EVENTS
BERREND Dance Centre students have an abundance of performance opportunities. As the official school of Olney Ballet Theatre, all BDC students are encouraged to participate in OBT productions, which include the staging of Mary Day's The Nutcracker at Olney Theatre Center's Historic Stage every December, as well as such productions such as Storybook Ballet and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. In addition to OBT performances, each spring Berrend Dance Centre presents its end of year Dance Concert. This performance is an exciting compilation of dance, exposing the students to new choreography and showcasing the skills they have learned during the year.
UPCOMING EVENTS
BDC Dance Showcase
Saturday, Feb 29th
5:30 p.m.
Free Admission
Berrend Open House & Boys Audition
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24TH
OPEN HOUSE SCHEDULE
10:00-10:30 - Ages 4-6
10:30-11:00 - Ages 7-9
11:00-11:30 - Ages 9-11
11:30-12:00 - Ages 12+
BOYS AUDITION SCHEDULE
No previous dance training required
10:00-10:30 - Ages 8-11
10:30-11:00 - Ages 12-14
11:00-11:30 - Ages 15-17
Master Class Series - Menghan Lou - Professional dancer for the Nederlands Dans Theater Creator and Founder of Lou Motion
2019 Open Auditions for "The Nutcracker"
September 28 & 29
Auditions held at Berrend Dance Studio
39264 Gaither Road, Gaithersburg, MD
2019 Olney Ballet Theatre presents Mary Day's "The Nutcracker"
Performances run from December 12 -24, 2019
Click for Performance Dates and Times
All performances held at the Historic Stage of the Olney Theatre Center
2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, MD 20832
Master Class Series - Victoria Vittum, Co-Founder Houston Repertoire Ballet
Summer at Berrend
June 17 - August 30
Dance Camps and Summer Intensives
2019 Spring Concert
Saturday, May 25th
1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Good Counsel High School
17301 Old Vic Boulevard
Olney, MD 20832
Berrend Grand Opening
Saturday, April 27th
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Tour the facility; Meet instructors; sign-up for classes.
Orfee ed Euridice An opera by W. Gluck
Friday, April 12, at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 13, at 7:30pm
Sunday, April 14, at 3:00pm
Silver Spring Black Box Theater (8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910)
Opera is fully staged, performed in Italian with English supertitles. In costume. Accompanied by orchestra. In collaboration with Bel Cantanti Opera and Olney Ballet Theatre.
Tickets are sold online through www.eventbrite.com and at the door.
Information: (240)230-7372 or tickets@belcantanti.com
Go to Eventbrite Adult: $40, Senior: $35, Student: $15. Groups of 10 and more: $30.
Master Class Series - Robin Sherertz Morgan, Associate Director of San Diego Ballet
My Beautiful Galatea An operetta by F. Suppe
Saturday, December 29, at 7:30pm
Sunday, December 30, at 3:00pm
Saturday, January 5, at 7:30pm
Sunday, January 7, at 3:00pm
Randolph Road Theater (4010 Randolph Rd, Silver Spring, MD)
A famous story of Pygmalion and Galatea. Love, which transformed a marble statue into a beautiful woman. Fully staged. Performed in English with English spoken dialogues. In collaboration with Bel Cantanti Opera and Olney Ballet Theatre.
Tickets are sold online through www.eventbrite.com and at the door.
Information: (240)230-7372 or tickets@belcantanti.com
Go to Eventbrite Adult: $40, Senior: $35, Student: $15. Groups of 10 and more: $30.
Les Pecheurs de Perles (Pearl Fishers) An opera in three acts by G. Bizet
Friday, November 9, at 7:30pm
Sunday, November 11, at 3:00pm
Saturday, November 17, at 7:30pm
Sunday, November 18, at 3:00pm
Silver Spring Black Box Theater (8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910)
A story about love, passion, jealousy and friendship. Opera is fully staged, performed in French with English supertitles. In costume. Accompanied by orchestra. In collaboration with Bel Cantanti Opera and Olney Ballet Theatre.
Tickets are sold online through www.eventbrite.com and at the door.
Information: (240)230-7372 or tickets@belcantanti.com
Go to Eventbrite Adult: $40, Senior: $35, Student: $15. Groups of 10 and more: $30.
Taste of Tomorrow - opera a la carte
3:00pm
Randolph Road Theater (4010 Randolph Rd, Silver Spring, MD)
Concert-preview of Bel Cantanti's 15th season will include the snippets of the future performances of 2018-2019:
C. Bizet's opera Les Pecheurs de Perles (Pearl Fishers)
operetta by Franz von Suppe My Beautiful Galatea
W. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
W. Gluck' Orfeo ed Euridice
N. Rimsky-Korsakov The Tsar's Bride .
Ballet excerpts of the shows will be presented by The Olney Ballet Theatre. Choreography by Runqiao Du.
