Riverdance - Encore Performance
Tuesday, March 6; 7:30 pm
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Grigorovich Ballet presents Legends of Russian Ballet
Friday, March 9; 8:00 pm and Saturday, March 10; 3:00 pm
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Damn Yankees
Friday, March 23; 7:30 pm
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Discover the Difference:

Middle & Upper School at
RIVERMONT COLLEGIATE

Upper School (Grades 9-12) Info Night

Tuesday, February 28th - 6:00 p.m.

Middle School (Grades 6-8) Info Night

Tuesday, March 6th - 6:00 p.m.

Why Middle & Upper School at Rivermont?

Challenging curriculum with a wide variety of AP & Independent Study options Broad spectrum of electives, extra-curricular activities & athletics Comprehensive advising system & individualized college counseling 100% of graduates are accepted to 4-year colleges & universities

These events are open to the community. Join us to explore Rivermont - no pressure, just information!

For more information and to RSVP:
Rachel Chamberlain, Director of Admission & Marketing, (563) 359-1366 ext. 302 - chamberlain@rvmt.org

Events will be held on the Rivermont campus, located directly off 18 th Street behind K&K Hardware in Bettendorf.

RIVERMONT COLLEGIATE

1821 Sunset Drive - Bettendorf, IA 52722 - www.rvmt.org

The Quad Cities' only private, independent, nonsectarian, multicultural college-prep school, serving students in preschool through grade 12.

Iowa City, IA - Riverside Theatre will host the first in a series of special events related to its upcoming summer Festival production of The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, on Thursday, March 1 at 7 p.m. The lecture and presentation by Shakespearean scholar and UI English professor Miriam Gilbert, titled "Shakespeare and 'the likeness of a Jew' Shylock, Fagin and Disraeli" will take place at the Iowa City Public Library, 123 South Linn St, in Meeting Room A. The event is free and open to the public.

 

Shylock is one of Shakespeare's most famous?and most controversial?characters.  During this presentation Gilbert will ask, is he a knife-wielding villain or a misunderstood victim?  The talk will also examine how our view of Shylock has been influenced by figures from literature, from history, and from his various stage representations.

 

Riverside Theatre is receiving support from the National Endowment for the Arts for The Merchant of Venice and accompanying audience education and outreach efforts related to the theme of "the other" in the play.

 

Events featuring experts, scholars, community and religious leaders, aimed at confronting and countering notions of anti-Semitism, as well as additional types of other-focused hatred and prejudices will be presented this spring. Watch the Riverside Theatre website, www.riversidetheatre.org for more information.

 

In addition to The Merchant of Venice, this summer's Festival will include a production of Shakespeare's As You Like It. The plays will run in rotation from June 15 through July 8, 2012. The Merchant of Venice and As You Like It will be performed at the Riverside Festival Stage in Lower City Park. This outdoor venue is loosely based on Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and contains 472 permanent seats. Tickets for the Festival will go on sale in late spring. For more information go to www.riversidetheatre.org or call the Riverside Theatre Box Office at 319-338-7672.

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To celebrate the AMAZING accomplishments of Moline High School's speech and drama team, Encore! is hosting the annual Dessert Theatre THIS Friday, February 24 at 7:30 in the MHS cafeteria.

Donations of $5 will be taken at the door.  Attendees will receive a drink, an array of fantastic desserts and a fabulous show featuring the STATE winners.

PIR (Performance In the Round): "The Legacy Quilt" FIRST PLACE in the STATE

Original Oratory: "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", Jenna Pautsch, SECOND PLACE in the STATE

Humorous Duet Acting: "Gutenberg the Musical", Alex Haifa and Peter David McNaught, SIXTH PLACE in the STATE

Other Encore! members will also be performing. The media is invited to see the show and interview the actors and the coach.

Moline's Encore team has annually sent competitors to the IHSA State Speech tournament since 2009.  Encore's Performance in the Round (PIR) has been Regional Champion every year since 2009, while also garnering the Sectional Campion title over the last 3 years.  In 2011, their PIR took the title of State Runner-Up.
Amana - The Old Creamery Theatre and the Ox Yoke Inn are pleased to announce that due to sold out shows Murder Rides Again, will be extended. The comic murder mystery dinner theatre at the Ox Yoke Inn opened Feb. 3 and has enjoyed so much success that additional shows are scheduled on March 23 and 24.

Written by James Daab, Murder Rides Again is set in the Old West and features your favorite Old Creamery folk including Ian Zahren, Sean McCall, Amber Snyder, Deborah Kennedy, Nicholas Hodge and Jackie McCall. The show was scheduled to close March 3.

Tickets are $45 per person for dinner and the show. The special menu for Murder Rides Again comes with soup, salad, choice of entrée, beverage, and dessert. Reservations for the additional shows are now being taken. Call the Ox Yoke, Amana at 800-233-3441.

