We love dance - social, ballet, contemporary, modern... this is French pantomimist and ventriloquist, Jerome Murat:
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We also love music, films, reading, fine art (the expressionists and surrealists, and particularly scuplture and the impressionists) our cockatiel, Shakespeare, and good stand up comedy... we also love the guys at JibJab. "This Land" is from the 2004 election:
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(More JibJab below...)
We love to hang outside - reading or doing creative writing together (we finished a screenplay for a teenage, coming-of-age comedy this fall - out for edits and then off to an agent). Some evenings and weekends, we head into the studio or living room to work on choreography. For getaways, we hunt waterfalls in the north Georgia mountains, or park by a creek or river. We love road trips - and traveling. We're endlessly fascinated with issues of humanity: social, political, philosophical. Even The Blue Men can wax politi-sophical... sort of:
WELL WORTH WATCHING Wafa Sultan, an Arab-American psychologist (and secular humanist) living in L.A., makes a powerful argument during an heroic appearance on Al Jazeera television in February 2006:
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We also love aerobatic shows. This is a loop of Kirby Chambliss, arguably the best stunt pilot in the world:
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And Scott hopes to be long distance road speed skating and cycling again soon...
This is "Welcome to the Jungle" - Lucas Brunelle's classic video of an informal bicycle jam race in heavy New York traffic (vehicle and pedestrian)... this is beyond insane:
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{Skating rush hour was never like this...}
Inline speed skating and videos are on the MySpace pages Scott maintains for Athens-to-Atlanta, the 87-mile A2A Ultra Marathon Road Skate that Scott co-organized (and skated) for several years: MySpace.com/AthensToAtlanta and the A2A Group at Groups.MySpace.com/AthensToAtlanta.
Music
Bach, Beethoven, Bernstein, Gershwin, Phillip Glass, Mozart, Michael Nyman, Astor Piazzolla, Prokofiev, Puccini, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky and Wagner.
(Rock, alternative, acoustic and jazz, etc. follow the video...)
Pas de Duex from Jirí Kylian's "Petit Mort":
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10000 Maniacs, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Tony Bennet, Bare Naked Ladies, Beach Boys, The Beatles, David Bowie, Blind Boys of Alabama, “Brudda Iz” – Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Buena Vista Social Club, Jimmy Buffett, , Traci Chapman, Digable Cat, Cherry Poppin Daddies, Eric Clapton, Cold Play, Dido, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Garden State (soundtrack), Benny Goodman, Guns and Roses, Ben Harper, Colin Hay, Billy Holiday, Indigo Girls, Kieth Jarrett, Billy Joel, Elton John, Robert Johnson, Scott Joplin... sweet music to shoot some pool to (woo-hoo: worth it, we promise) -
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Leo Kotke, Lenny Kravitz, Annie Lennox, The Listening (was Rock 'n Roll Worship Circus), Moby, Wynton Marsalis, John Mayer, Natalie Merchant, George Michael, Alanis Morissette, Willie Nelson, Not Our Own, Phil Oches, Prince, John Prine, REM, Lou Reed, Rusted Root, Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra, Cat Stephens, Sting, Phoebe Snow, Sound Garden, Toadies, U2, Tom Waits, Bill Withers, Howlin' Wolf, Stevie Wonder and - Ladies and Gentlemen - The Rolling Stones.
