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EVENTS 2010-11

• April 15, 2011, Wright Auditorium, 7:30pm
  The Russian National Ballet, which sold out with Giselle in the 2008-2009 season, returns to campus to perform Chopiniana and Romeo & Juliet. Chopiniana grew out of Chopin's Seventh Waltz. It does not have a traditional plot—the curtain opens to reveal a picturesque group of ballerinas, frozen in anticipation, the embodiment of the Young Man's dream. The women rise like a romantic vision, circle around the Young Man, spread out like a light fog and then freeze again in their original poses. Romeo and Juliet, with music by Tchaikovski and choreography by Marius Petipa, opens with the story of life and love as the souls of Romeo and Juliet meet together in Queen Mab's world of dreams. You know the rest of the story— it's based on Shakespeare's tragedy.

NEWS

• ECU Professor Plays Role in Improving Russian Economics
  Dr. Richard Ericson, chair of the Department of Economics in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, was invited to serve on the guiding Academic Committee and Jury for the Russian National Award for Applied Economics. He attended the annual Higher School of Economics Russian Economics Conference in Moscow in April.