– A perfect day of fun for the budding dancers and readers in your family takes place at the Dover Public Library on Wednesday, October 19th at 4 PM when Edra Toth, founder and Director of the Edra Toth's Academy of Dance & Music brings her ballerinas to perform Gwendolyn, the Graceful Pig. The book will be read by the author, David Ira Rottenberg, as the ballerinas dance out the story. After the performance, Ms. Toth will provide a mini-dance lesson the children in the audience, and Mr. Rottenberg will sign copies of his book.
Gwendolyn, the Graceful Pig is an engaging tale of two friends, Gwendolyn and Omar, who have big dreams. Gwendolyn longs to dance ballet, and Omar wants to join the football team. There's just one problem-they're both pigs! How Natasha Levertov, "the greatest teacher of dance in ze vorld," helps make their wishes come true will inspire any child to persevere in what he or she loves. It's a funny and charming tale of dreams that can turn into reality.
Born in Budapest, Hungary, Edra Toth immigrated to Boston, MA when she was a small child, during the Hungarian uprising in 1956. E. Virginia Williams, the founder of the Boston Ballet, offered Toth a scholarship to attend her school of dance. Toth became Williams’s protégé and made her dance debut at the age of 13. She became prima ballerina at age 15 and danced with Rudolph Nureyev when she was 18.
Toth performed at the White House at the invitation of the Johnson administration, and since her retirement as a dancer, has dedicated herself to dance education through her dance academies and the ballet company, NorthEastern Ballet Theatre, of which she is the artistic director.
David Ira Rottenberg, who lives in Natick, MA, has published three business books with business professor, Jeffrey Shuman, and a poetry book, Soldiers of Beauty. Gwendolyn, the Graceful Pig is his first children's book.
When: Wednesday, October 19th at 4 PM.
Where: Dover Public Library, 73 Locust Street, Dover, NH - (603) 516-6050
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