Spring Series 2025
Spotlight Performance
PERFORMANCES
Fri. March 21th at 7:30 pm
Sat. March 22nd at 2:00 pm
Tickets: $40 (available at UptownWestChester.org)
Uptown Knauer Performing Arts Center
226 N. High Street, West Chester, PA
The Spotlight Performance will include Repertoire Highlights from Brandywine Ballet: Voices, Now We Are Free, and Colour Brillante, along with Rhythm Room, a Company Premiere of Brandywine Contemporary.
Voices
Inside each of us, there is light and dark; good and evil, constantly at battle. Life is about creating balance, not suppressing your good, not suppressing your bad, but rather embracing them equally for one cannot exist without the other. We all have hatred, sorrow, greed, arrogance, and ego. We all also have kindness, empathy, peace, love, and compassion. The side you choose to fuel is the one that wins in the end.
Voices is choreographed by Nancy Page and is set to the music of renowned West Chester composer, Samuel Barber.
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Photo: Susan Royce
Photo: Susan Royce
Now We Are Free
Originally performed in 2009, this neo-classical piece was primarily choreographed to highlight the younger students of the ballet company, offering them a mature piece that challenges their artistic development.
Rhythm Room
Brandywine Contemporary will raise the cool factor in "Rhythm Room". The intimate Uptown Theater is the perfect venue to spend an evening taking in the timeless works from classic to contemporary jazz musicians. Music will include selections from artist Miles Davis, Ramsey Lewis, Dave Brubeck, McCoy Turner and St. Germain.
Colour Brillante
“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest, and compassion ... open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.”
— Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
Photo: Jacqui Mohl
Photo: Susan Royce
Running time: Approximately 90 minutes, with a 15 minute intermission
Seating begins: 30 minutes prior to showtime