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Sierra Nevada Ballet Features Two Brand New Innovative Percussive Creations on the BeachJul 20, 2007
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sierra Nevada Ballet (SNB) will dance to the beat of a different drummer in an exciting innovative program of dance and music, A Celebration of Genius II, August 22 and 23, 2007, at 7:30 PM at the Sand Harbor Warren Trepp Amphitheater on beautiful Lake Tahoe beach. This event is designed especially for the Shakespeare Festival and features the fabulous new percussion composition by Andy Heglund, with the fast paced choreography of Rosine Bena in an innovative collaboration, PERCUSSIVLUND. Heglund will also add his talented flair to a marimba composition, RESTLESS, featuring the SNB company. The second half of the program is THE UNICORN, THE GORGON and THE MANTICORE, a madrigal comical story ballet with spectacular original costumes (considered works of art) commissioned by the library of Congress. This work was so popular when it was performed in the Spring of 2007 that SNB will perform it at Sand Harbor by audience request. SNB's exciting program is a great sequel to last year's popular Sand Harbor program and is filled with musical genius and spectacular dancing and will feature International Dance Stars including the artistry of Ballet Danseur Domingo Rubio, Russian born , Eugene Petrov, and the "fastest feet in tap" of Sam Weber with the Sierra Nevada Ballet Company dancers and the live music of Susan Mazer and Dallas Smith and Andy Heglund. This program is designed to please the entire family with excitement, romantic charm and slap stick comedy. SNB will donate 30% of the ticket price to the Lake Tahoe Fire Victims or to the non-profit organization of choice. Ticket holders should send or give their ticket stub to SNB with their name, address and email address and the name of the group to whom they wish to donate the $. SNB will send the $ to the organization in their name. Those who do not specify an organization will have 30% sent to the Lake Tahoe fire victims. Tickets range from $14 to $67. Buy tickets at LakeTahoeShakespeare.com or call (800) 74 -SHOWS. Jack Neal reviewed SNB as a " truly professional dance company emerging in the Reno metropolitan area." Versatile and innovative, Sierra Nevada Ballet is northern Nevada's only professional ballet company and incorporates the popular with the experimental. Always a crowd pleaser, it offers music and different types of dance from well known classical to new age contemporary original pieces. To become a member of SNB or find out more information about the company, call 775-783-3223 or visit sierranevadaballet.com ### |
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