The media sponsor for Murder Rides Again is City Revealed Magazine.

The Old Creamery Theatre Company is a not-for-profit professional theatre founded in 1971 in Garrison, Iowa. The company is celebrating 41 years of bringing live, professional theatre to the people of Iowa and the Midwest.
Congratulations to members of Encore!, Moline High School's Speech Team & Acting Troupe, got first in the state this weekend in Peoria for its Performance in the Round.  Members include :
Rowan Crow
Mariah Logan
Abbey Lasek
Britta Engstrom
Autumn Loose
Kaitlyn Wehr
Ellen Wells
Katy Deadmond
Sadie Buckles
Allison Condit
Jennie White
Micah SantAmour Bernas
Alejandro Raya

Receiving second place was senior Jenna Pautsch in the Original Oratory category.

Peter David McNaught & Alex Haifa received 6th place in the Humurous Duet Acting.

These acts will be performed this Friday as part of the school's Dessert Theatre.  The actors will perform in the round at the school's cafe at 7:30 pm.  $5.00 tickets at the door...the ticket price includes dessert.  Show begins at 7:30pm.
Congratulations to members of Encore!, Moline High School's Speech Team & Acting Troupe, who are headed to state this weekend! Moline has individual and duet winners as well as a group effort called "Performance in the Round".  They were crowned Sectional champs last weekend and are headed to the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, IL on February 18-19, 2012 for the state competition.

Here are the 2012 Regional winners who will be competing this weekend...

Jenna Pautsch
REGIONAL CHAMPION: Original Oratory
REGIONAL CHAMPION: Declamation

Peter David McNaught & Alex Haifa
REGIONAL & SECTIONAL CHAMPIONS: Humurous Duet Acting

Performance in the Round
REGIONAL & SECTIONAL CHAMPIONS

The Cast of Performance in the Round
Rowan Crow
Mariah Logan
Abbey Lasek
Britta Engstrom
Autumn Loose
Kaitlyn Wehr
Ellen Wells
Katy Deadmond
Sadie Buckles
Allison Condit
Jennie White
Micah SantAmour Bernas
Alejandro Raya


While the following students aren't advancing to State, they also garnered many accolades as well:

Raksha Madhavan
Regional 2nd Place Extemporaneous Speaking
REGIONAL CHAMPION Special Occasion Speaking

Ross Hughes
REGIONAL CHAMPION Prose Reading
Regional 3rd place impromptu Speaking

Bennett Stewart
Regional 3rd Place Humorous Interp

Clare VanEchaute & Travis Meier
Regionals 2nd Place Dramatic Duet Acting

Travis Meier
Regional 3rd place Original Comedy

Peter David McNaught
Dramatic Interpretation 4th Place


Moline's Encore team has annually sent competitors to the IHSA State Speech tournament since 2009.  Encore's Performance in the Round (PIR) has been Regional Champion every year since 2009, while also garnering the Sectional Campion title over the last 3 years.  In 2011, their PIR took the title of State Runner-Up.

Iowa City, IA -Some ideas sound crazy, others really are...creating a homemade medical device, falling in love with a Barbie doll, channeling direct orders from God, moving to a far away city to chase a dream.

Walking the Wire, Riverside Theatre's annual festival of original work from playwrights across North America, will bring to the stage a wide variety of potentially implausible scenarios as part of this year's theme, This Will Never Work.

This year's Walking the Wire is directed by Riverside Theatre Artistic Director Jody Hovland. The show is sponsored by Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT).

"Walking the Wire has all the theatricality of an aerial act - a single performer telling a story in a single spot of light. And this year's theme insures plenty of daring twists and turns as well," Hovland said.

With over 100 submissions from across the U.S. and beyond, the dozen monologues reflect a diverse range of original work from playwrights both near and far.

The 12 playwrights whose work will be presented are: Brent Boyd (North Hollywood, CA); Dave Carley (Toronto, ON); Ron Clark (Iowa City); Mark Harvey Levine (Pasadena, CA); Deborah Magid (Cleveland Heights, OH); Gordon Mennenga (Iowa City); Mike Moran (Mount Vernon); Amanda Petefish-Schrag (Maryville, MO); Gwendolyn Rice (Madison, WI); Janet Schlapkohl (Iowa City); Jen Silverman (Astoria, NY); and Amy White (Mount Vernon).

Three area writers, Clark, Moran and Schlapkohl, will perform their own work, with an additional cast of actors including Tim Budd, David Busch, Fannie Hungerford, Katherine Smith and Jessica Wilson. 

