performances & events

Frank’s 80th Birthday/Annual Open House

Join us for Frank Shawl’s 80th Birthday Party/Performance/Fundraiser

Sunday, December 4th, 2011
2-5pm

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center
2704 Alcatraz Avenue at College Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705

Tickets:
FREE Admission
RSVP online now

For more info:
(510) 654-5921
 info@shawl-anderson.org

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Time flies when you're having fun...and there are few people in this world who know how to have as much fun as Frank Shawl, co-founder of the now 54 year old Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley, California. The public is invited to a free birthday party/open house on Sunday, December 4th, 2011 from 2-5pm at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center to honor and celebrate Mr. Shawl on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center will abound with yummy food and drink, short performances and a silent auction featuring a few of Frank's ‘favorite things.’ There will also be a fun quiz game through the day called “Facts about Frank” where winners will be awarded prizes including gift cards for dance classes at the Center.

Performances through the day will feature youth, adults, faculty and professionals from across the Bay Area. Student performances include a range of youth, from our pre-ballet students to the pre-professional teen modern-based Shawl-Anderson Youth Ensemble in work by up-and-coming choreographer Rogelio Lopez. Professional works will be shown by Sue Li-Jue of Facing East Dance & Music, Dana Lawton of Dana Lawton Dances, Anne-Rene Petrarca of the newly formed company Sculpted Motion, and by Shawl-Anderson faculty members Marcia Cantillana and Bridget McCarthy. Additional guest artists will continue to be announced as the event date approaches.

Finally, the Center is proud to unveil some recently restored archival video footage of the Shawl-Anderson Dance Company from the 1960s and 70s. The footage features co-founders Frank Shawl and Victor Anderson in works by their mentor May O’Donnell as well as performing and rehearsing their own choreography.

In lieu of birthday gifts, the Center is asking the community to consider making a tax-deductible year-end donation in honor of Mr. Shawl – a fitting gift that will support the Dance Center that he dreamed of as a young man, built, sustained and grew over the last 50 plus years. Donations will assist the non-profit Center in making much needed improvements to its century-old facility on Alcatraz at College Avenue in Berkeley to ensure that its programs will continue to be available to dancers of all ages for many birthdays to come.

Tax-deductible donations may be made online at www.shawl-anderson.org/DONATE.htm or by mailing a check to Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, attn: Birthday, 2704 Alcatraz Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705.