Tickets are sold online through www.eventbrite.com and at the door.
Information: (240)230-7372 or tickets@belcantanti.com
Go to Eventbrite Adult: $40, Senior: $35, Student: $15. Groups of 10 and more: $30.
2018 Open Auditions for "The Nutcracker"
September 15 & 16, 2018
Auditions held at Berrend Dance Studio
3460 Olney-Laytonsville Road, Suite 210, Olney, Maryland
Berrend Open House
1:00-3:00
Meet instructors, see the studio, and sign-up for classes.
Boys Division Audition
September 1st and September 8th
2:00-3:00
No prior ballet training experience necessary. The audition is to assess students' physical and mental capacity to ensure a safe learning environment. Prospective students can wear athletic clothing for the audition.
Fall Registration Open
2018 Strawberry Festival
Saturday, June 2nd: 11:30 -11:50 a.m.
Sunday, June 3rd: 12:30-12:50 p.m.
Sandy Spring Museum, 17901 Bentley Road, Sandy Spring, MD 20860 (on Route 108). Performing on the Community Stage.
In conjunction with Olney Ballet Theatre, dancers perform classical and contemporary ballet, modern dance, hip hop and tap numbers at the annual Strawberry Festival.
2018 Four Seasons Dancers "Dances of the World"
7:00 p.m.
Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center, 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD
In conjunction with Olney Ballet Theatre
2018 Spring Concert
Our Lady of Good Counsel High School
17301 Old Vic Boulevard, Olney, MD 20832
1:00 p.m. & 5:00 p.m. performances
Sadko
Sunday, March 18, at 3:00pm
Friday, March 23, at 7:30pm
Sunday, March 25, at 3:00pm
Randolph Rd, Theater, 4010 Randolph Road, Silver Spring, MD 20902
Russian city of Novgorod in the 12th century. Sadko, a historical figure, travels around the world, leaving his wife, Lubava, at home in Novgorod and eventually returns a wealthy man. During his years of travel he amasses a fortune, weds the daughter of the legendary Sea-King and Queen of the Ocean. Upon his return, the city, its people and Lubava rejoice. The opera is filled with incredible melodies, dances and images of medieval Rus. Sung in Russian with English projected supertitles. In collaboration with Bel Cantanti Opera and The Four Seasons Dancers.
Cendrillon (Cinderella)
December 23, 2017 at 7:30 p.m.
December 30, 2017 at 7:30 p.m.
January 6, 2017 at 7:30 p.m.
Theatre of the Concord - St. Andrews United Methodist Church (5910 Goldsboro Rd. Bethesda, MD)
In conjunction with Only Ballet theatre and Bel Cantanti Opera in this beautiful French operetta. Everybody's favorite story sung and danced on the music of P. Viardot and F. Chopin. Performed in costume, fully staged.
Olney Ballet Theatre presents Mary Day's "The Nutcracker"
Performances run from December 7, 2017 to December 24, 2017
Click for Performance Dates and Times
All performances held at the Historic Stage of the Olney Theatre Center
2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, MD 20832
The Nutcracker Tea
December 17, 2017
3:30 p.m.
Norbeck Country Club
Ballroom
17200 Cashell Rd, Rockville, MD
Puerto Rico Benefit Concert
Fri, December 1, 2017
7:30 PM – 10:30 PM EST
Rosborough Center Theater. Asbury Village, Gaithersburg.
409 Russell Avenue
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
A benefit concert. A night of Opera, Dance, and Ballet for a great cause. 100% of the tickets sales from this one night only event will go to UMCOR (Unied Methodist Commitee on Relief) to be sent to the people in Puerto Rico. Bel Cantanti Opera, The Four Seasons Dancers, the Olney Ballet . Opera Favorites, Dances from Around the World, P. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker.
Cendrillon (Cinderella)
Theatre of the Concord - St. Andrews United Methodist Church (5910 Goldsboro Rd. Bethesda, MD)
In conjunction with Olney Ballet Theatre, dancers perform with the Bel Cantanti Opera in Cendrillon (Cinderella), an opera-ballet in One Act. Music by P. Viardot and F. Chopin.
Four Seasons Dancers "Dances of the World"
Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center, 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD
In conjunction with Olney Ballet Theatre
Strawberry Festival
Sandy Spring Museum, 17901 Bentley Road, Sandy Spring, MD 20860 (on Route 108). Performing on the Community Stage.