Walking the Wire runs March 2-11. Showtimes are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Tickets are $28 for adults, $25 for 60 and over/30 and under, $15 for youth (18 and under). $15 student rush tickets are available 20 minutes before curtain on a first come, first served basis for any remaining seats. Tickets can be purchased online at www.riversidetheatre.org, by phone at (319) 338-7672 or at the Riverside Theatre Box Office. The Box Office is located at 213 N. Gilbert St, Iowa City. Box Office Hours are: 12 - 4 p.m. Monday - Friday, and one hour before performances.

 

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Performance Schedule

Friday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 4 at 2 p.m.

Thursday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 11 at 2 p.m.

 

What: From the Pages of a Young Girls life - The Anne Frank Ballet
Who: Ballet Quad Cities
Where: Holzworth Performing Arts Center, Davenport North High School, 626 W 53rd St. • Davenport IA
When: March 3rd 2:00pm and 8:00pm
Ticket Prices: Adult - $20
Senior - $15
Students & Children $10
How: Tickets may be purchased at www.midwestix.com or at the door. For more information call 309 786-3779 or visit our web site www.BalletQuadCities.com

When Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday, she had no idea that her writings would come to symbolize the triumph of the human spirit to people all over the world. When reading her diary, one is touched by the humanity of her story, and how she, in spite of the very extreme circumstances she lived under, was so similar to any other teenager. This is what makes her story so real and so close to us all.

On March 3rd 2012, Ballet Quad Cities will present the encore performance of an original ballet choreographed by Johanne Jakhelln in connection with the traveling exhibit, Anne Frank: A History for Today, and other related programming, created to counter  indifference, prejudice, and racism, as well as to promote the dignity, democratic beliefs, and human rights that are critical in our diverse society today.

The diary comes to life through expressive music from Jewish composers of the 1940's. Contemporary choreography along with superb acting makes this a performance you won't want to miss.

Length of Performance: 60 minutes

Are Mutts Smarter Than Purebred Dogs?
How to Choose Your New Best Friend from an Animal Shelter

Among the biggest victims of the economic recession are the once beloved family pets surrendered to shelters as their owners deal with extended joblessness. The U.S. Humane Society estimates 6 to 8 million dogs and cats enter shelters each year - and 3 to 4 million are euthanized.

"We don't have firm numbers but we know anecdotally that the communities that have been hardest hit by the economic downturn are seeing that reflected in their shelter intake numbers," says Inga Fricke, director of sheltering issues for the U.S. Humane Society.

"And, unfortunately, while the majority of the public is in favor of adopting pets from shelters, very few - usually about 20 percent - actually do. That has recently gone up slightly to the mid-20s."

Fricke and retired police officer Irvin Cannon, a confirmed dog lover whose new book, For the Love of Dog Tales (www.FortheLoveofDogTales.com), gives voice to man's best friend, hope people getting back on their feet will consider adopting a shelter dog.

"You won't find a better companion, whether you bring home a mystery mixed-breed or a purebred Labrador," he says. "Everyone thinks mutts are smarter and generally healthier, but really, it all depends on their mix of breeds and which breed strain is dominant."

Border collies and Rottweilers are two of the smartest breeds, Cannon says. But they tend to have other traits, too, which are just as important to consider when choosing what dog best suits your lifestyle. Remember - dogs are as individual as people. A dog's breed, or breed mix, is no guarantee that it will have certain traits.

That said, border collies tend to need lots of room to run and lots of attention - they're high-maintenance, Cannon says. If you can't spend a lot of active time with them, they'll be unhappy and you'll have problems.

Rottweilers are fast learners and loveable family animals, but they also tend to have bold personalities associated with pack leaders. If you don't think you can assert your authority, or if you have young or shy children, you might want to consider a more submissive breed. Dominant dogs that are allowed to bully their family members can become dangerously aggressive.

Here are some other tidbits regarding breeds:

• Among other dog breeds known for intelligence: Shetland sheepdogs, golden retrievers, Labrador retrievers, poodles, Australian cattle dogs, Papillons and Doberman pinschers.

• Bulldogs, beagles and Basset hounds all start with 'B' but get much lower grades for smarts.

• It's a myth that mutts have fewer health issues than purebred dogs. Because some breeds have tendencies toward problems such as deafness, blindness or hip dysplasia, remember, these are genetic issues that are inherited. So if you're mixed-breed includes some German shepherd, it may also have hip dysplasia (a problem with the joint's bone structure).

• If you're in the market for a purebred dog, you have a 25 percent chance of finding one - although maybe not the breed you want - at a shelter. If your heart is set on a specific breed, check your area for a rescue group specializing in that breed.

About Irvin Cannon

Irvin Cannon was a poor kid growing up in Detroit when his family took in a stray dog. It surprised young Irvin that his father would be willing to share the family's meager groceries with a dog, but he soon discovered the return on their investment was enormous. A former police officer in Detroit and Denver, he also worked as a corrections officer in Arizona.

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