THE BRANDYWINE BALLET COMPANY * FREE PERFORMANCE * JULY 25, 2008 – 7:30 PM * ROSE TREE PARK, MEDIA, PA
West Chester, PA – The Brandywine Ballet will sponsor a free summer performance featuring exciting new works by Brandywine Ballet resident choreographers Nancy Page and Scott Jovovich, as well as guest artists and leading choreographers in the field Zane Booker, Jason Parsons, and Suzi Taylor on July 25, 2008 at Rose Tree Park in Media, PA. The event is part of Delaware County’s annual Summer Festival and marks the concluding performance of the Brandywine Ballet’s Summer Intensive Program, a four-week series of workshops and rehearsals designed to give emergent dancers insight into the dance world’s many evolving trends. According to Summer Program Director Scott Jovovich, the performance guarantees to be as stylistically diverse and exciting as the Summer Intensive Program itself, featuring lyrical, jazz, contemporary, modern, hip-hop, and classical dance.
The Brandywine Ballet made headlines this spring for its world premiere of Ronen Koresh’s Beyond the Steps and the company premiere of George Balanchine’s Serenade. National publication Dance Magazine praised the Brandywine Ballet in its Vital Signs section for bringing modern dance to the forefront of suburban Philadelphia audiences. Regional newspaper The Philadelphia Weekly declared simply “this spring the Brandywine ballerinas (and danseurs) stretched by leaps and bounds.” The Rose Tree summer performance offers local audiences a final chance to witness first-hand in a pastoral outdoor setting what all of the buzz has been about this season.
For the Rose Tree performance, Zane Booker principal dancer for Philadanco will provide the company its next foray into modern dance. Jason Parsons of Broadway Dance Center and Steps in NYC offers contemporary jazz fare. And, Suzi Taylor, also of Steps in NYC will contribute a lovely lyrical piece to the performance. Brandywine Ballet Summer Program Director Scott Jovovich promises additional balletic surprises and dramatic highpoints from himself, colleague Nancy Page, and others as well.
The Brandywine Ballet was founded in 1978 by Artistic Director Donna Muzio. The company of 45 apprenticed, professional and guest artists boasts a repertoire of over 80 ballets including Concerto Barocco, Carmina Burana, Dracula, Serenade, an the holiday favorite The Nutcracker. Presenting a regular season of three performance series which runs fall through spring at West Chester University’s historic Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall, the company travels in the summer to such various alternative venues as Longwood Gardens, Rose Tree Park and the Ocean City Music Pier, among others.
For more information on the Brandywine Ballet, please visit www.brandywineballet.com or call (610) 692-6402 for a press kit.
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