Stevie Vallance
A collection of projects by Stevie Vallance's production company.
"It's bottoms up for actress Stevie Vallance"
by Malcom Parry (The Vancouver Sun. July 17, 2003)
Stevie Vallance has acted and starred in feature films and TV series. She's also added her voice to many animated flicks. She won an Emmy for voice-directing 70 episodes of Madeline, and had the same responsibility on Totally Spies and a 'toon version of Kenneth Oppel's children's classic, Silverwing.
The ballet-trained, gym-hardened Vallance led aerobics classes for a decade. Her CD Always is a tribute to the late Patsy Clline. Another, Practically Naked, reflects the jazz repertoire she sings Thursdays at Stamps Landing's Mer Leau's Bistro (it doesn't include Que Syrah, Syrah). Another album, Make My Night is waxed, mixed and waiting for a label.
Vallance never looked back. Now she has - but not very far.
At 12:30 today, she'll launch an exercise series called Derrieres & All That Jazz. The locale is former Vancouver Sun scribe Eve Johnson's off-Main Street Yoga on Seventh studio, where the 45-year-old artist will counter gravity 'by concentrating on the jiggly bits, namely the butt.'
Vallance says her regimen involves step-ups, sit-ups, lunges, plies and the like, all performed to non-stop jazz and ending with Nancy Wilson's rendition of Butt Beautiful. Perhaps she'll add the Modernaires-Glenn Miller hit It Must Be Jelly (Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That).