Television Audiences Nationwide Enjoy Highlights of Face of America Performances

Television Audiences Nationwide Enjoy Highlights of Face of America Performances

Monday, April 21, 2008 at 10 p.m. (ET) Thirteen/WNET New York's Great Performances airs "Dance in America: Wolf Trap's Face of America" on PBS

VIENNA, Va., April 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Television viewers across the United States will enjoy highlights from the first five installments of Wolf Trap's Face of America series on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 10 p.m. (EST) when Thirteen/WNET New York's Great Performances premieres "Dance in America: Wolf Trap's Face of America" on PBS. The 90-minute compendium showcases aerial dancing of Project Bandaloop off the cliffs of Yosemite National Park; the U.S. Synchronized Swimming Team underwater at Coral Reef National Monument; Halau O Kekuhi, renowned keepers of honored hula traditions, on the sacred terrain of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park; and follows some of the country's most exciting dancers, and choreographers - Doug Varone, Elizabeth Streb, and Donald Byrd - to Mammoth Cave, Wright Brothers National Memorial, and the remains of a sugar cane plantation at Virgin Islands National Park.

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Face of America reflects Wolf Trap's commitment to "celebrating our parks, our people, and our heritage" and the preservation of our natural and cultural resources that is a tenet of the National Parks. Terrence D. Jones is executive producer of Wolf Trap's Face of America performance series and President and CEO of Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, a national leader in commissioning new work and preserving cultural heritage through the performing arts.

More information can be found online at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/wolftrap/index.html

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Source: Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts

CONTACT: Chris Guerre of Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts,
+1-703-255-4096, chrisg@wolftrap.org

Web Site:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/wolftrap/index.html
http://www.wolftrap.org/

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