OU School of Dance presents inaugural Five Moons Dance Festival honoring Native American Ballerinas from Oklahoma city-sentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from city-sentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It s actually accomplishing what we always started out wanting to do, that this would not just be what some would refer to as a one-and-done, or a Kumbaya moment where OK, we sang, we held hands, now everybody go back home. This is a commemorative year . even into the fall with Tulsa Ballet doing a full production and bringing African American artists and dancers from New York and an African American choreographer for a full production about the history of Greenwood, said Phil Armstrong, project director for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission. This is the beginning. This is not just a time when we do this and never talk about it again. This is a launchpad: Every year we are going to look forward to commemorating and having some type of event that remembers and honors this history.
Ballet directors talk about 'fitness.' That's still code for rail-thin dancers. washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Des Moines professional resident ballet company is inaugurating its first full-time ballet school, hoping to attract young, aspiring dancers from around the world.
Ballet Des Moines also is preparing to welcome the spring with a round of outdoor performances before in-person audiences in Des Moines, Iowa City and Muscatine.
Set to launch in September, the school will provide daily classes, personal mentorship with the ballet s associate artistic director, arts administration workshops, and more. Dancers also will have the opportunity to work with artists like Ma Cong, who danced with the National Ballet of China and performed with now-Ballet Des Moines Artistic Director Serkan Usta at the Tulsa Ballet, where he is resident choreographer.
Ballet Des Moines to launch Iowa's first full-time ballet school, seeking students worldwide msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.