Dates:
This event will happen
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every day between Friday, April 8, 2011 and Saturday, April 9, 2011
Time:
8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Contact:
Loyola Box Office
· tickets@loyno.edu
· 504-865-2074
Location:
Roussel Hall, C/M Complex
Cost:
$12 General, $8 Students, seniors, children, and Loyola employees
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The program opens with Michael Fokine's 1909 masterwork "Les
Sylphides," set to music by Chopin. The first plotless ballet of the 20th
century, "Les Sylphides" epitomizes the essence of ballet with purity
of line, expressiveness and soft flowing movements. "Les Sylphides" was
restaged for Loyola Ballet by former ballerina, Carolyn Martin
Santonicola, who performed the piece with the Ballet Russes. Guest
artists are Alfredo Solivan and Loyola alumna Colleen Murphy '08.
Other works include:
- Excerpts from Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake," choreographed by Marius Petipa
- Children's work "Oschter Haws: An Easter Tale" choreographed by
faculty members, Leigh Brockman and Cheryl O'Sullivan, and performed by
students from Loyola's Preparatory Ballet Program
- "Hope Springs Eternal," a senior contemporary work set to music
by Zoe Keating and co-choreographed by Megan Adams, a business
management senior from Germantown, Ky., and Bethany Wilde, a music
industry studies senior from Tallahassee, Fla.
- "Angst," a contemporary work choreographed by resident choreographer Gilbert Rome
- "Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco" a contemporary work set to
music from the Big Band era. "L.S./M.F.T." is the commercial slogan
which introduced the popular radio show "Your Hit Parade." Guest alumni
Karen Beck-Zollinger '82 and Kenneth Beck '83, J.D. '86, are featured in
this work along with Solivan and Murphy. Choreography is by Gayle
Parmelee, associate professor emerita and coordinator of the Loyola
Preparatory Ballet Program.
- "Mesozegi Dance Suite," a Hungarian character work performed by Komenka Ethnic Dance Ensemble