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February 18, 2012:

Carnival!
Annual Winter Dance Party

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March 23-25, 2012:

Reflections on the Danube
EDT's 38th Annual Spring Concert Series

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Take a Journey from the Black Forest to the Black Sea!

Image of a town on the Danube in Germany as a promotion for Ethnic Dance Theatre's March 2012 production of, "Reflections on the Danube."

WHEN:

Friday, March 23 at 8pm
Saturday, 
March 24 at 8pm
Sunday, March 25 at 2pm

WHERE:

Ritz Theater
343 13th Ave NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
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TICKETS:

Adults: $20
Students/Seniors: $15 

Under 12: $12

Online: www.ritzdolls.com/tickets
Ritz Theatre Box Office:
612-436-1129
(Tuesday-Thursday, 12:30pm - 4:30pm)

ABOUT:

Take a journey from the Black Forest to Black Sea as Ethnic Dance Theatre presents, Reflections on the Danube.

The performance will be presented in EDT's signature style
with traditional choreography, live music and spectacular costumes
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ASL interpretation will be a part of each performance.

Featuring Exciting Costume and Movement. . .

Artistic Director Donald La Course, EDT resident choreographer Eva Maria Kish, and guest choreographers John Morovich from Seattle and John Omorean from the Twin Cities will create choreography for Reflections on the Danube.

Photography of two people in Croatian folk costumes that will appear in Ethnic Dance Theatre's produciton, "Reflections on the Danube."Three new choreographies will be premiered, and five works from the EDT repertoire will be revived for this concert. La Course will stage Tanze vom Schwarzwald, from the fairytale-like Black Forest of Germany. Morovich will create a new work from the Baranja region of Croatia featuring enchanting music and priceless antique costumes. Omorean’s piece comes from the Danube delta region of Dobrogea in Romania, with haunting violins and lightning footwork. Revivals will be La Course’s Severniashki Horo from Bulgaria, Oan Junge, zwoa Deandln from Austria, Trencanska Polka from Slovakia and Pesme I Igre iz Šumadija from Serbia. The show also features a revival of Kish’s A Dunarol Fujj a Szel, from the Dunantuli region of Hungary.

. . .and thrilling Sounds!

Reflections on the Danube will be a spectacular musical show. In addition to the McKnight award winning Orkestar Bez Ime performing all the musical sets, Reflections on the Danube will feature the multi-faceted vocal talents of singer Natalie Nowytski and Mila Vocal Ensemble.

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Presentation of Reflections on the Danube is made possible in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, the Target Foundation, and our individual donors.

Concert Factoids

Cultural Notes about Europe's Danube region for EDT's upcoming performance of:

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Factoid #1: What's in a name?
The name of the Danube river came into English from Latin via Norman French. The Latin form was "Danubius" or "Danuvius"; it is thought that Latin borrowed the term from either Gaulish, an ancient Celtic language, or possibly from an ancient Iranian language.

Other modern variants of the term in the national languages of countries through which the Danube flows are: Donau (German), Duna (Hungarian), Dunarea (Romanian), Dunav (Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian), Dunaj (Slovak, Ukrainian).

Each of these variants is thought to stem from *dānu, an ancient Indo-European term theorized by linguists as meaning river. *Dānu is thought to have formed from an Indo-European root *dā, meaning, "to flow,” but also “swift" or "rapid," and "violent." Other modern river names with the same etymology going back to the proto-Indo-European *dānu via Celtic and Iranian languages are: Don, Donets, Dnieper, and Dniester.

Come see Reflections on the Danube and Take a Journey from Black Forest to Black Sea!

WHERE:

Ritz Theater
343 13th Ave NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
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TICKETS:

Adults: $20
Students/Seniors: $15 

Under 12: $12

Online: www.ritzdolls.com/tickets Ritz Theatre Box Office: 612-436-1129

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Presentation of Reflections on the Danube is made possible in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, the Target Foundation, and our individual donors.

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