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Welcome to the tradition and the future of dance in northeast Georgia—Gainesville ballet company

The ballet company for Northeast Georgia!

Text Box: The Gainesville Ballet Company is a non-profit ballet company dedicated to promoting the appreciation, study, and performance of dance as an art form to as wide and diverse an audience as possible. Each December it presents “The Nutcracker” and every March an annual storybook ballet. The Company’s “Dance Discovery” program provides community outreach to well over 5,000 children in Northeast Georgia through its matinees designed especially for school-aged children, dance classes for the Boys and Girls Club, a bi-annual Coloring Contest, and lecture-demonstrations for schools, nursing homes, civic groups and churches. The Company was founded in 1974 by Artistic Director Diane Callahan and is comprised of Gainesville School of Ballet students, select Brenau University dance majors and professional dancers. It has been a training ground for many aspiring dancers. As a Company, striving for excellence, GBC provides all its dancers with the opportunity to expand their technique, desire and expression through classes, rehearsals, and performances.

For more information about Dance Discovery Programs, please email Tracy Troutman at ttroutman@brenau.edu

For information or to reserve your spot for the Nutcracker or Snow White school matinee performances , please email Tanya at:

TGlosson@bellsouth.net.

Gainesville School of Ballet

Gainesville Ballet Company

● Office: 770.532.4241

· E-mail:

gbcinfo@gainesvilleballet.org

● P .O. Box 1663

Gainesville, GA 30503

Gainesville School of Ballet

at Brenau University

● 770.534.6282

● E-mail: Tamara at

tstevenson1@brenau.edu

● P.O. Box 907115

Gainesville, GA 30501

To audition for the Company, please contact, Diane Callahan, Artistic Director, at the studio.

770.534.6282

Text Box: LITTLEST ANGELS OPEN AUDITIONS MAY 3, JULY 26 & AUGUST 23, 2008 11:30—12:30 P.M. Auditions are open to dancers 7–9 years old with two or more years ballet training. Littlest Angels are not required to be Gainesville School of Ballet students; however, they must be currently enrolled in ballet classes somewhere.

Text Box: 2008 NUTCRACKER OPEN AUDITIONS Ages 7-9 For More info, Scroll Down

This year, GBC has produced an extra special dance experience! Jonah Hooper, current Atlanta Ballet principal dancer, Blue Ridge native, and former Gainesville Ballet Company member, will perform a lyrical Pas de Deux with Kristine Necessary who is also a principal dancer with the Atlanta Ballet. Peter & Tiffany Swan of Southeastern Alabama Dance Company will perform a contemporary Pas de Deux. The company will perform the most popular excerpts from Snow White, and its most recent repertory works.

A thrill for adults and children alike!

DANCING IN DAHLONEGA!

Saturday - May 10, 2008 - 2:00pm & 7:00pm

Hoag Auditorium—North Georgia College and

State University

Each May, from beginning student to advanced dancer, from hip-hop to ballet, the school’s students perform for their family and friends before a packed house! Advanced ballet school students, who are also members of the Gainesville Ballet Company, will perform favorite repertory works during the school’s recitals. This production vividly demonstrates a dancers’ progression resulting from years of training.

Gainesville School of Ballet Recitals

· Sunday, May 18, 2008

· 2:00pm and 5:00pm

· Pearce Auditorium, Brenau University

Purchase tickets at the door or call 770-534-6282

For more information on any featured Dancing in Dahlonega dancer, click on their name.