FINAL PERFORMANCE TODAY:

OU SCHOOL OF DANCE PRESENTS OKLAHOMA FESTIVAL BALLET:
A CONCERT OF CLASSICS AND CONTEMPORARIES

The University of Oklahoma School of Dance presents the Oklahoma Festival Ballet  at 3 p. Sunday, May 8 at the Rupel Jones Theatre in Norman, in a concert of renowned classics and thrilling contemporaries. The event will take place The featured work of the evening will be choreographic genius Antony Tudor’s playful and stylish ballet Fandango, which was set on OU dancers by former American Ballet Theatre (ABT) ballerina Amanda McKerrow and soloist John Gardner. Five females show off impressive dance abilities. Rivalry of the señoritas is sometimes playful but always highly competitive. Tudor is credited with creating the psychological ballet.  In addition, David Lichine’s lively Graduation Ball, Ben Stevenson’s haunting Camouflage and Jeremy Lindberg’s ballet Foxes will combine to fill the eclectic dance experience.

Another re-staging is Graduation Ball. David Lichine created the ballet in 1940 in Australia during the 1939-1940 tour of the Original Ballet Russe directed by Colonel Wassily de Basil. This light-hearted ballet, with music by Johann Strauss, takes the viewer to the graduation ball of a Viennese ladies’ school.

The final performance will take place at 3 p. Sunday, May 8 at the Rupel Jones Theatre in Norman.

From the press release