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AMERICAN REPERTORY BALLET
PRINCETON BALLET SCHOOL
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American Repertory Ballet's April 2012 Newsletter
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Marc St-Pierre, Karen Leslie Moscato, Alexander Dutko, Alice Cao, Stephen Campanella and Monica Giragosian in Gerald Arpino's Confetti at ARB's "Spring Into Love" performance last month. Photo by George Jones.
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Greetings!
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The Company just finished a whirlwind of March performances beginning with ARB's 27th Annual Gala and Performance,Olé! on March 10 at the Patriots Theater at the War Memorial. Thanks to all our supporters, we were able to raise critical funds for sustaining all our programs with this fun event.
The following weekend, ARB performed Spring into Love at Raritan Valley Community College which featured 2 world premieres and 2 company premieres. The busy month continued the following weekend with ARB's participation in Jersey Moves! at NJPAC, where Karen Leslie Moscato and David DuBois performed the romantic pas de deux from Douglas Martin's Romeo and Juliet. And the month roared to a close with 3 full company performances as special guests at Rider University's annual Rider Dances concert.
Read on for video and image highlights
from all these events and performances.
ARB will close the spring season with Celebration! on May 19 and 20th at Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theatre in New Brunswick where the Company will unveil more scenes from Douglas Martin's new Romeo and Juliet, and will perform favorites from the repertory including Gerald Arpino's Confetti, Mary Barton's Straight Up With a Twist, and Patrick Corbin's Follia.
The School is still spiced with the Spanish flavor of Olé! as they enter the home-stretch of rehearsals for the 2012 Spring Production of Don Quixote. The show will be on May 5th at the Patriots Theater at the War Memorial. Tickets will be available at the door, or at Princeton Ballet School's Princeton location M-F 10am to 2pm starting April 16th.
Meanwhile, the Access & Enrichment Department continues to buzz with April activity! DANCE POWER kicked off the month with the program's 2012 culminating performance, Waiting in the Wings: Around the World!, on April 2 at New Brunswick High School. Save the dates for the next On Pointe: "Behind Don Quixote" on Friday April 27th. ARB will also be making appearances at a variety of upcoming spring festivals and community events, including Rutgers Day in New Brunswick, Communiversity in Princeton, and Arts on Division in Somerville.
Read on for more information!
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| The Company |
After a March full of performances, we thought we would
let the dancing speak for itself!
Please enjoy the highlights video below, and check out our
Special thanks to ARB Photographers Leighton Chen, Mary Dunbar and George Jones for capturing the magic!
 | | Click to view: ARB Presents "Spring Into Love" Highlights |
Next Up:
at the Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater,Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University May 19, 2012 at 8:00pm, May 20, 2012 at 2:00pm
 | From Confetti, Romeo and Juliet, Straight Up with a Twist and Follia.
Photo Credit: George Jones (far left, right) and Leighton Chen (center two) |
ARB will close its 2011-2012 season with a feast of exciting and enchanting works. The program will be headlined by excerpts from Douglas Martin's new Romeo and Juliet and will also feature ARB repertory favorites, including Gerald Arpino's buoyant, tarantella-inspired Confetti,Patrick Corbin's critically acclaimed Follia, and Mary Barton's sprightly and innovative Straight Up with a Twist.
For tickets, call (732) 932-7511
$35 General Public/$15 University Students with ID,
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| ARB Celebrates a Half Century of Nutcrackers |
 | The Nutcracker Soldiers, Then and Now: (L)1980's, Charles Divine;
(R): 2011, George Jones |
This coming holiday season, ARB will be celebrating its
50th Annual Production of The Nutcracker! Save the Date! Opening Night: Friday, November 23th at McCarter Theatre We will be celebrating this milestone with a reception following the 4:30pm performance. Details forthcoming.
Calling all Princeton Ballet School and ARB Alums!We would love to see you at our 50th Annual Nutcracker celebration. If you would like to get more involved, perhaps you would be interested in joining the 50th Annual Nutcracker Alumni Steering Committee!For more information, please contact Alumni Relations Coordinator Lisa de Ravel by calling (609) 921-7758 X 11 or emailing lderavel@arballet.org. In anticipation of the Company's 50th Annual Nutcracker, we are looking back on ARB's rich history. as we continue to add photos from our past! Are you a part of our history? Has Princeton Ballet School and ARB touched your life? Let us know! Thank you to all of you who have already "liked" and commented on our timeline photos We love hearing from you!
If you have a photo to add to the timeline, please email Marketing and Development Associate Alexis Branagan at abranagan@arballet.org. |
| The School |
at Patriots Theater at the War Memorial
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Princeton Ballet School's full production of this beloved ballet will feature
adult and child Princeton Ballet School students from the School's beginner levels through the its ARB Workshop, Professional Training Program, and Trainee levels.
