Coming Events - International

RMBT Summer Tour 2011 to Austria and beyond!

RMBT leaves June 11 to join 4 other top schools in the US on a tour to Innsbruck, St. Johann, Salzburg and Leinz.  This is the second time that RMBT is joining “Young Tanzsommer” the first time was in 2002.  This performance tour showcases young talent from the US on a prestigious tour to venues throughout Austria.  RMBT will perform for 8000 Austrians and dancers will also be participating with and performing as a fundraiser for the children at the Elisabethinum school in the Tirol for disabled children.

Then RMBT continues east to perform and have a cultural exchange at the American Embassy in Budapest for American Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis and her husband Markos Kounalakis. RMBT continues on to Debrecen and through Romania where Director Charlene Campbell will teach in Cluj Napoca, Targu Mures and Brasov before beginning a series of Master Classes, workshops, cultural exchanges and festival performances in Varna Bulgaria from July 3 - 11 with RMBT Advisory board member / master teacher & choreographer Terry Fox.  Charlene and Terry will be teaching with Myrna Kamara from Maurice Bejart and New York City Ballet, Aysin Akalbak from the National Ballet of Turkey, Ming Yan Cui from National Ballet of China, Guy de Bock from the Paris Opera, and other dance masters from both Bulgaria and Russia. This cultural exchange will culminate in a premiere evening of new works and featuring all the participating dancers from around the world.  The Montana, USA and European RMBT delegation includes 50 professional and pre- professional dancers, musicians, friends and family, RMBT alumni, faculty, advisory board and board members.

 RMBT is taking pieces from its repertoire that include its signature Montana themed works.  “Montana Turkeys” has been performed in Missoula, Havre, Plains, and Billings Montana;  Beijing, Shanghai, Yongzhou and Nanning China; and now in Austria and Bulgaria.  Choreographed by Charlene Campbell Carey and Vittorio Luciano, RMBT will also be performing "Flathead Lake Frogs,”  “Zing went the Strings of my Big Sky Heart,” "SOULdier,”  "Women" and will join the entire Tanzsommer company in an American tribute to the disco era as en encore.