How to pull off a Chuck Norris Move... Kyohei Yoshida Ballet Style
2014/06/03
This summer #GRBallet dancer Monica Pelfrey will teach at a ballet summer intensive in Mountain View, California as well as teach a master class series in San Diego with fellow GRB dancer Kyohei Giovanni Yoshida. Safe travels!>GRBFB
GR Ballet presents 'Midsummer' Grand Rapids Ballet dancer Giovanni Yoshida as Puck fogs the other dancers including Connie Flachs as Hermia during dress rehearsal for 'Midsummer' by choreographer Olivier Wevers. The ballet is based on William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' (Chris Clark | MLive.com)
<Kyohei Giovanni Yoshida and Monica Pelfrey danced the central pas de deux, and arguably the entire show belonged to them. Yoshida danced in all three works, Pelfrey had leading roles in two.
The emotional connection between the two is thin. Their technical accomplishments are just the opposite.
Pelfrey's suppleness, her range of motion, and her ability to move gracefully in improbable directions and easily in whip-like turns, is astonishing. Yoshida's quicksilver moves and capacity to fill space vertically as well as horizontally is fascinating as well.>