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American Repertory Ballet and Princeton Ballet School had a busy July:
The Company has been preparing for the 2010-2011 Season. Read on to meet the Company Dancers and learn more about this season's offerings.
The School just completed its 29th annual Summer Intensive with a performance at Frist Theater at Princeton University. Scroll down for more information and pictures from the Intensive.
And, the Education and Outreach program concluded another successful DANCE POWER II residency...
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ARB Company News
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The Company is thrilled to announce the 2010-2011 Company Dancers:
Michael Crawford, Alexander Dutko, Audra Johnson, and Joshua Kurtzberg will be returning this season. Brittany Fridenstine, a former ARB dancer, will also return to the company.
New Company members this season include Michelle de Fremery, who joins ARB after working with New Jersey Ballet and Nimbus Dance Works; Marc St Pierre, who joins us from the Roxey Ballet; and PBS alums Stephen Campanella and Jennifer Gladney. Samantha Gullace, Edward Urwin and Trisha Wolf round out the company as apprentices.
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Returning dancer Audra Johnson is
thrilled to be working with Company Director Douglas Martin this
season: "I have been taking Douglas's classes since 2003, before I joined
ARB the
following year. He continues to challenge me technically, and pushes my artistic personality as well. He is an excellent coach and has
been one
the major influences in my growth as an artist. It will be a pleasure and a
privilege to
work with him in rehearsals on a daily basis. Douglas' vision for the
company is also very exciting. We will be
performing more classical ballets and also keeping contemporary works
in our
repertory, which will showcase our diversity and strength as a
company. I
feel the rep he is bringing in next season along with his future goals
and
desires for the company, will be artistically satisfying and our
audiences will
enjoy our performances as well."
Tickets are now on sale for The Nutcracker, which the company will present from November 26th-December 19th in venues around NJ. It's not too soon to buy your tickets to performances at McCarter Theater in Princeton and for the The State Theatre in New Brunswick. Stay tuned for ticket information at our other venues.
And Save-the-Dates for this spring: March 5th, the company will return to Raritan Valley Community College Theater; March 12th the organization will host the annual Gala at Patriots Theater at the War Memorial; and the company will premier a revival of Twyla Tharp's "Eight Jelly Rolls" the weekend of May 20th at Rutgers University's New Theater.
Stay tuned for the full company and season announcement...
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| Princeton Ballet School Summer News |
Summer Intensive 2010 culminated in two performances at Frist Theater in Princeton University on July 30th. Photo by George Jones | The Summer Intensive performances at 1pm and 3pm featured George Balanchine's Serenade, a Balanchine® Ballet, presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and restaged by Kyra Nichols (NYCB); a suite from Giselle restaged by Maria Youskevitch (ABT); new works by Mary Barton (ARB, Joffrey) and School Director Mary Pat Robertson and student choreography developed in Katie Glasner's (Twyla Tharp) choreography workshop. Other faculty for the Intensive included ARB Company Director Douglas Martin, Kathleen Moore (ABT), Muriel Hallé (Paris Opéra Ballet), Kirk Peterson (ABT), and Jeanne Solan (Lar Lubovitch, Nederlans Dans Theater).  To see more pictures from the Intensive by George Jones! |
| ARB Education and Outreach Activities
| ARB's DANCE POWER II program, a collaboration with "Play Safe," a Youth Services System program, offered summer dance classes in 6 New Brunswick public schools and culminated with a final performance on Tuesday August 3, 2010.
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Register Now for Fall Classes
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 Photo by George Jones
Registration is now open to new students! Call today for information or placement class schedule: 609.921.7758 or visitwww.arballet.orgfor more information |
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| Melissa Salvadore, Jacopo Jannelli and Meghan Salviejo in Barton's Mozart Variations
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| Summer Intensive Students in Barton's Mozart Variations Photo by George Jones  |
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