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Pick your seats while they are still available! Richmond Ballet, The State Ballet of Virginia, awakens and uplifts the human spirit through dance. The new second company, Richmond Ballet II, is an elite group of ten professional dancers led by Richmond Ballet’s own Resident Artist, Igor Antonov. They will present a mixed repertory program of classical ballets and invigorating contemporary works. Tickets on sale now! Click the “Buy Tickets” button above or click here. Group rates (for groups of 10 or more) are available. To purchase tickets at the group rate please contact Will Hankins at 276-466-7170. Also, VI faculty and staff should contact Will to purchase tickets.

RICHMOND BALLET II Dancer in “Notturno” by Salvatore Aiello. Richmond Ballet 2012. All rights reserved.

Richmond Ballet II is partially supported by funding from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Author and UVA Professor, Maurie McInnes, discusses her book “Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade.” You can read her bio online at: http://www.virginia.edu/art/artarch/faculty/mcinnis.html

 
Professors Jessica Turner and Chuck Pearson, and the two will host a reception for the middle school students and their families in Harrison-Jones on Friday April 19, 4:30-5:30 p.m.  The media and anyone interested in astrophotography are invited to attend.
 
For the past six weeks, Drs. Pearson and Turner, with the assistance of interns at the College, have worked with at-risk students from Virginia Middle School and Vance Middle School in Bristol, Virginia and Tennessee. The students will exhibit their photos alongside a digital exhibit at the reception. During the six-week program students were introduced to a wide variety of resources in the Smithsonian’s Micro-Observatory Telescope Network, including the ability to control the robotic telescopes via the Internet and use its software to capture their versions of the cosmos. The students’ chosen images, as well as their captions, poems, and reflections on the program, will be on display during the reception. Refreshments will be served.