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Sunday, February 28
Pancake breakfast (company benefit) at Chili's (Bladwin Place) from 8:00 to 10:00 am . Tickets
($7.00) available at the door! You must present one of our tickets to get the company benefit.
Partnering workshop, 2:00 to 4:00. Don't forget to bring guys!
Company reheasal 4:00 to 6:00. (Come at 3:30 and warm yourself up if you are not taking the
partnering workshop)
For immediate release
RE: Dance For Joy Invited to Perform in London 2012 Invitational
FROM: American Alliance of Performing Arts Educators (AAPAE)
Matt Straub, Producer www.aapae.org mattstraub@aapae.org 904 806-1871
The Mohegan Lake ballet school, Dance For Joy, under the direction of Roberta Humphrey, has accepted a regionally
exclusive invitation to perform in the London 2012 Invitational of the American Alliance of Performing Arts Educators (AAPAE).
The group will perform in London during the London Summer Olympics 2012. The London 2012 Invitational will bring together
in London, England a large number of youth performing arts groups from across the United States in three weeklong series of
performances, touring and sightseeing opportunities.
Performance venues will include locations along the Thames River such as Royal Festival Hall, Southwark Cathedral, etc.
and an Olympic venue with a recognized sponsor. There will be plenty of time to sightsee, attend cultural events, and of course,
see Olympics events, which will be occurring all over the greater London area.
The sponsoring organization, the American Alliance of Performing Arts Educators (AAPAE), is a 501 (c)3 nonprofit dedicated
to showcasing youth performing arts groups from across the USA with annual Invitationals at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center,
New York City and the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
For the Sydney 2000 Olympics, AAPAE hosted 25 performing groups in Australia. The London 2012 Invitational will include
at least 75 groups.
Dance For Joy will also appear in in March, 2010 in AAPAE performance in the world class and professionally intense
venue of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Alice Tully Hall, New York City.
Dance For Joy continues to maintain its educational focus, while still providing entertainment of professional standards.
The dance company is recognized for its understanding of audiences and performance environments and has the organizational
maturity for necessary fundraising, and the depth and stability to plan for a world class event in London three years away,
Dance for Joy dancers and parents going to the AAPAE London 2012 Invitational will experience the opportunities and
spirit of that great city during that exciting time and will help represent American youth performing arts, known throughout
the world for its quality and professionalism.
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