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| ANNOUNCEMENT | ||
Announcing our Summer Schedule for 2010 Allegro Dance Theatre is happy to announce our summer schedule, including
Please visit the Summer Classes page for more information. | ||
| Mission Statement | ||
Allegro Dance Theatre exists to provide a highly disciplined, classically based professional dance education in the style of the American based ballet companies. (i.e. Cechetti, Russian, French and Royal Ballet.) The structured environment of ADT helps to instill in dancers a love for the dance as well as a knowledge of the art form both in the classroom and on the stage. Dance requires discipline, dedication and commitment. It is an art form and must be respected as such.
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| About the Director | ||
| The ADT director and instructor for most classes at ADT is Carol E. Zagar (Miss Carol). Miss Carol has a four-year degree (BA) in dance from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. She began studying ballet at the age of five with Jack Louiso, choreographer for the Cincinnati Opera Ballet. She continued training in Chicago at the Ruth Page School of Ballet (American Ballet Theatre style) and the Ellis DuBoulay School of Ballet (Royal Ballet style). After graduation from Butler, Miss Carol went on to become principal solo dancer and ballet mistress for the Michiana Ballet in Elkhart, Indiana. At the same time she was principal dancer for the Southhold Dance Theatre in South Bend, Indiana. Another season was spent in residence with the Evansville Ballet as a principal solo dancer. She spent ten seasons as a solo dancer with the Stephen Foster Story in Bardstown, Kentucky including the show's 1985 tour of Japan. Miss Carol was a featured dancer in the 1989 Derby Dinner Playhouse Jefferson, Indiana production of 42nd Street. She is the choreographer for the critically acclaimed Tappin’ TNT, ADT Ballet Ensemble, and West Hardin Middle School Lakeside Singers. For the past 20 years she has served as choreographer for the award winning Hardin County Schools HCS & Company and the Central Hardin High School Belles and Beaux Show Choir. Miss Carol has been the choreographer for the Youth Theatre of Hardin County since 1985 including such productions as The King & I, Hello Dolly, Annie, Anything Goes, Fiddler on the Roof, Meet Me in St. Louis, Cinderella, Crazy for You, Singin’ in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, and 42nd Street. Miss Carol has also choreographed Brigadoon, OKLAHOMA!, The Sound of Music, The Princess and the Pea, Guys and Dolls, Dames at Sea and The Music Man for Hardin County Playhouse, East Hardin High School, Central Hardin High School, and the Elizabethtown Community College Home for the Arts. Miss Carol has a degree in Physical Therapy from the University of Kentucky. She is a therapist with Rebecca Massey Physical Therapy Associates. She has 2 children William Robert and Alice Darlene. | ||
| Louisville Ballet | ||
| Staff and company members of the Louisville Ballet serve as guest and master teachers for the advanced ballet and pointe classes at ADT. These classes are by invitation only. Advanced ADT students are offered these classes in order to study with another teacher and gain more dance expertise as well as experience. |
