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Oakland Balley Company's headquarters on Broadway, Oakland. The Oakland Ballet Company is a non-profit ballet company based in Oakland, California.OBC was founded in 1965 by Ronn Guidi, an Oakland native, and gained recognition through its historical reconstructions of ballets from the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev; the mounting of classic works of Americana; and the creation of innovative ...
The Paramount Theatre is a 3,040-seat Art Deco concert hall located at 2025 Broadway in Downtown Oakland. When it was built in 1931, it was the largest multi-purpose theater on the West Coast, seating 3,476. [4] [5] Today, the Paramount is the home of the Oakland East Bay Symphony and the Oakland Ballet.
Kellogg began dancing at the age of 5 and trained with the Royal Ballet in London, the Oakland Ballet, Ballet de Jerez, and the Fort Worth Ballet. [2] She has performed on Broadway, National and International tours, television and film. She holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from UCLA. [citation needed] Kellogg began her career as a dancer on ...
Jenna McClintock saw a performance when she was six years old and was inspired to start training in ballet. After a career with the Oakland Ballet, Jenna returned to thank Marta, and decided to stay and maintain the tradition. Jenna retired from the Amargosa Opera House in the spring of 2016.
Barbara Crockett founded the Sacramento Ballet in 1954 [2] and hosted the first festival for the Pacific Western Region of Regional Dance America in 1966. [3] In modern dance, Ruth St. Denis established her second school in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles in 1940 while Lester Horton created the Horton Dance Group in 1934, [4] also in Los Angeles.
The AXIS Dance Company performs Waypoint by Margaret Jenkins. From left to right are dancers Margaret Cromwell, Bonnie Lewkowicz, Sonsherée Giles, and Sean McMahon. In the last four decades, she has had over 80 works created on her Company, as well as resident companies in the United States, Asia and Europe.
A former ballerina was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday in the 2020 shooting death of her estranged husband in Florida. CBS affiliate WTSP reports that Ashley Benefield was sentenced to 20 ...
Judy Elizabeth Tyrus (born 1960) is a classical ballet dancer who danced as a principal with the Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) from 1977 to 1999. She was the curator and an archivist for DTH for over eleven years. She founded ChromaDiverse, Inc., a non-profit company supporting arts, culture and theatre causes in May 2019.