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Year 29, No. 44
Celebrating 29 Years of Community News
FIND YOUR COMMUNITY Roger Daltrey and Joan Jett & NEWS HERE! The Blackhearts in Exclusive Concert
Supports Teen Cancer America & The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia delphia (CHOP). Event proceeds will support enhancing adolescent and young adult programing for patients in CHOP’s world-renowned Cancer Center by creating a new space completely dedicated to the unique needs of this special population. Daltrey, who is the driving force behind Teen Cancer Ameri ca, and also a longstanding
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wo rock icons have joined forces t o p re s e n t a n e x c i t i n g a n d unique evening of music and philanthropy at Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts in the heart of Philadelphia on Monday, July 28, 2014. Roger Daltrey, of legendary rock band The Who and Joan Jett and The Blackhearts have pledged their support for Teen Cancer America (TCA) and The Children’s Hospital of Phila-
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Vox Populi’s Tenth Annual Exhibition of Emerging Artists Opens July 11
Roger Daltrey and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts support Teen Cancer America & The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia by performing July 28.
Fran Kane Memorial Award Page 9
Ball on the Square Page 11
July 9 – July 15, 2014
patron of the UK’s Teenage Cancer Trust, said, “I am so delighted that we are partnering with CHOP to improve the lives of teenagers living with this terrible disease. Joan and I are looking forward to our collaboration to deliver an outstanding evening of music while raising much needed funds to grow CHOP’s programming for adolescents and young adults with cancer.” “Teenagers who are being treated for cancer have emotional and social needs that are different than their younger counterparts. They’re facing a frightening diagnosis and treatment during what is already a time of great physical, social and emotional change,” said Steven M. Altschuler, MD, chief executive officer of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “We are thrilled that Roger Daltrey and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts also recog-
ox Populi announces “VOX X: Present Tense,” its tenth annual juried exhibition, featuring more than 50 works by 32 artists from across the country. The exhibition will be on view July 11 - August 1, with an opening reception on July 11, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., and a closing reception on August 1, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Attend the opening night, July 11 for a curator walk through at 6:30 p.m. and a series of artist performances. The jurors Matthew Brannon and Howie Chen sought a wide range of artists working in various media: “Along with the more traditional mediums of painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, conceptual, video and performance art we also encouraged the submission of sound, text, spoken word, dance, comedy, cooking, large scale painting… As a new century begins and the last still informs every move we make an anxiety of where we are takes many forms from the personal to the political.” The selected artists include Liz Ainslie, Anthea Behm, Kate Bonsted, Cudelice Brazelton, Josh Brilliant, Jordan Buschur,
See Benefit Concert for Teen Cancer America on page 3
See “VOX X: Present Tense” Exhibit on page 10
Artist Mike Fleming’s “Hair Flip.”
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Local Ballet Academy Celebrates 40 Years on the Main Line After five years they outgrew the space at the he Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet (PAB) locatmovie theatre and renovated a dirt floor garage that ed just over the bridge on North Narberth is now the current home of the ballet school locatAvenue is celebrating its 40-year anniversary. ed at 29 North Narberth Avenue. Margarita de Saa and John White, directors of the Margarita de Saa, who is affectionately called Mrs. school have trained thousands of young dancers White by everyone, speaks proudly with her thick many of whom have gone on to professional careers. Cuban accent of all the students that she and her Margarita de Saa, a former prima ballerina and her husband have had through the years. husband John White, a leading teacher of the Vaganova method of teaching ballet and former guest artist Margarita de Saa and John White, proudly standing with the Ballet Nacional started their dance school in front of their “Wall of Fame,” a wall of brightly in 1974 at the Narberth Movie Theatre. painted signatures of names of former students all “It doesn’t seem possible that Margarita and I have of whom were offered a professional dance contract. been involved in the tendu business in Narberth for forty years.” “We’ve done so much in these past 40 years and White, a native Southern Californian and de Saa I feel really good about all the dancers we have trained. met in Cuba while they were members of the Alicia Ballet is such a beautiful art form and we have Alonso’s Ballet Nacional de Cuba performing in Russia, given this joy to so many people, de Saa says. Eastern Europe and China. They were invited to The Whites have helped over 70 graduates dance dance Coppelia in the Bolshoi Theatre which was professionally in companies around the world. This attended by Nikita Krushchev. This was unheard of remarkable achievement can be seen up close and for a foreign company to perform in Russia. De Saa personal on the “Wall of Fame,” a wall of brightly and White had a very successful career but because painted signatures of names of former students all of political tensions that occurred in Cuba at that of whom were offered a professional dance contime, the couple re-located to the United States. tract. This wall located in the waiting room of the “After numerous explorations around greater Phila school is a testament to the success of the school delphia, we found ourselves literally ‘lost’ one day in the suburbs in Montgomery County. We had been looking for Ardmore… and the high quality of dance training that PAB students received from the but we were in front of the Narberth Theatre. It was 1974 and the Pennsyl - Whites. Their graduates have made it to the finals of International Ballet vania Academy of Ballet was born,” recalls White. See Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet Celebrates on page 10
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