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Here's a lovely NBC News online piece about our Stella Abrera. She talks about how she was a complete bunhead at an early age, injuries, and achieving principal designation at a late age. Haglund remembers when Stella first showed up at David Howard's studio on West 61st Street when she was 16 or 17 years old. David adored her for more reasons than just her pink tights (with feet in them) worn underneath the leotard and barre work so pristine-disciplined that it made everyone else look like junk jewelry. Bunhead - oh yeah.

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Georgina Pazcoguin is going to knock it out of the ballpark as Ivy in On the Town over the next couple of weeks. What a perfect match of role and artist. We have to wonder if she might also be able to manage a French accent at a later date.

 

 

Comments

[angelica]

Thanks so much, Haglund, for posting this NBCNews interview with our beloved Stella.

And by the way, what is this new trend of wearing one's tights over one's leotard about, do you think?

[Haglund]

Hi Angelica. The earliest that I can remember seeing the pink tights over top the leotard was in the 1970s. It followed that ever-lovely '60s trend of cutting the feet and crotch out of pink tights and pulling them over one's head as a sweater. What in the world got into those dancers' heads in the '60s and '70s 😎 ??

[Georgiann]

Thanks Haglund for the link on our beloved Stella. She is appreciative of everything she's worked so hard to earn. My dream is to see her dance a full length ballet!

I had to laugh about your response to Angelica about converting old tights to a pullover. They did that at my ballet school in the '70s. Must have taken the trend a little longer to get to Chicago.

[angelica]

I'll have to try that with my tights, Haglund. I missed that sixties trend and could use a new sweater. Stretchy sounds good.