SU’s Pulse offers special ticket promotion ‘Bring Your Baby to the Ballet’ beginning Wednesday for Ballet NY Nov. 2 performance

SU’s Pulse offers special ticket promotion ‘Bring Your Baby to the Ballet’ beginning Wednesday for Ballet NY Nov. 2 performanceOctober 31, 2006Jaime Winne Alvarezjlwinne@syr.edu

Beginning Wednesday, Nov. 1, at 11 a.m., Syracuse University’s Pulse will offer a special ticket promotion, “Bring Your Baby to the Ballet,” for the Nov. 2 performance by New York City-based dance troupe Fugate/Bahiri Ballet NY. All tickets will be two for the price of one. Ticket availability is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Tickets for Ballet NY — $5 for SU students with valid SU I.D.; $10 for SU faculty, staff and alumni; and $20 for the general public — can be purchased at the Schine Student Center Box Office. For more information, call 443-4517 or visit http://pulse.syr.edu.

“It is becoming more and more common to see high-profile dance ensembles that want to perform for Central New York audiences,” says Barry L. Wells, senior vice president and dean of student affairs. “We’re excited to be able to open this cultural opportunity to a broader segment of the local community.”

Ballet NY performs Thursday at 8 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium in the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center. The program is co-sponsored by Daphna and Gerald B. Cramer ’52, an SU trustee. Free parking is available in the Harrison and Lehman lots.

Pulse provides SU students and the Central New York community with opportunities to attend and participate in programs, performances, exhibitions and events in the visual and performing arts. It is a collaborative project of SU’s Division of Student Affairs and the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Pulse is now hosting weekly podcasts on its website, http://pulse.syr.edu, and will feature a preview of the Ballet NY performance Nov. 2-8. Graduate students in the Goldring Arts Journalism Program in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications produce the podcasts.