Brian Enos' "The Long Road Home" - Houston Ballet:
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Movies
We love this 1921 classic animation, The Centaurs by Winsor McCay:
Our most favorite: African Queen, Aguirre, Alien, All About Eve, All That Jazz, All the Presidents Men, Altered States, Always, Amadeus, American Beauty, Amistad, Apocalypse Now, Apollo 13, As Good as it Gets, The Aviator, Awakenings, Bad Influence, Batman Begins, The Bear, A Beautiful Mind, Beetlejuice, Being There, Belle de Jour, Benny and Joon, The Big Chill, Billy Elliot, The Birds, The Black Stallion, Bloodsport, Bonnie and Clyde, The Bounty, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Breaking Away, Bridge on the River Kwai, Brokeback Mountain, La Cage au Folle, The Caine Mutiny, Capote, Casablanca, Cast Away, The China Syndrome, Citizen Cain, Chinatown, Coal Miner's Daughter, Coming Home, The Constant Gardner, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Cries and Whispers, The Conversation, The Christmas Story, City of Angels, City Slickers, Cool Runnings, Crash, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dangerous Liaisons, Das Boot, Dark Victory (1939), Day for Night, Dead Calm, Dead Poets Society, DeathTrap, The Deer Hunter, Deliverance, Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Zhivago, Easy Rider, The Elephant Man, Elizabeth, Elizabethtown, Empire of the Sun, Enemy at the Gates, Equus, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Fantastic Planet, Farewell My Concubine, Fargo, La Femme Nikita, A Few Good Men, Fightclub, Finding Neverland, The Fisher King, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The French Connection, Frequency, Frenzy, The Full Monty, Gandhi, Gangs of New York, Garden State, Gattaca, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Ghost, Gladiator, Glory, The Godfather I & II (NOT III), Goodfellas, Good Will Hunting, Great Expectations, Groundhog Day, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, Harold and Maude, Harry Potter (series), Hero, A History of Violence, Hoffa, House of Flying Daggers, Hunt for Red October, Hustle and Flow, Kundun, The Illusionist, The Illustrated Man, Immortal Beloved...
BREAK! "You're the One that I Want" - a beautiful, brilliant dancing Golden Retriever:
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In Cold Blood, The Inside Man, Inside Moves, In the Line of Fire, It's a Wonderful Life, Jaws, Jean de Florette, Judgment at Nuremberg, Jules et Jim, Julia, Kagemusha, Kill Bill I & II (Scott only), The Killing Fields, The Last Emperor, The Last Metro, The Last Samurai, Lawrence of Arabia, Legends of the Fall, Léon - The Professional, Little Big Man, The Lion in Winter, The Magic Flute, The Maltese Falcon, A Man for All Seasons, The Man from Snowy River, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Manon of the Spring, Marathon Man, Mask, March of the Penguins, Masquerade, Memento, Master and Commander, Memoirs of a Geisha, Midnight Cowboy, Mishima, Monsoon Wedding, The Motorcycle Diaries, My Favorite Year, My New Partner, Mystic Pizza, Mystic River, Network, Nightmare Before Christmas, That Obscure Object of Desire, On Golden Pond, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, On the Waterfront, Pappillon, Paradise Now, Parting Glances, Patton, Philadelphia, The Pianist, The Piano, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Plans Trains and Automobiles, Platoon, Point of No Return, Il Postino, Predator, Pride & Prejudice, The Prestige, The Princess Bride, The Professional, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Raging Bull, Raiders of the Lost Arc, Ran, Rashomon, Ray, Red Violin, The Remains of the Day, Reservoir Dogs, Au Revoir les Enfants, The Right Stuff, Risky Business, The Road Warrior, Rocky, Romeo & Juliet, Room with a View, Roxanne, Rudy, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Seabiscuit, Seven, Shawshank Redemption, The Seven Samurai, Seven Years in Tibet, Seventh Seal, Sex Lies and Videotape, Shadowlands, Shakespeare in Love, Shoah, Sideways, Silence of the Lambs, Silkwood, Singing in the Rain, Sixth Sense, A Shot in the Dark, Spiderman I & II, Splash, Stalag 17, The Sting, Straw Dogs, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Taxi Driver, The Temptation of Christ, Terminator, Tess, Thelma and Louise, The Third Man, Titus, Tombstone, Topsy-Turvy, Total Recall, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, True Grit, True Lies, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Twelve Monkeys, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Unforgiven, The Usual Suspects, Valmont, Vatel, A Walk in the Clouds, Walk the Line, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, When Harry Met Sally, Wild Strawberries, Winged Migration, The Wizard of Oz The World's Fastest Indian - and Yankee Doodle Dandy and all the great musicals!
