The state's premiere dance company, the New Jersey Ballet, returns for their eagerly awaited annual performance at the Centenary Performing Arts Guild in Hackettstown on Saturday, November 2 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, November 3 at 5 p.m.

The New Jersey Ballet's Centenary performances will include the new Ballet, "Gospel," which recently premiered on the Keane College stage. Performed to a collection of gospel songs, this exhilarating new work is choreographed by Valentina Kozlova, a former principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet before her defection from Russia. Kozlova was a subsequently principal dancer with the New York City Ballet for fifteen years before beginning her career as a choreographer.

The evenings' performances will also include an exciting array of selections ftom the world's most beautiful Ballets, including the pas de deux from"Corsaire," the "Esmeralda" pas de deux, and the very contemporary "Belong" pas de deux, which won the International Choreographer Award in Osaka, Japan in the 1990's.

Tickets

Tickets for the NJ Ballet are $20 general admission, $17.50 for seniors and students, and $12.50 for children/12. Tickets are available through the Centenary Performing Arts Guild box office at 908-979-0900.

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