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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Angela Evans (925) 708-0752
COMPANY C CONTEMPORARY BALLET PRESENTS 2008 OAKLAND DANCE FESTIVAL
Company C Contemporary Ballet presents the fifth annual Oakland Dance Festival bringing celebrated Bay Area dance to downtown Oakland.
TWELVE BAY AREA DANCE COMPANIES
WITH
COMPANY C CONTEMPORARY BALLET, ODC/DANCE, AND GUESTARTISTS FROM SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
“A VERITABLE FEAST OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE IN OAKLAND” - San Francisco Chronicle
June 20-22, 2008 925.708.0752 / www.companycballet.org WALNUT CREEK, CA (May 13, 2008) - Company C Contemporary Ballet is pleased to present the fifth annual Oakland Dance Festival, June 20-22, 2008, at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts. The 2008 Oakland Dance Festival will showcase several Bay Area dance companies on Friday, June 20, 2008 each performing 5-10 minute works. Saturday, June 21-Sunday, June 22, 2008 the stage will be shared by Company C Contemporary Ballet, ODC/Dance, and former guest artists, Garrett Anderson and Courtney Wright of San Francisco Ballet. For tickets and information, please contact 925.708.0752 or visit www.companycballet.org . Highlights of the 2008 Oakland Dance Festival program will include a showcase of twelve Bay Area dance companies performing 5-10 minutes of selected work from their repertoire on Friday, June 20, 2008, 8pm. Dance artists and companies will include Moving Arts Dance Company, AXIS Dance Company, Viktor Kabaniaev, Melissa Ullom with cellist Gianna Abondolo, Beth Kaczmarek with members of Company C Contemporary Ballet, Christina Braun/SF Butoh LAB, Abigail Hoesin-Ahdanco, Irva Hertz-Picciotto-HerPic Performance, Patricia Banchik-Kinesis, Sheetal Gandhi, Catherine Galasso, and Dudley Brooks.
Concluding the Friday night festival of Bay Area dance artists and companies, the audience will vote on their favorite performing artists. The top voted artist will receive an honorarium of $1000, and the second top voted, $500.
The remainder of the Oakland Dance Festival on Saturday, June 21 and Sunday, June 22, will include Company C Contemporary Ballet’s performance of David Parsons’ The Envelope. A hallmark of contemporary ballet, described as “ingenious” by Anna Kisselgoff of the New York Times, pits seven dancers against a persistent piece of stationery. ODC/DANCE will present Artistic Director Brenda Way’s 24 Exposures and Unintended Consequences: A Meditation.
Guest Artists of San Francisco Ballet, Courtney Wright and Garrett Anderson will round out the eventing with two works choreographed by San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Nicolas Blanc including a solo entitled Epiphanic Solo © and a pas de deux entitled, After Having Been ©.
The Oakland Dance Festival, the brainchild of Charles Anderson, Artistic Director of Company C Contemporary Ballet, continues in its fifth year of bringing an eclectic mix of dance to downtown Oakland. The Festival not only offers the East Bay community an opportunity to experience high-quality, distinctive dance performances which showcase the diversity and artistic range of Bay Area dance, but also aims at revitalizing an otherwise underutilized theatre in Oakland at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts.
Company C Contemporary Ballet, founded in 2002, is a thirteen-member repertory ballet company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The ensemble is comprised of professional dancers of diverse backgrounds and exemplary technical accomplishment. The company has experienced ongoing growth and success as it brings to stage works by nationally recognized choreographers whose works are shaping current trends in contemporary ballet. For more information, please visit: www.companycballet.org
ODC/Dance is known throughout the world for its athleticism, passion and intellectual depth. The Company’s three resident choreographers, Brenda Way, KT Nelson, and Kimi Okada, are considered among America’s major contemporary choreographers and have created a dynamic movement vocabulary over the last three decades that has significantly influenced dancers and choreographers alike. Known nationally for its entrepreneurial savvy, ODC was the first modern dance company in America to build its own home facility in 1979, from which it operates the ODC School, the ODC Theater, and the ODC Gallery. For more information, please visit: www.odcdance.org
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Media contact: Angela Evans (925) 708-0752 CALENDAR EDITORS: PLEASE NOTE …
COMPANY C CONTEMPORARY BALLET PRESENTS 2008 OAKLAND DANCE FESTIVAL
Company C Contemporary Ballet presents the fifth annual Oakland Dance Festival bringing celebrated Bay Area dance to downtown Oakland.
TWELVE BAY AREA DANCE COMPANIES
WITH
COMPANY C CONTEMPORARY BALLET, ODC/DANCE, AND GUEST ARTISTS FROM SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
“A VERITABLE FEAST OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE IN OAKLAND” - San Francisco Chronicle
June 20-22, 2008 925.708.0752 / www.companycballet.org
WALNUT CREEK, CA (May 13, 2008) – Company C Contemporary Ballet is pleased to present the fifth annual Oakland Dance Festival, June 20-22, 2008, at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts. The 2008 Oakland Dance Festival will showcase several Bay Area dance companies on Friday, June 20, 2008 each performing 5-10 minute works. Saturday, June 21-Sunday, June 22, 2008 the stage will be shared by Company C Contemporary Ballet, ODC/Dance, and guest artists, Garrett Anderson and Courtney Wright of San Francisco Ballet. For tickets and information, please contact 925.708.0752 or visit www.companycballet.org .
PROGRAMS: Friday, June 20, 2008 – 8:00p.m.* Twelve Bay Area dance companies performing 5-10 minute works. Tickets: $10
Saturday, June 21, 2008 – 8:00p.m. Sunday, June 22, 2008 – 2:00p.m.
LOCATION: Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts 1428 Alice Street
Box Office: (925) 708-0752
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