Future Stars of the Ballet dance excerpts of Sleeping Beauty
Friday, 07/24/2015 – 07:00 pm – 09:00 pm
Parker Playhouse
707 Northeast 8th Street,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33304
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Cost: $ 20.00 – $25.00
More than 100 dedicated young ballet students who have been attending the Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida’s Summer Intensive Program of Russian Classical Ballet Technique for the last four weeks, will be performing next Friday July 24th at the Playhouse Parker House of Fort Lauderdale.
For 17 years, Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida has been offering this important program led by Maestro Vladimir Issaev with a renowned faculty specialized on the Russian Vaganova Method. This year, they welcomed the highest qualified ballet students from different parts of the United States and internationally from Poland, Germany, Finland, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru and Colombia who auditioned to be part of it or were awarded scholarships for their extreme talent and qualifications.
The Summer Program’s faculty included a group of teachers specialized in the Vaganova Method and of the most impressive resumes such as former prima ballerina from Boston Ballet, Larissa Ponomarenko, graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in Russia and now a teacher of the company; Master Andrei Bossov, also a graduate of the Vaganova Ballet Academy and faculty member of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Elena Zabalkanskaya, current faculty member of the Vaganova Ballet Academy, Valentina Byczyna who comes directly from the Dnepropetrovsk State Academic Theater in Georgia. Mary Carmen Catoya and Suzanne Limbrunner, both former ballerinas of Miami City Ballet and local teachers Emily Tedesco (Modern), Luana Hidalgo (Stretch), Jorge Robledo (Flamenco) and Maria Risolia (Pilates), Sandra Portal (Gyrokenesis), all lead by Ballet Master and Artistic Director Vladimir Issaev.
The summer program will conclude with a show at Parker Playhouse, where these Future Stars of Classical Ballet will offer an exquisite performance that includes excerpts of Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty. They will also show what they have learned in Character dance, Modern dance and Flamenco.
