Performing Arts

Returns to Milledgeville January 27 - 29, 2010

        Town & Gown Arts will host the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (CPRDE) for a three day residency in Milledgeville January 27 through 29. The thirteen company members will conduct lecture/demonstrations, master classes and workshops for middle and high school students and for students in the Georgia College & State University Dance minor program. The residency will culminate with two events that are open to the public on Friday, January 29. CPRDE will present a mini-performance and lecture-demonstration at 10:00 am and a main stage dance concert at 8:00 pm. Both events will be in Russell Auditorium on the campus of Georgia College and State University. Admission to the 10:00 am Lecture-Demonstration is $5.00. Tickets for the evening performance are $10.00 for adults and $8.00 for senior citizens and students (other than GCSU students). GCSU students are admitted to both events with their university ID.  Tickets for groups of 12 or more are $6.00 each and must be purchased by January 28th.

       Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble is one of the oldest and most awarded dance companies in the United States. Cleo Parker Robinson is a native of Denver and a graduate of Denver University in the field of dance education and psychology. Robinson began teaching college level dance at the age of fifteen and had started her own company by the time she graduated from the university. Her most influential mentors were Rita Berger, a former dancer with George Balanchine and soloist at the Metropolitan Opera Company and the legendary choreographer and humanitarian Katherine Dunham.

            The mission of CPRDE is to foster appreciation of and the development of new audiences for dance. Robinson attempts to educate audiences about the rich heritage and ancestral gifts on which this predominately African American ensemble draws through a year-round dance school, an international summer dance institute and through national and international performances.

            Robinson has collaborated with many people on diverse projects ranging from operas (such as "Aida" and "Carmen") to commissions with mentor Maya Angelou. She has been granted choreography fellowships from the Colorado Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the Lila Wallace Foundation. Robinson was featured in the Gordon Parks film "Run Sister Run". She serves as First Vice President of the International Association of Blacks in Dance and is on the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Board of Trustees.

         The Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble’s residency in Milledgeville is sponsored by Allied Arts and Georgia College & State University’s Arts Unlimited Committee. The project has been designated by the NEA as an American Masterpieces project and is supported by the Southern Arts Federation and the Georgia Council for the Arts. American Masterpieces is a major initiative by the NEA to acquaint Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy.

        According to arts director Randy Cannon, “We are excited to have this company return to Milledgeville to work and perform in the community and at the university.”

        Tickets are on sale now for the Lecture-Demonstration and the main stage performance on Friday, January 29th.  Call Allied Arts at 478.452.3950

 

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Milledgeville-Baldwin County Allied Arts

201 North Wayne Street

Milledgeville, GA  31061

alliedarts@windstream.net

478-452-3950   •   478-452-5321 (fax)

General support for this non-profit agency comes from the City of Milledgeville, the Friends of Allied Arts, the private sector and the Georgia Council for the Arts via appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly.  The Council is a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Gallery Hours: 9am - 4:30pm  M-F

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