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Class Spotlight: Find Your Style

September 18, 2018 by Canyon Concert Ballet

Canyon Concert Ballet currently has a Find Your Style dance class, taught by Ms Alta.  Learn more about this fun dance class!

Class Description:  This class is divided into sections to explore all genres of dance and learn the basics each technique has to offer.  The genres included are Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Contemporary, Modern, Hip Hop, and Musical Theatre.  This is a great class for young children ages 5-7 that wish to explore all styles of dance.  Equivalent to Ballet 1 & Pre-Ballet 3.

What is your favorite part about this class?

Ms Alta:  Introducing new genres that kids may never have thought they would love.

Which song is your favorite to dance to in this class?

Ms Alta:  Go to songs that we dance to are any Disney classics and some more popular Disney songs from more recent movies like Moana and Zootopia.

How long have you been teaching dance?

Ms Alta:  I have been teaching dance for 2 and half years now.

Anything else you’d like people to know about this class?

Ms Alta:  This class is a great way to explore all types of dancing available. You can try it ALL!

Find Your Style happens Wednesdays at 4:30pm at the Conifer Studio with Ms Alta.  Register for Find Your Style class today!

Filed Under: Class Spotlight, School Tagged With: Ballet, Comtemporary, dance, Dance Class, Hip Hop, Jazz, Modern, music, Musical Theater, Tap

This Weekend! CCB’s Spring Show: Les Sylphides & Etudes

April 24, 2018 by Canyon Concert Ballet

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After months of hard work from the amazing village it takes to put on a performance, this weekend is Les Sylphides & Etudes!  This is a very unique show, and very different from our usual spring ballet.  

  • Les Sylphides is a Romantic Period masterpiece.  It is a one-act, plotless work populated by beautiful, ethereal, other-worldly female dancers.  This ballet also will feature guest artist Adrian Fry!
  • Etudes is our Artistic Director Alicia Laumann’s answer to “what should a 21st century ballerina look like?”.  With nine pieces choreographed to Chopin’s piano works (played live on a grand piano, onstage with the dancers, by Dr. Silvana Santinelli!), this act will feature guest artist Nick Blaylock. 
  • We also have our very own Matthew Harvey as a guest artist for a piece from Giselle to round out this stunning show!
This is a show you do not want to miss!
 
Tickets are on sale here or by calling the Lincoln Center box office at 970-221-6730
 
See you this weekend!

Filed Under: CCB News, Company, Productions, Spring Ballet Tagged With: Ballet, Choreography, company, contemporary dance, dance, Lincoln Center, music, performances, productions, spring, tickets

CCB Re-imagining the Ballerina

April 16, 2018 by Canyon Concert Ballet

In the wake of several important happenings, including the meteoric rise of Misty Copeland, the first African-American to become a principal dancer at American Ballet Theater and cultural movements such as #MeToo, dance historians, teachers, choreographers, and students are asking important questions concerning the future of this 400 year old art form: mainly, what should a 21st century ballerina look like?  Canyon Concert Ballet (CCB) is tackling this question head-on in their upcoming program, An Evening of Ballet and Chopin.  The questioning comes in the form of what this 38 year-old local ballet company does best – dance.

CCB’s spring production, at the Lincoln Center April 27th and 28th, opens with Michel Fokine’s 1908 masterpiece Les Sylphides, a one-act, plotless work choreographed in the quintessential Romantic era style akin to Giselle and populated by beautiful, ethereal other-worldly female dancers.  CCB’s second act is a presentation of the world premiere of CCB’s Artistic Director, Alicia Laumann’s new work, Études.  Using Les Sylphides as a foil, Laumann attempts to create a ballet blanc (a white ballet typical of the Romantic era) appropriate for this generation of female dancers.

With nine selections from Romantic era giant Frédéric Chopin, Études “riffs” off of the standard corps de ballet ideas of symmetry, synchronicity, and ethereality, purposely looking for opportunities to disrupt these established conventions of the ballet blanc.  Laumann asks: “What does a corp de ballet look like where the dancers are uniquely themselves and are given some agency to be human on stage: to see one another, to talk, to share, to laugh…and to dance together?”

Not wishing to completely eschew the beauty and the ability of the traditional ballet blanc to transport viewers from our sometimes arduous realties to these imaginary places, Laumann harkens back to these ballets with choreographic nods to classics such as Swan Lake and La Bayadére, while allowing the dancers’ unique movement styles to shine through rather than being subjugated to the whole.  Using 23 dancers who vary in age, gender, height, and personality, Études hopes to celebrate the wonderful diversity of humans through dance.

Alicia Laumann says, “Les Sylphides is a gem, a ‘nugget’ of classical ballet perfection.  Fokine’s delicate gestures, sublime musicality and effortless virtuosity – all accompanied to Chopin’s most beloved pieces – make it a work that will and should be performed into perpetuity.   It is its perfection that allows choreographers of today, like myself, to ask ‘What is our legacy?  How do we want ballerinas of today to be remembered?’  Études is a beginning for me of using my choreography to ask these important questions – for my daughter and for my dancers.”

Don’t miss An Evening of Ballet and Chopin: Les Sylphides & Etudes!

Performance will be held at the Lincoln Center (417 W Magnolia St, Fort Collins, CO 80521) on the following dates:

Friday, April 27 at 7pm and Saturday, April 28 at 2pm and 7pm

Tickets Available on the Lincoln Center’s website or by calling their box office at  970-223-

Filed Under: CCB News, Company, Spring Ballet Tagged With: Ballet, behind the scenes, Choreography, company, contemporary dance, dance, Lincoln Center, music, performances, productions, spring, tickets

CCB at Musical Zoo

January 30, 2018 by Canyon Concert Ballet

Musical Zoo is a children’s event put on by Friends of the Fort Collins Symphony, featuring a variety of musical entertainment and short performances.  Musical Zoo also includes a ballet performance by Canyon Concert Ballet!  There will be a  “Petting Zoo” where children can hold and play various instruments, and Canyon Concert Ballet will also be part of the petting zoo with dance shoes and tutus.  The grand finale, Mother Goose Tales, will be performed by the Fort Collins Symphony, directed by Maestro Wes Kenney, and accompanied by theatrical narration and dance by the Canyon Concert Ballet Youth Ensemble and other select CCB dancers.

Tickets may be purchased at the East and West main lobbies of the Timberline Church venue beginning at 1:30 on the day of the performance.  Advance tickets may be purchased at Boomer’s Music, the Clothes Pony, and Learning Express stores in Fort Collins.  The price per ticket is $2.00 for both children and adults.  You can find more details on the Fort Collins Symphony website here.

Join us for an afternoon of incredible fun!  A musical adventure for all, with activities designed especially for children 3 to 12 years.  We hope to see you there!

Sunday, February 11, 2018
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Timberline Church
2908 Timberline Road
Fort Collins, CO 80525

Filed Under: CCB News, Events Tagged With: Ballet, dance, music, orchestra, performances, symphony, Youth Ensemble

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