The Missouri Contemporary Ballet will be bringing their Touring Performance once again to our stage!!!
Tickets will be available at the door, and through the dance dept. at Presser Performing Arts Center.
$10.oo for adults and $5.00 for children 12 and under.
Box office opens at 6:00 pm
Please refer to the dance registration form, Winter/Spring Schedule 2012 (with fees), forms to the right.
Fernando has performed in faculty works by Jefferson Baum, Lisa Catrett-Belrose, Calin Radulescu and Shauna Steele and professional works by Robert Battle, Thang Dao, Pascal Rioult and worked with guest artist such as Micahel Phillips, George Smallwood, Thang Dao, Daniel Ulbrich and Chicko Imada. While at Grand Valley he performed principle roles in Coppelia, Nutcracker and Pas De Six. He also performed with Grand Rapids Ballet Company in George Balachine’s The Prodigal Son. During his summers Fernando has studied on scholarship at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre as well as American Ballet Theatre, Paul Taylor and with the Thang Dao Dance Company, where he performed in works by Paul Taylor, Kevin Iega Jeff, Gary Abbott and Jessica Lang.He is currently in his third season dancing with Missouri Contemporary Ballet. Fernando gives a special thanks to Gerry Schultz for introducing him to the beautiful world of dance, and now being able to share the art with Presser Performing Arts Center.Ballet is not only for dancers who want to be ballerinas. Ballet is the first structured dance form. It has become a basic to any performing dance field. In addition to special terms, jazz dance, modern dance, and even ballroom dancing uses many ballet terms! Most good film and Broadway choreographers use ballet terms when talking to their dancers. Many choreographers prefer and expect that their dancers have a strong ballet background, even the ones that dance jazz and hip-hop.
Ballet gives a dancer grace and presence. Ballet gives the dancer the technical expertise to turn out ones legs, to point toes, to extend legs higher and with ease, to dance with correct posture ( resulting in less injury) and more. Exercises learned in ballet class build coordination and muscle development that is needed in so many different styles. Unfortunately, these techniques are usually only taught correctly in a good professional ballet school, it just isn’t taught in the night club or on the street. The instructor should vary the steps and styles of the routines. A good instructor can teach many styles of dance, while keeping ballet as a base. Ballet is a dance basic.
Presser Performing Arts Center Dance Program uses ballet as the base for Modern Dance and Jazz, which is part of the curriculum.
Our schedules may vary from semester to semester.
