Sneak Peak at EEE's "Send in the Jazz"

Eclectic Edge Ensemble will be performing at the 10th Annual Dances at the Lakes Festival

Photo Credit: Ann Schley highwoodsSTUDIOS

The Christopher Watson Dance Company presents the 10th Annual Dances at the Lakes Festival-two free concerts at the Rose Garden at Lake Harriet at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, June 10 and 11. This year the festival features nearly 100 professional and student  dancers performing in the two different programs. Audience members are  invited to bring a lawn chair or blanket and some snacks or a picnic  dinner and enjoy the unique opportunity of seeing dance performed at the  Rose Garden.

EEE will be performing  guest choreographer Molly Breen's piece "Getting There," this Saturday  night, which will premier at EEE's July show "Send in the Jazz" at the  Ritz.

Saturday, June 11th @ 7:30 pm; at the Rose Gardens by Lake Harriet

Dances at the Lakes 2011 Choreographers and Companies:

• Apple Valley High School      Dance Department, Apple Valley-Cathy      Wright, Artistic Director
• Bryan Gerber, Minneapolis
• Christopher Watson Dance      Company, Minneapolis
• Doris Ressl, Los Angeles
• Eclectic Edge Ensemble, Minneapolis-Karis      Sloss Artistic Director
• Eagan High      School Dance Program, Eagan-Jennifer Glaws, Artistic Director
• Envision Academy of the Arts      Dance Company, Burnsville-Jill      Patterson, Artistic Director
• Kinetic Evolutions, Minneapolis-Sarah      LaRose-Holland Artistic Director
• Lori Mercil, Minneapolis
• Poetry in Motion, Minneapolis
• Ray Terrill Dance Group, St. Paul
• Young Dance, Minneapolis-Gretchen Pick, Artistic      Director
• Youth Dance Ensemble, Burnsville-Dixie      Rairamo, Artistic Director

This  activity is made possible, in part, by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural  Heritage Fund as appropriated by the Minnesota Legislature with money  from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

Additional funding was provided by the Linden Hills Neighborhood Council.

The Rose Garden is located at Lyndale  Park Gardens, 4124 Roseway Road, Minneapolis 55409.

For more information, go to:  www.christopherwatsondance.com