Pacific Dance Ensemble (PDE) presents their 38th annual FREE show, “Dances from the Heart”, one night only, Friday, May 30 at 7pm, at the Newport Performing Arts Center. Directed by Nancy Mittleman, the program will showcase original choreography, Pacific Dance Ensemble, dancers from Newport School of Artistic Movement and the swinging rhythms of the Tex Brooklyn Experiment.
Watch the process unfold as PDE and NSAM dancers share their talents! Pieces include choreography reflecting the dancer’s thoughts originating from various points of inspiration, including student poetry, haiku, and the pure love of movement. The program includes diverse styles of dance ranging from ballet to modern dance to jazz and more.
In addition to her own performing experience on both east and west coasts, Mittleman has over 50 years of expertise, directing, and training dancers from preschool to professional. Members of PDE and students of NSAM have gone on to study and perform at Juilliard (NYC), Mark Morris Dance Group (NYC), The Jose Limon Dance (NYC), Chris Elam’s Misnomer Dance Co. (NYC), Coyote Dance (NYC), Martha Graham Studio (NYC), Amanda Selwyn Dance (NYC), The Laban School (London, UK), Ballet Austin (TX), American Ballet Theatre (NY), San Francisco Ballet (CA), San Diego Dance Theater (CA), Eugene Ballet (OR), Pacific Northwest Ballet (WA), Oregon Ballet Theatre (OR), Paco Gnomes and Co. (CA), Requisite Dance (CA), Lineage Dance Co. (CA), Headwaters Dance Co, (MT), Dancer’s Workshop (WY), Interlochen (MI), Cornish Institute for the Arts (WA), California Institute for the Arts (CA), Cincinnati Ballet (OH), Tisch at New York University (NY), and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet to name a few.
PDE is a non-profit tax-exempt organization whose mission is to provide young dancers interested in dance as a career, the opportunity to work and perform with professional artists, produce original works, and showcase their talents, PDE also has worked to increased awareness of the arts to the community at-large since its inception in 1986.