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| Tina Kay Bohnstedt and Jekyns Pelaez in Val Caniparoli's "Lady of the Camellias." |
"Since she joined Walnut Creek's Diablo Ballet in 1999, Tina Kay Bohnstedt has consistently impressed as one of the Bay Area's hidden dancing treasures. Now 40, the English-born, German-bred dancer has brought a measure of mature technical mastery to a performing art that values and overvalues youth. Bohnstedt will dance in this weekend's Diablo concerts (in a revival of Val Caniparoli's 'Lady of the Camellias' pas de deux), but the news in the troupe's 17th season opener is 'A Tribute to Lena Horne.' This full-company work marks Bohnstedt's most ambitious choreographic venture to date, and she was understandably a bit apprehensive during a phone chat last week."
Interesting interview--and I like almost everything about this woman: the fact that she's still dancing at 40; that she's devoted to her troupe (and her mother); that she tells aspiring dancers not to become dancers; that she has an impressive professional pedigree; and, of course, that she chose to build a piece around the songs of Lena Horne.
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