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Article: Long Beach resident's company joins 'Ballet Russe Remembered'
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- Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
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- April 24, 2008
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MEDIA CITY BALLET AND THE MAPLE YOUTH BALLET
What: "Ballet Russe Remembered."
When: 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
Where: Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale.
Tickets: $20 to $48.
Information: (818) 243-2539, www.alextheatre.org.
Natasha Middleton, artistic director of Media City Ballet of
Burbank, likens the heightened expressions of Sunday's season-
opening program, "Ballet Russe Remembered," to those of a silent
film.
"We're not trying to step in anyone's shoes, we're just keeping
it alive," Middleton said. "Nobody can be like the Ballet Russe."
She hopes it will serve as a fitting tribute to one of the most
influential dance companies of the 20th century. Ballet Russe was
founded in Paris in ...