[NEohioPAL] Performance: New Tales, Old Tales, Snow Tails This Weekend December 6 & 7

[Verlezza Dance]

*Verlezza Dance Concert*
*New Tales, Old Tales, Snow Tails*

*When*: Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 7:30pm  Sunday, December 7, 2008 at
2pm

*Where*: The Performing Arts Center Tri-C Eastern Campus 4250 Richmond Rd.
Highland Hills, OH 44122 For directions click
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*Tickets*: Adults: $18 Students & Seniors: $10 Call 216.314.0900 for
reservations and information


The concert will feature "new" choreographic ventures, "old" repertory
favorites and a concert form of excerpts from the company's wintertime
tradition *Snow Tails.*  The company holds the unique distinction of having
three members of one family contributing to its choreographic voice with the
fourth member as a performer. Additionally, the faculty will contribute
original "new" and "old" works for the students of the School of Verlezza
Dance

The concert will include:

*Songs for the Jaguar *(1988) is Sabatino Verlezza's visually rich
interpretation of Aztec and Mayan patterns and traditions set to the
exquisite score of Missa Criolla. Created for the original Verlezza Dance
company in New York, the piece returns to company repertory after 20 years
of being restaged for schools and universities in the USA.

Lunar Leap (2006) Barbara Allegra Verlezza's  "…most inventive…" abstract
work for seven dancers and physio-balls, which was cited as one of The Plain
Dealer's Terpsichorean Highlights of 2006, returns in  "sculptural and
kinetic motion…[which] never resorts to gimmickry." Donald Rosenberg, The
Plain Dealer. The dancers meld with their props to evoke images of earth,
moon, and stars. Originally created on students of Kent State University,
the work has been restaged for Verlezza Dance.

Broken Voices (2008) by Barbara Allegra Verlezza, performed by the thirteen
women of the Kent Dance Ensemble under the Artistic Direction of Kimberly
Karpanty, is an exploration of "the relentless inner dialogue" that plagues
one during times of heartbreak and sorrow.  The haunting text by Leonard
Cohen provides the musical backdrop for the work inspiring suggestions of
dark metaphors, the external investigation of individual suffering versus
collective grief, and the internal pursuit to quiet the "broken voices."

Moments in Balance (2008), choreographed by Sabatino A. Verlezza, an
offering from the critically acclaimed community event "In Concert with
Ludlow", searches for equilibrium and stillness in relationship to
community, self, and the intimacy of two people.

Snow Tails (2005) returns as a suite of excerpts from the original story
ballet created for the School of Verlezza Dance by Sabatino Verlezza and
Tracy Pattison.  New works will be included in the suite of student
offerings, representing the future dancers of Verlezza Dance. Much beloved
music, including "The Nutcracker" and other holiday time favorites, will be
appreciated.



-- 
Amara Romano
Administrative Assistant
Verlezza Dance/The School of Verlezza Dance
www.verlezzadance.org
c:216.314.0900
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