Friday, March 5, 2010

Boston Ballet Workshop & Coppelia Performance on Saturday, April 17

OPTIONAL EVENTS -- a bit pricey, but interesting enough that I wanted to send out a group e-mail.

Girl Scout Council of Eastern Mass Council is holding a special workshop for Brownie Scouts with the Boston Ballet during School Vacation week on Saturday, April 17 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. at a cost of $11 per Brownie and $11 per adult. Program description below.

Those who register for the program are eligible to attend a performance of the Ballet Coppelia at 2 p.m. that Saturday at 50% off ticket prices.
Floor tickets would be $48 (from $96) OR $33 (from $66) per person.


The Junior program for this event on Saturday, April 10 has SOLD OUT.

As of today, the Brownie morning workshop program is more than half full - so if interested please let me know ASAP, so we make arrangements to register your daughter for the workshop.

BOSTON BALLET MORNING WORKSHOP: Boston Ballet School will present a lively, interactive overview of the dance world and the history of dance, training, choreography and equipment. Each workshop will feature a behind-the-scenes look at Boston Ballet productions, including real costumes and footwear from the costume shop, and photos and videos to bring ballet to life. Lecturers will intersperse factual information with entertaining anecdotes from their own performing careers. The girls will learn a few steps to music so they can experience the fun of dancing together.

ABOUT COPPELIA BALLET: The light-hearted comedy of George Balanchine’s Coppélia, a Boston Ballet premiere, begins the spring season. Based upon the book by Charles Nuitter, after “Der Sandmann” by E.T.A. Hoffman, this sentimental tale revolves around the life-size dancing doll created by Doctor Coppélius who becomes the source of love troubles for a village swain. The ballet, first choreographed by Arthur St. Léon, was restaged by Marius Petipa and again by Lev Ivanov and Enrico Cecchetti. Balanchine maintained elements from these versions in Acts I and II, creating entirely new choreography for Act III. With this premiere, Boston Ballet joins Geneva Ballet and New York City Ballet, as one of only three companies in the world that have performed this work. Léo Delibes score, called by The New York Times, “a classic of melody, orchestration, rhythm, and storytelling,” is at once lively and accessible. With more than 20 children from Boston Ballet School, Coppélia remains a jubilant and melodic triumph.

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