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Arc School of Ballet 10 Year Anniversary Performance
Arc School of Ballet Celebrates 10 Years of Classical Dance Education
Seattle, WA: Arc School of Ballet will be celebrating its ten year anniversary with class demonstrations and a retrospective performance at the Bagley Wright Theater at the Seattle Center.
Since its beginning in 2004 in Ballard, the school has educated over 700 students in the artform of dance. Alumni have gone on to perform with such notable companies and schools such as Mark Morris Dance Company, the Julliard School, Pacific Northwest Ballet School, ARC Dance Company, Nashville Ballet, American Ballet Theater/ JKO School, Joffery Ballet, and others.
Arc School of Ballet has presented its biennial Demonstration performance in its home in Ballard since 2004. However for the 10 Year Anniversary, it will be performing at the Bagley Wright Theater at the Seattle Center. This performance will feature the entire school in a skill progression of the schools' training syllabus and curriculum. The first half of the performance is dedicated to this progression and the second half will offer retrospective excerpts from the past five story ballet showcases created by Marie Chong: Fairytale Fantasies (2004), The Chocolate Factory (2006), In Wonderland (2008), Dr. Do-a-lot (2010), and The Emerald City (2012). Arc Youth Dance Company, Arc alumni, and the ARC Dance Company will also perform in this celebration followed by a reunion reception.
" I love to see the students in the Demonstration performance. The Faculty and I take great pride in our students accomplishments and to have them present the skills they have worked on throughout the year is rewarding. It is also exciting to see the entire school dance together."-- Marie Chong, Director
Additional information can be found by calling Arc School of Ballet at 206 352.0799 or www.arcdance.org.
About ARC Dance Productions
ARC Dance Productions maintains a 9,000 square foot facility in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. ARC supports dance education programs, performances, and a resident professional dance company (ARC Dance Company).
About ARC Dance Company
ARC Dance Company is a professional repertory dance company in Seattle, Washington that presents contemporary ballet in a performance season from July through December. Since its inception in 1999, ARC has performed works by nationally recognized and emerging choreographers seen by over 30,000 people in standard theater venues with seating capacities of 300 to 2500. It currently produces its regular concert season at the Bagley Wright/Leo K Theatre at Seattle Center.
About Arc Youth Dance Company
ARC Dance Productions, in association with Arc School of Ballet, launched the Arc Youth Dance Company (AYDC) in 2013. It offers artistic and personal growth to dancers ages 11-20 years old who seek further artistic excellence through dance performance. AYDC members are students of Arc School of Ballet (ASB) in the Intermediate Level or higher as selected by annual audition. Arc Youth Dance Company also performs at the Bagley Wright/Leo K. Theatre, along with the professional ARC Dance Company.
About Arc School of Ballet
Arc School of Ballet provides personalized ballet training in an atmosphere that promotes personal and artistic growth. By including elements of both classical and contemporary ballet technique from the classic French, Italian, and Russian Schools of training, the core curriculum at Arc School of Ballet (ASB) provides dancers with a broad knowledge of classical technique and the comprehension to adapt to all current ballet styles and forms.
Arc School of Ballet offers four coordinated, high-quality programs to dancers of all ages and backgrounds. The variety of classes works to meet students' varying interests in dance, ranging from children's creative movement and beginning ballet to adult education/fitness to specialized professional-career-bound training.
Arc School of Ballet opened its doors in July 2004. The school provides individual attention to students through limited class sizes. It focuses on classical ballet and offers a professional dance career preparation program. Its training regime is consistent with the stylistic requirements of ARC Dance Company, the resident professional dance company.
Since 2004, Arc School of Ballet has educated over 1500 dancers who are ongoing dance ambassadors, working with and supporting professional performing companies beyond their time at ARC.
Graduates of Arc School of Ballet have gone on to dance with the following organizations: Alvin Ailey School, Alberta Ballet, American Ballet Theater/JKO School, Ballet Austin, Pacific Northwest Ballet School, Boston Ballet, Nevada Dance Theater, Cirque du Soleil, School of American Ballet, Ballet Tucson, San Francisco Ballet School, Joffrey Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, San Diego Ballet, Nashville Ballet, North Carolina School of the Arts, Alonzo King's Lines Ballet, Princeton Ballet, The Juilliard School, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, City Ballet of San Diego, Mark Morris Dance Company, Penninsula Dance Theater, and ARC Dance Company.
ARC Dance combined with Arc School of Ballet
Arc School of Ballet shares common goals with its resident professional dance company, ARC Dance Company: to provide opportunities for the public to explore the joy and beauty of dance. Arc School of Ballet and ARC Dance Company occupy over 9,000 square feet of the former Crown Hill School, now the Crown Hill Center in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle -9250 14th Ave NW, Seattle, Washington 98117
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LocationThe Bagley Wright Theater @ The Seattle Repertory Theatre
155 Mercer St.
Seattle, WA 98109
United States
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