The best break-dancer in the world, Korean-American David Elsewhere (he's the second dancer) - he looks like he's made of mercury:
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Television
We go to sleep to to Classic Arts Showcase, and leave it on all night... We watch tons of rental movies, and sometimes the History Channel, the Weather Channel and CNN. We occasionally catch reruns of "CLONK CLONK" a/k/a "Law and Order" - and CSI Miami. But mainly the History Channel.
Books
Tuesdays with Maury by Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, The Great Influenza by John M. Barry, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, Waterfalls of the Southern Appalachians & Great Smoky Mountains by Brian A. Boyd, The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Nijinsky by Richard Buckle, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Third Chimpanzee - The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jarad Diamond, An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore -the Trailer for the Oscar-winning documentary:
More favorite books: The Glass Bead Game (and Siddhartha and Steppenwolf) by Hermann Hesse, PS – Your Cat is Dead by James Kirkwood, The River of Doubt by Candice Millard, The Great Escape - Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World by Kati Marton, Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and Upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them by Barrington Moore Jr, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig, Notes to Myself by Hugh Prather, The Long Walk - The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, The Hidden Life of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, Shambhala by Chogyam Trungpa, The Hobbit and The Trilogy by JRR Tolkien, Pridigal Son by Edward Vilella, and everything by Kurt Vonnegut. The plays of David Hare, David Mamet, William Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard and Jane Wagner. The sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The poetry of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Yeats and others. Good philosophy. Good biographies and nonfiction history.
Heroes
Those who make (or have made) the world a better place.
John Quincy Adams Corrie Ten Boom William Booth Jimmy Carter Winston Churchill The Dali Lama Alexandre Dubcek Henry Dunan Mohandas Ghandi Martha Graham Helen Keller Thomas Jefferson Anne Frank John F. Kennedy Robert Kennedy Martin Luther King Jr. - "I Have a Dream":
Abraham Lincoln Martin Luther Nelson Mandela Emmeline Pankhurst Slavomir Rawicz Franklin Roosevelt Paul Rusesabagina Anwar Sadat Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Mother Teresa Gustav Vigeland Lech Walesa Raoul Wallenberg George Washington Bill Wilson Muhammad Yunus Kristy: my husband
In the spirit of our Presidential heroes, JibJab's "It's Good to be in D.C.":
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Scott is a photographer and photoeditor with Keiko Guest Photography in Atlanta - focusing on stage work, dance studios and weddings, but also family and wedding gown portraits, and headshots. For the past two years, Scott has been photographing Kristy in the mountains and on the coastlines and rivers of Florida, South Carolina, Georgia and Costa Rica - we hope you enjoy these. A collection of nearly one hundred of these photos is available as a book of outdoor dance photography...
Photographs Copyright 2007-09 Scott Nilsson - all rights reserved
Kristy is a ballet teacher and choreographer based in Atlanta, Georgia. She has choreographed sixty pieces that have been performed by eighteen companies in eight states, including three SERBA commissions and one for nationals in Pittsburgh, three works for the professional Georgia Ballet, and three new full-length works: Nutcracker, Swan Lake (with Act II after Lev Ivanov) and a new Aladdin for next season.
Dance Quotes and Videos!We've been selectively collecting inspirational and humorous dance quotes for years and decided to share them... we now have 900+ quotes, plus 60 select videos:
Please visit 2nilssons Dance Quotes & Dance Quote of the Day!
Originally: Kristy - Houston; Scott - Philly countryside, then NY suburb. Now we live in Atlanta (Buckhead).
