D.C.’s CityDance Ensemble Performs Jungle Books in Baltimore on Saturday, April 25

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Program features original choreography, score and costumes

Washington, D.C.’s CityDance Ensemble will bring to life the classic characters Mowgli, Baloo, Shere Khan and more in Jungle Books on Saturday, April 25 at 11:00 a.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Recently awarded the D.C. Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline, CityDance presents this colorful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s timeless tales featuring dancers dressed as Jungle Book characters leaping, prancing and pouncing their way across the stage.
Photo by: Paul Gordon Emerson

This hour-long adaptation features original choreography by CityDance’s Artistic Director Paul Gordon Emerson, Rehearsal Director Christopher K. Morgan, former company member Kyra Jean Green, Washington Ballet dancer Jason Hartley, Culture Shock DC Artistic Director Joseph Nontanovan and BosmaDance Artistic Director Meisha Bosma. The score’s composers—Matthew Jones, Clifton Brockington and Saleem Wayne Waters—will perform live on drums, wind synthesizer and keyboard. New sets and drops will transform the stage into an Indian jungle and original costumes and masks will mold the dancers into Kipling’s characters.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Family Fun Zone will open at 10:00 a.m. in the Meyerhoff lobby. Children and their families can take advantage of numerous free, age-appropriate pre-concert activities, including the Maryland Zoo’s ZOOmobile, an instrument petting zoo and face painting.

CityDance Ensemble
CityDance Ensemble is a professional contemporary dance company based in Washington, D.C. Promising its signature power, passion, and purpose at every turn, the company performs athletic, challenging repertory by choreographers from the United States and around the world. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Paul Gordon Emerson, Executive Director Alexe Nowakowski, and Rehearsal Director & Choreographer-in-Residence Christopher K. Morgan, CityDance Ensemble blends strong technique and physicality with a dynamic mix of energy, emotion and humor to deliver performances full of integrity, expression, and life.

Since its inception in 1996, CityDance has grown from a group of part-time dancers to a professional company of nine full-time, salaried professional dancers who hail from the Juilliard School, New York City Ballet and other world-class schools and companies, earning a reputation as "Washington's preeminent modern dance company” (The Washington Times). The company has been named as a “Top 25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine (2003) and has won the DC Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist (2003) and Innovation in the Arts (2005).

CityDance Ensemble is an artistic partner at the Harman Center for the Arts, performing an annual season at the Harman Center in downtown Washington, D.C. The company is also a founding resident partner at the Music Center at Strathmore. Additionally, CityDance has an annual season at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The company tours both nationally and internationally, bringing its “breathlessly innovative” (Dancer Magazine) performances to audiences around the world.

COMPLETE PROGRAM INFORMATION
Classically Kids: Jungle Books
Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. —Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Lobby opens at 10:00 a.m. for Family Fun Zone.

Tickets for this program range from $11 to $20 and are available through the BSO Ticket Office, 410.783.8000, 877.BSO.1444 or BSOmusic.org.

Comments

Anonymous said…
It's in Baltimore, not Boston (see headline), I believe!
April 15, 2009 at 7:42 AM
Chip Michael said…
thanks for that... sorry for the confustion
April 15, 2009 at 8:53 AM
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