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2008/2009 Performances
USA Ballet Company and USA Ballet Youth Ensemble will perform September 13, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Illinois Wesleyan University, Westbrook Auditorium
The Company will perform excerpts from
Sleeping Beauty
and the Youth Ensemble will perform
La Bayadere.
USA Ballet Company will perform
Twas the Night Before Christmas
December 21, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Illinois Wesleyan University
Westbrook Auditorium
USA Ballet Youth Ensemble will perform
The Nutcracker Suite
December 20, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Illinois Wesleyan University
Westbrook Auditorium
Click here to see Performance Video (Windows Media)
The Classics:
- Coppelia
- Don Quixote
- Giselle
- La Bayadere
- Le Corsaire
- La Esmeralda
- La Fille Mal Gardee
- Les Sylphides
- Nutcracker
- Paquita
- Raymonda
- Sleeping Beauty
- Spectre de la Rose
- Swan Lake
Contemporary Works:
- A Piece of Royalty - A pas de trois with patterns and an original creation of a promenade, all at the tender age of 6 ½, in 1996 by child prodigy Tarasina Masi.
- A Tribute to Disney Music - A series of vignettes as exciting and diverse as the music from select Disney movies.
- America - Originally created in 1987 for the 200th birthday of the US Constitution, it's Patriotic theme is stronger today than ever.
- Arbeit Macht Frei - Featured in PBS-TV the full length ballet about the Holocaust.
- Eternity - An adage with romantic lifts set to the melody of the Righteous Brothers.
- Exiles Return - A story ballet commissioned by composer Dr. Joseph Rivers and the University of Tulsa.
- Grand Tarantella - A lively festive theatrical version of the traditional Italian National Dance.
- Illusions - A unique approach of abstraction and storyline and the signature piece of American choreographer Ben Masi.
- Job - A full length ballet based on the Bible's Book of Job by Dr. Ken Bello.
- Motherhood - A solo for Michelle Holmes-Bello and dedicated to all expectant mothers by Dr. Ken Bello in 1996.
- Princesses Who Live on the North Star - Original fairytale with a comical touch
- Rhapsody - Where the females never go off pointe, is unique and challenges the dancers while at the same time enthralling the audience.
- Romance - An energetic piece for two couples, music again dedicated to our company by Howard Savage, Jr.
- Rumplestilskin - As relevant today as when this Grimm Fairytale was written, a collaboration between choreographer Dr. Ken Bello and composer Bill Bagby, Jr.
- Russian Gopak - High kicking and fancy footwork the tradework of Russian folk dance done the theatrical way.
- Slavic Festival - A celebration of the patterns that are prominent in Polish charqateristic dance.
- Slide Me Some Skin - A Ragtime and Blues ballet with music dedicated to Dr. Ken Bello and Michelle Holmes-Bello by African-American composer Howard Savage, Jr.
- The Mind - A half evening Neoclassical ballet, choreographed by Michelle Holmes-Bello, reaches the innermost fears and feelings as related to the main character's past, present, and future shown through insanity, fetal memory and love.
- Three Little Pigs - Based on the famous fairytale, this work, because of popularity, was expanded to a full evening ballet by child prodigy Tarasina Masi.
- Transperceptions - A traditional grand pas de deux set to the music of Paula Abdul.
- Twas the Night Before Christmas - A full length ballet based on the classic Christmas story.
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