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AUGUST 2006 eNEWS
Performing Arts Classrooms & planet Ordway® Target® Season Announced
2007 Flint Hills International Children's Festival Program Announced
Special Student Matinee tickets for only $6 a seat!
School Performances On Sale Friday, September 1st
ARTwalk Poster Contest Call for Entries
Mosaic Bench Wins Ribbon at State Fair
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| Performing Arts Classrooms & planet Ordway® Target® Season Announced |
Travel the globe in your own backyard with this year's planet Ordway ® Target ® Season and Performing Arts Classrooms (school shows). Our public performances have been announced and tickets are already on sale. If you haven't been to a World Party at Ordway Center , this is your chance! Information on purchasing tickets to school performances is listed below.
THIS SEASON'S WORLD-CLASS ARTISTS
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Rob Curto's Forró for All Celebrated as the musical heartbeat of Northeastern Brazil, forró music blends the sounds of the accordion, mandolin, triangle, and zabumba with driving rhythms and intricate melodies. A potent blend of African and European musical traditions, forró remains a decidedly unpretentious source of entertainment and expression. |
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Illstyle & Peace This multi-cultural dance troupe takes traditional forms of hip-hop movement into the twenty-first century with its fusion of astounding acrobatic prowess and urban flavor. |
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VocalEssence: WITNESS In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, igniting the non-violent Civil Rights Movement that continues to inspire people around the world. Continuing their commitment to contemporary composers, WITNESS commemorates Parks' extraordinary strength in Hannibal Lokumbe's Dear Mrs. Parks. |
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The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats A stunning display of acrobatics, martial arts, contortion and balance, The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats incorporate culture and tradition into a riveting and enchanting artistic event. |
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WAI The music of WAI is a startlingly original combination of ancient and modern, with its roots in Maoritanga (Maori culture) of New Zealand and its finger on the pulse of cutting-edge technology. WAI combines traditional Maori song forms with the contemporary styles of hip-hop, reggae, funk, and R&B. |
Go to ordway.org/education/performances/pac.asp for more information and to purchase tickets.
| 2007 Flint Hills International Children's Festival Program Announced |
If you loved last year's Flint Hills International Children's Festival, just wait until May! This year's line-up includes DO JUMP! "And then...", Axis Theater- The Number 14, and Grupo 55- Noisy Stories (historias con ruidito), plus even more performances we can't wait to tell you about!
A full listing of school performances and workshops is on our website at ordway.org/education/festival
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| DO JUMP!'s amazing performance is based on the paintings of Marc Chagall |
Axis Theater keeps rolling along on Vancouver 's Number 14 bus |
Grupo 55 presents seven incredible adventures using mime and physical comedy |
| Special Student Matinee tickets for only $6 a seat! |
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This year's Special Student Matinee, Night of the Living Dolls , is packed with the fanciful fun that Ballet of the Dolls fans have grown to love. Presented in Ordway Center 's McKnight Theatre, the production blends the aesthetic of ballet, jazz, mime, and theater in an original new work that tells the tale of mysterious doll-maker Herr Speilzeug and old widow Frau Hexe. Two 90-minute performances, programmed exclusively for school audiences, will be presented on October 25 th and November 1st . Call Ordway Center 's Teacher hotline at 651-282-3115 to order tickets to this once-in-a-lifetime event! Learn more at ordway.org/education/performances/studentmatinees.asp |
| School Performances On Sale Friday, September 1st |
Tickets for Performing Arts Classrooms and the 2007 Flint Hills International Children's Festival go on sale Friday, September 1st. Come to our Ticket Sale Party in Ordway Center's box office lobby at 7:30 am for your first chance to purchase tickets. For more information go to ordway.org/education/performances/pac.asp |
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| ARTwalk Poster Contest Call for Entries |
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Ordway Circle of Stars is excited to sponsor the ARTwalk Poster Contest, part of the 2007 Flint Hills International Children's Festival. This year's theme is "My Art Speaks from the Heart." 14 images will be selected, one from a student in each grade, PreK-12. Winning artists are invited to a reception on May 18th, receive $50, and their artwork is printed on a poster distributed throughout the state. Click here for the call for entries and submission form. This year's contest submission deadline is January 15th, 2007. |
| Mosaic Bench Wins Ribbon at State Fair |
As part of the K-12 Public Art Project at Ordway Center, ‘Pieces of Peace' was created by Leigh Hansen's Montessori students at Crossroads Elementary under the guidance of Crossroads Art Specialist Marni Oberpriller and artists-in-residence Lori Greene & Maria Ricke of Mosaic on a Stick. The bench was featured in the 2006 Flint Hills International Children's Festival. Now, thousands of State Fair visitors can admire the students work, too-The Minnesota State Fair awarded the piece first place for the 5th grade visual art competition. Congratulations! |
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Education at Ordway Center is sponsored by 3M. Additional major funding is provided by Ordway Circle of Stars, The Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation, General Mills Foundation, hundreds of individuals, foundations, corporate contributors, and by the patronage of thousands of theatre attendees.
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