Fifteen-year-old Patel Conservatory student Meghan Lock: “learning drums is my life.” Meghan Lock’s formal musical life began like most, with piano lessons at the bright, young age of five years old. But, when her parents realized she was spending more minutes in time-out for not practicing than minutes she was playing, they took a different […]
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On the far side of the indoor basketball court, a line of wobbly-kneed elementary school kids stomps through a sequence of shuffle-step, shuffle-step with their dance teacher clapping time. Their shiny, tiny tap shoes clobber the gymnasium with sounds, their faces an endearing mix of intense concentration and unadulterated joy. Out of context, this line […]
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“I’m Amanda, and my movement is this!” A young woman with long brown hair and a big smile circles her arms.
Their teacher, Patel Conservatory theater education faculty member Sarah Berland, her dark curls bouncing, laughs along with the group, pushing them gently during this theater game to try something new, to express themselves in a different way, to make sure they are following instructions.
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Opera Tampa Singers Ensure Opera’s Future One Aria at a Time “How did you get into opera singing?” “How do you sing so loud without a microphone?” “Do you speak Italian?” “How old were you when you started?” Soprano Kristi Beinhauer beams among a throng of middle school students who rushed her after the opera assembly where […]
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Take a drive down Cypress Street until you see the tidal marsh, and you’ll find one of Tampa’s hidden gems. The building literally happens to be a hidden gym. The Applied Science & Performance Institute (ASPI), an unassuming brick building with spectacular views of Tampa Bay, holds within it a mind-boggling array of high-tech exercise […]
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The team at Nitro Solutions may be in the artificial intelligence business, but they know the real-time smarts behind investing in the performing arts. Take a brewing head cold, the growing menace of cybersecurity threats, a healthy (arguably unhealthy) love of all things Star Wars, and you have the seminal forces behind Tampa’s extraordinary cybersecurity […]
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