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But Gershengorn, the acting solicitor general, counters that the Supreme Court has agreed the government can take viewpoint into consideration when offering a subsidy or public benefit. For instance, it is constitutional for the government to forbid the use of federal funds for abortion, for instance. And in 2015, the court ruled that messages displayed on specialized license plates are a form of government speech and Texas was free to reject a proposed design that features the Confederate flag.

In an interview Wednesday with Falaschi and her brother at the Stanford Theatre, ballet slippers w where “Our Little Girl” premiered 80 years ago, they said the exhibition is a farewell tour of sorts for the country as well as the Black family, Shirley Temple Black was 85 when she died at home in February 2014 after suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Charles Black, her husband of 55 years, whom she had met at a cocktail party in Hawaii and who went on to head business operations at SRI International, died a decade earlier..

Then the girls had to train a few of the remaining new members from the ground up. “Some people say it’s not a sport because it’s not as hard as football,” said team captain Alyssa Winters. “We get injured a lot.”. Cheerleading, which marries gymnastics with dance for an exciting display of athleticism, consistently ranks high in sports injury rates, according to coach Desiray Madrid. “We have the most concussion and head injuries aside from boxing,” Madrid said. “These girls are catching bodies the same size as themselves without wearing anything.”.

A Shakespeare ballet, festivals galore, a “Roman Holiday” on stage and plenty of topnotch music highlight our list of cool stuff to do in the Bay Area June 1-4 (and beyond), Oakland Ballet’s “Dreamy” program: Graham Lustig has been credited with helping to restore vitality to the venerable Oakland Ballet, and the company this weekend  marks the first season with him as full-time artistic director with a program devoted to his works, The highlight in the company’s spring program is Lustig’s 2001 work “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” — set to a Felix Mendelssohn score — which is getting its Bay Area premiere, as well as the world premiere of his new piece “Consort,” inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnets and featuring live accompaniment by counter-tenor Dan Cromeenes and lute player Dominic Schaner, And on June 4, the company hosts its third annual East Bay Dances, featuring performances from several area dancers and companies, Details: “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” 7:30 p.m, June 1-2, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m, June 3; ballet slippers w $20-$60; East Bay Dances, 4 p.m, June 4; $20-$25; all performances at Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center at Laney College, Oakland; oaklandballet.org.— Randy McMullen, Staff..

After intermission they shimmied to the irresistible jazz rhythms of Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton while intermittently breaking into yoga poses. This was nothing new for the doyenne of high-low dance. Since the Indiana-born, California-raised choreographer launched her career in 1965 with the comically absurd “Tank Dive,” complete with swimming fins, yo-yo, and high heels, she has been kicking sand in the face of uptown and downtown dance alike. Beginning as an iconoclast with breathtaking musicality and comic genius as a dancer, she tore down the barriers separating ballet from boogaloo, ballroom and modern dance. She then concocted fusions of elegance, funk, romance and comic-book Gothic. Her works ranged from masterpieces to noodling.