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Gem City Ballet
Spring Repertory 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Bellbrook High School, 8pm
Tickets: $15 for Adults, $8 for Children 12 and younger
The dance artists of Dayton’s Gem City Ballet are giving Dayton a
spring bouquet on May 8, 2010. All five ballets are choreographed
by Dayton natives and all five are as different from each other as can
be.
Peter LeBreton Merz, who trained at Dayton Ballet School and went
on to dance professionally with Louisville Ballet and Cincinnati Ballet
and is now ballet professor for Point Park University, choreographed
Allegro ma non Troppo when GCB was very young. It remains one
of artistic director Barbara Pontecorvo’s, favorite ballets. Classical in
its dance vocabulary, Allegro ma non Troppo is technically difficult
for both corps de ballet and the four soloists.
Mellifluous Movement is the company’s Senior Ballet for the 2009-
10 season. Choreographed by Molly McDonald, a senior at
Centerville High School, Mellifluous Movement was chosen from
four new works created by the GCB’s graduating seniors by a panel
of dance professionals including Jon Rodriguez and Estelle Bean. A
complex and musical ballet, Mellifluous Movement is sure to charm
and delight its audience.
Willoughby, a story ballet by the late Stuart Sebastian, former artistic
director of Dayton Ballet, will return to the stage as a gift to all
mothers everywhere. This dramatic and evocative ballet shows what
happens when a disparate group of people arrives at the Willoughby,
Ohio train station on a spring day in 1912.
Refractions, one of the many fabulous ballets of Bess Saylor Imber,
is a study of the piano variations of Aaron Copland in pas de deux
form. It is a duet that steadily increases in tension and strength. It is
not to be missed.
Jonathan Tabbert choreographed A Little Café Music, the newest
ballet from GCB’s First Street Choreography Project. Mr. Tabbert
studied at the Dayton Ballet School, and was chosen by Stuart
Sebastian to play the little boy in the original casts of The Night
Before Christmas and Dracula. Jonathan left Dayton to study at the
Harid Conservatory and is now a principal dancer with Charleston
Ballet. A Little Café Music is both jazzy and romantic, a perfect
ending to a varied evening of dance.
Join GCB on May 8 for a wonderful evening of dance. For more
information, please call 937.222.6880. Tickets are also available on
line at www.showtix4u.com.
Spring Repertory 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Bellbrook High School, 8pm
Tickets: $15 for Adults, $8 for Children 12 and younger
The dance artists of Dayton’s Gem City Ballet are giving Dayton a
spring bouquet on May 8, 2010. All five ballets are choreographed
by Dayton natives and all five are as different from each other as can
be.
Peter LeBreton Merz, who trained at Dayton Ballet School and went
on to dance professionally with Louisville Ballet and Cincinnati Ballet
and is now ballet professor for Point Park University, choreographed
Allegro ma non Troppo when GCB was very young. It remains one
of artistic director Barbara Pontecorvo’s, favorite ballets. Classical in
its dance vocabulary, Allegro ma non Troppo is technically difficult
for both corps de ballet and the four soloists.
Mellifluous Movement is the company’s Senior Ballet for the 2009-
10 season. Choreographed by Molly McDonald, a senior at
Centerville High School, Mellifluous Movement was chosen from
four new works created by the GCB’s graduating seniors by a panel
of dance professionals including Jon Rodriguez and Estelle Bean. A
complex and musical ballet, Mellifluous Movement is sure to charm
and delight its audience.
Willoughby, a story ballet by the late Stuart Sebastian, former artistic
director of Dayton Ballet, will return to the stage as a gift to all
mothers everywhere. This dramatic and evocative ballet shows what
happens when a disparate group of people arrives at the Willoughby,
Ohio train station on a spring day in 1912.
Refractions, one of the many fabulous ballets of Bess Saylor Imber,
is a study of the piano variations of Aaron Copland in pas de deux
form. It is a duet that steadily increases in tension and strength. It is
not to be missed.
Jonathan Tabbert choreographed A Little Café Music, the newest
ballet from GCB’s First Street Choreography Project. Mr. Tabbert
studied at the Dayton Ballet School, and was chosen by Stuart
Sebastian to play the little boy in the original casts of The Night
Before Christmas and Dracula. Jonathan left Dayton to study at the
Harid Conservatory and is now a principal dancer with Charleston
Ballet. A Little Café Music is both jazzy and romantic, a perfect
ending to a varied evening of dance.
Join GCB on May 8 for a wonderful evening of dance. For more
information, please call 937.222.6880. Tickets are also available on
line at www.showtix4u.com.