Students from Princeton Ballet School’s Summer Intensive are set to dance in the program’s culminating performance July 25.
The show, entitled An Evening of Dance, is scheduled to take place 6:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre Center’s Berlind Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton.
Now in its 32nd year, Princeton Ballet School’s Summer Intensive program attracts top dance students from around the world.
This year, more than 100 students came from across the United States, including California, Ohio, Virginia, Georgia, Indiana, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Utah. International students are from Hong Kong, Mexico, Japan, Switzerland and Italy.
An Evening of Dance showcases pieces that students have been rehearsing for the past three weeks, alongside their rigorous training schedules.
Performance will include a variety of pieces, ranging from re-staged excerpts from classical ballets to new works by Princeton Ballet School faculty members. Maria Youskevitch is set to re-stage the “Vision Scene” from the classical ballet Don Quixote, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa. American Repertory Ballet resident choreographer Mary Barton is set to revive a work she created for the 2012 performance of An Evening of Dance, entitled Once Upon a Summer’s Day, with music by Dmitri Shostakovich.
The new works to be performed this summer include another piece by Barton, entitled Songs, Not Sung, set to Felix Mendelssohn’s “Songs without Words.” Also premiering at the show are new works by Princeton Ballet School teachers Erika Mero and Janell Byrne.
Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door.
More information is online at americanrepertoryballet.org.
Princeton Ballet School students practice choreography for an upcoming performance. (Photo by Leighton Chen).,
