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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 23 april 2019
Moves like Jagger: Mick's partner debuts Stones-themed dance

By JOCELYN NOVECK Hamrick, who dances with
NEW YORK (AP) — Talk American Ballet Theater
about your "Moves Like but did not perform her-
Jagger." The recovering self in the piece, said it
rocker made a stealth ap- had been nerve-wracking
pearance at the ballet, presenting her first choreo-
slipping backstage to sup- graphic effort.
port his partner, Melanie It was Jagger, she said,
Hamrick, as she presented who encouraged her to
her new dance based on take the plunge when the
Rolling Stones songs. idea came up, from YAGP
It was Hamrick's first work founder Larissa Saveliev, for
as choreographer, with a Hamrick to do something
score arranged by Jagger with Stones music.
of three Stones classics: "Mick was, 'Who better
"Sympathy for the Devil," than you? You're a profes-
''She's a Rainbow," and sional ballerina, you come
"Paint it Black." Hamrick to my concerts,'" she said.
created the short ballet "It went from there."
for the 20th anniversary of Hamrick, 31, noted that
Youth America Grand Prix, the scholarship program
the world's largest ballet was responsible for launch-
scholarship competition, in Choreographer Melanie Hamrick poses with dancers at the gala of Youth America Grand Prix, ing her career; though
which she performed as a the world’s largest ballet scholarship competition, on Thursday, April 18, after the U.S. premiere of she didn't win, her perfor-
her new ballet, “Porte Rouge” (Red Door), based on classic Rolling Stones tunes arranged by her
teenager. partner, Mick Jagger. mance there led to a con-
Jagger didn't appear on- Associated Press tract to perform at ABT's
stage or in the audience. Studio Company in 2003.
But he did greet the crowd hope you are going to en- Stones' No Filter tour. really special that he was She joined the main com-
at New York's Lincoln Cen- joy this wonderful ballet — Hamrick said later in an in- there and able to see it. It pany in 2004.
ter on Thursday night via a and the music of course." terview that Jagger was feels good (for the danc- It was Hamrick who chose
backstage mic. The 75-year-old rocker re- "doing great. Thank good- ers) when the choreogra- the songs for the ballet,
"Hi everybody, this is Mick cently underwent medical ness!" pher and the person who called "Porte Rouge," or
Jagger here," he said, con- treatment, reportedly for "It was cute," she said of his wrote the music are watch- "Red Door" (as in, "I see a
gratulating YAGP on its a heart valve issue, forc- visit backstage. "He wanted ing you. It gave everyone red door...."). Jagger ar-
anniversary and adding: "I ing postponement of the to watch the piece. It was an extra special feeling." ranged the songs to fit.q

Paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren dies at 92

Associated Press hauntings. The group also alized they could use their
MONROE, Conn. (AP) — posted of her passing on "gifts" and Catholic faith to
World-wide paranormal Facebook. help people who believed
investigator and author During their 61 years of they were being tormented
Lorraine Warren, whose marriage, Lorraine and Ed by ghosts or demons.
decades of ghost-hunting Warren investigated more Ed Warren died in 2006
cases with her late husband than 10,000 cases in the and Spera now oversees
inspired such frightening U.S. and abroad, often the New England Society
films as "The Conjuring" se- writing about their experi- for Psychic Research. The
ries and "The Amityville Hor- ences. Their unusual profes- organization's website said
ror," died. She was 92. sion has been credited with Lorraine Warren had "de-
Warren's son-in-law Tony sparking popular interest in cided to retire from ac-
Spera and grandson Chris the paranormal, as well as tive investigations regard-
McKinnell posted Friday the television shows and ing the areas of haunted
on Facebook that Warren films now dedicated to the homes and demonic in-
died in her sleep Thursday subject. festations/possessions" but
night at her Connecticut "When nobody was really was still a consultant to the In this June 7, 2016, file photo, paranormal investigator and film
consultant Lorraine Warren poses at the premiere of the film "The
home. Phone messages even talking about ghosts, organization at the time of Conjuring 2" during the Los Angeles Film Festival at the TCL Chi-
and emails were left with they were just two people her death. nese Theatre in Los Angeles.
several of Warren's family from Bridgeport, Connecti- The Warrens' work did re- Associated Press
members. Warren's attor- cut, who came together ceive criticism from doubt-
ney, Gary Barkin, confirmed and fell in love and Ed hap- ers over the years. The New cult for people to accept ited the set during the film-
his client's death via email pened to have had a lot England Skeptical Society she could see ghosts if they ing. She also spent time at
to The Associated Press. of paranormal instances in 1997 said the Warrens' had never seen one them- her Connecticut home with
"She was a remarkable, lov- when he was growing up "copious anecdotal evi- selves. "I hope you never actress Vera Farmiga, who
ing, compassionate and and Lorraine was always dence" of reports of haunt- will," she said. "I really don't." portrays Warren in the mov-
giving soul," Spera wrote. the sensitive clairvoyant," ings vastly outnumbered The 2013 film "The Conjur- ie and its sequels. Farmiga
The Warrens founded the said Larry Dwyer, a staff their "low-grade physical ing" is based on the cou- expressed her condolenc-
New England Society for writer at the Horror News evidence." ple's investigation into al- es on Twitter Friday, saying
Psychic Research in Mon- Network, a website that Warren told The AP in a leged events at a Rhode she was "blessed to have
roe, Connecticut, in 1952 covers the horror film indus- 2013 interview that she un- Island farmhouse in the known" Warren and "hon-
to investigate suspected try. He said the couple re- derstood it was very diffi- 1970s. Lorraine Warren vis- ored to portray her."q