<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";">For Immediate Release<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoHeader" style=""><span style="font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";">Contacts:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -2in;"><span style="font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";">At Verb Ballets: <span style=""> </span>For the Media:<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57
Cn","sans-serif";">Margaret Carlson <span style=""> </span>Dan Kilbane<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -2in;"><span style="font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";">216.397.3757, ext. 3<span style=""> </span>216.513.3654<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -2in;"><span style="font-family: "Frutiger LT
Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";"><span style=""> </span>www.verbballets.org<o:p></o:p></span></div> <h3><span style="font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";"><a href="mailto:mcarlson@verbballets.org">mcarlson@verbballets.org</a><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><a href="mailto:kilbanedan@yahoo.com">kilbanedan@yahoo.com</a> <span style="">
</span><i><u><o:p></o:p></u></i></span></h3> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";">Go Downtown with Verb Ballets to Playhouse Square<o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";"><span style=""> </span>January 26, 2008</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57
Cn","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";">November 13, 2007 -- Cleveland, OH -- Verb Ballets, Cleveland’s National Repertory Dance Company, presents an evening of dances at Playhouse Square’s Ohio Theater on Saturday, January 26, 2008, at 8:00 p.m.<span style=""> </span>Ticket information and the evening’s program will be announced soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 12pt 0in 6pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span class="normtext1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";">Major sponsors of Verb Ballets include AHS Foundation; The Bascom Little Fund; Millie L. Carlson; Cleveland Arts and Culture, RSIS: a NASA Glenn Contractor; The Cleveland Foundation; The George Gund Foundation; Kulas Foundation; The Laub
Foundation; The McGregor Foundation; John P. Murphy Foundation; The National Endowment for the Arts;</span></span><span class="normtext1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif"; color: red;"> </span></span><span class="normtext1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";">and The Ohio Arts Council. Additional individual sponsors include Charles and Sandy Abookire, Chuck and Ann Ennis, Norma and Jeffrey Glazer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 12pt 0in 6pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><span class="normtext1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";">DANSKIN is the official 2006-2007 sponsor of Verb Ballets.<span style=""> </span>Additional Verb sponsors include Baumgarten & Company, LLP; Cedar Hill Communications; Hotcards.com; PrimeZone Media;
WCLV 104.9 FM; and WVIZ/WCPN Ideastream. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Frutiger LT Std 57 Cn","sans-serif";">Verb Ballets is now in its sixth season under the leadership of Artistic Director Hernando Cortez, Executive Director Dr. Margaret Carlson, an energetic staff and its dedicated Board of Trustees, who have established Verb as Cleveland’s premiere dance repertory company. Verb Ballets was named one of “25 to Watch in 2004” by <i>Dance Magazine</i>, the country’s leading news magazine covering dance. Verb Ballets discovers, collects, interprets and stages choreography that matters to the region and to the world of dance. As a curator of expressive movement that is globally connected and nationally respected, Verb Ballets has a mandate to support and foster emerging talent, present excellence in contemporary choreographers and revive and honor modern dance
classics<span style="color: black;">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <BR><BR>Dan Kilbane<br>216.513.3654<br>kilbanedan@yahoo.com