Firebird Dance Theatre: The Best of 20
Annual Benefit Performance in memory of Rosa Lysaya
 
Firebird Dance Theatre will showcase its most beloved dances of the past 20 years in a performance benefiting the Oshman Family JCC. Featuring dancers of all ages, this vibrant show will blur the boundaries between world and contemporary dance while paying tribute to the place where it all began.
 
Firebird started at the Palo Alto JCC in 1991 by world-renowned teacher and choreographer Rosa Lysaya. Known then as the Lysaya Dance School, it enrolled six students and focused on traditional folk dances from Russia and around the world. 

The current director, Lotta  Lysaya-Barton (daughter of Rosa), brings an annual benefit concert to the Schultz Cultural Hall to pay homage to where the theater started. Firebird's signature style is known as modern or contemporary folk.

Part children’s dance recital, part professional-level concert, The Best of 20 showcases inventive, complex, and well-executed choreography based on traditional Ukrainian, Russian, Armenian, Moldavian, Argentinean, French, Latin and Gypsy steps.

“It’s important to keep traditions, because it’s a good way for people to communicate their different cultures," says Lysaya-Barton. "But you need to be up-to-date to attract new generations.”

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Date: Saturday, April 21
Time: 5:00-7:30 PM
Location: Schultz Cultural Arts Hall
Fee: $15 Members,
$20 Non-Members/Community Members
Contact: Boris Vladimirsky
(650) 223-8609
bvladimirsky@paloaltojcc.org





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