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PARSONS DANCE'S 2008 GALA - APRIL 15, 2008 PARSONS DANCE'S 2008 GALA Con Amore, Parsons! Honoring Barbara Rohdie April 15, 2008
Featuring live performance excerpts from a new evening-length collaborative work with the East Village Opera Company plus Dancing with the Stars of Parsons, The Second Season
David Parsons, Honorary Gala Chair Bebe Neuwirth, and the Board of Directors of Parsons Dance proudly announce Parson Dance's 2008 Gala on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at The Times Center, 242 W. 41st Street, NYC.
The evening will include performance excerpts from a new evening-length collaborative work with the East Village Opera Company plus Dancing with the Stars of Parsons, The Second Season, a unique performance of gala attendees partnered with Parsons dancers for a one-minute ballroom routine, choreographed exclusively for the Gala stage.
Honoree Barbara Rohdie, a member of the Board of Directors of Parsons Dance for more than five eyars, credits her love of dance to her mother who drove her to class for many years starting in second grade. Ms. Rohdie graduated from Bennington College and Bank Street College of Education with a Masters Degree in Elementary Education. She taught in public schools and was then an assistant professor of Educational Psychology and Child Development at Kean College and Montclair State University.
PARSONS DANCE GALA COMMITTEE 2008 Members of the 2008 Gala Committee are Bebe Neuwirth, Honorary Chair, Linda Stocknoff, Gala Chair, Barbara Rohdie, Co-Chair & Honoree, Froma Benerofe, Co-Chair, Richard Kielar, Co-Chair, Vickie Morris, Co-Chair and Fiorenza Scholey, Co-Chair.
Parson Dance's 2008 Gala will be held Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 7:00 pm at The Times Center, 242 W. 41st Street, NYC. Ticket information is available by calling (212) 869-9275 or by emailing gala@parsonsdance.org.
ABOUT PARSONS DANCE PARSONS DANCE is committed to building new audiences for contemporary dance by creating American works of extraordinary artistry that are engaging and uplifting to audiences throughout the world. The company tours regionally, nationally and internationally.
PARSONS DANCE HISTORY Since 1985, Parsons Dance has toured an average of 32 weeks per year, to a total of more than 235 cities, 30 countries, six continents and millions of audience members. Many others have seen Parsons Dance on PBS, Bravo, A&E Network, and the Discovery Channel. Millions watched Parsons Dance perform live in Times Square as part of the internationally broadcast, 24-hour Millennium New Year's Eve celebration. In New York City, Parsons Dance has been featured at The Joyce Theater, City Center, New Victory Theater, Central Park Summerstage, Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and The World Trade Center.
The New York Times called David Parsons "one of the great movers of modern dance." New York Magazine referred to him as "one of modern dance's great living dance-makers."
DAVID PARSONS (Artistic Director/Founder) has enjoyed a remarkable career as a performer, choreographer, teacher, director and producer of dance. Mr. Parsons was born in Chicago and raised in Kansas City. He was a leading dancer with The Paul Taylor Dance Company, where Mr. Taylor created many roles for him in works such as Arden Court, Last Look and Roses. He is a recipient of the 2000 Dance Magazine Award, as well as the 2001 American Choreography Award, for his work as a co-producer of AEROS, a production featuring the Romanian Gymnastic Federation that was featured on Bravo. Mr. Parsons has created more than 70 works for Parsons Dance. He has received commissions over the years from The American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the American Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow, the Spoleto Festival and Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, to name a few. His work has been performed by Paris Opera Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Nederlands Danse Theatre, National Ballet of Canada, Hubbard Street Dance and BatSheva Dance Company of Israel, among many others. In June 2007, Mr. Parsons was honored to be the very first contemporary choreographer ever to stage work at the centuries-old Arena di Verona, in Verona Italy, where he choreographed Verdi's Aida. The Arena is one of Italy's most respected operatic venues. In September 2007, he directed and choreographed Gotham Chamber Opera's production of María de Buenos Aires, which made its world premiere at a sold-out engagement in New York, at NYU's Skirball Center for the Arts.
Parsons Dance receives support from Altria Group, Inc.; Condé Nast Publications; Cowles Charitable Trust; Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; Harkness Foundation for Dance; Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund of the New York Community Trust; New York Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation; The New York State Council on the Arts; Nina W. Werblow Charitable Trust; Robert Sterling Clark Foundation; The Shubert Foundation; and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
For more information, visit www.parsonsdance.org. > Full Story. [3/24/08]
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