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Jupiter Dance Academy
Under direction of Debra Conrad
Welcomes new staff members.
J u p i t e r D a n c e A c a d e m y w e l -
comes instructor Lisa Langford to our staff
for the 2011-2012 dance season. Lisa received
her BA in Theatre Arts
and Dance from Palm Beach
Atlantic University and has
studied under various instructors
in South Florida and New
York City. She was formerly
on staff and a company member at Klein
Dance and directed the Middle School Dance
Program at the Benjamin School. Lisa brings
with her a vast teaching background in jazz,
tap, hip hop and modern. She is currently a
member of Anna Preston Dancers.
We also welcome back instructor Rondell
Stowe. Rondell is a trained hip-hop, jazz,
lyrical, modern, contemporary
& cheer dancer originally from
Brooklyn, New York. As a
professional choreographer he
has worked with Coca-Cola,
MTV, Elle Magazine photographer
Michael McCabe, and is
a dance instructor for Wilhelmina
model McKenna Crawford. Rondell is
also the creator of Hip-Hop 2 Health, a dance
and fitness program for kids and adults run
throughout The Boys & Girls Club, schools
and gyms.
Ste F, 861 Jupiter Park Drive, Jupiter, FL 33458
(561) 747-71334 Jupiterdance1@aol.com
www.jupiterdanceacademy.com
Arts Dance Generation
School of Ballet Arts Dance Company
During the summer School of Ballet Arts was
excited to have Jeremy Coachman choreograph a
new and original piece for the new Company
members of Arts Dance Generation. Arts Dance
Generation is the official not-for-profit dance
company of School of Ballet Arts.
Presently, School of Ballet Arts is in need of
professional dancers, especially boys. They are
offering three [3] weeks contracts for the months
of December, March and May. Please send a
video or call for audition information at 561-577-
5355.
Upcoming shows: Nutcracker - December 17
and 18 (school and company) at the Wellington
high school theater, Dracula on March 23 ,24
(only company) at the Dreyfoos school of the
Arts, and a mix bill along with Don Quixote on
June 16 ,17 (company and school) at the Wellington
high school theater . Join us on Facebook!
Contact: Deborah Marquez. www.school
of ballet artsfl.com
Dance Highlights
What’s going on in Florida's Dance Communities!
EDWARD VILLELLA
To depart The Company at the
end of the 2012-2013 season
Ron Esserman, Interim President of Miami
City Ballet's Board of Trustees announced today
that Edward Villella, the company's founding and
current Artistic Director, will be departing at the
end of the 2012-2013 season, twenty-nine years
after his first discussions about creating a classical
ballet company in Miami. Villella is leaving
to continue his professional life.
Esserman states: “As we all know, Edward
has had an extraordinary success. From its modest
beginnings – nineteen dancers in a storefront
on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach and a budget of
one million dollars – MCB has grown into a firstrank
artistic institution, recognized nationally and
internationally as a leading force in American
ballet.
As Edward has written: "My ambition from
the start was to give Miami and South Florida a
major dance company; my strategy was to proceed
carefully and steadily, evolving rather than
over-extending. Today it's no longer a fledgling
operation with a limited repertory (almost entirely
Balanchine) and an even more limited
budget. Instead, it's a 45-plus group of brilliant
dancers and has a range of ballets that stretches
from the classics – Giselle, Coppélia, Don Quixote,
Romeo and Juliet – to the choicest works by
Balanchine's greatest successors (Jerome Robbins,
Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp). And recently
we've been fortunate enough to be in a position to
commission new works – the heart of every ballet
company – from masters like Tharp and Alexei
Ratmansky to Liam Scarlett, the youngest choreographer
ever to be invited to create a new work
for the main stage of Britain's Royal Ballet."
"In thinking about my career," said Villella,
"first as a principal dancer at New York City
Ballet and later as the Founding Artistic Director
of Miami City Ballet - there are two moments
that really stand out for me and represent the
zenith of my life as a working artist. The first
moment came in Moscow in 1962 during
the Cuban missile crisis. Despite the enormous
ideological divide, the Soviet audience
embraced me as a dancer and called me out
for an unprecedented encore following my
performance. The second moment came
this past July in Paris when Miami City Ballet
made its debut in a three-week season at
the famed Théâtre du Châtelet. This time it
was my dancers who received standing ovations
and a wildly enthusiastic response
from the Parisian audiences.
“I couldn't have been more proud of their
accomplishments." "My plan," continued
Villella, "is to build a bridge upon the enormous
success we had in Paris, so that our
Board of Trustees and South Florida communities
can go the next step when I depart
in two years."
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Interim Board President Ron Esserman
further states: "Speaking for our Board, for
the Company itself and for the entire community,
I want to express our deepest gratitude
and admiration for the achievements of
this artistic genius. I also want to take this
opportunity to express my personal affection
for this extraordinary man. It has been a
privilege to work with, and for, him.
In order to preserve continuity of purpose
and the great legacy Edward is leaving us
with, we are beginning the search for his
successor. We can only hope that we manage
to find someone worthy to fill his
shoes."
Miami City Ballet‟s 26th season opens
October 21, 2011 and runs through April 15,
2012 at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami,
Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale and
Kravis Center in West Palm Beach.
For tickets, call (305) 929-7010 or toll-free
(877) 929-7010 or visit miamicityballet.org.