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Collin County Ballet Theatre opens spring performance season with Romance & Revelry
Collin County Ballet Theatre, under the direction of Kirt & Linda Hathaway, will open the 2007 spring performance season with the exciting "Romance & Revelry" concert beginning at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, February 17, at the Eisemann Center for the Performing Arts Hall. Collin County Ballet Theatre has received special permission from the George Balanchine Trust to feature in this concert his famous "Rubies" Pas de Duex. This pas de duex will be performed by guest artists Michele Gifford and Chung Lin Tseng, formerly of Texas Ballet Theatre. "Rubies" will be a Dallas area premier for this important master work of choreography. The concert will open with a romantic ballet, "Songs of the Heart," set to a selection of ballades sung by Jason Coosner, musical director of CPAC-Hathaway Ballet Academy & Performing Arts Conservatory. This romantic ballet will be accompanied by live piano soloist and the concert will also include a new contemporary ballet created by company resident choreographer Micki Saba, a well known choreographer in the Dallas area. She will create a work set to the music of Renee Aubry that will also be adjudicated for the Regional Dance America National Dance Festival held in April in Pittsburg, PA. Collin County Ballet Theatre has also invited renowned regional choreographer Rob Davidson to create a new ballet especially for the youth ensemble titled "Tossing & Turning." Company artistic director, Kirt Hathaway, will choreograph a new vibrant classical ballet to close the performance.
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