<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="'lucida console', sans-serif">Verb Ballets, northeast Ohio's contemporary dance company, returns to <b style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida console', sans-serif">Cain Park Evans Ampitheatre on Saturday, August 4, 2012 at 8pm</font> </b>featuring the Cleveland company premiere of Heinz Poll favorite, <b style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida console', sans-serif">Eight By Benny Goodman</font></i></b>. This exuberant big-band piece will get feet tappin' to sounds of the master, Benny Goodman. This is
the first time the piece has been done in its entirety since it was created on Ohio Ballet in 1993. Also, on the evening program Richard Dickinson's, <b style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida console', sans-serif">Carmen: Story of Passion</font></i></b>. Verb’s new rendition proves to be exciting as audiences see obsession driving the characters to desperate acts of desire. Donald Rosenberg of <i style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida console', sans-serif">The Plain Dealer</font></i> described the remake of the classic as; "Dickinson has created subtle variations on the story that bring the characters and situations into fresh focus." Single tickets $20-$24 available by calling the Cain Park Box office at 216-371-3000 or online at <span style="color: rgb(16, 63, 251); "><a
href="http://www.cainpark.com/index.aspx?page=685"><font class="Apple-style-span">cainpark.com</font></a></span>. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; " class="yui_3_2_0_18_134341333866153"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="'lucida console', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; " class="yui_3_2_0_18_134341333866153"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Arial Narrow'; " class="yui_3_2_0_18_134341333866155"><span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span><span _mce_style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida console', sans-serif">Verb Ballets will be also
performing </font><b style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; "><i>Peter and the Wolf</i></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida console', sans-serif"> choreographed by Pamela Pribisco at </font><b style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; ">Cain Park's Kids Matinee Series on Friday, August 3, 2012, at 1pm</b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida console', sans-serif">. </font><i style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; ">Peter and the Wolf </i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida console', sans-serif">
is a playful children's ballet set to music of Sergei Prokofiev.
Children experience storytelling through the interaction of narrative,
music and movement, and gain understanding of how character and plot are
communicated across multiple art forms. Single tickets available
$4/Child or $7/Adult by calling the Cain Park Box office at 216-371-3000
or online at </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida console', sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cainpark.com/index.aspx?page=685">cainpark.com</a><a style="color: rgb(0, 122, 194) !important; text-decoration: underline !important; " _mce_style="color: #007ac2; text-decoration: underline;" track="on" shape="rect" _mce_shape="rect" href="http://www.cainpark.com/index.aspx?page=685" _mce_href="http://www.cainpark.com/index.aspx?page=685" linktype="1" target="_blank">.</a> </font></span></span></span></font></span></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-size: medium; ">Verb Ballets is presented by Cain Park/City of Cleveland Heights.<i> </i></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Arial Narrow'; " class="yui_3_2_0_18_134341333866155"><span><font class="Apple-style-span"
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="'lucida console', sans-serif">Subscriptions on sale now for our 2012-2013 Season <i>Explore.Discover.Verb Ballets.</i></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida console', sans-serif"> Four show package $80 or three show package for $65. Visit </font><a href="http://www.verbballets.org/subscriptions.html" style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span">verbballets.org </font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; ">for subscriptions and more information! Watch our season announcement video <a href="http://www.verbballets.org/seasonvideo.html"><font class="Apple-style-span">here</font></a> to see what is in
store.</font></font></b></div>
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