Princeton Ballet School's Summer Programs For more information about all our summer programs, including Summer Intensives Intermediates (for ages 11-14) and Summer Intensive Juniors (for ages 9+), visit our Summer Programs Website. Princeton Ballet School at CranburyPlease pardon our appearance at our Cranbury location as we work on a new facade for the building! |
| Access and Enrichment |
 | | Third Grade Students from New Brunswick's Livingston Elementary School perform in the final show. Photo: George Jones |
On April 2, ARB's DANCE POWER program culminated with the 27th Annual Waiting in the Wings Final Performance: Around the World! Friends and family came in and packed the huge auditorium at New Brunswick High School to watch this year's DANCE POWER students perform the choreography they worked on in their classes. This year, the students performed choreography inspired by cultures from around the world - from Irish step dancing, to Russian folk dance to movements from the African diaspora.
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The new crop of DANCE POWER scholars are announced. Shown here with their school principals. Photo: George Jones
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DANCE POWER Scholars:
Each year, four DANCE POWER students from each elementary school are selected to study at Princeton Ballet School on scholarship. These DANCE POWER Scholars are announced at each year's
Waiting in the Wings performance. These students begin classes in the fall with new leotards, tights and shoes provided by Princeton Ballet School and are able to study dance through high school.
Congratulations to this year's DANCE POWER Scholarship recipients:
Na Ja Anderson, Alan Hernandez,Ruben Hernandez, Maha Majdoubi, Darlenny Hilario, Ananda Lanham, Luis Rodriguez, Al Jaquan Taylor, Shekiah Cook, Stephanie Merino, London Phipps, Yabnell Tejada, Jonatan Bautista, Nancy Flores, Gabriel Lgnacio, Stephanie Miranda, Yamil Figneroa, Cyanna Jeter, Henry M. Ruiz, Breeze Zorrilla, Savion J. Dames, Iliana T. Reyes, Amon J. Sanders, Linette L. Valdez, Eriyanna Clark, Dulce Delacruz, James Nicolai, Steven Ortiz, Monika Cunningham, Beniamino Lovine, Amaris Mercado,
and Damir Robinson
Waiting in the Wings: Around the World! also featured performances by first-year DANCE POWER Scholars, who performed what they've learned after a year of study on scholarship at Princeton Ballet School, and American Repertory Ballet dancers Stephen Campanella and Alice Cao, who performed an excerpt from Kirk Peterson's The Eyes that Gently Touch. You can read more about this fun performance here!
Did you Know? Alice Cao's path to dancing had a similar starting point as that of DANCE POWER Scholars - a scholarship to study at a renowned professional ballet company's school, attained through one of the company's outreach programs...You can read more about Alice's story and about the journey DANCE POWER students take from the beginning to the end of the program in Alexis Branagan's blog. |
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NJ's Favorite Dance Company
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ARB was voted Favorite Dance Company in Discover Jersey Arts' People's Choice Awards, and New Brunswick was voted "Favorite Downtown Arts District"!
 | | ARB Managing Director Christine Chen accepting the honor with representatives of New Jersey Film Festival, New Brunswick Cultural Center and our neighbors at State Theatre. |
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Support ARB
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American Repertory Ballet survives and
thrives because supporters like you are
willing to invest in our mission and vision.
Your contributions support all our programs
and help us bring the joy, beauty, artistry
and discipline of dance to NJ and beyond.
Or shop online through iGive and
designate American Repertory Ballet
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Access and Enrichment:
On Pointe
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April 27, 2012 at 5:15pm
Learn more about Princeton Ballet School's production of the classical ballet
Don Quixote at this free Access and Enrichment event.
May 11, 2012 at 5:15pm Get a behind-the-scenes look at ARB Presents: Celebration at this free event.
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On Pointe brings the dance world to you, with guest speakers, lecture demonstrations, performance previews and panel discussions. For seasoned dance enthusiasts and new students alike. Held Fridays, once a month, 5:15pm at the Princeton Ballet School's studios, 301 N. Harrison Street in Princeton.
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Access & Enrichment:
Post-Performance Insights
| On May 20 at 4:00pm at Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater, following the Company's 2:00pm Celebration performance, Jo Carney, professor of English at The College of New Jersey, will present "Post-Performance Insights: Romeo and Juliet" with Company Director Douglas Martin.
 Jo Carney's scholarship and teaching focus on Shakespeare, early modern literature, and the literary fairy tale tradition. Her forthcoming book is on the representation of queenship in the early modern historical and fairy tale traditions.
 This program is made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
| Upcoming Community Events |
April 28, 12:00pm-5:00pm Princeton Ballet School students will be dancing on the Communiversity stage on Nassau Street in Downtown Princeton
Rutgers Day
April 28, 10:00am-4:00pm Princeton Ballet School will have a booth at on the College Avenue Campus with other New Brunswick Cultural Alliance organizations. Downtown New Brunswick's buzzing this spring!
Arts on Division
May 19, 5:00pm - ARB Trainees perform
Festival dates: May 17-May 20 Arts on Division in Somerville, NJ is a great celebration of NJ artists featuring live performances, visual art galleries, crafters, and more.
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Visit our website and our studios. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our YouTube Channel. Keep up-to-date on all the exciting things happening with American Repertory Ballet. Sincerely, Christine ChenManaging Director, American Repertory Ballet
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