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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NEWS RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CONTACT:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Kathleen Caffrey, 216.521.2540 x22 or
<a href="mailto:kcaffrey@beckcenter.org">kcaffrey@beckcenter.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> March 23, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Classic Fairy Tale<i> Sleeping Beauty</i> Comes to Life at Beck Center<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Beck Dance Education Presents Encore Production of Tchaikovsky Ballet<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Lakewood, OH—</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center’s Dance Workshop and Dance Education program
proudly present an encore production of a condensed version of Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet
<i>Sleeping Beauty </i><b>April 27 through 29 </b>in the Recital Hall of the Music-Armory Building at the Beck Center for the Arts. Show times are 7 p.m. Friday, 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, and 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are on sale now.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This romantic fairy tale tells the story of the beautiful princess Aurora who is cursed at birth by the wicked fairy Carabosse to slumber for 100
years, beginning when she turns 16. Only true love and the kiss of a handsome prince can wake her. The ballet concludes with a wedding celebration visited by fairy tale characters. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck’s production, specially choreographed for children, includes a cast of 65 students including 12 male dancers. Princess Aurora will be danced
by <b>Julia Horner</b>, age 17. <b>Taylor Gerrasch</b>, age 17, will dance the role of the wicked fairy Carabosse and
<b>Abby Schneider</b>, age 16, is featured as the Lilac Fairy. The two male lead dancers</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
<b>Toryan Abner</b> and <b>Phillip Williams</b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> appear courtesy of the Cleveland School of the Arts. With original choreography by
<b>Marius Petipa</b>, Beck’s <i>Sleeping Beauty</i> includes additional choreography by
<b>Melanie Szucs</b>, associate director of Dance Education and artistic director of the Dance Workshop at the Beck Center. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tickets are $12 for adults/seniors and $10 for students/children 18 and under. (Ticket prices include service fees.) For tickets, visit beckcenter.org
or call the Beck Center box office at 216.521.2540, ext. 10. Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, just ten minutes west of downtown Cleveland. Free onsite parking is available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center’s production of
<i>Sleeping Beauty </i>is sponsored by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and the Ohio Arts Council.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater productions, arts education programming in dance,
music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies for special needs students, and gallery exhibits featuring regional artists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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