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· a real office space

· a space for reception/lobby

· a small lounge area for students

This long awaited occasion would not be possible without the generous support of our CBTB family.  We would like to extend our profound thanks to Max Solomon for sponsoring initial costs to move into and build out the storefront and basement facility, and our special gratitude to Lucie Santoro for her substantial donation towards making our dream come true.  Building out the new space to our specifications is in progress.  The company and academy should be dancing in the new facility by May 1.

It is not too late to be part of this momentous event.  CBTB’s fund raising efforts continue and we are still looking for sponsorship on our sprung dance floors, mirrors or barres.  Your name will be engraved on the donor plaques in each room to recognize your contribution. This is a good opportunity—especially for academy alumni and students—to preserve some good memories dancing in the company and academy and to leave something for the next generation of dancers and students to enjoy and appreciate!  

Don’t delay!  Any contribution is welcome and tax deductible to the full extent of the law (please see page 4 for contributing information).

We are also looking for volunteers to help with the move on Friday, April 25 & Saturday, April 26.   If you can help in whatever ways, please call our project manager Lucie Santoro at 718-891-6199 for details.

Our Grand Opening Festivities are scheduled for Friday, June 6 & Saturday, June 7!  Brenda Neville, founder of Neville Dance Theatre and member of CBTB company and teaching staff, will kick off the celebration in our brand new studio on Friday, June 6 with an Argentine Tango Workshop at 7-10pm.  The class is open to couples ($40 per couple) and singles ($25 per person).

On Saturday, June 7 the grand opening events will include a ribbon cutting ceremony, a short dance parade along Kings Highway, refreshments, live music, and free 30-minute classes in pre-ballet, beginner ballet, modern, tap, flamenco and Argentine Tango.  A big dance party will be the grand slam finale to our festivities.  You are guaranteed that it will be a celebration you won’t want to miss!  Spread the word and bring your friends for a joyous, dancing day!

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TRANSFORMED INDEED! Successful Feb. Concert

The Transformation dance concert held on February 2, 2008 at Kingsborough Community College’s Performing Arts Center was Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn’s “coming-out” performance as a newly transformed, non-profit dance company, and it was honored by the attendance of the company’s honorary board members Councilman Michael Nelson and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.  Mr. Markowitz acknowledged the contributions made by Artistic Director Miss Marla Hirokawa with a beautiful Proclamation and presented CBTB Dance Academy’s first Roberta Solomon Ballet Scholarship to Sheepshead Bay P.S. 52 student Miss Giana Collazo.

The evening’s program, choreographed by Hirokawa, opened with lyrical, Allison Jay and Ammon Dennis performing a revival of Wisdom and the Young Man— an ethereal, contemporary pas de deux (step for two). Wisdom was followed by two premiers: Revolutions, a dynamic quartet with Mandy Sau Yi Chan, Rebeccah Hope Brann, Joseph Tudisco and Matthew Westerby caught up  The Transformation dance concert held on February 2, 2008 at Kingsborough Community College’s Performing Arts Center was Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn’s “coming-out” performance as a newly transformed, non-profit dance company, and it was honored by the attendance of the company’s honorary board members Councilman Michael Nelson and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.

Mr. Markowitz acknowledged the contributions made by Artistic Director Miss Marla Hirokawa with a beautiful Proclamation and presented CBTB Dance Academy’s first Roberta Solomon Ballet Scholarship to Sheepshead Bay P.S. 52 student Miss Giana Collazo.

Onstage L to R: Marla Hirokawa, Giana Collazo, Borough President Marty Markowitz, and Councilman Michael Nelson

 

Thanks to our Project Manager Ms. Lucie Santoro’s coordination, the Bay News, a local newspaper, reported on the Transformation concert on February 21, 2008 with some beautiful photographs of our performance and scholarship presentation.  CBTB principal dancer Miss Allison Jay was  captured in motion in the center of the front page of that issue with headline “High Culture Comes Home.”  It is truly a  triumph for the south Brooklyn community to have such a high

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above photos, except where indicated, by Dale Langdon