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Come celebrate with us!
During our 45th Anniversary Festival, our Fellowship Celebration will gather Briarwood Ballet family, friends, and alumni to celebrate the Lord’s faithfulness at Briarwood Ballet.
11.02.24
VENDORS:
Grab a boxed dinner from Chick-fil-A for only $10/person! Pre-order your meal by October 30th through the link below.
Need coffee to keep up with the celebrations? Baba Java Coffee has you covered!
Try a delicious dessert from Popbar!
Enjoy some beautiful flowers from the Wild Honey Flower Truck!
MERCH & MORE:
Grab some new Briarwood Ballet swag at our merch pop up shop! Cash or check only.
Calling all alumni! Visit our alumni tent to mingle with other Ballet alumni and enter a special giveaway
Festival tickets and boxed dinners are available through the link below 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
briarwood.org/ballet/festival/
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Meet Mr. Tucker Edwards!
Tucker is from Spokane, Washington where he started his ballet training at the age of six under Dodie Askegard and continued with Sara Donally at Spokane Ballet Studio. During this time, Tucker attended summer intensives at American Ballet Theatre, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet Chicago, Ballet West, and Pacific Northwest Ballet all on scholarship. In 2018, he was accepted as a trainee at Ballet West on full scholarship. While a trainee, he performed in Gerald Arpino’s Viva Vivaldi, Ballet West Family Classics, Beauty and the Beast, and Snow White, as well as performing alongside the main company in Swan Lake and Giselle. During this time he guested with North Star Ballet in Fairbanks, Alaska in principal and soloist roles in The Nutcracker, and Cinderella. After completing the two-year trainee program at Ballet West, Tucker joined Alabama Ballet as an apprentice in 2020. In 2021, he was promoted to company dancer. While at Alabama Ballet he enjoyed dancing Lead Spanish in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, Caller in Rodeo, and Betrothal Couple in Coppelia. Tucker also had the opportunity to guest with The Dance Foundation last winter where he performed the Le Corsaire Pas De Deux. In June 2024, Tucker retired from dancing professionally and has since been pursuing other interests. He is excited to pass on his knowledge and experience to the next generation of dancers at Briarwood Ballet.
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We are excited to announce “To God Be The Glory”, the matinee performance for our 45th Anniversary Festival!
“To God Be The Glory”
November 2nd, 3:30 p.m.
The Barbara B. Barker Auditorium at Briarwood High School
While our school has grown and changed over the past 45 years, our mission remains the same: to teach our students to use their gifts to glorify God, and to share the love of God through dance. Performed by several of our upper level classes, “To God Be The Glory” is a worshipful experience that captures the heart of Briarwood Ballet. We hope you can come and be blessed by this offering of praise!
In addition to some beautiful worship pieces choreographed by our incredible faculty, Ballet Exaltation will debut a new work “Crowned” by Jiri Voborsky that shares the gospel in a vivid and encouraging way.
Festival tickets are available for $12 and will go on sale Saturday, October 12th at 8 a.m.
“To God be the Glory,
Great Things He has Done,
So Loved He the World
That He Gave us His Son,
Who Yielded His Life as Atonement for Sin
And Opened the Life-gate that All May Go In”
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Meet Ms. Emily Henriques!
Emily Henriques began her dance training with Briarwood Ballet, eventually becoming a member of their student company Ballet Exaltation. In 2016, she had the honor of touring Cuba with Ballet Exaltation, performing in three major cities. Emily then attended Belhaven University in Jackson, MS, graduating with a BFA in dance and a BA in psychology. There she trained in ballet, modern, non-traditional partnering, pointe, jazz, improvisation, and contact improvisation. She also had the opportunity to study kinesiology, pedagogy, nutrition, composition, dance history, lighting design, and stage management. She performed contemporary works by Steve Rooks (Graham Company), Jiri Voborsky (Ballet Magnificat!), Laura Morton (Milwaukee Ballet), Gabriel Spieller (Bruce Wood Dance) etc., and studied under Ravenna Tucker Wagnon (Royal Ballet), Randall Flinn (Ad Deum), Whitney Dufrene (Doug Varone and Dancers), etc. For her Psychology degree’s final thesis project, Emily researched and presented on fixed and growth mindsets in dancers, as she is passionate about understanding how dancers’ mental health impacts their performance. Outside of Belhaven, Emily taught ballet at Lindsey Claire Dance Company and enjoyed performance opportunities at the American College Dance Association and with various companies and artists in Mississippi. In 2022, Emily attended the American Dance Festival as a production intern, where she trained in Counter Technique under Rosanna Tavarez and Joy Davis, and was selected to stage manage a piece for the renowned contemporary choreographer Shen Wei. Emily currently dances with Sanspointe, a contemporary dance company in Birmingham, AL. This is Emily’s third year at Briarwood Ballet as a teacher, social media manager, and lighting designer. She is excited to continue pouring into her students, which she considers one of the greatest honors of her life.
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