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CANADIAN HEATHER WARE FASCINATED BY THE ART OF DANCE "I see dance as music, with myself as the physical instrument." Heather Ware, avid mountain climber, skier and music lover, was fascinated by the physicality, the emotions and the meaning of dance from an early age. "It started from my love of music. I see dance as a sort of physical music, and I love exploring what my body can do," she says, years later, in the middle of...
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NORWAY'S CULTURAL PRIDE - THE SNØHETTA REINDEER PAVILION Snøhetta Reindeer Pavilion: a contribution to preserving Europe’s last wild reindeer herds. A futuristic structure set in the midst of Norway’s rugged landscape Norway manages the only remaining populations of wild European tundra reindeer in 23 more or less separate mountain areas in Southern Norway, which means that it has a unique international responsibility to secure them for the...
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ITALIAN HARPIST MARA GALASSI DEVOTED TO BAROQUE MUSIC Mara Galassi and the enchantment of the harp The Italian harp virtuoso Mara Galassi, professor of harp and chamber music in Milan and Barcelona, is fascinated by harps. She collects them, plays them and her home is full of them. She has them in all shapes and sizes, four originals and a number of copies of rare historical instruments. Almost apologetically she says: "I really don’t know how many harps I have got here. I...
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TOP CHEF JOHAN VERBON HAS A PASSION FOR NOUVELLE CUISINE

Top chef Johan Verbon has a passion for nouvelle cuisine

Innovative menu engineer loves cooking Johan Verbon, Food Intelligence Menu Engineer at Sodexo Nederland, is in charge of around 370 chefs at about 700 sites in the Netherlands where Sodexo provides catering services. Verbon is well-known forRead more

ESTELLE REVAZ - THE NEW CELLO REVELATION

ESTELLE REVAZ - THE NEW CELLO REVELATION

Swiss girl from the Alps reaches new heights as a cellist A small, inquisitive girl grows up in Salvan in the fairytale landscape of the Alps. The village is situated in the bilingual canton of Valais, where you can buy your bread in German orRead more

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Culture on the Move 20 April 2016 KAAP SKIL MUSEUM PRESENTS WORD-CLASS ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND

"We have seldom – if ever – witnessed a textile find of this scale in a maritime context," says Maarten van Bommel, Professor of Conservation Science at the University of Amsterdam. In the summer of 2014, divers from the Texel Diving Club, retrieved a large and remarkably well-preserved collection of clothing and other objects from the wreck of a ship that had sunk off the coast of the Dutch island of Texel in the 17th century. By far the most impressive find was a dress, made with such exquisite craftsmanship that it seems likely that it was intended for "high nobility, or possibly even royalty". Other articles discovered included a pair of silk stockings, a richly decorated silk bodice, a large object that might be a cloak, and parts of other garments, Italian pottery, a gilded silver chalice, scents from Greece or Turkey, and a number of book covers that bear the arms of the British Royal House of Stuart. All the objects found by the divers were brought to Kaap Skil Museum where Maarten Roeper, conservator at the museum and head of the Education department, and his team spent a year inventorying the find and taking photos of each individual item. The dimensions of each piece of textile were measured, and each item was numbered. News of the find was withheld for a year to allow this first inventorying study and to allow the legal owner Read more

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QMILK - CLOTHES OUT OF MILK: SHE KNEW SHE COULD DO IT

QMILK - CLOTHES OUT OF MILK: SHE KNEW SHE COULD DO IT

Twenty-eight-year-old Anke Domaske was born in Moscow and lived in East Germany till she was seven. Her business instinct surfaced at the ten-der age of three, when she got the idea of selling cherry blossom to earn some money. A business woman was born! She smiles, looking back on her youth:”I was cute back then, I had an enqui-ring mind and I wanted to sell things. I learned a lot from my mother. She was an independent type - an entrepreneur - too.”The love of fashion and clothes-making goes back a long way in her fami-ly. “I grew up in an atmosphere where making clothes was taken for granted; that was the cultu-re in East Germany. You couldn’t just step into a shop and buy the clothes you wanted - the sys-tem did not allow that - so you made your own. It all started with my great-grandmother. She was a fashion designer and a seamstress. “My grand-mother was very good at drawing and sewing too, and so was my mother. They made all the clothes for the family themselves. I learned to design clo-thes and draw at a very young age. I discussed everything with my mother. I was full of creative ideas, and I started sewing early. I sewed every-thing I could lay my hands on - cushions, clothes, table-cloths, the lot. I had a good feel for materi-als; it didn’t take me long to see what material a given piece of clothing was made from, and how. Skirts, jackets….. I made them up, and I could see in my mind’s eye what they would look like.” Read more

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