<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div id="stacks_out_172_page30" class="stacks_out" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px; "><div id="stacks_in_172_page30" class="stacks_in" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; position: relative; overflow: hidden; "><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Verb Ballets in Akron This Friday</h3></div></div><div id="stacks_out_1039_page30" class="stacks_out" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;
position: relative; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px; "><div id="stacks_in_1039_page30" class="stacks_in" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; position: relative; overflow: hidden; "><div class="jwresp_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; width: 1000px; overflow: auto; "><div class="jwresp_col jwresp2_col1" id="jwresp_col1_stacks_in_1039_page30" style="margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: transparent; overflow: hidden; width: 600px; float: left; "><div id="stacks_out_1044_page30" class="stacks_out" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; position: relative; overflow: hidden; "><div
id="stacks_in_1044_page30" class="stacks_in" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; position: relative; overflow: hidden; ">The Akron Civic Theatre will present Verb Ballets’,<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; "> Honoring Poll</em>, on Friday, March 8, 2013, at 8pm with intimate cabaret seating on stage at the historic theatre. The program will highlight the late choreographer Heinz Poll and his legacy through works created for the Ohio Ballet and features a new <span style="font-style: italic;">Four Last Songs</span> by former Ohio Ballet dancer and ballet master, Richard Dickinson. <br> <br>The show will feature the exuberant big-band piece by Heinz Poll, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; background-color: transparent; ">Eight By Benny Goodman</em>. This is the first time the piece has been done in its entirety in Akron since it was created for Ohio Ballet in 1993. In contrast to the sassy ballroom piece will be<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; "> </strong><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">Duet</em>. Donald Rosenberg of <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">The Plain Dealer </em>described the classical pas de deux as, “pure classical ballet, its sense of line and high lifts set to a majestic Bach adagio.” The fan favorite <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;
">Bolero </em>choreographed to the epic music of Ravel will revisit the stage. The piece is a visual masterpiece set to the drive force of the well known score. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Watch a video of Verb performing the classics here http://youtu.be/XwAd_-XsoaM</span><br> <br>Also on the program is Dickinson’s ballet about loss and longing, set to Richard Strauss’ haunting <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">Four Last Songs </em>(2013). <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: normal;
font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br>Single tickets $25 or students BOGO, WKSU members also receive a special offer call Akron Civic Box Office </span>330-253-2488.</div><div id="stacks_in_1044_page30" class="stacks_in" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; position: relative; overflow: hidden; ">PROMO CODE Mention your favorite Verb dancer for $5 off tickets!</div><div id="stacks_in_1044_page30" class="stacks_in" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; position: relative; overflow: hidden; "><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>