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<div align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face=Georgia>Duffy Liturgical Dance Ensemble Celebrates 25 Years in the Community<br>
</FONT></SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><FONT face=Georgia size=3>Anniversary concert to feature live music, dance and <br>
national guest artists</FONT></I></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"></SPAN></B></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio (October 9, 2009) -- </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">On Sunday, November 8, the Duffy Liturgical Dance Ensemble (DuffyLit) celebrates 25 years with <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Wading in Muddy Waters: Swimming Up Clear Streams</I>, a performance of live music and dance at PlayhouseSquare’s Ohio Theatre at 1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. The performance begins at 6pm.</SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Wading in Muddy Waters: Swimming Up Clear Stream</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">s is a compilation of pieces from the past 25 years of the Duffy Liturgical Danc
e Ense mble that traces the evolution of the Negro spiritual through modern arrangements of spirituals, jazz, Motown, and down-home blues.</SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">“The audience will experience a music and dance performance which captures the essence of African American music, as evidenced in the universal message of the spiritual and the musical forms for which it serves as the foundation,” </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">says Edna Duffy, founder and artistic director of DuffyLit. “The spiritual is a national treasure, and it teaches us optimism, hope, faith and endurance.”</SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face=Georgia>In addition to original dance pieces on Sunday, November 8, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Wading in Muddy Waters: Swimmin g Up Clear Stream</I>s will feature the Cleveland premiere of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Changed My Name</I>, a cantata written by Linda Twine, music director of Broadway’s <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Color Purple.</I> The cantata will feature Grammy Award-nominee soprano Cynthia Wilson and the North Carolina20Central=2 0University Choir.</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face=Georgia>Other guest performers include Jason Warley, New York City dancer and choreographer, conductor Rollo Dilworth of Chicago, and the Oikos Ensemble, a world music/jazz band.</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face=Georgia>Tickets for <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Wading in Muddy Waters: Swimming Up Clear Stream</I>s cost $35 for adults and $25 for students and seniors, with a group adult rate (20 or more) of $25. Tickets may be purchased from the PlayhouseSquare box office at </FONT></SPAN></div>
<div class=Ms><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face=Georgia>(216) 241-6000 or <A href="http://www.playhousesquare.org/" target=_blank>www.playhousesquare.org</A>.</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Georgia>About Duffy Liturgical Dance Ensemble</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FO NT-SIZE: 10pt"><br>
<FONT face=Georgia>The Duffy Liturgical Dance Ensemble (DuffyLit) engages the mind, disciplines the body, and develops the talents of people of all ages. A dance and music ensemble, DuffyLit improves the quality of life through performance of the spiritual and its universal messages of hope, faith, optimism and perseverance. <A href="http://www.duffylit.org/" target=_blank>www.duffylit.org</A>.</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Georgia>About Edna Duffy</FONT></SPAN></B></div>
<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Georgia>Edna Duffy has performed at major venues throughout the United States, Europe, West Africa and Australia. Her musical and dance performances are inspired by the music and lyrics of the American Negro spiritual. In addi tion to teaching dance and vocal music at DuffyLit studios, Ms. Duffy serves as the director of liturgical dance at First United Methodist Church in Cleveland.</FONT></SPAN></div>
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