March arts calendar for NVCC

WATERBURY (Feb. 25, 2008) – The following is a calendar of arts events for Naugatuck Valley Community College, which serves 35 communities across western Connecticut from Litchfield to Waterbury to Seymour to Southbury and Danbury:

SATURDAY, MARCH 8
The Waterbury Symphony Orchestra will perform on Saturday, March 8, at Naugatuck Valley Community College with violinist, Jennifer Frautschi.

Frautschi will perform Beethoven's Concerto for Violin, which has become one of the most popular and most recognizable violin concertos. The Waterbury Symphony Orchestra will play Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.

The performance will take place at 8:00 p.m. in the Mainstage Theater at NVCC’s Fine Arts Center, located on the main campus, 750 Chase Parkway, Waterbury.  Tickets are $15, $30 and $40, and $5 for students.  For tickets or information call (203) 574-4283 or visit www.waterburysymphony.org.

TUESDAY, MARCH 11
Local instructor, Angela Bellemare, will lead a Masters “Jazz Funk” dance class on Tues., March 11, at Naugatuck Valley Community College. 

The class will combine jazz techniques with Latin rhythms and pop elements.  Participants will learn various aspects of the style as well as a choreographed dance sequence. 

Bellemare, who is also an instructor of psychology at NVCC, has been involved in dance for 25 years and has taught two Masters Classes prior, both of which have sold out.  She has a dance certificate from NVCC and currently teaches at Greenwich Academy and Graceful Planet in Newtown.

Classes are geared towards those who have previous experience in dance.  The cost is $10 for students and $15 for non-students.  The class will be held from 3:30-5:00p.m. in the Mainstage Theater at NVCC’s Fine Arts Center, located on the main campus, 750 Chase Parkway, Waterbury.  For more information contact Elena Rusnak at (203) 575-8179.

TUESDAY, MARCH 25
Naugatuck Valley Community College will host “10 PERFECT:  A Lynching Survivor’s Story” on Tues., March 25.

The play follows the life of Jimmy, a black boy born and raised in the heart of northern Ku Klux Klan territory, and his friendship with Tommy, who is white. As the two youth’s age and society demands their innocence, their troubled friendship comes to a screeching halt on a fateful night in August, 1938.

The one-person play is written and acted by Patrick Sims, assistant professor of acting/multicultural theatre at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  The story is inspired by the life of Dr. James Cameron, founder of America’s Black Holocaust Museum and the only known survivor of a lynching in U.S. history.