Ballet Concerto’s 39th annual SUMMER DANCE CONCERT

cancelled due to health and safety concerns over COVID 19



(Fort Worth Texas, May 22, 2020)…Ballet Concerto, under the artistic direction of Margo Dean, has announced the cancelation the 39th annual free outdoor SUMMER DANCE CONCERT, originally scheduled to be held at The Shops at Clearfork June 25, 26 and 27, 2020. Audiences will miss a program that was to have featured choreography by Luis Montero, renowned exponent of Spanish Dance and a long time Ballet Concerto favorite; Retro, a work by Ballet Concerto resident choreographer Elise Lavallee; a new work by Ruben Gerding, professor of dance at Southeast Missouri State University; and a re-staging of Bruce Marks’s Straight from the Heart, with staging by Ballet Concerto associate Artistic Director Webster Dean.

“It was a difficult decision,” said Mrs. Dean, “but we determined that this was safest and most prudent option, given the current uncertainties due to the COVID 19.”

Ballet Concerto’s outdoor SUMMER DANCE CONCERT originated in 1981 at Trinity Park Pavilion. Since that time, programs have been presented on outdoor stages at the former Modern Art Museum, the Museum of Science and History, the Amon Carter Museum, and the Kimbell Art Museum. Most recently the concert moved to Clearfork, presenting first at the Heart of the Ranch for two years then moving to the nearby lawn at the Shops at Clearfork.

“We do have A Holiday Special performances on the calendar for December 11,” said Webster Dean, Associate Artistic Director, “to be presented at Will Rogers Auditorium.” The holiday presentation will feature The Christmas Grump, a ballet with choreography by Margo Dean based on the story of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. “And we will be back at Clearfork in June next year for our 2021 SUMMER DANCE CONCERT,” he stated.

Founded in 1969, Ballet Concerto was the first cultural organization to formalize educational enrichment and outreach by a non-profit performing arts group in schools. Still taking ballet demonstrations to students in the Fort Worth Independent School District and others nearby, Margo Dean, founder and artistic director of Ballet Concerto Inc., and herself a Fort Worth institution, also produces the F.I.N.D Program to find and identify new dancers in schools and to provide scholarship study opportunities. Ballet Concerto has presented 38 consecutive annual free-to-the-public, fully-staged professional dance productions on outside stages each summer since 1981. The company is co-located with Margo Dean School of Ballet, now in its 70th year, in Fort Worth’s Cultural District at 3803 Camp Bowie Boulevard. Phone (817) 738-7915. For more, visit: http://www.balletconcerto.com.