OKC BALLET PRESENTS

VISIONARIES -- A TRIPLE BILL

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

APRIL 19 & 20

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Tickets are now on sale for the riveting and spectacular Triple Bill performance, Visionaries. This exciting production features works by dance icons Robert Joffrey, George Balanchine and new-comer Cayetano Soto Ramirez and guarantees to captivate the audience with athleticism and beautiful technique.

Visionaries begins with the Company premiere of Robert Joffrey’s Pas de Deesses, a delicate remembrance of the Romantic era created by Joffrey in 1954, featuring a live piano performance by Peggy Payne.

Balenchine’s The Four Temperaments, a company premiere, is one of Balanchine’s earliest and most iconic works fusing ballet steps with a lean and angular modern sensibility.

A world premiere ballet by Cayetano Soto Ramirez, a new dance maker with profound talent, will surely delight the audience with award-winning technique and contemporary style.

These performances provide beautiful entertainment for all ages and Oklahoma City Ballet looks forward to introducing new art to the community.

Visionaries runs April 19, 20 at Civic Center Music Hall with one Friday performance at 8 PM and two chances to view on Saturday at 2 & 8 PM.

Tickets can be purchased online or by phone:

·         Go to https://www.okcballet.org/performance/la-sylphide/

·         Or call our box office at (405) 848-TOES

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OKCMOA CELEBRATES
"ANSEL ADAMS &
PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE WEST"
& OPENS THE ROOF TERRACE
THURSDAY, APRIL 18TH

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Third Thursday: Black & White celebrates "Ansel Adams and the Photographers of the West" Event also kicks off OKCMOA's Roof Terrace season

WHEN: April 18, 5 to 9 p.m. 

WHERE: The Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Dr., Oklahoma City, OK 73102

WHO: Activities are appropriate for teens and adults and no reservations are required. Third Thursday admission is $12 for non-members and free for members.

WHAT: Inspired by our special exhibition "Ansel Adams & the Photographers of the West," April’s Third Thursday theme is Black & White. We are happy to announce that the ROOF WILL BE OPEN (weather permitting) in addition to the Ansel Adams inspired programming listed below.

• Create black and white nature gelli prints in Founders' Hall.
• Story time with Metro Library in the galleries.
• 6 p.m. Learn all the tricks of the trade from artist and educator Eric Lyons in the "If Ansel Adams Had a Smartphone Workshop" (additional ticket).
• 7:30 p.m. screening of "Diary of a Lost Girl," a 1928, black and white silent film that was the second and final collaboration of actress Louise Brooks and director G.W. Pabst in the Samuel Roberts Noble Theater (additional ticket).
• 7:30 p.m. Join Mark Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Mass Communications and Photography at UCO, and OKCMOA's Amanda Harmer as they present the "Ansel Adams from a Photographer’s Perspective Tour." This tour will focus on the technical photographic techniques used by the great master himself (additional ticket).
• Live music from The Steve Coleman Duo and cash bar on the Roof Terrace.

PHOTOS/INTERVIEWS: Opportunities will be available to photograph visitors and to interview Museum staff.

CONTACT: Becky Weintz, Director of Marketing & Communications, bweintz@okcmoa.com. 

FOLLOW: Hashtag #lovesthirdthursday on social media. 

Commentary:
OU'S CONTEMPORARY 
DANCE OKLAHOMA
WELL WORTH SEEING
PERFORMANCES 
TONIGHT AND TOMORROW
By Nancy Condit

The University of Oklahoma's Contemporary Dance Oklahoma gave a performance well worth seeing Friday night. Austin Hartel is the artistic director of Contemporary Dance Oklahoma.

Merce Cunningham's "How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run" is a dance of solid color-clad dancers -- green, red, and blue t-shirts and black leotards, and great rhythm with prose as music. it was well performed by the dancers, by the orators, Lyn Cramer and Joel Burcham. The dance celebrates would have been Cunningham's 100th birthday. Cunningham was one of the great modern American choreographers.

Austin Hartel's piece, "On the Rim of the Rim (2006) -- Grand Canyon Suite,"  with music by Ferde Grofe was excellent. The dancers performed several of Hartel's signature moves as -- in couples -- they formed passengers and  donkeys riding around the Grand Canyon, and -- in couples again -- balanced on each other's legs. Their moves were very effective performed in leotards and colors of the 80's.
Leslie Kraus' "deck of dogs" was an edgy, stylized  dance with the dancers clad in red. It was performed to breathing by the dancers, aggressively turned magazine pages, and "Moon River" sung a capella by one of the dancers. It was great to a contemporary work like this.
Roxanne Lyst's "The Kingdom" was a social commentary piece. The dancers were clad in white, and  well received by the audience. The dance  performed  to "Show Me How to Dance," within "The Kingdom," was enthusiastically received and performed very well.

Contemporary Dance Oklahoma has two more performances, tonight at 8 p.m., Saturday, April 13, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 14. The performances are in the Elsie C. Brackett Theatre, also known as the  Rupel Jones Theatre.