HarfordBalletCompany.org
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Harford Ballet Company
Description
HBC’s full-scale productions provide our dancers with an opportunity to teach and touch the minds and hearts of our large Harford County audience. Since 1999 HBC has presented the classic favorite The Nutcracker, a winter holiday tradition that is often a young person’s first experience at the ballet. Additionally since 1998, in the spring of each year HBC produces a ballet adaptation of a cherished fairy tale including Beauty and the Beast in 2003 and Cinderella in 2004. Sleeping Beauty is the feature of the 2005 season.
In conjunction with its annual Nutcracker, HBC developed a Nutcracker Outreach Program wherein they invite children, ages 2 to 5, from Harford County child care facilities to the Fallston Child Care Center for entertainment with an excerpt from the ballet as an abridged version of the story is narrated. Afterwards, the HBC Dancers, still in costume, lead the children to a decorated Tea Party area for refreshments. Another successful program of HBC is the Parent-and-Tot creative movement class offered with the Associated Catholic Charities’ Early Headstart Program. This program exposes children to dance and creative movement, often for the first time, in a warm yet educational setting. In continuation of our outreach goals, HBC regularly provides blocks of tickets to performances to the Edgewater Village Center. Without HBC taking the initiative to facilitate the attendance of these underprivileged children, most would simply not have this opportunity to be inspired and educated by a professional theater performance.
HBC also participates in community festivals such as the Harford County ArtQuest Festival (yearly since 2000) and ArtView at the Festival of the Arts in Bel Air, MD (2002, 2004). These venues enable HBC to share their artistic offerings with a wide and diverse Harford County audience.
Languages
English
Contact
- Dental Technology Center, Inc.
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- Fallston MD
- US 21047
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- +1.4108773625
