SouL Dance Studio Announces Performance with Endedans Contemporary Ballet
Sanda Lungu, owner of SouL Dance Studio, will be performing in a unique contemporary ballet as a special preview event for Sarasota Rising. This exclusive show choreographed by Tania Vergara Perez, founder of ECB, will be held at Art Ovation Hotel with a private performance on November 12th.
Sarasota, FL, October 15, 2023: Professional ballet artist Sanda Lungu joins the Endedans Contemporary Ballet team and the creative mastermind of Tania Vergara Perez in a contemporary theatrical performance to be held this fall at Art Ovation Hotel as a preview of Sarasota Rising’s 2024 Living Arts Festival.
There is no better celebration of the ethos behind the new festival than the combination of Vergara’s creative Cuban dance roots and Lungu’s Eastern European ballet heritage. With over 30 years of professional ballet experience, Vergara brings a powerful assemblage of classical, modern, and contemporary ballet choreography to the canvas of this performance.
The event will surely be a tour de force, weaving together “elements of acting, sounds, speech, and movement,” according to performer Sanda Lungu. Accompanied by spoken word and Mozart, the contemporary dance is called “Occupational Therapy.” The piece “explores the possibilities offered by different everyday objects used as scenic elements,” according to choreographer Tania Vergara Perez, founder of Endedans Contemporary Dance, named Best New Dance Company in 2023 by Sarasota Magazine.
Lungu says, “Tania's choreography offers a delightful and invigorating departure from what I'm used to. Witnessing her creativity and originality has been fascinating. Contributing to Tania’s creation and sharing the stage with such talented and genuinely wonderful fellow dancers is truly a memorable experience.”
Ticket sales and follow-on dates have yet to be announced, but an invitation-only performance will take place on November 12th at the Art Ovation Hotel in downtown Sarasota.
For more information and ticket inquiries, follow Tania Vergara @vergarachoreographer and Sanda Lungu @sl.dancestudio.
About Endedans Contemporary Ballet: On graduating from the School of Arts in Camagüey, Cuba, in 1986, Tania Vergara Perez began her work as a ballet professor. In 1990 she decided to continue her studies, and in 1996 she received a Bachelor of Dance Arts with honors at the prestigious Institute of Superior Arts in Havana, Cuba. She founded Endedans Contemporary Ballet in 2002, where she continues as artistic director and choreographer. In 2008, she received one of her greatest honors, the Ibero-American Choreography Award granted by the General Society of Authors and Writers of Spain (SGAE) and the National Ballet of Cuba. Her choreography has won numerous international awards, including first-place and best ensemble awards for YAGP participants; the Anacoana Distinction “Flor de Oro, " and many others. https://taniavergara.net/index.html
About SouL Dance Studio: Sanda Lungu (owner of SouL Dance Studio) is a highly accomplished and experienced dancer with over 20 years of professional training and performance experience. Sanda graduated from the Professional Ballet Academy (Colegiul National de Coregrafie) in Chisinau, Moldova, and has also trained at several prominent dance schools and companies in Eastern Europe and the United States. She began her career in Eastern Europe, where she danced with the National Ballet Theatre in Moldova, Moscow Ballet Great Russian Nutcracker, State Ballet Theatre of Russia USA Touring Company, Crown of Russian Ballet, and St. Petersburg Festival Ballet Euro Touring Company, as well as Massachusetts Academy of Ballet, Dimensional Dance Company, Fred Astaire Dance Studio, and Dynasty Dance Clubs.
