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Huntsville Ballet Company in
Panoply Choreography Competition
On Friday, April 26th Huntsville Ballet Company will participate in the Panoply Choreography Competition. Huntsville Ballet Company will perform six pieces in the competition including: Circle of Life and Flock by Stephanie Braly-Beutjer; Configurations by David Anderson; Double Take by Vicki Butler; and Mood Swing by Paul Appleman. Also, Vicki Butler, Stephanie Braly-Beutjer and Cathy Curry will be dancing a piece choreographed by Kathleen Dyer from New York called Whistwaddle Ladies. Honorable Mention performance will be at 7:30 on Friday at the VBC Concert Hall and is free. The finals for the competition will be held in the VBC Concert Hall on Saturday, April 27th at 6:30 p.m.
Huntsville Ballet Company and Community Ballet School will also be performing several pieces throughout the Panoply weekend. Images of Swing by Stephanie Braly-Beutjer will be performed on the BellSouth Stage, Friday April 26th at 6:00 p.m. Whistwaddle Ladies by Kathleen Dyer will be Saturday, April 27th at 10:15 a.m. on the Valley Jubilee Stage. The Community Ballet School Performance is Sunday, April 28th from 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. on the Valley Jubilee Stage. This performance will feature HBC in David Anderson’s neo-classical ballet Configurations with music by Tomaso Albinoni and Flock by Stephanie Braly-Beutjer where many not one create the flock. This performance will also feature soloists Tracy Wilson as “Waltz” and Lucy Hamilton as “Mazurka” from the classical “white” ballet Les Sylphides with music by Chopin.
Huntsville Ballet Company will also perform Loyd Tygett’s Shindig on the Valley Jubilee Stage from 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. Sunday. April 28th. Shindig is Loyd Tygett’s most famous ballet and has received international praise for its American flavor of the old west and it’s rousing finale. This is an amused but affectionate look at American character, ideas and attitudes presented in the form of a parody on the Westerns. It has dance hall girls, a diva (Niki Hunkapillar), a gambler (Brent Beabout), a sweet young thing (Marie Finnegan), her mother (Dyana Beabout), a cowboy (Brad Howard) and his friends, an old timer (Jeremy Myrick) and the bartender (Ron Cleghorn). The music is by Don Gillis.
For additional information about Huntsville Ballet Company and Community Ballet School’s performances at Panoply, please call 539-0961. Please come and support dance and our dancers.
