Tuesday, May 22, 2012
The Brandon Ballet announces the 2012 recipient of the Richard Munro Memorial Scholarship and offers news about its auditions for summer intensives and its spring production of "Cinderella," in partnership with the Giving Hope Through Faith Foundation.
NEWS REPORT The Brandon Ballet, a pre-professional company in residence at The Dance Center, announced that Ashleigh Brossett, 13, has won this year's Richard Munro Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship of up to $500 is named posthumously for Richard Munro, who spent his life nurturing the art of ballet as a ballet master, artistic director and ballet-academy founder in Kentucky and Texas. Upon moving to Brandon, he spent the last six years of his life teaching, coaching, choreographing and performing for the Brandon Ballet. Any dancer in the community between the ages 13 and 18 are eligible to receive the scholaship, which is intended to further the recipient's classical ballet education. Selection is based on an audition in March. The …
Thursday, February 16, 2012
The scholarship allows a dancer to further his or her classical ballet education. A ballet master, Richard Munro worked the last six years of his life with the Brandon Ballet. He performed, too, including as Drosselmeyer in "The Nutcracker."
Alice Holden Bock remembers fondly the work of Richard Munro with the Brandon Ballet, the company she founded to give young dancers a chance to work with professional dancers in a showcase of regional talent. Linda Richards, a guidance counselor at Lithia Springs Elementary School, who supported the Brandon Ballet, knew of Munro, who at one time was the director of the Louisville Ballet. In his later years, he moved to Brandon. "He was looking to get back involved with ballet and we were lucky to have him," Bock said. "With both the student and professional dancers, he always approached everything with great kindness and lots of artistic quality. He was a really great person." Munro died in 2008. In honor of his contributions to the …
Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Brandon Ballet, founded by Alice Holden Bock, announces its spring production of "Cinderella" and a three-week summer intensive program for serious ballet students.
The Brandon Ballet returns to the stage with "Cinderella," a full-length, classical ballet scored by Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev and billed as a "comical, yet grand and beautiful ballet sure to entertain and inspire your entire family." Founded by Alice Holden Bock, the Brandon Ballet is in residence at the Dance Center in Brandon, at 161 East Bloomingdale Ave. The venue for the ballet is Spoto High School in Riverview, at 8538 Eagle Palm Drive, with curtain set for April 21 at 7:30 p.m. “Cinderella,” as expectd, tells the tale of a charming princess who, while locked away in her evil stepmother's lair, dreams of finding her Prince Charming. Tickets cost $25 for adults, $15 for children up to age 18 and $20 for seniors ages 55 and …
