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Christine Rich
Youth Ballet Company
CRYBC is a performance group comprised of Christine Rich Studio pre-professional students. Members audition each year and commit to additional weekly ballet classes as well as a weekly rehearsal. Additional training and performance opportunities strengthen students' dance progress.
The CRYBC was founded in 2002 by Ballet Director Luciana Rezende. CRYBC has presented excerpts from La Fille Mal Gardee, La Boutique Fantasque, The Sleeping Beauty (Act III) and the full-length production of The Nutcracker. In 2005, CRYBC presented Peter and the Wolf with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois.
Christine Rich Youth Ballet Company performed at the Athenaeum Theater in Chicago at Dance Chicago 2003 twice in Dance For Kids, Too! performing a classical ballet excerpt from La Fille Mal Gardee staged by Luciana Rezende, Artistic Director and a jazz piece choreographed by Christine Rich, Cosmopolitan. CRYBC performed excerpts from The Nutcracker at Dance Chicago 2004 and has a standing invitation to return to Dance Chicago annually.
The Christine Youth Ballet Company will present a diverse repertoire of adapted excerpts from classical ballet favorites as well as original choreography. The Company also offers its members the opportunity to perform alongside exceptional professional dancers invited to perform as guest artists.
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"The dancers at the Christine Rich Studio are beautifully trained and coached. I was very impressed with their performance abilities."
- Dmitri Roudnev, Director, Dmitri Roudnev Ballet
School of Chicago; Artistic Director, Ballet
Intensive from Moscow
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