ATLANTA BALLET PRESENTS TWYLA THARP'S "THE PRINCESS & THE GOBLIN"

Another page has been written in Atlanta's Ballet's historic Twyla Tharp chapter. The legendary choreographer has officially titled her world premiere ballet with the company: “Twyla Tharp’s The Princess and the Goblin.”

Co-commissioned by Atlanta Ballet and Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB), the ballet will receive its world premiere in Atlanta, February 10-19 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, followed by the Canadian premiere in fall 2012.

Tharp, Atlanta Ballet and RWB originally announced the project in March during Atlanta Ballet’s 2011-12 season announcement. Since then Tharp has spent most of the summer in Atlanta working with the company to create and choreograph the work.
Rehearsals began in May with just seven dancers and a modest cast of kids. Now 13 students from Atlanta Ballet’s Centre for Dance Education will dance alongside the full professional company. This premiere marks Tharp’s first use of children in a full-length ballet in her almost 50-year choreographic career.

The ballet, 20 years in the making as described by Tharp, will be based on George MacDonald’s late 19th century classic children’s tale “The Princess and the Goblin.” Like MacDonald, Tharp uses the children as the driving force and moral heart and soul of the enchanting tale. With most of the central characters, general narrative line and moral themes remaining true to the MacDonald story, Tharp combines the formality of ballet and the emotional expressiveness and wit of modern dance to tell this magical adventure tale of adult redemption achieved through the trusting innocence and determined love of children.

The ballet is set to music by Franz Schubert, arranged and orchestrated by composer and Schubert scholar Richard Burke. The music will be played live by the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra led by guest conductor Gary Sheldon. The set design is by Caleb Levengood and costumes by Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Anne Armit. The lighting is by Tony-Award-winning designer Donald Holder.
Tickets start as low as $20. For tickets, call 800-982-2787 or stop by the Cobb Energy Centre box office. To purchase tickets online, visit www.atlantaballet.com or www.ticketmaster.com. For updates and more information on “Twyla Tharp’s The Princess and the Goblin,” please also visit the official Atlanta Ballet blog at www.atlantaballetblog.com.

THE LADY KILLERS PRESENTS LIGHTS ON LIGHTS OFF

**LADIES ONLY**

An event that takes you into the two sides of a Lady Killer.

LADIES of Atlanta, PLEASE Join us to be romanced and then teased for a night you'll never forget!!

*Refreshments Served to Enjoy*
Show Tickets - $15
Special Raffle Tickets - $1 (multiples can be purchased)

Located at

Gotta Dance Atlanta

1778 Ellsworth Industrial Drive, NW, Atlanta, GA 30318

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FACULTY DANCE CONCERT: NAME DAY

The Emory Dance Program presents the "Faculty Dance Concert: Name Day" Thursday, February 2 through Saturday, February 4 at the Schwartz Performing Arts Center at 8:00 PM. This concert is based on George Staib and the members of "Staibdance" collaborate for their latest evening length work, "Name Day." This new work is an emotional, geographic, and physical journey through two important life phases, birth and mourning, and traces the steps we take to become a vital part of our own cultures. Name Day will look at the ways in which we accept, reject, question, and find our own sense of belonging. Simultaneously, the piece examines the ritual and art of mourning, be it physical and/or emotional, through a culturally rich lens. This work is a reflection upon Staib’s dance investigations in Israel and unites diverse dancers, eclectic music, and a movement vocabulary steeped in traditions.

Tickets are only $15, $12 for discounted groups and students are $8. 

For more information visit Emory Dance Program official website or email boxoffice@emory.edu.

Join the company, who critics say “hold the stage with authority” in the intimate, warm, and inviting Schwartz Center Dance Studio for this celebration of history and resilience.

ALVIN AILEY 2012 PERFORMANCE

Alivn Ailey American Dance Theater will be at the Fox Theatre February 16-19. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater inspires all in a universal celebration of the human spirit, using the African-American cultural experience and the American modern dance tradition. As an exciting new era in Ailey history begins, join with Ailey’s incomparable dancers on a journey that will reveal once again why Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has brought audiences around the globe to their feet night after night with an incomparable sense of freedom, spirit and joy. Tickets are on sale Now! Ticket prices range from $25-60. For more information about the performance visit www.foxtheatre.org.

FEARIDESCENCE

Project 7 Contemporary Dance Company will present their new show: Fearidescence: The Interference and the Illumination on February 17 & 18, 7:30PM at 7 Stages. Fear has a way of distorting who we are and how we love. Fearidescence offers a fluid and ever-changing illustration of our response to fear in relationships and how letting go creates room for revelation. With hope and persistence, we examine how vulnerability leads to truth.Tickets available at www.7stages.com or 7 stages box office, 404-523-7647.