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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NEWS RELEASE
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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 kcaffrey@beckcenter.org<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 5, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Beck Center Dance Education presents comic ballet “Coppelia”
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Charming classic ballet brings dancing doll to life on stage at Beck Center<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><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 Dance Education<b>
</b>proudly presents the light-hearted comedic ballet,<b> </b><i>Coppelia</i>, <b>
March 16 and 17, 2013 </b>featuring the Beck Center Dance Workshop and select dancers. Performances are 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 16 and 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday, March 17 in the Recital Hall of the Music-Armory Building at Beck Center for the Arts.
Tickets are now on sale and seating is limited.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Coppelia
</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">tells the story of Doctor Coppelius, a slightly mad inventor who has made a life-size dancing doll named Coppelia. Franz, a village boy, sees Coppelia sitting on the doctor’s balcony
and falls deeply in love with her, even though he is already betrothed to Swanhilda. When Swanhilda sees Franz throwing kisses at Coppelia she decides to find out more about the mysterious beauty. After Swanhilda discovers Coppelia is only a doll, she impersonates
her, in order to win the love of Franz. Doctor Coppelius returns and chaos ensues. Set in a small European village hundreds of years ago, the ballet contains favorite European dances such as the mazurka, czardas and valse (waltz). This condensed version of
the classic comic ballet is suitable for audiences of all ages, including young children.<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 Center’s production<i>
</i>features a cast of 50 dancers from its Dance Education program and Dance Workshop, a performing company of select Beck Center dancers. The role of Swanhilda will be performed alternately between performances by high school seniors
<b>Taylor Gerrasch</b> and <b>Julia Horner</b>, with the role of Franz danced by Beck Center Dance Education faculty member,
<b>Jason Wang</b> who has performed regionally with the Cincinnati Ballet and Louisville Ballet and locally with Verb Ballets. Doctor Coppelius is played by actor
<b>Timothy J. Allen</b> who audiences may remember from past Beck Center shows such as
<i>Fiddler on the Roof</i> (Motel) and <i>Little Shop of Horrors</i> (Seymour). With original choreography by
<b>Marius Petipa</b>, the “father of classical ballet,” this production also includes additional choreography by
<b>Melanie Szucs</b>, associate director of Dance Education at 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"">Upon graduation, Gerrasch and Horner are both planning to pursue dance in their future educational careers. Gerrasch will be studying in New York
City as a Jazz and Contemporary trainee with The Joffrey Ballet; and Horner, who has studied dance at Beck Center since age seven, has been offered a dance scholarship at Mercyhurst University, which offers one of the nation’s top ballet programs.<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"">Reserved seating tickets for
<i>Coppelia </i>are $10 for children (18 and under) and $12 for adults and seniors. Purchase tickets online at beckcenter.org<b>
</b>or call Customer Service at 216.521.2540, ext. 10. Beck Center for the Arts is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood. Free onsite parking is available.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center’s production of
<i>Coppelia </i>is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and is also sponsored by the Ohio Arts Council<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><em><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 free gallery exhibits featuring local, regional, and international artists.</span></em><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
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