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Company C Contemporary Ballet Offers Educational Outreach Program to Oakland
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is sponsoring a free residency for low and moderate income dance students in Oakland in May. The residency, conducted by Company C Contemporary Ballet, will feature two master classes and choreography workshops for advanced pre-professional students followed by a studio performance by Company C Contemporary Ballet at the end of the residency week. The residency will be held at the Oakland School of the Arts in downtown Oakland. The free performance will be open to workshop attendees and their families and the students and staff of the Oakland School of the Arts.
The master class and workshop, taught by Company C Contemporary Ballet’s Artistic Director, Charles Anderson, is open to all advanced, pre-professional students and will feature choreography from the Company’s 2009 repertoire. The class and workshop will take place on Monday, May 18 and Wednesday, May 20 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Repertoire in the workshop may include works by Twyla Tharp, San Francisco Ballet’s Val Caniparoli, Gregory Dawson of Lines Ballet, Nikolai Kabaniaev (former co-Artistic Director of Diablo Ballet), David Grenke professor of Dance at University of California, Davis and Charles Anderson.
“I’m really excited about this residency,” said Artistic Director Charles Anderson. “The only way to teach dance is by doing it. Most young dance students never get the chance to do what we are offering here: the opportunity to feel choreography on their own bodies and then see it performed by a professional company. We’ve run similar choreography workshops in Walnut Creek for the past two years and the students have really had fun with it. I’m excited to be bringing this opportunity to students in Oakland and hope that we can make this program part of our annual educational outreach. ”
About Company C Contemporary Ballet
Company C Contemporary Ballet, founded in 2002, is a fourteen-member repertory ballet company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The ensemble is comprised of professional dancers of diverse backgrounds and exemplary technical accomplishment. The Company has experienced ongoing growth and success as it brings to the stage works by nationally recognized choreographers whose works are shaping current trends in contemporary ballet. For more information, please visit www.companycballet.org.
About Charles Anderson
Charles Anderson danced with the New York City Ballet from 1985-93 and founded Company C Contemporary Ballet in 2002. A longtime member of the faculty of Contra Costa Ballet, Anderson has been a guest teacher for Smuin Ballet, Matthew Bourne, Oakland Ballet, Twyla Tharp Dance, Hubbard Street Dance, the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Henny Jurriëns Foundation in Amsterdam.
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