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2011 - 2012 Anderson Young Ballet Theatre Anderson Young Ballet Theatre Anderson Young Ballet Theatre is semi-professional dance company under the direction of LouAnn Young. In it's 37th season, AYBT has utilized Anderson's dancing youth to produce such full length ballets as The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia, Romeo & Juliet, Cinderella, Giselle, Red Shoes, Swan Lake, and several ballet excerpts. AYBT is also one of the forerunners in dance for modern and musical theater. Each season AYBT performs their annual Autumn Gala, a full length Christmas ballet, and our spring recital: The Big Four Arts Review. Our dancers are trained first in the Cecchetti Syllabus and then Vaganova forms of ballet. Our Jazz technique is based in Luigi. AYBT dancers have won such awards as Butler University's Margaret Sear Rosenblith Award, Arts & Letters & the Carey Rose Winski Memorial Scholarship. They have been accepted to the National Ballet School, School of American Ballet, Interlochen Arts Academy, and The Joffrey Ballet School. Professionally, our dancers have danced with Indianapolis Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Lexington Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Walt Disney Productions, Dance Kaleidoscope, Kings Productions and Beef & Boards. A member of Mid-States Regional Dance Festival, AYBT holds status as one of the organization's Honor Companies. AYBT employs several choreographers who have won the Mid-State Regional Dance Festival's Monticello Award, their highest choreographer's award. AYBT is a not-for-profit organization who's board of directors are dedicated to bringing the arts and education to the youth and population of Indiana.
National RDA Festival This year Mid-States RDA (Regional Dance America) is attending Natioanl RDA. Anderson Young Ballet Theatre's Company and Junior Company will be traveling to Montreal, Canada for the 2012 Regional Dance Festival. Adjudication for RDA National Festival will be held on February 25th beginning at 1PM at AYBT Academy for ballet class and move to Reardon Auditorium by 3PM for the presentation of the Company's pieces. This year's adjudicator for the MidWest Region is Leslie Crockett.
SCRIP Orders Introducing AYBT "Scrip." We are pleased to share some exciting news about a new fundraising program for AYBT. It's called "scrip", and it's the fundraising program that works while you shop. Scrip is a term that means "substitute money". In other words, scrip is gift certificates from national and local retailers. They're the same gift certificates that you buy at the store. You can use scrip to purchase everyday expenses like food, clothing, and other essentials, and with every purchase, you earn revenue for AYBT and your scholarship fund. Half of the revenue will go to AYBT and half to your scholarship fund. You're probably asking yourself how these stores help us raise money. It's simple, scrip participating retailers agree to sell gift certificates to our organization at a discount. Member families like yours buy the certificates for full face value, they redeem them for full face value, and we keep the difference as revenue. The beauty of scrip is that you put your regular household shopping dollars to work. You earn money for AYBT and your scholarship fund without spending a single additional penny. Contact the Academy office for the order form. Please fill in the form; attach your check for the total to AYBT; and turn the form and check in to Martha at the AYBTA office. We will return the gift cards the next week. SCRIP orders will be placed on the following dates: 2/15, 3/14, 4/18 Click here to download our SCRIP order form
Press Release On August 12, 2010, Arts Place awarded $144,968.00 in grants to Region Five of East Central Indiana. Anderson Young Ballet Theatre was awarded a grant in the amount of $6,888.00 for support of their 36th season. Thank you to Nancy Anderson for writing our grant, Arts Place and their board, Indiana Arts Commission, Indiana General Assembly, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
2010 Madison County Federal Credit Union Scholarship
Each year Madison County Federal Credit Union awards a $1,000.00 scholarship to one or more AYBT company dancers. This year's recipient was Mary Grace (Gracie) Anderson. AYBT would like to thank Madison County Federal Credit Union for their generosity and support of the arts in Anderson, Indiana. We would especially like to thank David Dodd, CEO of MCFCU, this year's presenter.
2010/2011 Photographs by Joel Cookston If you wish to purchase photographs from The Nutcracker 2011 please click this link for Pictage If you wish to purchase photographs from The Nutcracker 2010 please click this link for Pictage If you wish to purchase photographs from Gala 2011 "A French Touch of Dance" please click this link for Pictage If you wish to purchase photographs from The Big Four Arts Review 2011 please click this link for Pictage
DVDs of Spring Gala 2011, The Nutcracker 2011, & Big Four Arts Review 2011 AYBT's Spring Gala A French Taste of Dance 2011, The Nutcracker 2012, & Big Four Arts Review (2011 Recital) DVDs are available for order. Please speak to the Academy office for ordering details. The cost for each is $35. Please make all checks out to AYBT.
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