Seattle Theatre Group's Excellence On and Beyond the Stage
Hear from Adam Zacks, Chief Programing Officer, about how the Seattle Theatre Group (STG) preserves the historic Moore, Neptune, and Paramount Theatres through diverse and quality programming. Then, meet Estrella Gonzales-Sanders and Osvaldo (Ozzie) Ribas, participants in a number of STG's Education & Community Engagement programs, including More Music @ The Moore, DANCE This, and ELEVATE. Inspired by their stories? Please make a contribution to support this work:
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Meet Estrella Gonzales-Sanders:
Estrella Gonzales-Sanders, age 14, is a dynamic, well-versed professional performer. She is a National Hip-Hop dance winner, a 12-time scholarship winner in Tap and Hip-Hop, and a two-time Junior Seahawks Dancer. In 2020, she was a featured dancer on Netflix’s Original Film "Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker." At age 9, Estrella was mentored by and started training directly with Emmy and Golden Globe winner Debbie Allen and Tony award-winning Savion Glover. Since the age of 2, Estrella has trained and studied with Northwest Tap Connection under the direction of Melba Ayco. Estrella will be featured in the upcoming 2023 PBS documentary "Art Happens Here with John Lithgow".
Meet Osvaldo (Ozzie) Ribas:
Ozzie Ribas is a 16-year-old classically trained violinist, but he has been captivated by guitar for longer than he can remember. In sixth grade he discovered Andrew Foy’s fingerstyle arrangement of Despacito and fell in love with this technique of fingerpicking while playing percussion, harmony, melody and bass on acoustic guitar. He continues to hone his guitar technique through flamenco lessons, while he works on theory and his own arrangements. Ozzie plays violin in his high school orchestra and had a blast playing his electric violin on "Arena" with his fellow MM@M musicians. He hopes to do more rock violin and guitar collaborations in the future. YouTube @ozzieribas
Credits:
Special thanks to Johnny Bregar of Brickyard Studios for creating this video. Thank you to Christopher Nelson for the photographs that so beautifully capture our Education & Community Engagement programs and Converge Media and Melodic Caring Project for live footage of our programs. A shout out to Joshua Lewis, Eric Tra, and Travis Trautt for the photographs that capture a live audience in our venues and Bob Cerelli for the gorgeous photographs of our historic theatres. And thank you Estrella Gonzales-Sanders and her father Marcel Sanders as well as Osvaldo (Ozzie) Ribas and his mother Eugenia Chang, for their participation.