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Grand Rapids Ballet En Pointe Volunteer Summer Party

by (Grand Rapids Ballet)

Submitted 07-28-2014 under

Interested in volunteering? Join Artistic Director Patricia Barker, Executive Director Glenn Del Vecchio, and GRB staff for the annual En Pointe Volunteer Group Summer Party! This year's party features an ice cream sundae bar stocked full of...

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Not your traditional "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

by (Grand Rapids Ballet)

Submitted 05-07-2014 under NONPROFITS

Grand Rapids Ballet will be presenting a world premiere of A Midsummer Night’s Dream this weekend and next, featuring dazzling choreography, critically acclaimed lighting, and the story of A Midsummer Night's Dream like you...

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Three world-class ballets to be performed right here in Grand Rapids

by (Grand Rapids Ballet)

Submitted 02-12-2014 under NONPROFITS

Grand Rapids Ballet (GRB) is both a local and international ballet company. Locally, GRB performs new works for the dance series MOVEMEDIA, but a majority of the time, the works that are performed have been previously performed by national and...

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Kids to have their day in East Hills

by (erictank)

Submitted 10-08-2013 under NEWS

East Hills neighbors- and the rest of the community- are encouraged to bring their children to Congress Elementary School for a day of fun. Kids Day at East Hills on Saturday, October 12 from 1-4 p.m. will take place rain or shine. Events will...

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Drama. Passion. Tragedy. Romeo & Juliet performed by the Grand Rapids Ballet

by (Grand Rapids Ballet)

Submitted 05-07-2013 under NONPROFITS

“When I first read Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet I thought to myself, now here is a true genius. Shakespeare took the strongest, most basic emotion of human life and created an entire play around it – love. Young love...

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MOVEMEDIA: Program II brings dance, media, innovation

by (Grand Rapids Ballet)

Submitted 04-18-2013 under NONPROFITS

Under the leadership of Artistic Director Patricia Barker, Grand Rapids Ballet continues to innovate in its second season of the exciting dance series, MOVEMEDIA. MOVEMEDIA merges visual elements of sets, props, costumes and lighting with digital...

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Trip The Light 2012: Music submissions wanted

by (DITA)

Submitted 01-02-2012 under NONPROFITS

In 2012, DITA's seminal event "Trip The Light" will add a second night and be bigger than ever. Currently we're accepting submissions of music from bands and musicians interested in being part of it. We're also looking for...

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Review: Jack the Ripper

by (Ruth)

Submitted 11-10-2009 under OPINION

For weeks I drove past this arresting image: a man in a black cape and top hat, locked in deathly pas de deux with a hollow-eyed ballerina. Bloody light pools around them. Her muscles are taut and her neck is bent at a macabre angle, a knife at her...

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