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Ballet Florida.


Jerry Opdenaker, a dancer with Ballet Florida, is retiring to focus on his career as a choreographer cho·re·o·graph  
v. cho·re·o·graphed, cho·re·o·graph·ing, cho·re·o·graphs

v.tr.
1. To create the choreography of: choreograph a ballet.

2.
. Opdenaker performed with the Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850).  Ballet as a soloist and joined BE in 1992. He served as the director of Step Ahead, BF's choreographic workshop, for five years. His ballet Coeur de Basque was presented in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
 with Ballet Builders in 2003, and in 2005 he was one of 10 choreographers selected to present a work at the New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Choreographic Institute's Fifth Anniversary Celebration.
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Title Annotation:Jerry Opdenaker retires
Publication:Dance Magazine
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1U5FL
Date:Jul 1, 2006
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