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This vied-for coffee is from Quechua, high up in the Peruvian Andes. The coffee berries are eaten by and naturally fermented through a civet cat’s, or uchunari’s digestive tract creating the delectable brew. The coffee has a low production rate whose scarcity on the market is correlated with its high quality, thus making it the most exclusive coffee worldwide. A steaming cup of freshly brewed Terra Nera coffee is undeniably the most exquisite way to start any day.
Gala de Danza has brought together performing artists from around the world to help enrich the lives of young dancers and their communities. Dancers, choreographers and musicians from 15 different countries have graced the stage of the Cultural Pavilion in Los Cabos for the last three years in this community dance extravaganza.
Each year collaborations between talented artists continue to grow. Gala de Danza believes in collaborations and diversity within all forms of the performing arts. In collaboration with Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) and keeping with YAGP ?s mission to provide performance opportunities to young dancers, the talented finalists are invited to perform at the Pavilion with outstanding guest artists from around the world due to its continued sponsorship from the community.
Previous collaborators include: Derek Hough, an Emmy award- winning, Dancing With the Stars choreographer, Los Cabos original promoter, the famed Sammy Hagar, Grammy winner and Music Hall of Fame legend, Yury Smekalove of the Mariinsky and Eifman Ballet companies of St. Peterburg, Misty Copeland, principal of the American Ballet Theatre, Lucia Lacarra, principal of the Bavarian State Ballet, and Daniel Ulbricht, principal of New York City Ballet.
The founder of this organization is Christina Lyon, from Newport Beach, California. She began dancing at the age of twelve years old and studied with Yvonne Mounsey, former principal dancer of the New York City Ballet and Rosemary Valaire formerly of the Royal Ballet. At age thirteen, she was invited to train at the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. Lyon has worked with such luminaries as Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, Maya Plisetskaya, and Agnes Demille among many others.
Gala de Danza 2016, in its fourth year features the return of the Mariinsky as well as 12 of the top youth dancers in the world, finalists from Youth America Grand Prix and YouTube sensations along with some of the Galas professional dancers and a Mexican premiere featuring a heart-stopping performance with six parkour artists and Mariana Carrillo choreographed by renowned choreographer Josie Walsh of BalletRED. Other performers include: Austen Acevedo, Adiarys Almeida, Bad Boys of Ballet, Juliette Bosco, Antonio Casalinho, Melissa Chapski, Riccardo Cocchi, Taras Domitro, Joel Fridman-Rojas, Adrian Fry, Avery Gay, Lamonte Goode, Burim Jusu , Illjaz Jusu , Kenedy Kallas, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Alex Laya, Sophia Lucia, Momix, Xander Parish, Sarah Schäfer, Beckanne Sisk, and Yulia Zagoruychenko.
An architect who combines artistry, imagination, architecture, function and challenges accepted design paradigms. A Canadian who made his home in California, this mainstream challenger continues to make audacious architectural statements worldwide.
Gehry says an architect “is given a program, budget, place and schedule and sometimes the end product rises to art.” It is art that this Pritzker laureate creates without a doubt. The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, initiated his luminary status, intriguing the world with its wavy structures and incongruous materials. He designed the global headquarters for Facebook, The Experience Music Project in Seattle, which was inspired by a Stratocaster guitar and the Los Angeles Chiat/Day advertising agency building which among other novelties has a pair of binoculars as the entrance to the parking garage, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Gehry does not make buildings – he creates landmarks. They are innovative structures with a presence that honor the space as well as the function of the building; humanistic places that people like to be in. People love to be in the Walt Disney Concert Hall with its signature Gehry curving walls and acoustically-perfect, hardwood furnished interiors.
“I approach each building as a sculptural object, a spatial container, a space with light and air, a response to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit. To this container, this sculpture, the user brings his baggage, his program, and interacts with it to accommodate his needs. If he can’t do that, I’ve failed,” declares Gehry.
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.””
– FRANK GEHRY
Polo is a sport that is the very essence of glamour and elegance, the twin pearls of the Principality of Monaco.
The president of the Monte Carlo Polo Club, Francesco Mitrano, is a successful Italian entrepreneur and a resident of Monaco with a passion for equestrian sports. Mitrano grew up at his family’s splendid, centuries-owned Tuscan estate, Tenuta Di San Giusto in Gaiole, Italy. The estate is surrounded by horses and acres of land. It was here he developed a passion for horses and began riding competitively at the age of seven.
The Monaco resident’s passion for the sport led to his founding the Monte Carlo Polo Club in 2013 – the first club dedicated to the sport in the Principality. In 2014, with the approval of the local authorities, he strengthened Polo’s position within the Monegasque community by creating the Fe?de?ration de Polo de la Principaute? de Monaco.
In 2014 Mitrano presided over the First Monte Carlo Polo Cup. The 2015 tournament was held in July. The annual event has been honored since its inception by the patronage of His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco. It is Mitrano’s hope that in time and through his efforts the Monte Carlo Polo Cup will become as renowned as the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix.
