• PITTSBURGH
  BALLET
  THEATRE

PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE
Artistic Director - Terrence S. Orr
Managing Director - Steven Libman

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: 

Molly Mercurio
412-454-9133

email: mmercurio@pittsburghballet.org

PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE MAKES RETURN ENGAGEMENT TO THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL
PITTSBURGH, PA (April 2003) - The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre has been invited for a return engagement to California's famed Hollywood Bowl, August 15 and 16, 2003, by Pittsburgh Opera's Music Director, John Mauceri. The PBT will perform artistic director Terrence S. Orr's world premiere version of Romeo & Juliet set to the music of Sergei Prokofiev as conducted by John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.

PBT's appearance at the Hollywood Bowl takes place during a 10-week series called "Weekend Spectaculars" that combine a mix of musical styles and performers. Romantic Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet, featuring Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet and selections from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story completes the program.

"In my first season as music director of the Pittsburgh Opera, it was a pleasure to invite the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre to the Hollywood Bowl to perform Act Two of The Nutcracker in our annual Tchaikovsky Spectacular -- attracting 42,130 people to that wondrous amphitheater in the heart of Los Angeles," says Mauceri.

"Now, I am even more happy to bring this great company back for our "Romantic Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet" weekend. I am grateful to Terry Orr and David Briskin, PBT music director, for developing a brand new performing version of Prokofiev's magnificent ballet score, honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the composer's death."

"PBT is delighted to be invited back to the Hollywood Bowl," commented PBT managing director Steven Libman. "We look forward to treating their audiences again to world-class dancing by PBT. We are grateful to John Mauceri for including us in the Hollywood Bowl's season."

Orr's ballet will intertwine dialogue from Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, spoken by a narrator, with new choreography created by Orr. While this version will depict the conflict between the feuding houses of the Montagues and Capulets, most of the ballet will focus on Juliet. The ballet will stay true to the storyline by featuring the monumental fight sequence, infamous balcony proclamation of love and the untimely death scene in the crypt.

"Originally, PBT was going to perform excerpts of Rudi van Dantzig's version of Romeo & Juliet," stated Orr. "But after conferring with John Mauceri on program ideas, we concluded a new version of this ballet would be the only way to work in Shakespeare's dialogue."

This summer marks the Hollywood Bowl's 82nd season which begins June 22 and runs through September 27, 2003. The Bowl has a seating capacity of 18,000 and is the summer home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 1945, Leopold Stokowski founded the Hollywood Bowl Symphony, which was replaced two years later by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra was re-established in 1991 under the direction of John Mauceri. Since then, the orchestra has worked with a vast array of artists spanning musical genres including; Kathleen Battle, Charlotte Church, Luciano Pavarotti, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Harry Connick, Jr., Alan Cumming, Patti LuPone and Peter, Paul & Mary, to name just a few.

The Romantic Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet performances takes place on August 15 and 16 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets range from $3 to $92 depending upon the seating location. For more information about the Hollywood Bowl visit www.hollywoodbowl.com.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, a not-for-profit organization, is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; the Allegheny Regional Asset District and Allegheny County, the Heinz Endowments, the Richard King Mellon Foundation, the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, the Shubert Foundation, The Surdna Foundation, ALCOA Foundation, AT&T Foundation, PPG Industries Foundation, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Kaufmann's, The Lazarus Fund of the Federated Foundation, Mellon Financial Corp. Foundation, H. J. Heinz Company Foundation, PNC Foundation and USAirways.

• PITTSBURGH DANCE CONNECTION

Wednesday, May 14, 2003

8:00pm

Choreographic Works By:

Gina Marie Desko

Tracy Pelkowski

Andrč Koslowski

Susan Gillis 

 

Kelly-Strayhorn Theater

A community performing arts center

 

Tickets:

$10.00 General Admission

$ 8.00 Students/Seniors

Contact ProArts:

(412) 394-3353

www.proartstickets.org

• LABCO

LABCO AUDITIONS

Professional Dancers NEEDED

SUNDAY MAY 18, 2003 2:00-5:00PM

YOGA SADHANA STUDIO
1113 EAST CARSON ST. 3RD FLOOR
SOUTHSIDE
FOR MORE INFORMATION
CALL 1.800.607.0857
e-mail labcodance@penn.com
www.labcodance.com

LABCO DANCE will be holding auditions for the company’s upcoming season 2003-2004 paid positions available. All interested dancers should bring a resume and video of sample work if available.
The studio will be open at 1:30PM for dancers to warm up and prepare for the audition.

