Grateful Fed

Social gridlock reigned when Calcagno & Hamilton, the Coast Village Road realtors, hosted its third annual Gratitude party with 200 guests spilling out on the ritzy rue’s sidewalk.

The company, which recently opened a Goleta office, pulled out all the stops for the bustling bash, catered by Richard Maxwell‘s The Bending Fork, and featuring ace mixologist Shaun Belway concocting a cornucopia of colorful cocktails.

Among the hungry horde were Diana MacFarlane, Bill and Trish Davis, Peter and Erin Wood, Rob and Tracy Stoll, Ashley and Mandy Transki, Barry and Jill Kitnick, Chuck Rudd, and Rick Doty.

A French Toast

France’s Compagnie Kafig, using creative hologram backdrops, dazzled at the Granada, when they performed as part of the popular UCSB Arts & Lectures series.

The 70-minute show, Pixel, mixing energetic choreography from Mourad Merzouki, artistic director – a major figure on the hip-hop scene – used video projections by Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne, to excellent effect with Armand Amar‘s music.

At the Lobero it was dance of a very different kind when the eight-year-old Nebula Dance Lab, under artistic director Devyn Duex, presented Helix, featuring Santa Barbara Aerial Dance, SB Dance Theatre, with new works by Shelby Lynn Joyce and Meredith Cabaniss in a three-act show, and an extremely creative and colorful 12-scene version of Through the Looking Glass with Lauren Serrano as Alice.

It was suitably magical.