All it does is add a complication to your Apple Watch that displays the current time in digital form. It’s this dilemma that brings us to the first item on our best iOS apps for May: Digital Time Complication. This creates a dilemma for me where I end up using a plain digital watch face on my Apple Watch while wishing I had the patience for reading one of the sleeker analog faces. The drawback of digital watch faces, however, is that they have nowhere near the level of elegance and class that an analog watch face has. If you don’t know the difference, an analog watch face uses hands to tell the time and a digital face just uses plain numbers. If you’re like me (and most people born during the last forty years) you probably prefer reading the time from digital watch faces rather than analog faces. Digital Time Complication: For those who hate reading analog watch faces
Discover – Curate Your Life: Never ask “What should we do tonight?” again Smart Bird ID: Identify birds with a supportive community In my more than 40 years of being in ballet, I have found no venue more perfect for dance than the New York MET at Lincoln Center. The Eldorado Hotel Casino Showroom has the perfect opera house ambiance and a lovely stage for dance but is so busy that it is a difficult space for dance companies to rent.Īccording to Macmillan, the Lear Theater, once completed, will be a lovely venue for dance because not only does it have a charming atmosphere, but having a smaller venue enables dancers to do more performances.Įvery venue has its good and bad points and it is difficult to find one that is perfect. It has also performed our annual "Brew, Brats and Ballet" event at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City and, though the stage and dressing areas are small, it is a wonderful venue for a relaxed casual dance experience.īrüka Theatre and the Reno Little Theater have wonderful, intimate welcoming atmospheres for small dance performances, and Piper's Opera House is interesting because, though small, it has the feeling of a real opera house. SNB has enjoyed performing at the Bob Boldrick and at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, which also has a wonderful crew and a larger proscenium arch. "I know the lighting, I like the sound system and I like the stage, and the people who work there are friendly and helpful," she said. "By the time the sun goes down and the lights come up, the shows are always stunning."Ĭhoreographer Gina Kaskie Davis said her favorite place to perform is at the Carson City Community Center's Bob Boldrick Theater. "It is always a challenge bringing in a floor for the dance companies that perform here, but well worth the hard work," ranger and manager Sue Berkhamer said. Hawkins Amphitheater, also inspire dancers. Other outdoor venues, such as the Robert Z.
(We found from experience that sweeping the stage is better than washing as the cold night air has a tendency to freeze the water on the stage creating an ice rink effect). The stage is slightly pitched, which makes turns and jumps challenging, and being outside on the beach, the venue is subject to flying birds, bats, bugs and to the wind blowing sand onto the stage. While this venue lends itself to the beauty of dance, the stage is built on slatted wood with large nails, making it necessary to add a layer of foam subflooring, then a layer of wood flooring and then place a Marley dance floor over the two layers. Whereas a musician carries his instrument with him and can play almost anywhere, and the singer can sing and the actor can act, for the dancer, it is not that easy.Įach type of dance has a specific set of stage requirements.įor the past eight years, SNB has performed each summer as part of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival at the beautiful Warren Trepp Amphitheater on the beach at Sand Harbor, Lake Tahoe.
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