Tom Tom Festival
downtown mall: beginning at the freedom of speech wall
Saturday, April 19 at 10am and 12pm
**FREE**
Join us for a traveling dance performance on the Downtown Mall for Tom Tom Festival! This 30 minute performance will begin at the East end of the mall at the Freedom of Speech wall and travel down the mall finishing at the Code building. Dancers from ABT will perform excerpts from our upcoming 20th Anniversary Gala performance, including Etudes and Little Red Riding Hood.
step into the story: Little Red riding hood
ABt whitebox theater
Saturday, May 3 at 2pm & 4pm
Sunday, May 4 at 2pm & 4pm
$10 General Admission
*Lap children under 1 are free
This community-focused performance series was created for our youngest audience members. Enjoy a 30-minute sensory-friendly adaptation of this classic story, rewritten with a happy ending twist. Audience members will learn classical ballet positions and steps from the ballet, get a chance to meet and take photos with Little Red Riding Hood, the comedic Wolf, and their friends, and hold real pointe shoes!
Lap children under 1 are free!
20TH ANNIVERSARY SPRING GALA
WAYNESBORO HIGH SCHOOL THEATER
Saturday, May 31 at 5:00pm
Sunday, June 1 at 2:00pm
$24 Adults
$18 Students/Seniors/Veterans
*Lap children under 2 are free
Join us for an evening celebrating a legacy of 20 years of dance in the community!
Featuring ABT’s original full length story ballet, Little Red Riding Hood. This modern adaptation of the classic Charles Perrault tale is reimagined in 19th-century Appalachia and has a comedic happy ending twist! Brilliantly created and restaged by Nicky Coelho, this outside-of-the-box ballet will have you laughing, smiling, and clapping along!
The classical ballet “Études”, after Harald Lander’s 1948 production, is a demonstration of a ballet class set to Knudåge Riisager’s luscious score. This climatic ballet is reimagined and restaged by Veronica Piller and performed by ABT's pre-professional level dancers, who shine in their technicality and unison.
‘Ein Gedi’ is a collaboration featuring selections from Nicky Coelho's “Gospel in Motion” and Veronica Piller’s “Salt and Light”. This moving liturgical wends its way through stories of the Gospels and features ABT students and former professional dancers.