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Dance duo on “The Up Close Show with Gary Daigneault” this Friday (11/21)

Dance Mojave’s Desert Nutcracker is back by popular demand. This reimagined performance of the holiday classic, set for December 5 to 7, trades sugar plums and sweets for the flora and fauna of the Mojave Desert.

On the Z107.7 “Up Close show this Friday (11/21) Jenn Henry of Dance Mojave and Karen Gladis of Twinkletoes Dance Company will talk with host Gary Daigneault about the show at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center that blends classical ballet with contemporary movement and highlights the beauty of the desert through immersive staging and expressive choreography.

All about the “Desert Nutcracker” live on the air from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. this Friday and as a podcast at Z1077fm.com/podcasts 

Gary Daigneault

Gary Daigneault has been a broadcast journalist for 45 years with awards and citations from the Associated Press, National Association of Broadcasters, Radio-Television News Association, Radio Inc. Magazine, five “Golden Mic” and four “Mark Twain” awards. In 2010 he was inducted into the Associated Press Hall of Fame. Daigneault taught Broadcasting for 27 years. He is President of Theatre 29, six term Past-President of Rotary Clubs, Past-President of Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree Chambers of Commerce and chaired the Joshua Tree National Park Commission. Gary and wife Cindy live in Twentynine Palms since 1979. They have two children and five grandchildren.

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