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Inarra Saarinen
California, USA
Artistic Director
& Choreographer
Ms. Saarinen is the founder and artistic director of Ballet Pixelle (formerly Second Life Ballet). She is also a First Life dancer and choreographer for stage, film, and video. She is interested in exploring the unique capabilities and intersection of movement in virtual and physical space and blended realities, and investigating and developing an aesthetic and vocabulary of virtual dance -- whether it be by tiger, dragon, bird, or human. |
Fauve Aeon
Central USA
Dancer &
Costume Mistress
(On Leave)
Ms. Aeon is new to Ballet Pixellebut not to dance forms in her First Life. She finds dance in Second Life challenging
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Calia Cachin
Hawaii, USA
Financial Director
Ms. Cachin has been financial manager and stage manager with Ballet Pixelle for some years. She feels a heavy responsibility to the Company in handling all financial transaction in a transparent way. In addition, she calls all of the cues for each performance. Ms. Cachin does not dance since she has very large feet and an inability to count unless it is in Linden dollars. Ms. Cachin is honored to be part of Ballet Pixelle. |
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Moe Celisis
United Kingdom
Dancer, Rehearsal Assistant
& Stage Manager
(On Leave)
Ms. Celisis lives in Yorkshire, United Kingdom. She joined Ballet Pixelle on 14 September 2015 and
became a member of the corps de ballet on 07 January 2016. Ms. Celisis is thrilled to be dancing with
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Solary Clary
Tokyo, Japan
Composer
Ms. Clary is the composer for "Shuzenji", "Living Goddess", and "Avatara". She is a popular Japanese professional musician, singer, songwriter known as Sora Izumikawa. Ms. Clary has created music and lyrics for other professional singers, TV programs, commercials and manga songs in First Life. Ms. Clary performs live in Second Life and First Life.
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Amelie Dibou
Washington, D.C., USA
Ballet Mistress
& Dancer
(On Leave)
Ms. Dibou has danced with Ballet Pixelle since its inception and was a member of the original cast. She has premiered in all ballets written for Second Life and serves as the Ballet Mistress. Some of her Costumes, Botanicals & other creations are featured in several ballets. A dancer and musician in First Life, Amelie loves developing these arts in Second Life.
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Skip Flossberg
Illinois, USA
Dancer
Mr. Flossberg is an MC
and music engineer and sweeps up after the shows. He is also, at times, a dancer.
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Hiroko Kimono
Tokyo, Japan
Real Life
Physical Dancer
Ms. Kimono has danced all her life and is thrilled to be a dancer with Ballet Pixelle. She loves dancing with her virtual fellow dancers! She is from the Japan.
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Tik Merlin
Portugal
Dancer &
Scripter
(On Leave)
Mr. Merlin lives his First Life surrounded by keyboards, musical applications, and programming snippets. He has always been mesmerized by the beauty of movement and amazed by the weight of his feet. Dreams do come true in Second Life and when not busy scripting, landscaping, or building sets, he's been passionately learning the art of dancing with Ballet Pixelle, plus the magic of gracefully escaping from inside tiny Nutcracker doll. |
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Taff Nouvelle
United Kingdom
Lighting
Technician
Mr. Nouvelle has been in SL for nearly 8 years & works as a scripter, bulder, & landscaper. His first life work has been mainly as a sound engineer on live music festivals, clubs, & theatres & during this time he worked with many lighting techs. Taff says, "hopefully some of that has rubbed off on me."
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Dawn O'Hanlon
Florida, USA
House Manager
Ms. OHanlon has participated in “Immortal Waltz” with Ballet Pixelle and looks forward to dancing in “The Nut.” She took ballet as a child in First Life but unfortunately her mother let her quit. She saw Swan Lake at six years old and never forgot it. She has seen several ballets as an adult and is right up
there dancing with them. She can feel it and loves it.
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Darcy Rhys
Florida, USA
Apprentice Dancer
Darcy has been living and been exploring and living SL for over 8 years
and enjoys the deep creativity this world has to offer. In RL, Darcy is an actor, musician
teacher at a center for the arts in South Florida.
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Willis Rossini
Washington, D.C., USA
Sound Engineer
Mr. Rossini joined Ballet Pixelle in Spring 2007 playing sound for all the productions. He is also the chief sound engineer, editing and signal processing the music to fit the ballets, producing sound effects, and improving the quality of the sound to play through shoutcast.
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Espresso Saarinen
California, USA
Builder &
Roadie
Mr. Saarinen is an over-attenuated computer scientist in First Life, which has given him a small leg up in the various tasks of building, scripting, and general technical work to assist the ballet. He makes the playbill and is the builder of Ballet Pixelle's Theatres.
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Olah Simoni
California, USA
Dancer
Ms. Simoni has been in Secondlife since 2007. She has always been interested in all things dance in SL. Joined ballet Pixelle in 2017. She says, "watching the first rehearsal chaos become the first night magnificence is like watching a caterpillar turn into a butterfly, Inarra is the only one that sees the butterfly before we even start." As a result of my time at Ballet Pixelle, I now teach dance at a school in SL and am a full squad member of the Second Life Cheerleading Squad. Second Life is about making things happen you can dream about, and Ballet Pixelle was and is a dream for me.
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Hitomi Tamatzui
Japan
Dancer
Living is Second Life for over 8 years, Ms. Tamatzui is a dancer in Second Life. She joined Ballet Pixelle in May 2017. A teacher in First Life, Hitomi loves dancing and ballet in Second Life. She has also performed with the Paramount Theatre group and Night Players. |
Aiyana Tripsa
Florida, USA
Ballet Mistress
& Dancer
Ms. Tripsa says that dance and music are her life's blood. In First Life, she began dance classes at age 5, music at age 7, and theater at age 9. If she's not dancing she is probably listening to music or playing her piano. For more than a decade, Ms. Tripsa studied Flamenco dance and hopes to bring all that experience to dancing in Second Life. She is nervous and excited and absolutely thrilled to be dancing with Ballet Pixelle because it combines so many of her loves. |
Luci Yokosuka
Osaka, Japan
Dancer
Ms. Yokosuka is a Balinese gamelan player as well as a manager of the Students' Union of University of Human Arts and Sciences, and a VWBC newscaster.
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Patros Zifer
Canada
Dancer & Rehearsal Assistant
(On Leave)
Mr. Zifer commenced dancing in First Life about a week after birth. His movement obsession proved such a time consuming challenge to his parents that they put him into gymnastics training at the age of eight. In his mid-teens tumbling begat tendu as he traded the parallel bars for ballet barres and hasn not looked back since...certainly not without a reasonably well-lined "attitude". His very minor professional career ended early by injury but he continues to work in the field as both a dance photographer and as the perennial bad-penny in daily company class. Fifth position will always be home to him. Patros welcomes the opportunity to boureée on in Second Life without the nagging pull of gravity.
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