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Show Ballet coming to Cedar for everyone to enjoy Ballet and the Pacific i Northwest Ballet. The American Festival Ballet offers its audiences a full range of ballet from traditional selections like "The Firebird" and "A Midsummer Mid-summer Night's Dream," to the contemporary con-temporary neoclassical neo-classical works of "Rituals" and "Song of the Earth." Also popular are the company's Americana pieces "The Rainmaker" and "Salute to Sousa," which are based on American themes and music. Every Christmas season, audiences are further entertained with the company's production produc-tion of "The Nutcracker," Nut-cracker," which has become an American Festival Ballet tradition. CEDAR CITY - The American Festival Ballet, one of Northwest America's leading dance companies, . will be performing for the Music Arts series March 24 at 8 p.m. at the Cedar High School Auditorium. The company will also conduct a workshop at the High School on March 25. The upcoming performance per-formance being is sponsored by the Cedar City Music Arts Committee. Com-mittee. Tickets are priced at $5 and are available at the door. Iron County School district students and SUSC students are admitted ad-mitted free of charge. The American Festival Ballet has presented over 500 performances throughout the United States, including performances per-formances at the Kennedy Ken-nedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Seattle Opera House, and the Spokane Opera House. The company has been described as "technically, visually and emotionally enthralling." en-thralling." Artistic Director Steven Wistrich, a former dancer with the renowned Stuttgart Ballet, said that he demands the utmost from each performer. "The dancers must not only : be highly skilled, they must have an artistic ar-tistic soul," says Wistrich. "Technique is but a means to an end, and that end is to convey emotion." The eleven members of the company have all had previous performing experience with other professional American and European ballet companies. These include the Stuttgart Ballet, the Bavarian State Opera Ballet, the Dallas Ballet, the Houston Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, the Paris Opera |
