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Greetings!
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The Company finished up the 2011-2012 season with a bang! Finale performances of Celebration! on May 19 and 20 at Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater in New Brunswick were a great celebration, indeed, of ARB's success in its 2011-2012 season.
This year's Annual Faculty, Staff, and Dancer Concert will be held on June 2 at 6:30 PM at Princeton Ballet School . Please Scroll for more information!Access & Enrichment events served as bookends to ARB's season finale Celebration!, providing additional insight into the program. They featured discussions of Gerald Arpino and life at the Joffrey Ballet with Trinette Singleton (the first dancer to appear on the cover of Time Magazine!) to scholarly commentary on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as compared to ARB's new ballet. Scroll to read more about these great events!
Read on for more videos, pictures and information!
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Bravo ARB!
This season's dazzling performances showed us why ARB was voted New Jersey's Favorite Dance Company in the Jersey Arts People's Choice Awards.
Check out some of the great feedback on Celebration!:
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Straight Up With a Twist. Photo by Leighton Chen
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Princeton Ballet School
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ARB dancer Samantha Gullace in "Je me souviens...I Remember..." by Faculty member Susan Tenny; Photo Credit: Leighton Chen
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Coming up soon at Princeton Ballet School:
Princeton Ballet School Studio A
301 N. Harrsion Street
Princeton, NJ
$10 Suggested Donation
Featuring Choreography by:
Hope to see you there!
Princeton Ballet School was featured in Patch's Video Series! Watch our students describe the experience HERE.
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Bryana Jones as Kitri in Princeton Ballet School's Spring 2012 Production of Don Quixote; Photo Credit: George Jones
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Congratulations to the recipients of next year's merit scholarships:
Audrée Estey Award: Brandi Pinnix
Ruth Petit Award: Siobhan Howley, Ellen Lou, and Chelsea PeBenito
Philip Jerry Award: Kylan Hillman
Molly Clifton Award: Fuki Takahashi
Edwards Scholarship: Chandra Blount
Nora Orphanides Award: Alessia Astro and Andrea D'Annunzio
For more information, read the press release here.
Also, congratulations to all of Princeton Ballet School's Graduating Seniors: Jenna Gregor, Laura Holton, Molly Fisch-Friedman, Elizabeth Karnaukh, Aleshia Rider, Christine Settembrino, Lucy Stone, and Leah Bella Zinder
Aleshia is also the recipient of the Gregory Hines DANCE POWER Scholarship, which is given to a graduating DANCE POWER Scholar attending Rutgers.
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Photo Credit: George Jones
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We're sad to see this year's seniors leave, but happy to send them off into their bright futures and the ARB alumni network.
Just a few weeks before this year's graduating seniors join the ARB/Princeton Ballet School Alumni ranks, alum Sean Mahoney, now dancer with the world-renowned Paul Taylor Dance Company, came back to teach an advanced master class as part of the PTDC's performance at McCarter Theatre. Sean was a student at Princeton Ballet School before dancing with ARB, Taylor 2, and Paul Taylor Dance Company. | Sean Mahoney teaching an advanced Taylor class; Students included ARB Company members, Trainees, and more
Photo Credit: George Jones
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ARB is Coming to Another Theater Near You!
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American Repertory Ballet is pleased to announce that it has been selected as an Artistic Affiliate of the Union County Performing Arts Center (UC PAC)'s brand new Hamilton Stage for the Performing Arts beginning next season.
Hamilton Stage for the Performing Arts, located at 360 Hamilton Street just around the corner from UC PAC in the Rahway Arts District, represents a significant expansion of UC PAC and will open in September 2012. As an Artistic Affiliate, ARB will present three programs at the intimate 199-seat Mainstage Theater at Hamilton Stage over the course of the 2012-2013 season. Tickets for these programs will go on sale this summer.
Save the dates! September 29-30, 2012: 4 Flavors
December 1-2, 2012: A Nutcracker Suite
April 13-14, 2013: Romeo and Juliet Read our press release for more information about this exciting partnership and wonderful performances!
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| Summer Programs |
Register Now for
Princeton Ballet School's Summer Programs
For more information about all our summer programs, including Summer Intensive, Summer Intensives Intermediates (for ages 11-14) and Summer Intensive Juniors (for ages 9+), visit our Summer Programs Website.
For Information on Children's Summer Ballet Classes, CLICK HERE.
Princeton Ballet School at Cranbury
Please pardon our appearance
at our Cranbury location as we prepare to begin work on a new facade for the building!
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The May 11th On Pointe was an inside look at Celebration! featuring former Joffrey star dancer Trinette Singleton. Trinette gave the On Pointe audience an intimate sense of what it was like in the early days of the Joffrey Ballet when Gerald Arpino came on board. ARB revived Arpino's Confetti as part of Spring into Love, and performed it once again at Celebration!.
 After the May 20th closing performance, The College of New Jersey Professor of English Jo Carney and ARB Company Director Douglas Martin provided Post-Performance Insights, discussing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet alongside Martin's new ballet. The ballroom scene was premiered at Celebration!, and the balcony pas de deux was performed once again after its Spring into Love premiere.
 This program was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The ARB/Princeton Ballet School Trainees performed at Arts on Division in Somerville, NJ on May 19. Arts on Division is an annual celebration of NJ artists that features live music, performances, visual art galleries, crafters, and more.
After their performance, they helped some of the children in the audience give ballet a try!
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Photos from Celebration by Leighton Chen.
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