[PhiladelphiaDANCE.org Listserv] THE BRANDYWINE BALLET COMPANY * FREE PERFORMANCE * JULY 25, 2008 - 7:30 PM * ROSE TREE PARK, MEDIA, PA

[Joshua Olmstead]

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For Immediate Release
06/16/2008
 
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 commended 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 just 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 1979 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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Contact: Joshua Olmstead

joshua at brandywineballet.com

(610) 692-6402

 

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