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ARB's January 2013 Newsletter: Goodbye 2012, Hello 2013!
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Happy New Year!
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Thank you for your support and enthusiasm throughout 2012! We'd like to extend a special thank you to everyone who gave to our year-end appeal. With your support, we were able to raise $50,000, which will help us continue to create, educate and inspire. In this newsletter, we look back at 2012's highlights and forward to 2013.
But before all that, we're thrilled to be nominated for "Favorite Dance Company" in the Jersey Arts Annual People's Choice Awards. It means so much to be recognized with this honor. If we've inspired you this past year, please let everyone know by voting for ARB in this tight race. We are in great company with the other nominees, not only in our category, but also among all the great arts organizations in New Jersey (including some of our wonderful collaborators), so good luck to everyone, and happy voting! CLICK HERE to vote - your vote matters!
Please continue for much more...
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| Looking Back...2012 in review: |
What an exciting year! In 2012, ARB:
- Commissioned 5 new works by Trinette Singleton, Ann Marie DeAngelo, and Resident Choreographer Mary Barton;
- Previewed new excerpts from Douglas Martin's Romeo and Juliet;
- Revived 2 major works by master choreographer, Gerald Arpino;
- Performed in new venues with live music;
- Presented Princeton Ballet School students in Don Quixote;
- Expanded our Trainee, DANCE POWER and Access & Enrichment programming;
- Received recognition by our audiences and critics;
- Broke box office records at this year's Nutcracker season, and...
- Had a blast doing it all!
Some recent highlights from this past fall season:
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Live music by Kaila Flexer for Mary Barton's Straight Up With a Twist. Photo Credit: George Jones
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 | | Mary Barton's Fairie Tyme. Photo Credit: George Jones |
 | | Ann Marie De Angelo's Blackberry Winter. Photo Credit: George Jones |
And of course, we closed out 2012 with our 49th Annual Nutcracker Season:
One of our favorite parts of our Nutcracker season is our Annual Alumni Gathering on opening weekend at McCarter Theatre. Click here to read our press release about what some of our accomplished alumni attendees are up to now.
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Looking forward to 2013:
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We already have a lot to look forward to in 2013,
starting with our fantastic spring season. Check out this preview!
March 23 at 8:00pm: In Full Bloom at Raritan Valley Community College;
Tickets: rvccarts.org, 908.725.3420. Featuring Artistic Director Douglas Martin's Rite of Spring, Resident Choreographer Mary Barton's Five Men and a Concerto, and a new work by Patrick Corbin
April 5 at 8:00pm: Viva Spring at South Orange Performing Arts Center;
Tickets: sopacnow.org, 973.275.1114. Featuring Artistic Director Douglas Martin's Rite of Spring, Gerald Arpino's Viva Vivaldi, and a new work by Patrick Corbin
April 12 at 7:00pm, April 13 at 2:00pm and 7:00pm: Romeo and Juliet: A Preview Peek at Hamilton Stage for the Performing Arts at Union County Performing Arts Center; Tickets: hamiltonstage.com, 732.499.8226. The full choreography of Artistic Director Douglas Martin's Romeo and Juliet, set to Prokofiev's lush score
Mayor Jim Cahill & Dr.
Anthony R. and Marlene M. Volpe
for their extraordinary support of ARB's DANCE POWER program
Maria Youskevitch
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recipient of the Audrée Estey Award for Excellence in Dance Education. See the "Havana Nights" sidebar to find out about Ms. Youskevitch's special trip to the International Ballet Festival in Havana, Cuba.
And from our students in DANCE POWER and Princeton Ballet School:
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| New 2nd Grade DANCE POWER! | |
DANCE POWER launched its 2nd grade program on Monday, January 7:
 | 2nd Graders take a bow last spring.
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For the past 27 years, DANCE POWER has reached every 3rd grade class in the New Brunswick School District. Last year, ARB brought DANCE POWER to one 2nd grade class as a pilot program. We are happy to expand this year! Our new 2nd Grade residency will take place in two 2nd grade classrooms in each of New Brunswick's 8 public schools. The curriculum focuses on creating a dance inspired by text in order to improve students' language arts skills and increase their knowledge of the art form of dance. This year, students will use the story "The Relatives Came" as the foundation for their work.
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Vote ARB!!
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Choose American Repertory Ballet as your "Favorite Dance Company" in the Jersey Arts People's Choice Awards! Click to vote!
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Another look at ARB's recent repertory:
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Excerpts from Douglas Martin's Romeo and Juliet
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Excerpts from Ann Marie DeAngelo's Blackberry Winter
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| Havana Nights | |
"Maria Youskevitch, our ARBW Balletmaster and teacher of advanced classes, recently returned from the 23rd International Ballet Festival in Havana, Cuba, which honored the centenary of her father's birth..."
- from Mary Pat Robertson's blog
Ms. Youskevitch is also one of this year's ARB Gala Honorees.
CLICK HERE to read more about her special trip to Cuba and her family's deep tradition in the ballet world.
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| Upcoming On Pointe Events | |
 Join us in a discussion of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring with Artistic Director Douglas Martin and guest lecturer Maestro Michael Pratt. Maestro Pratt conducts our Nutcracker orchestra at the State Theatre every year and is the Director of Musical Performance at Princeton University and Co-Director of the Composer's Ensemble and the Richardson Players. Click here for further information.
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Photo Credit: Leighton Chen
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Enjoy a sneak peek at ARB's fabulous spring season.
All On Pointe Enrichment Series events are free and open to the public. They are held at Princeton Ballet School, 301 North Harrison Street in Princeton, above McCaffrey's Supermarket.
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| Alumni Spolight |
 Unity Phelan, Princeton Ballet School alum and daughter of ARB Board Member John Phelan, who had been studying at the School of American Ballet, was recently promoted to an apprentice at New York City Ballet just in time to join the company for Nutcracker Season. Congrats!
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| Princeton Ballet School Enrollment |
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Photo Credit: Carrie Pallat and George Jones (right)
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Inspired by the student performers in The Nutcracker? Are you or someone you know interested in studying at Princeton Ballet School? Did you know we take mid-year registrations in classes with availability?
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Support Us
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Your gift today brings to light ARB's vision:
TO EXCITE: audiences all over New Jersey with the exciting new repertoire performed by the professional dancers of American Repertory Ballet;
TO ENLIGHTEN: the students of Princeton Ballet School with the highest quality dance education in studios in Princeton, Cranbury and New Brunswick. This year, Princeton Ballet School's property in the Historic District of Cranbury required serious renovations. Your support would be very valuable in helping Princeton Ballet School defray the costs of construction.
TO ENTERTAIN: the young and the old with ARB's Nutcracker, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2013.
AND TO INSPIRE: all dancers, young and old, including those whose families can't afford to pay for dance classes, and ARB's DANCE POWER students from the New Brunswick public schools.
...with the beauty and passion of dance. Your gift will brighten this vision for 2013 and beyond.
 Or shop online through iGive and designate American Repertory Ballet as your cause.
You can also help support us by volunteering or joining the Friends of Princeton Ballet Society. CLICK HERE for more information.
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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. You'll always receive the most updated information in our monthly email newsletter, but if you'd like to receive periodic updates in the mail, and didn't receive our Nutcracker Postcard, let me know, and I will make sure you're on our mailing list!Sincerely,
Christine Chen
Managing Director, American Repertory Ballet
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