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Minnesota Dance
Festival
Festival Director:
Andrew Rist
Executive Director:
Cynthia Betz
Technical Director:
Jim Arnold
Grants Writer
Art Penfield
Swan Lake Restaged by:
Cheryl Rist
Fitzgerald Produciton Manager
Tom Campbell
Lighting Designer
Mike Wangen
Marketing Consultant
Michelle Wildenauer
Graphic Design
Jennifer Haas
Fundraising
Susan Horowitz
Student Performance Coordinator:
Todd Wildenauer
Volunteer Coordinator
Mary Klein
Dance Schools Coordinator
Lisa Gray & Taylor Dreyling
If you are interested in the
Festival,
being on the Festival,
or being on the mailing list
E-mail
MDF
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MDF 19
Friday, May18 - Sunday, May 20, 2007
Fitzgerald Theater
Thursday, May17,
Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman will give a keynote address, and
MPR's John Birge will host this invitation-only
presentation of Saint Paul's finest performing artists at the
historic Fitzgerald Theater. To visit the 'Taste The Arts' Website
click on the Taste logo. This event is sponsored in part by the
Saint Paul Star Program and Ballet Minnesota.
Friday,
May18, 10:00am
Performance for school students
Ballet Minnesota, St Paul, MN .................
Excerpt
from 'Swan Lake'
Universal Dance Destiny
Andrew Rist, St Paul...................................
Black Dog
Cafe
Story Ballet ................................................
Nightmare
original
score by Minnesota composer Robert E Hindel
Other Groups to be announced
Friday,
May 18, 7:00pm
Story Ballet ................................................
Nightmare
original
score by Minnesota composer Robert E Hindel
Ballet
Minnesota presents full length 'SWAN LAKE'
Saturday,
May 19, 2:30pm
Festival Showcase
Ballet
Minnesota, St Paul, MN ................. Excerpt from 'Swan Lake'
Universal Dance Destiny
Andrew Rist, St Paul...................................
Black Dog
Cafe
Story Ballet ................................................
Nightmare
original
score by Minnesota composer Robert E Hindel
Other Groups to be announced
Saturday,
May 19, 7:00pm
Story Ballet ................................................
Nightmare
original
score by Minnesota composer Robert E Hindel
Ballet Minnesota presents full length
'SWAN LAKE'
Sunday, May
20, 2007
Dance Schools Performance
MDF19 T_SHIRTS. Names of
participating companies and schools are listed on the back of
the t-shirt and will be available at the Festival
10:00 - 11:15 Master
Class Ballet: Oksana Konobeyeva, After graduating from
the Novosibirsk Ballet School (Russia), Oksana won First Prize
at the Vaganova Ballet Competition in St Petersburg, Russia.
In 1990 Ms Konobeyeva joined the Y. Grigorovich Ballet - Bolshoi
Theater. Some of the soloist and principal roles she perfromed
included Odette-Odile in "Swan Lake", Aurora and Princess
Florine in "Sleeping Beauty" and many others. In 1994
she joined the Moscow Renaissance Ballet where her repetoire
included "Pas de Quatre", "Tailsman" and
"Paquita". In 1996 she won The First Prize and a Gold
Medal at the International Ballet Competition in Luxembourg.
In the same year Oksana joined American Ballet Theater where
she was promoted to soloist in 1996. Besides perfroming the classics,
she has performed in new works by Twyla Tharp, John Neumeier
and Robert Hill. Some of her teachers included: M Lavrovsky,
R. Karelskaya, L Ribinkina & N Fedeychev from the Bolshoi
Theater.
11:30 - 12:30 Master
Class Hip-Hop: Edna Stevens Talton (director: Universal
Dance Destiny)
1:00 - 3:00 Dance
School Technical on Fitzgerald Stage
3:30 - 5:30 Minnesota
Dance Festival presents
"Dance
Schools Showcase Performance"
In
Order of Appearance:
Heartbeat Studios
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Apple Valley
City Scape Dance
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Bloomington
Dance Moves ...............................................
Ham Lake
Classical Ballet Academy
of MInnesota .....
St Paul
Deuxmensions Junior Dance
Theater ........
Minneapolis
Dance Works ...............................................
Lakeville
St Paul Conservatory
for Performing Arts .. St Paul
The Art of Dance
Studio ..............................
Brooklyn
Park
Out on a Limb
..............................................
St Paul
St Paul Irish Dance
..................................... St Paul
St Croix Ballet ............................................. Stillwater
Universal Dance Destiny
School ...............
New Hope
* Please Note: The Dance Schools
Perfomance has presented for four years by MDF. MDF allows Dance
Schools to present their works (up to 10 minutes) on the Fitzgerald
stage. Participation is on a first come basis. 12 dance schools
put on the festival. If you would like to be on the dance school
evening, please call Lisa Gray at 651-222-7919. If this years
event is full, please inquire next year, If there is enough interest,
the Dance Schools Performance Showcase will be expanded.
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