Kristy is a ballet choreographer and teacher; Kristy teaches at several good schools in and around Atlanta and has set two dozen pieces performed by ten companies in six states (and she loves it). Kristy attended HSPVA and OU - and danced with Atlanta Ballet and Charleston Ballet. Her LinkedIn profile is at linkedin.com/in/kristynilsson
Eddie Uehara - a filmmaker in Las Vegas - created two, short inspirational Dance Quotes videos with some our favorite quotes and selected two of Kristy's quotes for inclusion... how cool is that?! Eddie's "Dance Quotes" (his "Dance is Life" is further down...):..
Scott was also a dancer (Indiana University, New York University, Ann Brodie's Columbia City Ballet, Indianapolis Ballet and briefly with Atlanta Ballet and pickup companies in New York before an untimely end to his dance career); he retired from managing a nonprofit senior ministry and now loves working as a photoeditor and photographer for Keiko Guest Photography in Atlanta; he also enjoys contract work and providing pro-bono consulting and writing services to select non-profits and charitable organizations. Scott's LinkedIn profile is at linkedin.com/in/scottnilsson
Joseph Phillips, Gold Medalist at the the Youth American Grand Prix in New York, the Prague International Ballet Competition and the USA International Ballet Competition. His performance from La Bayadere for the Opening Gala of the 2006 USA-IBC:
Joseph trained at Ann Brodie’s Carolina Ballet, at NCSA, SAB, ABT and with Gyula Pandi. He dances with San Francisco Ballet and as a guest-principal internationally.
Last year, we co-authored a coming-of-age comedy screenplay that is being well-received by people in the film industry. We are working on our next script, as well as other projects.
"Butterfly Lovers" This famous Chinese New Year..s gala performance requires strong ballet, pointe skills, acrobatic and hand-balancing skills. She does things that seem impossible. A future face of ballet?
Smatterings of our interests are scattered about MySpace here - and if you really must know more, our bios and a bazillion photos and miscellaneous other things can be found on our website at 2Nilssons.com: knock yourself out. Caveat Emptor: abandon hope all ye who enter there - friends and family have disappeared into our website and never returned...
Magnificent Svetlana Zakharova and Igor Zelenskij, in "La Corsaire"
After volunteering and co-organizing Athens-to-Atlanta (a2a.net), the international road skating ultra marathon, for several years - and founding the nonprofit Georgia International Road Skating Association (GIRSA.org) in 2002 - Scott again volunteers to support A2A and maintains web pages for 2,700+ international skaters at (myspace.com/athenstoatlanta) with the A2A Group at (groups.myspace.com/athenstoatlanta).
Visitors to our MySpace since February 4, 2007
On the map: click & hold the left mouse button and use the cursor to move around on the continents.
Who I'd like to meet:
We love friends – old and new... come say hi - or stop by our website at 2Nilssons.com
The list of people we'd enjoy meeting?...
Our shortlist:
Wayne Brady
Bill Bryson
Jimmy Carter
Judi Dench
Johnny Depp
Anthony Hopkins
Jirí Kylian
Here is Kylian's "One of a Kind":
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also:
Michael Nyman
Michael Pink
Tom Stoppard
Chogyam Trungpa
And the incomparable Svetlana Zakharova... Here, in William Forsythe's "In The Middle, Somewhat Elevated"
Our historical shortlist:
Aristotle
Leonard Bernstein
Albert Einstein
Sergei Diaghilev
Slavomir Rawicz
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
William Shakespeare
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gustav Vigeland
and Scott's Mom - one last time.
DRAW ROME FROM MEMORY... We'd also like to meet autistic savant Steven Wiltshire, "The Living Camera". You won't believe this:
I watched this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hexfBqGZDqk and your name was listed for the dance quotes at the end. How is everything at your new job?
Hey how are you guys doing? Well I was wondering if the quote, "dance is a disease in which there is no cure" is taken. lol. It's by me for this new video:
aww thanku soo much! it really was a nice suprise to see both of u! i was shocked! im really glad u enjoyed the show, and its honor, coming from u, saying that i have improved. I can tell u one thing im not the little bunhead u use to teach! hahaha ..i hope yall r doing well..keep in touch!
mary kate
