Tuesday, July 31, 2018

PERPETUAL MOTION DANCE
HOLDS BACK TO SCHOOL
WORKSHOP TOMORROW,
AUGUST 1st



You are invited!
1
August
From 10:00am to 3:00pm

Jene Academy of Dance
4824 N. McArthur Blvd.
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
10:00 - 11:00 Modern Technique
11:00 - 12:00 Silks
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch provided
1:00 - 2:00 Mixed Metal
2:00 - 3:00 Choreography Class


Please call the number given on Facebook:
 (405) 202-0650
Perpetual Motion Dance

Sunday, July 29, 2018

RACE DANCE COMPANY'S
10th ANNIVERSARY PERFORMANCE
7:30 FRI., AUG. 3rd & 2:30 p., & 7:30 p.
SAT., AUG. 4TH AT CONTEMPORARY 
                ARTS FOUNDATION

 

Friday, July 27, 2018

OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY
DANCE FESTIVAL PRE-SALE
TICKET SALE ENDS AT NOON -

SEE POST BELOW

Monday, July 23, 2018

PERPETUAL MOTION HOSTS
OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY 
                DANCE FESTIVAL
 FRIDAY AND SATURDAY 
               JULY 27th AND 28th





Perpetual Motion Dance
Oklahoma Contemporary
Dance Festival
Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival is a grant funded program, hosted by Perpetual Motion Dance, which allows dancers ages 13 & up throughout the mid west region to study with professional choreographers throughout the month of July culminating in a final performance of twelve uniquely constructed pieces including modern and aerial work.

Eight choreographers have been recognized and confirmed to present choreographic works at the Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival: Brandi Kelley (Irvine, California), Rebekah Wallace Garrett (Prairie Dance, OKC, OK), Amanda Jackson (University of Texas at Arlington, Big Rig Dance Collective, Fort Worth, TX), Maria Krey-Gibson (Dance Fusion, OKC, OK) Christie Bondade (Nelson) (Southern Methodist University, Richland College, Texas Woman’s University and Collin College, Richardson, TX), Kayla Jenkins (Perpetual Motion Dance, OKC, OK), Austin Nieves (Men of R.A.C.E. Dance company, OKC, OK), and Meghan Cardwell-Wilson (Collin College, McKinney, TX).

Performances
July 27th 7:30pm
July 28th 2:00pm

Location 
Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center
3000 General Pershing Ave 
Oklahoma City, Ok 73101

Monday, July 16, 2018



OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET
ANNOUNCES 2018 - 2019 SEASON


Oklahoma City Ballet has announced its 2018-2019 lineup of performances. Season ticket subscriptions are available for three or four performance packages.
Leading off the season will be Septime Webre's Alice (In Wonderland),  October 26-28, 2018 at Civic Center Music Hall.  Webre's choreography and Matthew Pierce's musical score bring the Lewis Carroll imaginative classic hurtling into the 21st century with sensational costumes, ingenious sets, and more than its fair share of outlandish characters. This stylish production is an incredible spectacle of dance, theater, and puppetry, and features numerous students from the Oklahoma City Ballet Yvonne Chouteau School. When it premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., the Washington Post called it a "giddy parade, a pop-art dream, a feat of fevered imagination."
The Nutcracker, presented by Devon Energy, will return to the stage December 14-23, 2018. Choreographed by Oklahoma City Ballet’s Artistic Director Robert Mills, The Nutcracker is Oklahoma City’s favorite holiday tradition and is the perfect way to fill your heart with the spirit of the season. Close to 100 children from The Oklahoma City Ballet Yvonne Chouteau School join Oklahoma City Ballet’s stunning professional dancers, plus the Oklahoma City Philharmonic will perform Tchaikovsky’s famous score live to complete this dreamlike production the whole family will enjoy.
The first production of the new year will be one of the world's oldest surviving ballets and the first major ballet of the Romantic era, La Sylphide,  February 22-24, 2019. This classic story tells the tale of James, a young Scotsman, who on the eve of his wedding day, falls in love with a sylph, a beautiful fairy of the forest. The glorious score from Herman Severin Lovenskiold will be played live by the incomparable Oklahoma City Philharmonic, while August Bournonville's original choreography tells the story that will unravel in a mist of uncertainty as an evil witch vows to keep James from true love of any kind.
The season will end on a high note with a triple bill entitled Visionaries that will thrill ballet enthusiasts and new patrons alike.
The April 19-20, 2019 triple lineup of ballets includes Robert Joffrey’s Pas de Deesses, an Oklahoma Premiere, featuring live piano music performed onstage. Meaning “Dance of the Goddesses,” Pas de Deesses is a delicate remembrance of the Romantic era created by Robert Joffrey in 1954. Inspired by a 19th century lithograph, the ballet is an imaginary glimpse of three great ballerinas – Lucille Grahn, Marie Taglioni, and Fanny Cerrito – meeting and competing for the attentions of the great male dancer and partner Arthur Saint-Leon (who was married to Cerrito). Oklahoma City Ballet is pleased to honor Mr. Joffrey during the 30th anniversary year of his passing by presenting this ballet.
George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, a Company Premiere, is one of George Balanchine’s earliest works in his signature neo-classical style, fusing ballet steps with a lean and angular modern sensibility. The ballet is inspired by the medieval belief that humans are made up of four different humors that determine a person’s temperament: melancholic, sanguinic, phlegmatic, and choleric. First performed in 1946 and set to a commissioned score by Paul Hindemith, The Four Temperaments is one of Balanchine’s most iconic ballets and is performed by companies around the world.
The final choreographer on the bill will be Cayetano Soto Ramirez, a new dance maker with a profound talent. His choreography has won numerous awards, and his technical, contemporary, and often unexpected works are in the repertoires of major international dance companies. Oklahoma City Ballet is pleased to debut a world premiere from this forward-thinking artist created especially for our dancers.
Season tickets to three or four performances may be purchased by calling 405-848-TOES (8637).  All performances take place at the Civic Center Music Hall, 201 North Walker, Oklahoma City.  The Oklahoma City Ballet Box Office is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am-5:00 pm, and is located at 6800 North Classen, Oklahoma City.  

Season tickets are available for renewal now. New subscriptions can be submitted now and will be fulfilled starting June 1. For more information visit www.okcballet.org or call 405-843-9898.   
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About Oklahoma City Ballet: Founded in 1972 by Ballet Russe dancers Yvonne Chouteau and Miguel Terekhov, Oklahoma City Ballet has been the city’s professional ballet company for 46 years. It is the resident dance Company of the Civic Center Music Hall and currently boasts dancers from around the world. Led by Artistic Director Robert Mills, the Company produces four main stage productions per season in Oklahoma City and tours across Oklahoma and the surrounding states. Oklahoma City Ballet restages the classics in addition to neo-classical and other works of the 20th century. It also regularly commissions new works from the industry’s leading choreographers.