In conjunction with Olney Ballet Theatre, dancers performed classical and contemporary ballet, modern dance, and tap numbers at the 36th annual Strawberry Festival.
2017 Spring Concert
Good Counsel High School
17301 Old Vic Boulevard
Olney, MD 20832
Zanetto & Le Villi
Randolph Road Theater, 4010 Randolph Road, Silver Spring, MD 20901
An evening of Italian opera. Puccini's first opera "Le Villi" (the story of the ballet "Giselle" and Mascagni's "Zanetto (The Three Sundays of a Poet). In conjunction with Olney Ballet Theatre and joined in production with Bel Cantanti Opera .
The Medium & The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore
Randolph Road Theater, 4010 Randolph Road, Silver Spring, MD 20901
An Evening with G. C. Menotti. Menotti's one-act opera Medium and a "madrigal fable" for chorus and dancers The Unicorn, the Gordon, and the Manticore (The Three Sundays of a Poet). Fully staged, in costume, sung in English with projected images and supertitles. In conjunction with Olney Ballet Theatre and in collaboration with Bel Cantanti Opera Company. Accompanied by BCO chamber orchestra.Accompanied by BCO chamber orchestra.
Four Seasons Dancers "Dances of the World"
Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center, 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD
In conjunction with Olney Ballet Theatre.
Strawberry Festival
Sandy Spring Museum, 17901 Bentley Road, Sandy Spring, MD 20860 (on Route 108). Performing on the Community Stage.
In conjunction with Olney Ballet Theatre, pieces being performed : • 2 Modern Solos, • Tap 2 in I Just Got A Letter, • The solo from Le Corsaire, which won Third place in the Boston Regional Competition of the Youth America Grand Prix in March, • Pre-Professional 1 level Jazz piece I Wanna Be a Dancing Man, • Hip Hop 2 class in The Wild Wild West, • Advanced Modern class Contraposition.
Ruslan and Ludmila
Ruslan and Lumila is a magic fairytale by Michail Glinka. First time produced in USA, sung in Russian with English super-titles, semi-staged, in costume. Accompanied by the chamber orchestra. In conjunction with Olney Ballet Theatre and in collaboration with Bel Cantanti Opera Company.
YAGP Finals
The Jack Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
BDC dancers will be performing in the YAGP finals. The Finals of YAGP are a week-long program where more than 1,000 of the most promising young dancers receive mentoring, professional and performance opportunities and scholarships.
BDC DANCERS SCHEDULE:
• Sat. 4/23/2016 (8:30pm-10:30pm) Ensemble Group 2 Competition: "Entropy" - #839
• Sun. 4/24/2016 (10:00am-11:30am) Senior Contemporary Group 1: "Eclat" Amelia D. - #233
• Mon. 4/25/2016 (2:00pm-3:45pm) Senior Classical Group 1: "Odalisque" Amelia D. - #233
YAGP Semi-Finals
John Hancock Hall Theater, Boston, MA
In Boston, Massachusetts, at the last of 23 national and international YAGP Semi-Finals, Berrend Dance Centre dancers scored top placement in three categories: Ensembles, Classical solos and Contemporary solos.
The dancers, who range from age 13 to 18, scored Top 12 in Ensembles with an excerpt from the contemporary ballet "Entropy" choreographed by Aaron Jackson, BDC ballet instructor and former company member of The Washington Ballet. In the Contemporary Solo Category, Aaron Jackson choreographed two winning pieces, “Brio” and “Eclat”.
AWARDS RECEIVED:
• Top 12 Ensembles: “Entropy” by Aaron Jackson
Featuring dancers Salema T., Xochi A., Maya I., Carissa C., Coral D., Alexandra M., Amelia D., Julia L., Jasmine S., Kate B., Nicole P., Margaux L., Rita C., & Allison C.
• Third Place Senior Classical Women and YAGP NYC Soloist Finalist: Amelia D.
• Top 24 Senior Classical Women: Allison C.,
• Top 12 Senior Contemporary Women: Allison C. with “Brio” & Amelia D. with “Eclat”
Berrend Open House
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Meet instructors, see the studio, and sign-up for classes.
Boys Division Audition
No prior ballet training experience necessary. The audition is to assess students' physical and mental capacity to ensure a safe learning environment. Prospective students can wear athletic clothing for the audition.
Open Auditions for "The Nutcracker"
September 23 & 24, 2017
Auditions held at Berrend Dance Studio
3460 Olney-Laytonsville Road, Suite 210, Olney, Maryland