Some 200 students with Port Moody's Caufield School of Dance will this week perform numbers inspired by "Shakespeare to Sinatra and Sesame Street to Super Mario Brothers," studio owner Cori Caulfield said.
Ballet, tap, jazz, Broadway and modern dancers will be featured alongside young singers and actors for That's Entertainment, running Friday to Sunday at Terry Fox Theatre (1260 Riverwood Gate, Port Coquitlam).
Caulfield said all four shows will be different and will include faculty as well. Among the top students in the limelight will be Lauren Philliips, the current provincial titleholder for voice: musical theatre; Tiana Pazdirek, a provincial representative for the Surrey Festival of Dance in tap and stage dance; and Tiana Jung, a provincial representative for the Coquitlam District Music Festival in voice: musical theatre.
Tickets at $18 are available at the door on the day of the show. Call the theatre at 604-468-9403 or visit www.terryfoxtheatre.com.
IN THE FINALS
Two young Coquitlam residents are among 21 B.C. musicians to score a place in the finals of the Canadian Music Competition.
Cellist Tate Zawadiuk, 15, and pianist Anna Wang, 17 will play in the national contest at the Basilique-cathédrale Saint-Michel, Sherbrooke, between June 21 and July 4.
PDA WINNERS
A number of Place des Arts students have been named scholarship winners by the Maillardville facility.
Cellist Bronte Wagar, 18, earned PdA's first Fern Bouvier Arts Legacy Award. The scholarship for advance musical studies went to 16-year-old pianist Iris Hung, a Grade 10 student at Gleneagle secondary, while Kimberly Venn, also 16, earned the Elliot Harty piano prize.
Violinist Sydney Blaker, 17, strung in the Coquitlam-Maillardville Heritage Trust Award and pianist Chi Cheuk Yung, 16, reaped the Leonore Peyton Memorial Award. Sarah Jung, 17, swept in the William H. Sclater Memorial Award for Visual Arts. Other scholarships went to dancers Emily Mustard and Kristyna May-Rashke; pianists Alex and Mark Pirvulescu, and Benjamin Chang.
