lady bird only slightly slower

Saturday, 24 April: 2:00 p.m.: North Central Branch Library

Sat, 1 May: 11:00 a.m.: Batesville Middle School Commons 

Sat, 1 May:  3:00 p.m.  Heritage Hall, Historic Downtown, Main Street, Rising Sun, IN

Saturday, 8 May:  2:00 p.m.:  Harrison Branch Library 

Saturday, 15 May:  7:00 p.m.:  AvO Spring Concert: College of Mt. St. Joseph Auditorium

Saturday, 22 MayB:  11:00 a.m.:  Historic Hoosier Theater, Vevay, IN 

Saturday, 5 June:  2:00 p.m.:  Groesbeck Branch Library

Saturday, 26 June:  1:00 p.m.:  West Fest

All company members need to sign up for a costume fitting on Saturday, April 17th.  Unless you are already assigned a time, please write me with your first choice of times, and I will assign on a first come basis.  If you are assigned a time I still need to hear from you that you WILL be there!

laura@avoballet.org

I don’t want anyone to miss their workshop, so if it does not work out I will stay until everyone is properly fitted.  If  you are not participating in the partnering workshop, please choose a time between 2:30 and 3:15.  For those assigned in the larger group fittings, it is very important that you do not leave until directly and personally dismissed by Laura H.  Everyone needs to be checked for multiple costumes and we want everyone to look their best and be able to dance unencumbered.  (Don’t go sneaking out the back door!)   

Saturday, April 17th Costume Fitting Times: 
1:00: Alexandria, Felicity, Jessica Dresmann, Ashley Bowne, Jenna Nobbe, and Alison
1:15: Breanna H, Angelique, Jena, Brianna B.
1:30, 1:45, 2:00. 2:15, 2:30, 2:45, 3:00, 3:15, 3:30, 3:45, 4:00

Don’t forget that the dress rehearsal is set for Friday, April 23rd at 7:30 p.m.

Recital Mouse Waltz

batesville recital music draft

See you at the performances!

A spring-cleaning mouse encounters neighbors with spring fever while a cheeky squirrel goes a little nutty.  Unseemly seamstresses and “seamsters” put down their needles to celebrate while two of their cousins take the welcome wagon a bit too far! Joining in is the entire Bunny clan following mischief with mayham! All will have you dancing along in this magical tribute to one of the world’s most beloved children’s authors, Beatrix Potter!

Cincinnati Kinderballet continues the year long tribute that began with the Tailor of Gloucester in December 2009 with five more stories guaranteed to delight and divert children and adults of all ages.  With music from composers Zbigniew Preisner, Ludwig Minkus, and John Lanchbery that is at once touching and light hearted.  Choreography by Conni Berns, Laura Baresel, and Celia Wallen includes choreography inspired by Marius Petipa, Frederick Ashton, and Jules Perrot.  Special thanks to The Caswell Foundation for their ongoing support!  

For more information about AvO Ballet please contact us at 513 481-0092 or on line at www.avoballet.org.    

Saturday, 24 April: 2:00 p.m.  North Central Branch Library 11109 Hamilton Ave. Cincinnati, OH                     

Sat, 1 May: 11:00 a.m.  Batesville Middle School Commons  201 North Mulberry Street, Batesville, IN  Sponsored by the Batesville Memorial Library   

Sat, 1 May:  3:00 p.m.  Heritage Hall, Historic Downtown  Main Street, Rising Sun, IN  Sponsored by:  Rising Sun Tourism

Saturday, 8 May:  2:00 p.m.  Harrison Branch Library   10398 New Haven Road, Harrison, OH

Saturday, 15 May:  7:00 p.m.  AvO Spring Recital  College of Mt. St. Joseph Auditorium

Saturday, 22 May:  11:00 a.m.   Historic Hoosier Theater  209 Ferry Street, Vevay, IN  tickets @ 800 435-5688

Saturday, 5 June:  2:00 p.m.  Groesbeck Branch Library  2994 West Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, OH

Saturday, 26 June:  1:00 p.m.  West Fest  Downtown Cheviot, Ohio

Our costumes must:

1. Be simple.  We do not allow too much “bling.”  The dancers must be seen enhanced by the costume.  We do not want the costume to upstage the dancer.  The result is usually qualified by “old fashioned” standards of modesty and beauty– nothing “flashy” or “shocking.”
2.  Be practical.  We try to build our designs on costume basics that can be re-used and interchanged.  We try to allow for leotards that can be re-used for exercise or emergency ballet class back-ups,  tutus that can be seen again in company productions or school talent shows, headpieces and accessories that can withstand dress-up play or costume make-overs.  We also try to invent costumes that minimize backstage hastles by serving as more than one costume for those in more than one dance.  (This is not always possible, but we try our best!) 
3. Be economical.   This is really dificult in a world where $2000.00 proessional tutus are common.  Finding any decent costume under $100.00 can be an uphill battle.  Most dance organizations will find a $75.00 costume and triple the price to help pay expenses through the summer months.  We hunt out a $40.00 basic, dress it up to look like the $75.00 wholesale priced costume and pass the savings to our families.  We also take advantage of kinderballet supplies to “loan out” costume acessories whenever possible.  We have even been known to design costumes around what our dancers already have in their closets, allowing items to be re-used.  We consider it part of what it means to “be creative!”
4. Have historical significance.  Every year our performances embody a larger theme focusing on an historical ballet epoch such as “classical, “modern”, “national dance,” or “baroque.”  This year our theme is centered around the Romantic era.  Historically placed from 1815 to 1910, Beatrix Potter actually wrote her stories within this time, publishing her “Tailor of Gloucester” in 1903.   Ludwig Minkus (ballet muisc composer), Marius Petipa (choreographer), and Jules Perrot (choreographer & ballet master) were all contemporaries in the mid to late nineteenth century.  John Lanchbery reorchestrated much of Minkus’s music to create the Tales of Beatrix Potter Ballet for the Royal Ballet film in 1970.  All of this suggests homage to the “romantic era of ballet.”  

 Basics for this year’s costumes:

Even though our themes are characters from Beatrix Potter: mice, rabbits, frogs, squirrels, and the like, costuming will be very “ballerina-like” as if the mice and squirrels are classical ballerinas.  The theme of the Jeremy Fisher “frogs” will take more inspiration from the flowers and lily pads than any “bug-eyed amphibian.” Costumes will be decorated with pretty sashes and flowers with less emphasis on mouse ears and tails which will be added in good proportion.

Pre-ballet

Pre-ballet themes & characters:

• Mice
• Ladybugs
• Butterflies
• Bunnies

Beginner & Advanced Beginner

• Beginner & Advanced Beginner Themes & Characters
• Kittens
• Frogs (lily pads and pond flowers)
• Mice
• Squirrels

Adults, Intermediate, Teens, & Advanced Levels

Themes & Characters

• Ducks & Foxes
• Romantic Era Ballerinas

Music includes composers Zbigniew Preisner, Ludwig Minkus, and John Lanchbery.  Choreography by Conni Berns, Laura Baresel, and Celia Wallen includes choreography inspired by Marius Petipa, Frederick Ashton, and Jules Perrot.  Special thanks to The Caswell Foundation for their ongoing support! 

Saturday, 24 April: 2:00 p.m.  North Branch Library, Mt. Healthy                           

Saturday, 1 May: 11:00 a.m.  Sponsored by Batesville Memorial Public Library; performing at Batesville Middle School           

Saturday, 1 May:  3:00 p.m.  Heritage Hall, Historic Downtown, Rising Sun        

Saturday, 8 May:  2:00 p.m.  Harrison Branch Library                                                        

Saturday, 15 May:  7:00 p.m.  AvO Spring Recital, College of Mt. St. Joseph Auditorium

Saturday, 22 May:  11:00 a.m.  Hoosier Theatre, Vevay                                              

Saturday, 5 June:  2:00 p.m.  Groesbeck Branch Library                                                     

Saturday, 26 June:  1:00 p.m.  West Fest

When   

Where

Who

Cost

Tickets

What to do

Each student who wishes to participate must fill out a Recital Registration Card.

Non-refundable $55 Production fee must be submitted with Recital Registration Card. In order to allow time for costume ordering, all Recital Registration Cards must be turned in by Friday, March 19th.

Questions: Call Michele Frey at 481-0092 or home 353-1433.

Download complete info here 2010 Spring Recital Info