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size=3 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial;font-weight:bold'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June
26, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>SUMMER INTENSIVE
WORKSHOP BEGINS JULY 6 AT TURNING POINTE<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Challenging
classes for serious dancers ages 9 and older will be offered during a five-week
summer intensive workshop <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>July 6 through Aug.
8 at The <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Turning</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Pointe</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of Dance, <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">2387 Locust St. S.</st1:address></st1:Street>, Canal <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Fulton</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Ohio</st1:State></st1:place>.
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face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Advanced
beginner level classes will be July 6-25 and Intermediate I, II and Advanced
will be July 6 through Aug. 8. Classes include ballet, tap, jazz, musical
theatre and more.</span></font><font size=3><span lang=EN style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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.5in'><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Students in the summer intensive will be taught by Ohio
Youth Ballet artistic director <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Natalya
Vyashenko-Connor</span></b>, who is a former company member of the Alisher
Navoi State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Opera and Ballet in the capital of <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Uzbekistan</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
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.5in'><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Visiting instructors include <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Valery Lantratov</span></b>, who has toured internationally with Rudolf
Nureyev and is artistic director of the Russian National Ballet Foundation in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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.5in'><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Also, former Ohio Youth ballet member and Turning Pointe
School of Dance student <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Kaleb Baker </span></b>returns
as a guest teacher. Baker has performed with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and
joins the Quad City Ballet Company in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Rock
Island</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Ill.</st1:State></st1:place> this
fall as a company member. He also trained with San Francisco Ballet, Harid
Conservatory, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Universal</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Ballet</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Academy</st1:PlaceType>
and Central Pro Danza in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region></st1:place>
and has numerous dance awards.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>A placement class will be the first day of the workshop. All
details and a complete schedule are available at <a
href="http://www.turningpointeschoolofdance.net/">www.turningpointeschoolofdance.net</a>.
Call 330-854-1417. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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