Join the Allen Civic Ballet presents Bravo! 2024 an evening of classical and contemporary Dance on May 25th at 6:00 pm in the Lowery Center Auditorium.
This performance features the Allen Civic Ballet dancers with original choreography by Anais Chalendard, Brynt Beitman, and Leonardo Acioli. The Allen Conservatory of Dance Students will be performing excerpts from “The Tsar Maiden.” This family friendly event will be a highlight to your holiday weekend this year so bring your friends and family and support your local dance arts.
Featured Guest Artist:
Stephanie Rae Williams is proud to be dancing in her hometown of Allen, Texas! She began her training at Dallas Dance Academy with Lyndette Galen and Fiona Fairrie. She is currently in her thirteenth season with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She has danced with The Francesca Harper Project, ARC Dance Seattle, Complexions Contemporary Dance Company, Ballet Black, and Texas Ballet Theatre, where she made her professional debut. Repertoire includes works by Pam Tanowitz, Nacho Duato, Jose Limon, Helen Pickett, Arthur Mitchell, Donald Byrd, George Balanchine, John Alleyne, Dianne McIntyre, Darrel Grand Moultrie, Francesca Harper, Liam Scarlett, Robert Garland, and David Fernandez. She trained summers at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Springboard Danse Montreal, The Juilliard School, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, and Houston Ballet Academy. Ms. Williams received the 2017 Natalie Skelton Award for Artistic Excellence, was featured in Dance Magazine’s “On the Rise” in the August 2013 edition, and she was a Oprah Winfrey Fellowship recipient at the Ailey School, a 2006 National Foundation for the Arts Award Winner, a 2006 Youth America Grand Prix Finalist, and a 2004 Texas Commission on the Arts Young Master. She is currently on the faculty of the Dance Theatre Harlem School, Ballet Academy East, and has taught masterclasses all around the world.