2007 Oakland Dance Festival June 16, 2007

Company C Contemporary Ballet presents the fourth annual Oakland Dance Festival bringing celebrated Bay Area dance to downtown Oakland.

June 16-17, 2007 and June 23-24, 2007: Saturdays: 8pm / Sundays: 2pm

ODC DANCE / COMPANY C CONTEMPORARY BALLET / FLYAWAY PRODUCTIONS

"A VERITABLE FEAST OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE IN OAKLAND"
- San Francisco Chronicle

The 2007 Oakland Dance Festival will showcase three distinguished Bay Area dance companies; Company C Contemporary Ballet, ODC/Dance and Jo Kreiter's Flyaway Productions. Unique to this year's program, Company C Contemporary Ballet has invited Oakland-based Pro Arts Gallery to curate an exhibit in the theater lobby at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts. Pro Arts will present work by Susan Matthews, an Oakland-based painter and percussionist whose paintings are based on her musical studies in Cuba. This exhibit will feature paintings with an Afro-Cuban folkloric theme. For tickets and information, please contact 925.708.0752 or visit www.companycballet.org.

The Oakland Dance Festival, the brainchild of Charles Anderson, Artistic Director of Company C Contemporary Ballet, continues in its fourth year of bringing an eclectic mix of dance to downtown Oakland. In the midst of declining dance in Oakland, the Festival not only offers the East Bay community an opportunity to experience high-quality, distinctive dance performances which showcase the diversity and artistic range of Bay Area dance, but also aims at revitalizing an otherwise underutilized theatre in Oakland at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts.

Highlights of the 2007 Oakland Dance Festival program will include Company C Contemporary Ballet's performances of Artistic Director Charles Anderson's Egyptian Two Step and Echoes of Innocence; ODC presents KT Nelson's Scramble and Brenda Way's Book of Hours; and Flyaway Productions will present Jo Kreiter's The Grim Arithmetic of Water.

About Company C Contemporary Ballet:
Company C Contemporary Ballet is a repertory ballet company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The thirteen-member ensemble is comprised of established professional dancers of diverse backgrounds and exemplary technical accomplishment. The Company brings to the stage works by nationally recognized choreographers whose work is shaping current trends in contemporary ballet.

$25.00 adult / $20.00 Student under 17.

Official Website: http://www.companycballet.org