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Vortex Featuring Dance Phenom Angela Watson June 3, 2018
May 31, 2018

News to Wright Enterprises Community Spotlight Courtesy of Oakland Ballet

2018 East Bay Dances Festival June 3rd

 
For immediate press release (May 30, 2018, Oakland, CA):
YOU’RE INVITED TO A REPEAT PERFORMANCE OF                                                                         
 
VORTEX
Performed by Angela Watson, Oakland School for the Arts School of Dance for
Savage Jazz Dance Company in the 2018 4th Annual East Bay Dances Festival Hosted by
The Oakland Ballet on Sunday, June 3, 2018, 4:00 P.M., at
Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center, Laney College 
Angela is our very own East Bay Ballerina training with OSA School of Dance and
San Francisco Ballet School, the one and only African-American Ballerina Student
completing training at Women’s Level 6 and historically, the only Black Ballerina to dance
the leading character role of “Clara” in the S.F. Nutcracker Ballet for more than the past 2 decades and
for the 2 past consecutive years (2016 & 2017) in the Company’s
73 year history of presenting this National Holiday Treasure, the 1st full length Nutcracker Ballet in America.
Angela has been training with SFBS as a Merit/Artistic Based Scholarship Award Recipient since 2016 and
is one of its featured Capital Campaign Ballerina Students.
      
              
              
           
         
                                                           Love Art Print featuring the drawing Flowing Love by Carolle Bertrand  
                                                          Love flows out like a river by Dark-Angel-90
VORTEX: A flow revolving around an axis line, straight or curved.  Smoke rings, whirlpools in the wake of boats, winds surrounding a tornado, turbulent flow, distribution of velocity, vorticity and circulation.  Her flow velocity is greatest next to her axis and decreases in inverse proportion to the distance from her axis. Viscous friction organizes her flow into a collection of irrotational vortices, superimposed to larger-scale flows and once formed, she can move, stretch, twist, and interact in complex ways carrying with her angular and linear momentum, energy, and mass.  She is VORTEX, she is ANGELA!
If you were not to able to come out last weekend to see Angela’s solo performance of this very electrifying whirlwind of a dance presentation, or you just couldn’t get enough and want to experience a repeat performance, then here is your opportunity.  After her two day dynamically boiling presentation of Vortex, Angela has been invited to repeat her performance as a guest artist of Savage Jazz Dance Company and as a representative of the Oakland School for the Arts School of Dance.  This contemporary ballet was choreographed by Reginald Ray Savage, Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer of OSA School of Dance and Savage Jazz Dance Company and is performed to Duke Ellington’s “The River Vortex” with Ellington accompanied by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.  Join the festivities by accessing more details here:  
                                                            
                

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