Ballet Gift for Buffalo
American Ballet Theatre Studio Company performs for three thousand Buffalo Public schoolchildren this morning at Shea's Performing Arts Center, the culmination of planning by filmmaker/UB professor Elliot Caplan via his Center for the Moving Image. UB's Center for the Arts and the Humanities Institute are also producing the ABT residency.
In the image above Elliot Caplan announces the project, which includes master dance classes for area dance students, at a press conference in the grand lobby of Shea's on January 12. Also pictured are (l. to r.): Mayor Byron Brown, Heather Groll, representing Buffalo Public Schools, and Shea's director Anthony Conte.
Caplan invited the company, who were commissioned by him to create a dance that will premier in Buffalo. This dance, and other pieces, will be performed for the general public on February 3 at UB's Center for the Arts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $22, $15 for UB faculty and staff and $10 for students.
Afterwards, ABT will travel to New Orleans to give the people of that beleaguered city the gift of dance ,Aei it will be presented (if his schedule permits, by Mayor Byron Brown himself) on behalf of the residents of the City of Good Neighbors.
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Jefferson
I've often wondered why Buffalo doesn't have a ballet dance company of its own. So, this is a step in the right direction (no pun intended -- "step").
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david
Jefferson,
We do...Buffalo City Ballet.
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Jefferson
David, I thought BCB was instruction oriented only. didn't know they perform. I learned something new.
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