Ballet for most of their lives.Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard Between them, the three young dancers in this photograph - taken last week in a studio at the Eugene Ballet The Eugene Ballet Company (EBC) is a ballet company based in Eugene, Oregon. It is a resident company of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts. Under the Artistic Direction of Toni Pimble and Technical Director Jim Bradford, this 20-member ensemble performs a blend Academy - represent a combined total of 28 years of ballet experience. Not bad considering they're all 15 years old. All three girls will be dancing in the academy's production on Sunday of "The Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty sleeps for 100 years. [Fr. Fairy Tale, The Sleeping Beauty] See : Enchantment Sleeping Beauty enchanted heroine awakened from century of slumber by prince’s kiss. ." Alexandra McGlade started taking ballet lessons at the academy (which used to be called the Eugene School of Ballet) when she was 4. Now a sophomore at South Eugene High School South Eugene High School is a public high school located in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was founded as Eugene High School around 1900, and was located at Willamette Street and West 11th Avenue in a brick building that later served as Eugene's city hall. , she will be headed for 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. this summer to study - on full scholarship - at the American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre, one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet Theatre in 1940 under the direction of Lucia Chase and Rich Pleasant. . She is also the granddaughter of Eugene artist Anne McGlade, whose paintings are familiar to fans of the Mayor's Art Show. In one of the two shows Sunday afternoon, she'll dance the lead role of Princess Aurora, partnered by Eugene Ballet principal dancer A principal dancer is similar to a soloist in dance. However, principals are hired by a ballet or dance company to perform not only solos, but also pas de deux. A principal may be male or female. Juan Carlos Juan Car·los Born 1938. King of Spain (since 1975) who acceded to the throne on the death of Francisco Franco and helped restore parliamentary democracy. Noun 1. Amy-Cordero. Amanda Coleman is a freshman at Churchill High School and has been studying ballet since she was 5. She, too, has a scholarship to study dance this summer - at the Pacific Northwest School “Northwest School” redirects here. For other uses, see Northwest School (disambiguation). The Northwest School (originally The Northwest School of the Arts, Humanities and Environment of Ballet in Seattle and at Regional Dance America's Craft of Choreography program in Richland, Wash. She'll dance Princess Aurora in the other show. The third young dancer is Monica Vanderbush, also a student at South Eugene High. She plans to study ballet in Long Beach, Calif., this summer. Her big sister, Lahna, was the subject of a Register-Guard story in 2005, when she left South Eugene High and moved, on her own, to study at the San Francisco School of Ballet. She was 15 then, too. Lahna landed gracefully on her feet. She has just been hired as a dancer at Alberta Ballet, one of the biggest ballet companies in Canada, and will begin touring with the company in the fall. Monica will dance the Lilac Fairy on Sunday. She is the only one of the three girls in the photo who doesn't plan to become a professional dancer. "I'm going to college," she said. DANCE PREVIEW The Sleeping Beauty What: A ballet performance by young students from the Eugene Ballet Academy Where: Hult Center's Soreng Theater, Seventh Avenue and Willamette Street When: 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday Tickets: $15 adults, $13 12 and under (682-5000) |
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