2008-09 Performance Schedule:

January 31, 2009
Magnificat
and other works
Victoria Theatre

March 21, 2009
Three's Company
Farmington, Michigan

March 28 - April 5, 2009
The Merry Widow
with The Dayton Opera
Schuster Center - Mead Theatre

May 8-9, 2009
Spring Repertory
Schuster Center - Mathile Theatre
2007-08 Performance Schedule:

October 15-16, 2007
Fall Repertory
Studio Performance
Pontecorvo Ballet Studios

January 19, 2008
Victoria Theatre Gala
A Balanchine Evening
Victoria Theatre

May 3, 2008
Spring Repertory
Bellbrook H.S. Theatre
2009-10 Performance Schedule:

October 3, 2009
Fall Repertoyy
A Midsummer Night's Dream
and other works
Bellbrook High School Theatre

February 6, 2010
Three's Company
Bellbrook High School Theatre

March 6&7, 2010
The Sleeping Beauty
Victoria Theatre

May 8, 2010
Spring Repertory
Bellbrook High School Theatre
 
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Gem City Ballet
534 East First St., Dayton, Ohio 45402
937.222-6880    
 gcb@gemcityballet.org
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.