WINTER WONDERLAND: Celebrating Holidays Across Cultures

Presidio Dance Theatre Junior Company presents
WINTER WONDERLAND:
CELEBRATING HOLIDAYS ACROSS CULTURES™
Family Matinee, December 13, 3pm,
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon St, San Francisco

Sherene Melania, Artistic Director of Presidio Dance Theatre Junior Company will present its annual benefit holiday presentation: WINTER WONDERLAND: CELEBRATING HOLIDAYS ACROSS CULTURES™, Family Matinee, 3pm, Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon St, San Francisco.

Tickets are $35, $ 50, and $100. Box Office link http://www.presidiodance.org/pdf/WinterWonderlandTicketOrderForm.pdf. Proceeds from this performance are used to sponsor the charitable works of Presidio Performing Arts Foundation, including fund afterschool dance outreach to underserved children and student scholarships for talented children.

A wonderful alternative to the Nutcracker, WINTER WONDERLAND, a narrated international holiday production, opens a joyful world with feelings of amazement, festivity and wonder, delighting audiences of all ages with a celebration of holiday favorites from the great ballets and holidays across cultures. Costumes for this matinee are created especially for the school by the artists and designers of the Mariinsky Theatre (home of the Kirov Ballet). A festive Holiday Party follows the performance.

Presidio Dance Theatre Junior Company has been named as "San Francisco's Dance Ambassadors to the world" by two Mayors. They performed in the famed White Nights Festival in Russia last summer and have recently been selected as the ONLY dance group to represent the United States at the largest international children's festival in Turkey, April 2010.

In June, 2010, The School of Presidio Dance Theatre will re-locate to a new state of the art facility on the Presidio's Main Post with double its present capacity of studio and production space and community programs. For more information call 415 561-3958 or visit www.PresidioDance.org

Presidio Dance Theatre's Junior Company will represent the United States of America at the world's largest International Children's Festival in Turkey

BREAKING NEWS! Presidio Dance Theatre's Junior Company has been selected to represent the United States of America at the world's largest international children's festival in Izmir, Turkey---APRIL 2010. Each year, Turkey's Ministry of Culture and TRT host a festival with 10,000+ children representing 65 nations. As America's only representative, this is a large honor for our young people's dance group and their selection to share the stage with children from all over the world. Besides performing an American Suite of Dances, the Junior Company will perform the festival's only and first presentation of Assyrian and Armenian dances. TRT (national television of Turkey) projects the festival around the world and each participant receives a fabulous cultural education, as well! Further, the Junior Company has been to invited to perform in the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Ankara for a special classical ballet evening. The tour will also include special events in Istanbul. Presidio Dance Theatre's popular Turkish choreographer Ahmet Luleci will lead the tour.

Check out this great web page about Presidio Dance Theatre on World Arts West's website

http://www.worldartswest.org/main/edf_performer.asp?i=155

Presidio Dance Theatre's Junior Company & Presidio Dance Theatre's professional Dance Company Collage West were both featured in the Assyrian Festival

Congratulations to all Junior Company members who performed at this years Assyrian Festival in Ceres California this past weekend September 12 & 13, 2009. It was a great success. Not only did some of the Junior Company members perform but also Collage West performed as well. The 12th annual Assyrian Food Festival featured authentic Assyrian foods, homemade pastries, an Assyrian tea house, cultural displays, music and entertainment. Assyrians are a Christian ethnic group that traces its heritage back to an ancient empire in Iraq and Turkey that lasted most of the second millennium B.C.

Presidio Dance Theatre & Sherene Melania were featured in the Modesto Bee.
http://www.modbee.com/scene/story/849427.html

Congratulations to Presidio Dance Theatre Junior Company Member Sabrina Perell who won 2 gold medals in Dance at the JCC Maccabi Games

Congratulations to Presidio Dance Theatre Junior Company member Sabrina Perell who won 2 Gold Medals in dance at the Maccabi Games this past Summer.

Congratulations to Presidio Dance Theatre Junior Company Member Maddy Chan

Congratulations to Maddy Chan who represented San Francisco at the Congressional Youth Leadership Council and is a distinguished alumna. Ms. Sherene has been invited to nominate the next school year conferences. If your child is interested in being nominated please contact Bryan at (415) 561-3958 to make arrangements.

Presidio Dance Theatre Junior Company Dancers Remember Michael Jackson's Life featured on KTVU's 5 & 6 O'clock News

http://www.ktvu.com/video/19986090/index.html
Yesterday morning, Presidio Dance Theatre Junior Company dancers Tahirih Skolnik and Gina Brignetti were interviewed by KTVU's Jesse Gary regarding their feelings about the memorial services for Michael Jackson. They were on KTVU's 5 & 6 o'clock news yesterday (07-07-2009). The news story also features them dancing at the Presidio Dance Theatre Studio.

Matise and Presidio Dance Theatre at the Hermitage State Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Presidio Dance Theatre Junior Company members enjoyed touring the Hermitage Museum and viewing dance paintings by renowned artists. This was a favorite!!! Pictured: Alison Shimmon, Mia Blaine, Madeleine Lamm, and Tabitha Block.