” Jones explains. “That was about eight feet of water, so we would have to gather our air at the top while treading water and then dive down to start the scene. “Speakers were underwater,” he continues, “with Guillermo on microphone giving us very specific instructions — things to work out with camera angles, what looks best. It was like a dance underwater. That’s what it felt like, just beautiful.”.

While the creature serves as Elisa’s ideal leading man, his nemesis — the government agent Strickland — is toi toi toi ballet wrap skirt extra long style! rehearsal, dance class, performance. gingham. the real monster in the voiceless woman’s eyes, especially after he sexually harasses her at work, With recent mass exposure of sexual misconduct in the entertainment industry and other fields, that scene carries a stronger charge than it was probably meant to when the movie was made last year, Michael Shannon, who plays Strickland, acknowledges the upsetting nature of the sequence, but feels that it adds extra significance to the film..

“It’s important to keep thinking about why people do that, and why they think it’s OK to,” says the busy actor, whose other planned awards-season release, “The Current War,” has been shelved indefinitely due to the fallout from the many allegations against its distributor, Harvey Weinstein. “The fact that that scene is in the movie — it’s an honest portrayal of a man who is very screwed-up in the head. “The way we’re dealing with the problem right now is great, holding people accountable and stuff,” Shannon adds. “But … we have to get to the root of it. And as an artist, I feel like it’s my responsibility to explore that and keep it in people’s thoughts.”.

On the afternoons of Dec, 16 and 17, at Redwood City’s Fox Theatre, audiences will be in full Christmas glow, as Peninsula Ballet Theatre presents its classic version of the beloved “Nutcracker,” with choreography by toi toi toi ballet wrap skirt extra long style! rehearsal, dance class, performance. gingham. Carlos Carvajal, But on the evenings of Dec, 15 and 17, our correspondent Paul Freeman reports, the company will offer a very different sort of holiday magic — a hip hop version of the timeless tale, It’s not only enchanting, but explosively energetic, “Hip Hop Nutcracker” was choreographed by Isaac “Stuck” Sanders and Ale Martinez, They bring 17 hip hop artists from their troupes The Tribe and Poise’n to join Peninsula Ballet Theatre’s students and young company members on stage..

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