CCM Preparatory and Community Engagement presents the Fall Youth Ballet Concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 14 and Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018. Directed by Jonnie Lynn Jacobs-Percer, CCM Prep’s dancers exhibit their skills by performing excerpts from the ballet repertoire and new works.
The annual dance concert features CCM Prep students from ages nine through adult performing works choreographed by CCM Prep faculty and students. Tickets are available through the CCM Box Office.
The program begins with For the Beauty of the Earth, choreographed by CCM Prep student Emilie Hatton to music by Folliott S. Pierpoint. Hatton also choreographs I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, based on the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and set to music by Casting Crowns.
CCM Prep’s Mini Ballet Company will also perform Visions of Sugarplums, with choreography by CCM Prep instructor Heather Cameron-Johnson and music by Tchaikovsky. The Adult Ballet Company will perform Orion, with choreography by Jacobs-Percer and music by Metallica.
The program also includes The Little Match Girl, with choreography by Jacobs-Percer and CCM Prep instructor Ana Bird set to Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings, and excepts of Act II of Swan Lake, based on the original choreography by Marius Petipa and restaged by instructors Thomas Bell, Isabele Elefson and Tricia Sundbeck.
You can see the CCM Fall Youth Ballet Concert this weekend in CCM’s Patricia Corbett Theater. Single tickets are $15 general admission, $10 for non-UC students and FREE for UC students with valid ID. Visit the CCM Box Office website or call 513-556-4183 for more information.
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Performance Times:
- 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14
- 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec.15
Location:
Patricia Corbett Theater, CCM Village
University of Cincinnati
Purchasing Tickets:
Tickets to CCM Prep’s Fall Youth Ballet Concert are $15 general, $10 non-UC students, UC students FREE.
Tickets can be purchased in person at the CCM Box Office, over the telephone at 513-556-4183 or online now through our e-Box Office! Visit ccm.uc.edu/boxoffice for CCM Box Office hours and location.
Parking and Directions:
Parking is available in the CCM Garage (located at the base of Corry Boulevard off Jefferson Avenue) and additional garages throughout the campus of the University of Cincinnati. Please visit uc.edu/parking for more information on parking rates.
For detailed maps and directions, please visit uc.edu/visitors. Additional parking is available off-campus at the U Square complex on Calhoun Street and other neighboring lots.
For directions to CCM Village, visit ccm.uc.edu/about/directions.
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Story by CCM graduate student Alexandra Doyle
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