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Ballet Concerto was founded in 1969 by artistic director/founder Margo Dean for the express purpose of presenting the art of ballet and other forms of dance to the Fort Worth Public Schools. It was the first cultural organization in Fort Worth to request and obtain approval by the Fort Worth School Board for an annual tour of the schools. A logical complement to the Lecture Demonstrations has been the annual Ballet for Youth Holiday Special. Ballet for Youth grew out of the first school field trip sponsored by the foreign language department with a program of Peter and the Wolf which also included Dance International, Texas Tribute. In 1975, Ballet Concerto developed the first dance school for the deaf in North Texas. The American Deaf Dance Company, the Joffrey Concert Ballet, Aterballeto from Italy, the Dallas Ballet, and The Saint Petersburg Ballet from Russia. |
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| In 1986, Ballet Concerto hosted the Southwestern Regional Ballet Festival,Ballet Concerto has participated in many major arts event in Fort Worth, including First Night of Fort Worth, the Main St. Arts Festival, and Imagination Celebration. the Fort Worth Opera, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, at the Fort Worth Zoo, the Jewel Charity Ball and the Dallas Morning News Dance Festival.
In the summer of 1983, Ballet Concerto initiated the free SUMMER DANCE CONCERT, performed annually outdoors during the latter part of June in the heart of the Fort Worth Cultural District. Internationally acclaimed Spanish dancer/choreographer Luis Monteros, British born choreographer Michael Vernon, American-born ballet superstar Fernando Bujones and Christine Hay have been among guest choreographers engaged for the SUMMER DANCE CONCERT. On June 25, 1992, Ballet Concerto was the recipient of Fort Worth Mayor Kay Granger's proclamation of Ballet Concerto Day, as the company celebrated the Quincentennial with a Spanish Tribute. In addition, Ballet Concerto and Margo Dean were honored with a Certificate of Appreciation from the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Texas Jubilee Commission. Members of the Ballet Concerto Company have had careers as performers, artistic personnel, and as guest artists with the Atlanta Ballet, Ballet West in Salt Lake City, the Houston Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, the Milwaukee Ballet, the Dallas Ballet, Ballet Oregon, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Banff Festival Ballet in Canada, Ballet de Marseilles in France, the Frankfurt Ballet in Germany, the Royal New Zealand Ballet, the Fort Worth/Dallas Ballet, Southern Ballet Theater in Orlando, the Sacramento Ballet, and the Nevada Ballet Theater. Other company dancers have performed on Broadway stages and in such musicals as How Now Dow Jones and 42nd Street, and the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. |
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