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CenterStage: Special Events


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Weston Box Office:
978-665-3347
Mon - Fri  12:30 - 3:30

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CenterStage Special Events:

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Master Classes:
Full Circle Productions

Thursday, Sept. 20 at 7 PM
Parkinson Gym
Dance Studio (Recreation Center)

Tickets:
  $15  general public;
  free to FSC students

Call the Weston Box Office for tickets.

Learn the best in breaks, pops, ticks and locks at this extraordinary opportunity for area dancers to work with the B-girls and B-boys of the Full Circle hip hop dance company. Full Circle will be performing at CenterStage in March. This is a classical technique master class taught by company members.

For dancers with experience. Limited enrollment.

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Nosferatu
with live score by Devil Music Ensemble

Thursday, Oct. 11 at 7 PM
Ellis White Lecture Hall (Hammond Campus Center)

Nosferatu—A Symphony of Horrors—is one of the classic vampire films from the 1920s. It is “a silent masterpiece of terror which to this day is the most striking and frightening portrayal of the legend.” The film’s characters come to life and the story is complemented with the Devil Music Ensemble’s live soundscape created from electric violin, vibraphone, synthesizer, guitar, lap steel, drums and percussion. If you missed DME the last time they were here, now is your chance to have one unique experience.

Tickets: (at the door)
$7 general public;
$5 seniors,
$3 FSC students
Free with CenterStage membership!

Call the Weston Box Office for information.

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Meet the Biddies:
Women working in the Music Biz…

Thursday, Nov. 1 at 2 PM
Percival Auditorium

Admission: free

Free parking available at the Wallace Civic Center; take FSC shuttle bus.

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Find out how the fun and funky ladies of the Lascivious Biddies blend their cabaret-pop style with business and brains. Through a combination of lecture and performance, they will take you on an inside journey through the multi-genre world of all things Biddy. Topics include: repertoire, business, performing, recording and podcasting.

Rik Reppe:
Staggering Towards America

Thursday, Nov. 8 at 7:30 PM
Kent Recital Hall (Conlon Music)

Tickets:
$10  general public,
$7 seniors,
$5 FSC students and under 18

Free with CenterStage membership card!

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All of us reacted to September 11 in myriad ways. For Rik Reppe, a management consultant from Los Angeles, his response was to completely alter his life. After closing his business, he packed his pickup truck and left California for an eight-week trip across the country, stopping at the sites of the attacks, and talking to people about what it means to be an American. Out of that journey grew his one-man theater/performance piece—Staggering Towards America.

Reppe, a self-acknowledged cynic, started out disparaging about the country and its people, but found "in small acts that such things as honesty, charity, nobility, community and patriotism really do exist and that blows my cynicism all to pieces."

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Firebird Ensemble:
Development of character and narrative through music

Friday, December 7 at 12:30 PM
Percival Auditorium

Admission: free

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Kate Vincent, artistic director and violist of Firebird Ensemble, and Aaron Engebreth, Baritone soloist, will lead this lively and interactive session on the use/manipulation of source material from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol in Jon Deak's composition, The Passion of Scrooge for baritone and 10 instruments. Specific compositional devices used by the composer (including the creation of special effects) will be discussed in the context of narrative, mood and character development. The final topic will be Deak's multifaceted use of instrumentalists as both actors and musicians.

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Master Class:
Full Circle Productions

Thursday, Mar. 27 at 7 PM
Dance Studio (Recreation Center)

Tickets:
  $15  general public;
  free to FSC students

Call the Weston Box Office for tickets!

A classical technique master class that focuses on power moves, freeze, the tick, popping and locking. The class will be taught by company members.

For dancers with experience. Limited enrollment.

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