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The dance company will perform at 8 p.m. in the Vaughn Auditorium. The performance is sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Z. Ornelas. NBC 56 is the media sponsor. “The Dance Theatre of Harlem is truly a world class dance company and one of my favorites. This is not a company we can bring to East Texas very often because of their caliber. They should not be missed. They’re just the best,” said Thomae-Morphew. Tickets are $31, $41 and $51 and can be purchased at the Cowan Center box office. Box office hours are 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. UT Tyler students receive one free ticket to each event when presenting their current student ID at the box office window during single ticket sales. Student tickets may be limited to 200 tickets per performance or until tickets have sold out. All tickets are based on a first-come-first-served basis. It is recommended that students obtain tickets when they first go on sale. Faculty and staff may receive up to two discounts to each event. Founded in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook, Dance Theatre of Harlem was considered one of ballet’s most exciting undertakings. Shortly after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mitchell was inspired to start a school that would offer children, especially those in Harlem, the community in which he was born, the opportunity to learn about dance and the allied arts. Now in its fourth decade, Dance Theatre of Harlem has grown into a multi-cultural dance institution with an extraordinary legacy of providing opportunities for creative expression and artistic excellence that continues to set standards in the performing arts.
Among the recent highlights of the Company is its recent return to England in 2002 after a 14-year hiatus, opening to critical acclaim in London and Manchester, where they won the Manchester Evening News Award in Dance. In 2000, Dance Theatre of Harlem performed to sold-out houses in China, giving the country its first performances of Firebird and conducted extensive outreach and educational activities in Mandarin Chinese. That same year, the Company returned to the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, which marked its first performances on that stage in 25 years. The Dance Theatre of Harlem School continues to offer training to more than 1,000 young people annually through professional and pre-professional dance programs. The school also offers a community program open to any child who wants to study dance. Dancing Through Barriersâ, Dance Theatre of Harlem's education program, brings arts education programs to young people in schools and community centers all over the world. For more information, contact the Cowan Center box office, 903.566.7424.
Contact person: Emily Battle, (903) 565-5604
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The
renowned Dance Theatre of Harlem will be featured Tuesday, Jan.
13, at Cowan Center, announced Susan Thomae-Morphew, Cowan Center
director.
Dance
Theatre of Harlem has achieved unprecedented success, bringing innovative
and bold new forms of artistic expression to audiences in New York
City, across the country and around the world. 