Midland Festival Ballet - Graduation Ball

Spring Gala Presents
Graduation Ball

Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Midland High School Auditorium

Originally choreographed by David Lichine and staged by Joseph Goodman

Graduation Ball was originally created in 1940 by Russian-born choreographer David Lichine and is set to music by Johann Strauss II. The mini-ballet tells the story of the amusing antics that happen at a Viennese girl's college graduation ball to which a group of young men from a military school are invited.

Grande Tarantella
Choreographer: Nadia Thompson
Composer: Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Melodic Lines
Choreographer: Pearl Pierce
Composer: Johan Sebastian Bach
Arranged By: Steven Sharp Nelson

Boléro
Choreographer: Joseph Goodman
Composer: Maurice Ravel

Soloist
Choreographer: Lauren Curry
Composer: Claude Debussy

Let It All Go
Choreographer: Andrea Comola Williams
Composer: Walter Donaldson-Guskahn

"Bringing the Beauty of Ballet to the Basin"

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