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Help us spread the word to everyone you know to support the Alabama Dance Council and the Alabama Dance Festival on Alabama Gives Day on February 2! Wait until February 2 to make your donation so that we can count your gift in the total amount given in a 24-hour period for all Alabama nonprofits. Help us keep on dancing at the 2013 Alabama Dance Festival!
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February 10 Entry Deadline: the beat:Choreography Competition promotes the creation of new dance works and gives festival audiences the opportunity to fully experience the art of dance.Choreographers aged 18 and over may enter up to four original works from four categories: Ballet, Jazz, Modern, and Other.
Panoply awards the winner in each of the four categories $500 and the prize for Best Overall Choreography is $1,000.
the beat:Choreography Competition fee is $50 per entry and applications are available now.
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February 11: Auditions and placement for Grebel Center for Dance's Summer Dance Program from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm for ages 8 through 19. Summer Dance will offer 5 days per week of classes including ballet technique, repertory, jazz, modern, conditioning and Friday Specialty classes.
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February 11: With Valentine's Day around the corner, think outside the box of chocolates...Mesmerize your partner with a close embrace of staccato steps that is the mysterious and passionate Tango. Join us to enjoy a Tango dance lesson taught by FABIAN SANCHEZ, from the hit show "Dancing with the Stars." Decadent desserts and giveaways too! Children's Dance Foundation, Saturday, February 11th, 7-9:30pm. $75 couple; Attire: Comfy Cocktail. Event is limited to 30 couples. This event benefits Children's Dance Foundation.
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February 12: "Dessertissements" is the annual fundraiser by the Alabama Youth Ballet Guild for the Alabama Youth Ballet Company. The event features a silent auction, desserts and wine, entertainment by "Fiddlin' in the Parlor" and a performance by the Alabama Youth Ballet Company. The dancers will give a sneak-preview of their upcoming Spring Dance Concert pieces, including a new work by renowned teacher and choreographer Stevan Grebel. The Junior Company will perform jazz, lyrical and a new piece by Dmitri Roudnev. Advance tickets are $20 per couple or $12 per person and may be purchased from Alabama Youth Ballet Guild members and at Grebel Center for Dance.
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February 14: Our 2nd Tuesday Series is an informal Alabama Ballet performance and "studio chat" with Artistic Director Tracey Alvey. Free and open to the public, we invite you to join us for a glass of wine and a behind the scenes glimpse of our season productions. It's open to the public, and best of all - FREE! 6:00pm, Alabama Ballet Center for Dance, 2726 1st Avenue South.
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February 18-19: Taryn Packheiser will perform Stag Unassisted 3.0 on Saturday, February 18th at 7pm and Sunday, February 19th at 2pm at the Children's Dance Foundation in Homewood, Alabama. This solo show features dance, theater, performance art and digital video projection. Stag Unassisted is a "piece of pieces" exploring the essential nature of "going solo." Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door.
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February 24-26: Swan Lake, the beloved tale of love, betrayal and forgiveness, returns in February! Performed to Tchaikovsky's glorious score, Alabama Ballet’s Swan Lake features everything you love about classical ballet: timeless choreography, opulent costumes, precise corps de ballet work and stunning solos. Don’t miss one of the most beloved ballets of all time.
Friday, February 24, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, February 25, 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, February 26, 2:30 p.m.
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February 26-27: Dmitri Roudnev has taken the best concepts from his experiences as a student and soloist of the famed Bolshoi Ballet in Russia. Roudnev's training is different from any other you have ever experienced. At the Workshop dancers will receive intense and thorough lessons full of corrections and insight. Roudnev will teach you to build lovely epaulment and upper body posture. He will show you how to build strength in the low back and abdomen. This in turn will help you learn to develop high arabesque, front and side extensions and elongated, non bulky mucles.
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