Baton Rouge Arts Gala Performance 04/20/2009 »

LSMSA STUDENTS TO PERFORM IN BATON ROUGE

     Students at the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts in Natchitoches are busy polishing their musical pieces, matting their art work, rehearsing scenes from the comedy “Greater Tuna,” and practicing their dances as they get ready for their performances at LSMSA’s Arts Gala.   The Arts Gala will be held on April 28^th at 7 p.m. at the Manship Theatre in the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge.  Admission is free, and the public is cordially invited to attend.

      The audience at the Gala will be entertained by talented vocalists, dancers, musicians, actors, and artists.  Guests will also have the opportunity to view sculpture, ceramics, watercolors, and pen and ink drawings created by LSMSA’s visual arts students.  Gala attendees will be treated to a guest appearance via video by LSMSA alumnus, Josh Tickell (class of 1993).  Josh’s documentary film, “Fuel,” recently won the Audience Choice Award at the Sundance Film Festival. 

     The Gala is designed to celebrate the arts and its contribution to all lives everywhere.  Since seating is limited, please plan to come early.   LSMSA is Louisiana’s only public residential high school for high ability students (10^th-12^th grades).  The Louisiana School will be celebrating its 25^th graduating class this coming May.  LSMSA can be “the school of choice” for any student in Louisiana who desires academic challenge.  For more information about the school or the Gala, please go to www.lsmsa.edu  

The Gala program will be:

1.  Dance piece #1:  City at Night (Impulse Dance Company - Ali Arsement, Autumn Billings, Meagan Evans, Ashlei McDonald, Stephanie Michot, Anna Tan)
2. “Behind the Scenes”  Josh Callendret filmmaker
3. Solo Dance Piece #2:  “A Path of Her Own”   Anna Tan
4. Segment from “Greater Tuna”  Mason Joiner and Kyle Richard
5. Dance piece #3:  “Fives By Six” (Impulse Dance Company)
6. Josh Tickell video appearance
7. Instrumental music trio (Trio in A minor, Opus 188)  Dylan Blanchard, Phillip Larroque, and Dr. Charles Jones
8. Poetry Recitation:  “Dulce Et Decorum Est” Dylan Staley  (Poetry Out Loud state competition 3^rd place winner)
9. Instrumental music duo “Idyll”  Susannah Robichaux and Dr. Charles Jones
10.  Poetry Recitation: “Mrs Kirkorian”  Dylan Staley
11. Vocal Performance of “Nancy Hanks” by Gabby Hildestad
12. Vocal Performance of “The Wizard and I” from Wicked by Stephanie Boyd
13. Finale:  Piano:  Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2 “Tempest      Performed by Anna Tan