LABCO DANCE seeks dancers with professional experience in performing a must as well as a wide range of abilities and movement skills.

• MARY MILLER DANCE COMPANY

Join the Mary Miller Dance Company, along with guest artists Anicet Mundundu and members of Jambo, Cyd Pennington, and Kristen Wenrick, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 9-11, 2003, at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater for this lively cultural and inter-cultural exploration!

Tickets $13 in advance through ProArts Ticket Service, 412-394-3353 or at www.proartstickets.org.  Special group rates available.  General admission is $15 at the door; students and seniors are always $12 and children 12 and under are always $6. 

(Bring your mother on Mother’s Day and receive the lower price ticket free!)

Explore the power that music, masks and colors hold over all peoples of all times – enjoy the ritualistic through the down and funky – mix and match history with us in wild scenarios.  Collaborators with Mary Miller are Anicet Mundundu, ethnomusicol­ogist specializing in African music and a consummate performer in his own right, and Cyd Pennington, incomparable percussionist.

Friday, May 9^th, at 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 10^th, at 8:00 p.m.

Sunday, May 11^th (Mother’s Day), at 2:00 p.m.

(Bring your mother on Mother’s Day and receive the lower price ticket free!)

 Performance includes masks from our student competition!

Live music and live dance!  Dress colorfully!

Kelly-Strayhorn Community Performing Arts Center

5941 Penn Avenue, East Liberty, 15206

For more information, www.MaryMillerDanceCo.org/season.html

• ATTACK THEATRE

Nightcap Performance Series : Okaerinasai (welcome back)

Friday, May 2, 2003 @ 10:00 PM

After returning from a one-month creation and performance residency in Tokyo, Japan , Peter Kope and Michele de la Reza invite you to join this welcome home performance event for Attack Theatre.

With a unique Nightcap flair, Okaerinasai (welcome back) is a combination plate of activities including a sardonic slide show, video from the Japanese premiere and live performance excerpts of “No-to:memory fades ”.  This cultural collaboration was created and performed by Attack Theatre and the popular Japanese artists’ collective Nibroll for the 7th Next Wave Dance Festival in Tokyo .

Top off your Friday night activities with a quick Nightcap  -  Celebrate National Dance Week (April 25 – May 4) in Attack Theatre’s downtown studio for some drinks, dance and delicious tales from abroad (the food was amazing).  Also, check out the provocative video installation by artist Ana Kelly in our storefront window.

All Nightcap tickets are $5 . Seating is limited and reservations are requested.  For reservations or additional information, please call Attack Theatre (412) 325-0654 or email nightcap@attacktheatre.com.  

For more information about Attack Theatre call (412) 325-0654 or visit us online at www.attacktheatre.com .

Nightcap Series made possible in part by The Sprout Fund Noto:memory fades made possible in part by the PA Council on the Arts, Arts Midwest:US/Japan Cultural Trade Network, Japan/US Friendship Commission, Japan America Society of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Foundation.

• PITTSBURGH
  BALLET
  THEATRE

Swan Lake
October 23 - 26, 2003 
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts

Nutcracker
December 6 - 28, 2003 
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts

Giselle
March 11 - 14, 2004 
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts

A Mid Summer Night's Dream
April 15 - 18, 2004 
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts

Two new ballets with music by Bruce Springsteen & Lynne Taylor Corbett's The Ballad of You and Me
April 29 - May 2, 2004 
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts

• PITTSBURGH DANCE COUNCIL

2003-2004 Season

 

Noche Flamenca

October 10-11, 2003

Byham Theater

 

George Piper Dances present "The Ballet Boyz"

November 1, 2003 

Byham Theater

 

Dumb Type in "Memorandum"

November 14-15, 2003  

Byham Theater

 

Compagnie Marie Chouinard

February 21, 2004

Byham Theater

 

Nederlands Dans Theater

March 19-20, 2004

Benedum Center

 

Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal

April 3, 2004

Byham Theater

 

O Vertigo

May 14-15, 2004

Byham Theater