Out and About: Celebrities & Sport

[lostgirl]

Is that Tobey Maguire kayaking with Leo in post #12? ;p

yep, I just double checked. That's Tobey.

 

[Erin]

^ Leo and Tobey have been close friends for quite some time now.

Gisele looks magnificent... she seems to be naturally athetlic...

And Christy and her yoga. Can I just say WOW? She's so beautiful, and seeing her do those beautiful poses is very enlightening and motivating.

 

[lostgirl]

Claire Danes playing baseball for project ALS:

And Claire in rehersal for her 1st solo dance performance in October

pics from efanguide.com/clairedanes

 

[lodymode]

Kate Bosworth, jogging:
(source: katebosworthfan)

 

[pinksatin]

Lostgirl- What is that dance thing Claire is doing? Is it for a movie? Or she just studies dance on the side for fun? Or she used to? Tell me all you know! I am suddenly quite interested.

 

[lostgirl]

Lostgirl- What is that dance thing Claire is doing? Is it for a movie? Or she just studies dance on the side for fun? Or she used to? Tell me all you know! I am suddenly quite interested.

She did a solo dance performance called Christina Olsen: American Model in October for an off-broadway theater. She's been dancing on and off since she was a little kid (she actually made her stage debut in the same theater when she was 6).
Here's some more info:
Claire's World: The Actress, the Painting and the Dance
The New York Times - September 19, 2005
by Claudia La Rocco

Claire Danes stands in the middle of an empty studio, reading her lines. Wisps of blond hair stick to her cheeks. She radiates a fragile but fierce intensity.
This isn't a film audition, but a rehearsal for an hourlong dance solo, "Christina Olson: American Model," choreographed by Tamar Rogoff and based on Andrew Wyeth's well-known painting "Christina's World."
The work will have its premiere at Performance Space 122 tonight. It has caused speculation in the dance world during the fallow weeks of late summer, viewed in turn as courageous adventure, puzzling stunt or cause for gleeful knife-sharpening.
Ms. Rogoff, 59, has a long history with PS122. In a way, Danes, 26, does too: She took classes with Ellen Robbins at Dance Theater Workshop for 10 years, beginning at the age of 4, and performed at PS122 as a child. Then "My So-Called Life" took the 14-year-old actress to Los Angeles and fame.
She hadn't danced again until 14 months ago, when Ariel Rogoff Heitler, Rogoff's daughter and Danes' friend since childhood, told her mother that Danes missed dancing. Danes began taking Rogoff's class at PS122, and the two started experimenting with various techniques.
"About nine months ago, maybe a year, vocabulary just started to pour out," Rogoff said in a recent joint interview with Danes. "A lot of times, I work with performers who are not willing to come to my laboratory classes. This was a luxurious way of turning my own explorations over the years into something that would be more choreographic."
"Christina Olson" uses text and video - including film of Danes dragging herself across East 10th Street and up the stairs of PS122, surrounded by uninterested passers-by - but full-bodied movement drives the work.
"With acting, there are a lot more choices," Danes said. "With this, I either stick it or I don't. There's something really unforgiving about that."
Ms. Rogoff, who has worked with prison inmates and psychiatric patients, is more generous: "The only way that I'm not going to forgive her is if she doesn't keep to the idea of being in the moment and investigating. There's nothing precious about any one piece of this."
The two women share an easy intimacy. In rehearsals, Ms. Rogoff offers warm support, Ms. Danes cracks silly jokes.Vallejo Gantner, P.S. 122's artistic director, agreed to the show because of his respect for Ms. Rogoff and her relationship with the theater, and then because the piece excited him. But he worried about perceptions.
"Claire is an extraordinary dancer, so it's a happy coincidence," he said. "But something we're not doing here is turning into celebrity land."
Does he see Ms. Danes's presence as a way to expand audiences?
Mr. Gantner laughed. "If Claire Danes's fans want to come to P.S. 122 to see the show, great," he said. "The show is not chosen because Claire
Danes is in it. If Claire had come to us and said, 'Hey, I've decided to become a contemporary dancer and I'm going to choreograph a solo show for myself,' we would have sent her to Tamar's class."

Here are a few reviews and articles:
http://www.villagevoice.com/dance/0539,jowitt1,68397,14.html
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/95223.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/24/arts/dance/24dane.html?ex=1135832400&en=def44da1e32114de&ei=5070

And a couple more pics:

 

[sirene]

I've always wanted to take up yoga, but for some reason I just lack the motivation to get on it.

 

[lostgirl]

^^You should I took it up about a year ago after meaning to for several years. I love it- I'm addicted now. But it's ok- I suppose it's one of the healtheir addictions out there!

 

[litchickuk]

gisele looks fab doing volleyball. i love her body. Ive actually bought a yoga video, ive watched it but never actually tried it. geri just cant make me do it!