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About Me

Location:
5533 Far Hills Ave
Dayton OH, 45459
Contact:
937-439-9935
[email protected]
The Centerville Contemporary Ballet is a pre-professional youth ballet company and training program focused on raising young artists with sound classical technique and an understanding of personal artistic style. With innovative teaching techniques and a family style atmosphere, the CCB staff help children develop a passion not only for dance itself, but also for the intellectual understanding of one's own body and the origin of movement from within.
Classically trained, the dancers are also fluent in contemporary movement and are just as comfortable in pointe shoes as they are barefoot. The company itself is very young. CCB came into existence in 2003 under the direction of Renee Cook. Prior to the inception of the company, the dancers have been trained at the Howard School of Dance, the host school for the Centerville Contemporary Ballet, and recieved stage experience through the competition program at HSD under the Direction of Debra Howard.
As part of their training, our dancers begin studying performance videos from the world's top dancers from a very early age, from classics like 'Sleeping Beauty' to contemporary choreographers such as Jiri Kylian . This has created an instinctive understanding of what works and what does not and has allowed the dancers to be free of fear in learning new types of movement. Feel free to check out the artistic director's You Tube site designed to help expose the students to some of the greatest ballet out there today. www.youtube.com/eyesaverted
The Centerville Contemporary Ballet participates in the Youth American Grand Prix, the world's fastest growing international ballet competition. Last season two of our dancers had the honor of being invited to attend the Finals in New York City.
This season our Artistic Director had the pleasure of informing all dancers in our upper two levels that they had qualified to compete in New York City this April. Please check the list to the left for more specifics. In the meantime, click here for more info on this exciting competition.
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Centerville Contemporary Ballet is non-profit organization.
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My Interests

Centerville Contemporary Ballet is pleased to announce that we have qualified to compete in Youth American Grand Prix's International Finals in New York City in April!

We are honored to Congratulate:

Kissing You - Contemporary Ballet Solo

Dan Baughn

Swan Lake Pas de Trois

Dan Baughn, L. Kidd, and E. Hayes

Moonlight

M. DeVine, E. Hayes, E. Hume, L. Kidd, K. Osowski, A. Parrish, and J. Slusher

Objectivity

Dan Baughn, E. Dicus, E. Eberhart, P. Gilliotte, K. Gordon, Madeleine Hinton, J. Levin

CCB would also like to congratulate E. Anderson and E. Eberhart for being accepted into YAGP's NY Intensive.

Thank you all for you hard work!

Music:

Sites every dancer needs to know about:

Discount Dance

Jet Glue

Therabands

More Therabands

Summer Intensive Info

More Summer Intensive info on Dance.net

American Ballet Theatre

New York City Ballet

Pacific Northwest Ballet

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

The Joffrey Ballet

The Youth American Grand Prix

*Stay tuned for more links!*

Movies:

Members of CCB have been accepted into and attended the following summer programs: Harid Conservatory, North Carolina Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, Nutmeg, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Virginia School of the Arts, The Rock, Kirov, Chautauqua, and Ballet Chicago.

My Blog

Edits

Music edits are trickling in. Below is a list of those who can pick up copies of completed pieces in the office:Kidd SensemanLevinHayesDeVine
Posted by CenContemporaryBallet on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:56:00 PST

New You Tube

I'm working on a new, more comprehensive You Tube site that should allow you to find playlists based on either the performer, the ballet, the style, performance vs. rehearsal, and student work. ...
Posted by CenContemporaryBallet on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:38:00 PST

Foot strength video

Here's some great information on how to stop using the FHL tendon behind the ankle while pointing your feet and to begin focusing on the muscles underneath the foot.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhyV...
Posted by CenContemporaryBallet on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:34:00 PST

Thursday Sept 25

Please make certain parents check their emails for information regarding tonights schedule!
Posted by CenContemporaryBallet on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:47:00 PST

Congrats Dan! We’re all so proud!

Congratulations Mr. Danly Blackbeard on being accepted into the Harid Conservatory year round program.Wow kid.We're gonna miss you so much, but I know the entire staff and student body here couldn't b...
Posted by CenContemporaryBallet on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:37:00 PST

CCB’s very own "Where’s Waldo!"

Are you guys old enough to remember "Where's Waldo?"Anyway, our Ms. Maddie is having tons of fun at ABT! The program has been cool enough to post a daily photo blog. I've found Maddie 4 ti...
Posted by CenContemporaryBallet on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:10:00 PST

One more thought and I’m done for the day!

*I'm cleaning out my in box and finding all these wonderful things to share! Read them at your leisure. You never know if one of them has a gem of information that helps you!*The High Cost...
Posted by CenContemporaryBallet on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:56:00 PST

Water of Coke

WATER1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half the world population)2.&...
Posted by CenContemporaryBallet on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:48:00 PST

Whatcha up to?

What have you created today? Whether you realize it or not, you've been very busy in the act of creation. Perhaps you've been hard at work or maybe just hanging out "doing nothing," but either way you...
Posted by CenContemporaryBallet on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:53:00 PST

Consciousness

How often have you been driving your car, ended up at your destination without remembering the last hour of your journey? Or have you been sat at work with a deadline looming and suddenly realiz...
Posted by CenContemporaryBallet on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:49:00 PST