He is a dreamer, a schemer and one of the most powerful and innovative people on this planet. Originally from South Africa, Musk immigrated to Canada then the US, where he has since made his home as one of the movers and shakers in Silicon Valley.
is personal net worth has reached 12.5 billion. e visionary PayPal co-founder, Elon Musk, is taking us into the future. He is the founder and brains of the electric car company Tesla Motors and the energy providing company SolarCity.
e basic premise of both companies is to help combat global warming. In the same vein, his prototype public transportation system ‘Hyperloop’, is ready to be tested. Its goal is to span hundreds of miles, using low air pressure, with ‘capsules’ in ‘tubes’ that will transport people at up to 800 MPH.
He is also the founder and CEO of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX). SpaceX is the rst privately funded space exploration company to create a liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit, successfully launch and recover a spacecra , send a spacecra to the International Space Station, and send a satellite into geosynchronous orbit.
His latest market achievement: lithium-ion batteries made available to consumers and utilities. And up next? In late December of last year, Musk successfully launched 11 satellites into orbit and successfully returned its 15-story booster rocket, bringing him that much closer to creating his giant global high-speed internet provider with up to 4000 satellites and ful lling his dream of establishing a Mars colony with a population of 80,000 by 2040.
“It will be important for Mars to have a global communications network as well,” he says. “I think this needs to be done, and I don’t see anyone else doing it.”
The Ehang 184 AAV flies upward in an arc and then descends, completing the arc in an inverted U shape. A landing camera positions the landing points and the passenger simply inputs the destination on the touch screen interface and the AAV drone will plot the fastest and safest course. It can be used for short flights of up to 23 minutes and will fly at a maximum altitude of 3.5KM achieving a cruising speed of 62MPH.
The one-person, six-foot Ehang 184 AAV is powered by electricity, available 24/7 and always online. No piloting knowledge required, plot your destination with GPS and go. An extra bonus: no parking is required, the 184 AAV folds up like a portable bicycle.
Established in 1985, today Dolce & Gabbana is one of the leading international groups in the fashion and luxury goods sector. The famous couple, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, has made a trademark of their surnames. They are known throughout the world and are easily recognizable thanks to their glamour and great versatility.
The New Yorker published in 2005 that, “Dolce and Gabbana are becoming to the two-
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In 2015, Alejandro González Iñárritu took home the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for the movie Birdman. This groundbreaking comedy-drama film takes a stunning look at fame and a fading star that’s presented as though the entire movie were shot in a single take. González Iñárritu produced grand, spectacular, star-powered cinema – a cosmological blockbuster – that makes us ask again what cinema can do and can be.
Collecting the award for Best Picture, González Iñárritu said: “Ego loves competition, because for someone to win, someone has to lose. But the paradox is that true art can’t be compared, can’t be labeled, can’t be defeated. My work and the work of my fellow nominees will be judged only by time.”
Previously González Iñárritu was nominated for Amores Perros and Biutiful in the foreign language category and for director and producer of Babel. The Revenant, which he co-wrote with Mark L. Smith and starring Leonardo DiCaprio will be released worldwide in 2016.
“Birdman came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.”
This recipient of the Luxury Mountain Resort (Europe) Hotel award is located in Ahrntal, South Tyrol, Italy, and perfectly placed in pole position for winter skiing or summer hiking. Other activities include ice-climbing,sleigh rides, mountain biking, rock climbing, golf and paragliding.
Amenities feature a spa with an indoor pool, an award-winning wine cellar, and innovative nouvelle cuisine. The Alpin Royall Hotel is a dream holiday destination where nature’s beauty meets luxurious pampering.
Antoine Arnault and family are the definitive global fashion family. Groupe Arnault is the majority shareholder in Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), the luxury goods conglomerate which runs Givenchy, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Fendi, Veuve Clicquot, Tag Heuer and Guerlain to name but a few of the 60-
As the son of Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, Antoine has big shoes to fill. It is fitting that his first chief executive role is at Berluti, where he is in the process of recasting the luxury shoemaker into a global luxury world renown ed menswear label.
Antoine started in the advertising department at Louis Vuitton in 2005 and worked his way up to head of communications. He is credited with conceiving the wildly successful Vuitton ad campaign featuring Gorbachev, Muhammad Ali and Bono, using the iconic luggage in extraordinary settings. Often forced to justify his accelerated ascension through the company he describes himself simply, “We work hard. We were raised with real values about the importance of work and respect for the people.”
“WE WORK HARD. WE WERE RAISED WITH REAL VALUES ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF WORK AND RESPECT FOR THE PEOPLE.”
– Antoine Arnault
From an initial sketch drawn on a blank page in a notebook to the transparent cloud sitting at the edge of the Jardin d’Acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne, Frank Gehry constantly sought to “design, in Paris, a magnificent vessel symbolizing the cultural calling of France.”
“To reflect our constantly changing world, we wanted to create a building that would evolve according to the time and the light in order to give the impression of something ephemeral and continually changing,” states Frank Gehry.
A creator of dreams, he has designed a unique, emblematic and bold building.
Respectful of a history rooted in French culture of the 19th century, Gehry dares to use technological achievements of the 21st century, opening the way for pioneering innovation.
“IT IS A VERY UNUSUAL BUILDING. I HAVE NEVER DESIGNED ANYTHING LIKE IT.”
– FRANK GEHRY
