The Conductors MultiCultural Dance Fest
Fri. Sep. 17, 2004 8:00 PM
Sat. Sep. 18, 2004 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Jarson-Kaplan Theatre
Aronoff Center for the Arts
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ballet tech ohio performing arts association will present
The Conductors MultiCultural Dance Fest as part of the Festival of Freedom
to celebrate the Grand Opening of the National Underground Railroad
Freedom Center and the Enjoy the Arts/START
20 Days/20 Nights Festival of 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:
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.
The Conductors, choreographed by Founding Artistic Director,
Claudia Rudolf Barrett, with live Negro Spirituals and original music
composed by Ian Barrett, 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. It received thunderous standing
ovations in its premier at the Aronoff in 2001. This event will be part
of the Festival of Freedom, celebrating the August grand opening of
the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
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