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“@thenightmovie is on @ifcfilms and pretty much

“@thenightmovie is on @ifcfilms and pretty much every digital platform, even internationally?” 👉🏻 “I told you—THE NIGHT is one of the best movies of 2021.” -@nioushanoor 👉🏻 Proof of said awesomeness from @harpersbazaarus. Love to the whole @mammothpictures family. 📸 by @niaz.parvaresh.
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#psychologicalthriller #thriller #thrillermovie #horrormovies #filmlife #shahabhosseini #thenight #ifcmidnight #ifcfilms #indiefilm #independentfilm #indiefilm #internationalfilm
#lifeofanactor #actorsofinstagram #actorslifestyle #actorslife🎬 #actorlife #workingactor

DOS AÑOS 2️⃣🗓🇨🇺 Mi amor cubano y yo

DOS AÑOS 2️⃣🗓🇨🇺 Mi amor cubano y yo turning ourselves into art at the @nationalportraitgallery in 2019. #happyanniversary #traveltuesday #nationalportraitgallery #fiancefotos #howdoyoumuseum

TWO YEARS 2️⃣🗓🏔Celebrating our love toda

TWO YEARS 2️⃣🗓🏔Celebrating our love today and everyday, including while we were in Nevada last month. How grateful I am that Denny could be with me while I was on location shooting. There’s nothing better than coming home after a crazy, long day and seeing this handsome, smiling face eagerly awaiting a full report. I’m a lucky, lucky lady. #happyanniversary #traveltuesday #mtcharleston #mylove❤️ #actorslife

DUE ANNI 2️⃣🗓🇮🇹 You know it’s anoth

DUE ANNI 2️⃣🗓🇮🇹 You know it’s another covid-iversary when a bottle of sanitizer photo bombs your #vegan panna cotta at @sestinapastabar. We haven’t eaten at an outdoor restaurant since November, and this felt like heaven. Den, ti amo per sempre. There is literally no one with whom I would have rather spent the last year locked in our 600 sq. ft. apartment. Any open space—between your sports equipment and my musical instruments and the kitties and all our WFH businesses—is filled with your love, and I am eternally grateful. You make everyday a celebration of the present. Thank you for being wonderful, wonderful you! #anniversarydinner #datenight❤️ #veganlifestyle #fiancefotos #outdoordining #veganitalian

#SevenMagicMountains bursting from the desert floo

#SevenMagicMountains bursting from the desert floor.
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How wonderful to catch #UgoRondinone’s neon stone towers as we bid farewell to #LasVegas. Denny and I apparently styled our hair perfectly to match the sage brush guarding the sculptures—dry, pointy, and wild. Who knew a few weeks in the desert would turn us into native flora? #nevadaart #traveltuesday
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#vegas #nevada #neon #nevadadesert #desert #traveltribe #publicart #sculpture #rocksculpture #artinstallation #mountains #naturegram

I survived skiing! 🎿🏔⛷ My left hand… not

I survived skiing! 🎿🏔⛷ My left hand… not so much. WAIT. WHAT?
After filming wrapped, my beautiful and wonderful fiancé Denny (second photo) took me skiing for the first time as a belated Valentine's Day celebration. I've been feeling much stronger since my hip surgery at the end of 2019, so I was eager for the challenge. Literally *five seconds* into standing up on skis, I nosedived down the bunny slope and fell flat on my face, apparently crunching my left hand in the process. 😣 YOU DID WHAT?
Determined not to waste the day (and sufficiently buffered from the searing pain by the 15° wind chill that kept my hands numb), I continued skiing for ANOTHER SIX HOURS. I could barely grip my left pole, but eventually I figured out how to slowly weave my way down the hill. Turns out, skiing is kind of fun. And after a while, I came to understand why everyone doesn’t think it’s the godforsaken, miserable, painful, pointless sport I thought it was immediately after I fell. I knew I was in trouble when I pulled my gloves off (third photo). Urgent care said I had badly broken the middle finger and sprained everything around it. Wish me luck when I see the hand surgeon! THE GREAT IRONY
I’m a rare bird, you know. I’m probably the only Colorado native who, until this incident, had never been skiing because my dad — a working musician — did not want to risk hurting👏 his 👏 hands👏 What else can I do but laugh? Oh! A lot of physical therapy. That, too.
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#skiing #leecanyon #lasvegas #mtcharleston #snowday #snowtime #snowbunny #brokenfinger #pianistproblems #bassistproblems #recovery #healing #physicaltherapy

