Daniel Orr

Dec 23, 2024 | glasstire.com | Daniel Orr

The audience never knew what to expect when it came to Les Ballets Russes. In the summer of 1913, the company made itself notorious by throwing pre-war Paris into a riot. Vaslav Nijinsky, who was known as the company’s androgynous lead male dancer, choreographed Igor Stravinsky’s radical The Rite of Spring (le Sacre du Printemps) in what had seemed like the most radical way possible: flouting all the rules of ballet and defying Parisian hopes for another exuberant Russian opera.

Dec 6, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Daniel Orr |Brigham Young

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering; Mechanical Engineeringhttps://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/ Orr, Daniel J., "Compliant Structures Facilitate Less Invasive and Biomechanically Improved Lumbar Spinal Implants" (2024). Theses and Dissertations. 10603.

Aug 19, 2024 | glasstire.com | Daniel Orr

She lies face-down on her right side, her eyes closed. She wears all white—a white lacey dress, white pearls, and a white peacock crown crested with white feathers. She looks uncomfortable — with good reason. On her back, an adult lion stretches his paws. The lion’s eyes are also closed as he shakes his head from side to side, breathing on the starlet below him. It is the picture of unreal yet complete vulnerability.

Jul 2, 2024 | texashighways.com | Daniel Orr |Sarah Thurmond

In the spring of 1995, Dave Dalton Thomas, a self-described “copy editor with a writing problem,” at the San Angelo Standard-Times got a call that would change his life. On the other end of the line was storied Texas empresario “Jalapeño Sam” Lewis delivering the news that Willie Nelson was bringing his annual Fourth of July Picnic to a town that Nelson and Waylon Jennings made famous: Luckenbach.

Mar 6, 2024 | texashighways.com | Daniel Orr |Danielle Lopez

It’s a blustery, dark, cold January day at an old cemetery in Dido. Were it not for the two Texas Historical Commission markers and the signage of a sign for the United Methodist Church, this ghost town 40 minutes northwest of downtown Fort Worth on the shores of Eagle Mountain Lake would be all but imperceptible to passersby. The cemetery occupies a couple of acres, its lake view now obscured by a golf course.