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August 27, 2004
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Please visit our The Conductors MultiCultural Dance Fest Gallery at
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and Press Room for photos at
http://www.ballettechohiopaa.org/2004-2005/conductors/conductors_press_photos.htm
ballet tech ohio performing arts association brings history to life in dance
Cincinnati, OH - ballet tech ohio performing arts association will present The Conductors MultiCultural Dance Fest Friday September 17, 2004 at 8PM and Saturday, September 18, 2004 at 2PM and 8PM at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. The show features The Conductors, an uplifting tale of separation and strength, tribulation and triumph, about one family’s quest to obtain their freedom through the Underground Railroad and multicultural dance performances including Latin Dance by Arthur Murray Dance Studios, African Drum and Dance by Bi-Okoto African Drum & Dance, Praise Dance by the Quinn Chapel AME Church Judah Praise Dancers, Tribal Belly Dance by Gaiananda Drum and Dance and a special performance of the White Swan classical ballet pas de deux by Ting Song and Andrey Kasatsky. The Conductors MultiCultural Dance Fest will educate, entertain and amaze audiences with its diversity of dance and music styles, including contemporary and classical ballet, African, Latin, Praise and Tribal Belly Dance and Negro Spirituals, Latin Tango and Salsa, classical, African and ethnic drum music. The multicultural tour of dance and music will energize the audience with world beat music and phenomenal choreography to match.
ballet tech ohio performing arts association will offer a Cincinnati Arts Association School Time production in the Aronoff Center’s Arts in Education Series on Friday, September 17, 2004 in two performances for Tri-State school children with study guides produced by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. It will offer a 20 Days/20 Nights performance on Saturday, September 18, 2004 at 2PM. The productions will include The Conductors, which chronicles one family’s ordeal of working on a plantation as slaves, the separation and selling of the father and the brother, the subsequent escape of the rest of the family, the journey towards freedom on the Underground Railroad, and the joyful reunion at a safe house somewhere near Cincinnati. The presentation includes interactive educational programming to engage the audience, teaching portions of the choreography so students experience how hard the slaves worked, the anxiety and anticipation of the escaped slaves and the jubilation and celebration of freedom.
The Conductors, choreographed by Founding Artistic Director, Claudia Rudolf Barrett, with live Negro Spirituals and original music composed by Ian Barrett, received thunderous standing ovations in its premier at the Aronoff in 2001. It is part of the Festival of Freedom, celebrating the opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and the Enjoy the Arts/START 20 Days/20 Nights Festival of the Arts.ballet tech ohio performing arts association
ballet tech ohio performing arts association will also present excerpts of The Conductors MultiCultural Dance Fest at the Freedom Center Grand Opening on August 23, 2004.
TICKETS
Tickets on sale now at Cincinnati’s Aronoff Center $20; to purchase, call 513.621.ARTS (2787) or go to www.ballettechohiopaa.org . ETA/START, Senior and Group Rates available. For more information call ballet tech ohio performing arts association at 513.683.6860. e-mail btopaa@ballettechohiopaa.org, or visit our website www.ballettechohiopaa.org
SPONSOR SUPPORT
ballet tech ohio performing arts association's season is sponsored in part by the Fine Arts Fund, with media support from the Cincinnati Herald. ballet tech ohio performing arts association thanks the following foundations for their generous operating and project support: The Corbett Foundation, The William O. Purdy, Jr. Foundation, Wolgemuth Herschede Foundation, The Louise Taft Semple Foundation, Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Jack and Jill Foundation and Aronoff Center Rental Subsidy Fund.
| FOUNDED IN 1997 by Claudia Rudolf Barrett, the non-profit ballet tech ohio performing arts association presents a Season Series of major dance programs and about a dozen community performances each year to provide Greater Cincinnati with a new venue for high quality dance performances featuring pre-professional and professional dancers and a wide variety of artists, dance styles and music. The ballet tech ohio performing arts association mission is to educate, entertain and amaze by providing diverse and innovative performances that have a phenomenal community impact. We have touched over 18,000 audience members with our Season Series and community performances to further educate the public. Our Dance 2 Community Kids community outreach program engaged individuals and sponsor companies to partner with us to introduce over 700 youth from underserved communities to ballet and the Aronoff Center in support of our initiative to expand the audience for the arts and downtown Cincinnati venues. ballet tech ohio performing arts association sponsors the ballet tech ohio Summer Intensive Seminar which offers professional dance training by internationally acclaimed dance teachers from all over the world and Master Classes by Gala of International Ballet Stars performers as guest teachers. For more information about ballet tech ohio performing arts association, visit www.ballettechohiopaa.org |