Finally had a chance to watch the fabulous @hiftbf

Finally had a chance to watch the fabulous @hiftbf documentary on @PBSSoCal, which inspired this vector graphic portrait of the great #AbbeyLincoln. ✊🏾🎤✊🏾 As a jazz vocalist myself, I was embarrassed how much of this history I did not know, and I can’t recommend HOW IT FEELS TO BE FREE enough. Thank you, EP @aliciakeys, for bringing this documentary to life and for honoring these extraordinary women. I fell in love with Abbey thanks to my friend Donna Waks who played me WHO LOVES TO DANCE, Abbey’s record with tap master #SavionGlover. That collaboration made even more sense when I learned in the film that Abbey is the vocalist on jazz drummer Max Roach’s famous album, WE INSIST!, otherwise known as the #FreedomNowSuite. Like her contemporary @NinaSimone, who is also featured in the film, Abbey used her utterly unique voice to create some of the great protest music of the Civil Rights movement. This portrait is based on video of her singing music from WE INSIST! I had no idea that in her earlier work as a torch singer that Abbey wore Marilyn Monroe’s dress from SOME LIKE IT HOT, later burning it in protest of the dress’s “ability” to make her more palatable to white listeners. And when I went to look up her year of birth, I was blown away to read that Abbey just turned 90! Talk about a powerhouse with incredible longevity and an influential and diverse career! Abbey, you are truly an original. Thank you for breaking the ground for so many women who tread in your path.
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#hiftbf #howitfeelstobefree #weinsist #jazzhistory #jazzvocals #jazzsinger #protestjazz #vectorportrait #maxroach #blackexcellence #blackwomen #trailblazer #phenomenalwoman #blackhistorymonth #blackhistoryisamericanhistory #civilrights #whitepeopleforblacklivesmatter #blacklivesmatter

The best part of yoga and meditation? You can do t

The best part of yoga and meditation? You can do them anytime, anywhere.🧘‍♀️⛰🧘 Even on the side of a mountain road, between setups, on a breezy winter morning. Even when half a million people in your country have died from a horrific pandemic. Even when you feel completely alone in the world. You can always look within to find: 🕉 Compassion
🕉 Stillness
🕉 Timelessness
🕉 Balance In difficult times like these, we must be kind to ourselves and kind to each other—maintaining a delicate balance between resilience and grief… as a gust of wind rushes through the valley and ripples out into space.
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#warrior3 #warriorIII #virabhadrasana #findbalance #yoga #yogalifestyle #yogatime #yogaoffthemat #yogi #yogaanywhere #yogaoutside #yogainnature #yogaasana #yogastrong #yogalover #yogaforlife #yogadaily #yogagram #yogabalance #balance #findbalance

#InMemory of my longest-lasting friendship, the de

#InMemory of my longest-lasting friendship, the dearly departed, the one, the only @charitytd. ✨💫✨I’m honored to join this gorgeous, talented, and accomplished group of @coloradochildrenschorale alumni for a free evening of #DisneySongs on March 12 at 6PM PST/7PM MST. More info at link in bio ⬆️⬆️⬆️ When I signed on to the show, I knew I would dedicate it my performance to #CharityTillemanDick, so imagine my glee and delight when I saw the photo that the Chorale picked to accompany my bio features Charity by my side (2nd image). The picture (3rd image) was taken on tour in Japan, shortly after Charity and I somehow volunteered (What? Why?!?) to both sing and dance the Macarena for all of the Japanese students. That fearlessness and absolute ridiculousness was just an every day sort of occurrence with the two of us. We used to love riding in elevators while doing British or southern accents in the hopes that someone would ask us where we were from—so we could prove how authentic our dialect work really was. After we’d graduated, we once used our Chorale alumni IDs to sneak backstage at Boettcher Concert Hall... to see an opera. Other kids had fast cars and drugs; we had “Pagliacci.” It is because of the Chorale that I got to meet Charity and her amazing family, and for that I am forever grateful. Chari, I miss you and I love you. The only thing that would make this upcoming concert better is to hear you singing in it, too. #oldfriends #coloradochildrenschorale
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