Dancer Jerry Opdenaker.By Sharon McDanielIt was so hard to see him go.Dancer Jerry Opdenaker retired from Ballet Florida in 2006 after 14 years with West Palm Beach’s resident contemporary dance and ballet company. He showed so much personality, imagination, even mischief in his dancing -- especially, he confided, when he was unrecognizable; say, costumed as a Cinderella … [Read more...]
ArtsBuzz: PB County gets new dance company; FAU gets cache of rare recorded Judaica
Jerry Opdenaker (Photo from his MySpace page).Ex-Ballet Florida workshop chief founds dance companyPalm Beach County has a new dance company, and it will make its debut in early February at the Duncan Theatre, on the Lake Worth campus of what will soon be Palm Beach State College.O Dance was founded by and is named after Jerry Opdenaker, most recently director of the … [Read more...]
Theater review: Faulty connection in ‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’
Natasha Sherritt as Jeanin Dead Man's Cell Phone.By Hap ErsteinOver its 19 years of operation, Palm Beach Shakespeare Company has always sought the quirky, even when producing the works of its namesake playwright. So it was probably inevitable that it would gravitate to the offbeat metaphysical scripts of Sarah Ruhl.But curiously, its rendition of her increasingly popular … [Read more...]