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Mallary Webb of Carrboro has accepted a company contract to dance with the Chicago Ballet. She began ballet, tap and jazz lessons at the age of 5 at Bounds Dance Studio in Chapel Hill. While a member of the Triangle Youth Ballet, she performed roles in "The Nutcracker," including Chinese Tea, Arabian, Snow Queen and the Sugar Plum Fairy. She attended the N.C. School of the Arts for high school, where she continued to study ballet and also appeared in its productions of the Nutcracker. In 2003 she was accepted as a trainee with the Richmond Ballet, the State Ballet of Virginia, where she performed with the company for three years. She was featured in the 2006 Stars of Tomorrow performance as the principal female in Balanchine's Valse-Fantaisie. She is the daughter of Alex and Carolyn Webb of Carrboro.James W.
Lynn Seymour brings new air to GNO
Photo: The thing about artists today is that their discipline is self-imposed. The creative experience involves them as well as the choreographer and everyone else, said Lynn Seymour, pictured this week at the Opera Ballets rehearsal halls. By Yvette Varvaressou - Kathimerini English Edition The golden age of British ballet not only produced a great tradition in classical dance, a foundation for ballet companies the world over, but a stellar cast that became household names to people who had never even seen a ballet performance. Lynn Seymour, the inspiration for many choreographers, particularly Kenneth MacMillan, is now in Athens as part of a team working to change the face of Greeces National Opera Ballet. Under new management of Stefanos Lazridis since last year, the Greek National Opera (GNO) is making an all-out effort to change the entire approach to state ballet performances in this country.
Next step unclear for Ballet Theatre of Ohio
For years, ``Ballet Under the Stars'' was the slogan of the Ohio Ballet's outdoor Summer Festival. Saturday afternoon at the Akron Civic Theatre, Christine Meneer, a former Ohio Ballet dancer, brought back the phrase to promote the first program by her Ballet Theatre of Ohio. Whether Meneer wants to go forward or back was an unanswered question at this debut. So far, the new company consists of a modest addition of five professional dancers to Meneer's well-established Children's Ballet Theatre, a pre-professional group for students through high school. One of the two female pros, Jennifer Moll, was injured and unable to dance this weekend, requiring changes to the casting. The Adagio for Two Dancers, choreographed by Ohio Ballet founding artistic director Heinz Poll and restaged by Jane Startzman, shows a couple tenderly folding and unfolding in a series of close embraces under the light of a rose window.
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