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</div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">BEREA, OH – The Department of
Theatre and Dance at Baldwin Wallace University presents <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Testing Ground</i> directed by Professor Sara Whale.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"><br></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">Come and see what Baldwin Wallace University student and faculty dance
makers are experimenting with in their laboratory! </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">Testing Ground</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"> is a biannual event that offers
choreographers the chance to show new dance works that are in the developmental
stage. Choreographers receive feedback from area dance professionals and
audience, to encourage them to return to the studio to edit and improve their
work.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">Guest
artists include NE Ohio based dance-maker and arts educator, Megan Pitcher
Young who serves as the BW Dance Program’s critic-in-residence, and Professor
Jordan Saul conducting the BW Treble Choir. Choreographers showing work for the
‘fall edition’ include Mawusi Nenonene, Bre Pacek, Jimmy Schlemmer and Emily
Pisarra, MaryPat Dorr, Samantha Dzielski, Sabrina Jaffe, Analese Chandler,
Alyssa Garrison, Alyssa Peto, Ali Manfredi, Sara Whale.</span></div>
<div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;color:black">Testing Ground</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black"> </span></b></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Friday, October 27th at 6pm</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Allman Theatre, Kleist Center for
Art & Drama, 95 E Bagley Rd, Berea, OH 44017</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">Admission is free, however
donations will be gratefully accepted to aid and support our students’ trip to
the 2018 American College Dance Association Regional Conference at Ohio
University in March 2018. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black">For more information, contact:
Department of Theatre & Dance: (440) 826-2239; </span><a href="mailto:theatre@bw.edu"><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">theatre@bw.edu</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
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minor-latin;color:black"></span></div>
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