The ballet company for Northeast Georgia!

08-09 Guest choreographers

& PERFORMERS
Text Box: Peter Garick began his study of dance in South Carolina with Margaret Foster, a pioneer of ballet in the Southeast. In 1968, he joined Canada's internationally-renowned Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB), where he studied under Artistic Director Arnold Spohr, Jean McKenzie, Ted Patterson, Gwynne Ashton, Frank Bourman, Eugene Slavin, and numerous guest teachers, including Benjamin Harkarvy and Vera Volkova. As a dancer with the RWB, Mr. Garick toured Canada and the United States, as well as Australia, Cuba, France, Italy, Mexico, and South and Central America. In 1975, Mr. Garick became Company Manager to the RWB, responsible for coordinating all details of the Company's extensive touring. In 1978, he became Company Manager for the Theatre Department of Canada's National Arts Center in Ottawa. In 1982 he and his friend Sergei Sawchyn developed and produced the first-ever tour of the western world of the Great Circus of China. In 1984, Mr. Garick returned to the US to work as a free-lance consultant in arts management and promotion. He has also been a master teacher and choreographer for several schools and companies throughout the Southeast, including the Columbia Ballet School and the South Carolina Ballet Theatre (Columbia, S.C.), The Gainesville Ballet (Gainesville, GA), The Ruth Mitchell Dance Theatre (Atlanta, GA), the University of South Carolina Dance company, and the South Carolina Summer Dance Conservatory.

The Universe lies before you -

on the floor, in the air,

in the mysterious bodies of your dancers -

in your mind. 

From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

 ~ Agnes de Mille

March 2009—Spring Concert 

The Brown Velveteen Rabbit

Peter Garick

March 2009—Spring Concert   -  Repertory Works
Text Box: Miss Casey choreographed a fabulous contemporary piece for the Company last year and has set an equally fabulous piece, Strut, on GBC’s Apprentice Company which can be seen at this year’s Spring concert in March. Please click on the choreographer’s name to be redirected to her website.

Casey Noblett

Kristy Nilsson
Text Box: This is Miss Kristy’s first year working with the Gainesville School of Ballet and Gainesville Ballet Company. She is a talented dancer, teacher, and prolific choreographer. She has won many awards for her choreography and this summer set a piece, Gypsy Capriccioso, on GBC’s Company One which will debut at the Spring concert in March. Text Box: Mr. Lonnie is currently on faculty at The Georgia Dance Conservatory, Atlanta Ballet’s Center for Dance Education and Pebble Brook Performing Arts High School. His classes are a challenge to seasoned and beginning dancers alike. His extensive background in traditional modern dance forms combined with diverse jazz forms creates a unique eclectic style. This is the first time Mr. Davis has worked with the Gainesville School of Ballet and Gainesville Ballet Company. This summer he set a piece on the Company, Rhythm Section, which can be seen in March at the Spring concert, March 20, 21 & 22.

Lonnie E. Davis