Oklahoma City Ballet Blog
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Master teacher Donn Edwards joins Dance Center faculty for the 2010-11 season!
The Dance Center of OKC Ballet is proud to announce the addition of master teacher Donn Edwards to the full time faculty for the 2010-11 school year. Mr. Edwards will bring his years of knowledge to the upper division students of The Dance Center. He will also be guest teaching for the professional company throughout their upcoming season.
Donn Edwards was a student at OU under Yvonne Chouteau and Miguel Terekhov. Subsequently, as a member of the Joffrey Ballet, Edwards worked with choreographers Arpino, Ashton, Cranko, Joffrey, Jooss, Massine and Robbins; Twyla Tharp created two roles for him. Kent Stowell and Francia Russell invited Edwards to join the Frankfurt Ballet of Germany as a principal dancer, beginning his long association with the classical and Balanchine repertoires.
On his return to the United States, E. Virginia Williams invited Edwards to join Boston Ballet, where he danced leading roles in Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Giselle and Sleeping Beauty. Later, Rudolf Nureyev cast Edwards in the title role of Don Quixote in New York and in tours of North America, Mexico and Europe.
Edwards returned to the University of Oklahoma in 1993, this time as a professor in the school of dance. Since that time he has created for Oklahoma Festival Ballet such works as “On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!,” “Summer Songs” and “Oklahoma Blues” (set to the music of Oklahoma Country/Western artists), which premiered in Clermont-Ferrand, France. For OU’s Opera Company, Edwards has also created original choreography for Dido and Aeneas, Lucia Di Lamamoor and The Bartered Bride. In addition, he has taught master classes in New York, Boston, San Francisco and Seattle.
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OKC Ballet September/October Newsletter
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THANK YOU!
Thank you to all the great young dancers that came out to audition for “The Nutcracker” today! You will be receiving an e-mail with your assigned role and detailed information regarding your participation in this years production.
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Children’s Nutcracker auditions this Saturday!
Oklahoma City Ballet
ANNOUNCES:
Open Auditions for
The Nutcracker
Perform in the Civic Center Music Hall and be a part of what The Oklahoman hailed “The best production of the ballet to grace the stage in many years!” Auditions are open to dancers ages 7 and up with prior experience and/or training. Dancers must be 7 years old on the day of audition!
Auditions will be held Saturday, August 28 at the Oklahoma City Ballet studios, 7421 N. Classen Blvd.
Please arrive at least 30 minutes prior to your scheduled audition time so that you may register.
Older dancers make sure you are warmed up and ready to dance.
There is a $20 non refundable audition fee payable by cash or check (made payable to OKC Ballet).
Audition fee will not exceed $40 per family with more than one auditioning dancer.
Times are as follows:
Ages 7-9 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.
Ages 10-13 11:00 to 12:00 p.m.
Ages 14 & up 12:00 pm to 1:00 p.m.
You will be notified via email on or before September 4th, 2010 whether or not your auditioning dancer was selected with notification of role, rehearsal schedule and which cast you will be in, A or B.
If selected, all parents (or legal guardian) of children cast in the production will be required to attend a meeting at the OKC Ballet studios Tuesday, September 7th at 7:30 p.m. At this meeting parents or guardians will sign a contractual agreement and a $75 per child participation/costume fee (payable by cash or check) will be due. We will also outline some rules and expectations regarding your child’s participation in “The Nutcracker.”
Rehearsals will be held at the Oklahoma City Ballet studios, on Saturdays from 10 am to 3:30 pm, September 11 through December 4. Rehearsals at the Theatre will be held December 7 – 9 & December 14 – 16, from 6pm to 10pm. A more detailed rehearsal schedule will be supplied once selected. Each child participating will receive one free ticket to a performance of your choosing.
All performances will be held at the Civic Center Music Hall.
Performance Schedule:
December 10th & 17th at ..7 p.m
December 11th & 18th at 2 & 7 p.m
December 12th & 19th at 2 p.m.405-843-9898 OKC Ballet (office)
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