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Presentation at Farthing will be
open to public if school is cancelled
By Jeff Eason
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Dancer Lilyan Vego
performing with the Carolina Ballet. The company will
be in town this week for a children’s production
of Swan Lake. If school is cancelled on Tuesday, the performance
at Farthing Auditorium will be open to all students.
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Because of an impending test or book report due, students in
our area have been known to cross their fingers in hope of a
snow day. Next week they’ll have an extra incentive for
school closures: a chance to see the Carolina Ballet at Farthing
Auditorium.
The Carolina Ballet will perform two acts of Swan Lake at
Farthing on Tuesday, February 3rd at 9:30 a.m. for students
of Watauga County Schools. In the event of a snow day, all students
of all ages are invited to attend the event free of charge.
All students must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Doors
will open at 9 a.m. A sign-in sheet will be in the lobby of
Farthing Auditorium in Boone.
Parking will be available in the parking deck on Rivers Street,
or if cleared, the bike lane on Rivers Street.
The presentation of the Carolina Ballet’s performance
of Swan Lake is made possible by cARTwheels, a project of the
North Carolina Arts Council supported through funding by the
North Carolina Legislature. It is also being present with support
of the Watauga Arts Council.
Carolina Ballet
The Carolina Ballet, founded as the Raleigh Dance Theatre
in 1984, was started as a student company to provide performance
opportunities for students. In 1993, it made its first small
steps toward becoming a professional dance company, the first
of its kind in the Research Triangle.
By 1998 the company featured 21 dancers from around the world,
selected from a national audition tour. Its first professional
performance was a production of George Balanchine’s Square
Dance at Cary’s Regency Park, an event that attracted 2,500
people.
During the 2006-07 season, Carolina Ballet joined forces with
the North Carolina Dance Theatre, Opera Carolina, and Piedmont
Opera in a cARTwheels, a statewide educational initiative sponsored
by the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. Since
then Carolina Ballet has presented Swan Lake and other dance
works to tens of thousands of students around the state.
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