North High School Performing Arts Center, 2550 Wilmeth Rd, McKinney, TX 75071 | $17 adults, $12 child (12 and under) and senior (65 +), group ticket rates available | Tickets: youthballetoftexas.org/events


Ballet Dallas’ Deux Poemes


Dallas Black Dance Theatre photo by Amitava Sarkar


MAY 17 - 19. DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE PRESENTS SPRING CELEBRATION Featuring the mesmerizing aerial duet What to Say: Notes on Echo and Narcissus by Jamal Story, dance supervisor for Cher and SMU alumnus. Ballet Hispanico, the nation’s premier Latino dance organization, is the guest artist. May 17-18 at 7:30pm | May 19 at 2:30 | Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre, 2400 Flora St, Dallas, TX 75201 | $22-$58 | www.attpac.org.


Ballet Dallas’ Falling Light


MAY 10 - 11. BALLET DALLAS PRESENTS BLOOM Join us Mother’s Day weekend as Ballet Dallas closes the 2018-2019 season. This program will premiere works by Durante Verzola and Carter Alexander. Durante, formerly with Suzanne Farrell Ballet, is busy working as a choreographer throughout the United States. Co-Artistic Director Carter Alexander will restage Sarabande with live music and create a new work to the music of Darius Milhaud. We are also excited to present Romantic Encounters by the original Dallas Ballet’s Artistic Director, George Skibine. Mr. Skibine’s work will be re-staged by Thom Clower, former dancer and Artistic Director of the original Ballet Dallas. 8PM | Latino Cultural Center, 2600 Live Oak St, Dallas, TX 75204 | Tickets: www.balletdallas.org


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MAY 11 - 12. YOUTH BALLET OF TEXAS PRESENTS A BALLET JOURNEY TO FANTASTIC LANDS Come journey with Youth Ballet of Texas into literary fantasy of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and the Russian folktale, Firebird. May 11 at 7pm, May 12, 2pm | McKinney


JUNE 1. ART BALLET ACADEMY PRESENTS SWAN LAKE Prepare to be mesmerized by the Art Ballet Academy’s stunning rendition of Swan Lake. Stylish choreography, magnificent scenery,


lavish costumes and Tchaikovsky’s


enchanting score make Swan Lake one of the most beautiful ballets and a delight for the entire family! 5PM | Truett Hall, 2001 W. Seminary Dr, Fort Worth | $15 | Tickets: www. abacademy.com/Tickets | 800-844-5977.


JUNE 8. DALLAS BALLET CENTER’S TAP AND JAZZ PRODUCTION: THE GREATEST SHOW Features Tap, Jazz, Modern, Lyrical and Hip-Hop class performances. 2PM | McFarlin Auditorium, SMU | Tickets $10 in advance, $15 at the door. | www.dallasballetcenter.com


JUNE 8. DALLAS BALLET CENTER’S LE CORSAIRE A full-length classical production of Le Corsaire. 7PM | McFarlin Auditorium, SMU | Tickets $10 in advance, $15 at the door | www. dallasballetcenter.com


JUNE 22 - 23. IMPULSE DANCE PROJECT, INC. PRESENTS ICONS Love dance? Love music? Love both? Then imPULSE dance project’s summer series ICONS is the show for you! In this production 6 choreographers come together to fuse modern moves with classic grooves and create dances that


Impulse Dance Project


tell unexpected stories to music you know and love. This production contains themes of transformation to music by the soulful Aretha Franklin and ethereal Florence + Machine,


themes on dreams of bigger and


better to music by the classic Bing Crosby, themes on revealing your true authentic self to music by the legendary Johnny Cash, 2 different takes on women to music by the sensual Janet Jackson and down- to-earth Billy Joel, and finding comfort in your own weird skin to music by the eccentric band Queen. Do not miss your opportunity to see these unique takes on music we all know and love. Come JAM with us! June 22 at 7:30PM, June 23 at 2PM | Fort Worth Community Arts Center, 1300 Gendy St, Fort Worth, TX 76107 | $10 Children; $15 Student; $18 General | www. impulsedanceproject.ticketleap.com/icons.


JULY 9 - 16. TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL FOR CLASSICAL & CONTEMPORARY DANCE PRESENTS DANCE RANCH MARFA Featuring Co-Artistic Director Nina Martin and Lower Left Dance Collective. Dance Ranch Marfa is a rigorous investigation of the relationship between the self and the group in an art-making context. The workshop is intended to provide dedicated spaces for collective/individual learning and exploration. We use this time in Marfa to work, investigate, and collectively widen compositional, sensorial, and performance skills. Using Ensemble Thinking, ReWire Movement Method, and Contact Improvisation as points of departure, we will investigate the intra-relationships of the solo body, the weighted body, and the ensemble. The days consist of two 3-hour blocks of time in the studio and the theater. There will be a day off midway through the intensive to enjoy the town and the sky. Towards the end of the week, there will be a performance in the Crowley Theater, open to the Marfa community.Crowley Theatre, 98 S Austin St, Marfa, TX 79843 | $500 Registration – $450 if paid in full by April 1st. $100 deposit, remainder due by July 9. Email lowerleftcollective@gmail.com with your: - Name - Address - Cell phone - A short bio | www.lowerleft.org.


Texas Woman’s University


Degree Programs: B.A., B.A. with


Secondary Certification M.A., M.F.A.


Low-residency Ph.D. program for Dance Professionals


School of the Arts Department of Dance


Scan the code to see the TWU Dept. of Dance promo video!


www.twu.edu/dance | www.facebook.com/TWUDance WWW.JOFFREYBALLETSCHOOL.COM


YUSHA-MARIE SORZANO ARTISTIC DIRECTOR:


JOFFREY SOUTHWEST DALLAS, TEXAS


JULY 15 – AUGUST 2


AN INTIMATE AND EXCLUSIVE EXPERIENCE THAT WILL PREPARE YOU FOR THE FUTURE OF DANCE.


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PERFORMANCES


MAY – JULY 2019


Photo by Jesse Scroggins


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