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Wolf Trap Announces Glacier National Park and Trey McIntyre to be Featured in 2009 Installment of Groundbreaking Face of America Series

Television Audiences Nationwide to Enjoy Highlights of First Five Face of America Performances
Monday, April 21, 2008 at 10 p.m. (ET) when Thirteen/WNET New York’s
Great Performances premieres “Dance in America: Wolf Trap’s Face of America” on PBS

Vienna, VA—Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, a national leader in commissioning new work and the preservation of cultural heritage through the performing arts, is proud to announce the location and featured choreographer of Face of America: Glacier National Park, the next installment in its innovative Face of America series. Set to debut in 2009, the multimedia and multidisciplinary artistic adventure will feature the work of Trey McIntyre, one of today’s most sought-after American choreographers, on-location in Glacier National Park. The new work, commissioned by the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, will use the rich language of the performing arts to explore the relationship between the natural and magnificent beauty of Glacier National Park and the creative process; and draw attention to the diverse cultures of the people who live in and around Glacier National Park.

Location scouting and preliminary high-definition filming for the multimedia event will begin in Glacier National Park this summer; with the world premiere performance scheduled for summer 2009 at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C.

In addition, television viewers across the United States can enjoy highlights from the first five installments of Wolf Trap’s Face of America series on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 10 p.m. (ET) 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; Hālau 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.

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.

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