Ballet Arts Studio presents
Simple Gifts

Ballet Arts Studio announces its Spring 2015 Concert, Simple Gifts: A Treasury of American Music, The Concert will feature both American composers and American musicians and vocalists who interpret international compositions. “Dance and music are lifelong partners” said Alex Bloomstein, artistic director of Ballet Arts Studio. "We want to make sure our students have an opportunity to learn about the music and the diverse music experience to which they are dancing. Finding American composers for Musical Theater, Jazz or Modern was not a stretch at all, so we have some classics, but we also have some surprises like Koko Taylor and Talking Heads.”
Many people are familiar with the Russian and European ballet composers, as well as American classical composers such as Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein--both of whom will be featured in the performance--but Ballet Arts Studio is also taking the opportunity to explore and put to dance some works by composers such as Louis Moreau Gottschalk, William Grant Still, and Steve Reich. Ballet Arts is excited to be exposing our audience to some of these less broadly recognized, but no less deserving, American classical composers. No survey of American music would be complete without Pete Seeger, who is not only an American Treasure, but a Hudson Valley local hero. Ballet Arts will be using Pete Seeger's rendition of the Woody Guthrie classic This Land is Your Land to accompany the studio's youngest modern dancers.

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