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The 15th Anniversary Invitational at Carnegie Hall, January 16, 2022
Performing Arts Educators (PAE) is returning to the New York City stage for the 15th year in a row. 

January 2022, PAE will present two  productions during the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend at the legendary, world renowned Carnegie Hall.   That weekend Dr. Peggy Dettwiler will be presenting her 4th Carnegie Hall choral production and PAE will be presenting its 15th Annual DanceInvitational.
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This performance will feature a major choral event with Artistic Director, Dr. Peggy Dettwiler.  This will be a profound concert with a focus on world peace and justice issues. Sunday, January 17th, 2021 will feature two PAE dance productions: A matinee presenting 14 Indian dance groups from across the USA giving a glimpse of the rich heritage of Indian dance from across the subcontinent.  An evening dance festival featuring American dance groups of people’s performing arts ~ those groups ~ the vast majority of community and school performing groups ~ which do not receive grant money.       
 
Bookings still available,  Contact PAE, 904 806-1871

The 14th Anniversary Invitational at Carnegie Hall, January 18, 2020
A Festival of World Dance
featured fourteen people’s performing arts dance groups from across the USA
Dancers presented the apex of their work.
Dance groups presented Indian, Mexican American and Irish traditions plus a wide variety of American dance. 

It's always pure dance on a world famous stage.

Tickets available only through participating groups.

The 13th Anniversary Celebration at Carnegie Hall, January 20, 2019
Every Life Shall Be a Song: A Choral 
Concert featuring the Works of Women Composers, Poets, & Lyricists,
was conceptualized by ​
Artistic Director, Dr. Peggy Dettwiler. 

This production presented nine different choirs, a total of 500 singers, from across the nation.  The performance concluded with a breath-taking finale, featuring works of composer Gwyneth Walker and combined all of the choirs on stage, under the musical direction of Mansfield University’s Dr. Peggy Dettwiler.
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Dr. Peggy Dettwiler, directing finale


​The 12th PAE Annual Invitational at Carnegie Hall, January 14th, 2018
Performing Arts Educators Festival of Dance

PAE featured an international dance festival with groups from Moscow, Georgia and India, and troupes representing Polynesia, Ireland and various American folk genres.  As usual, with PAE’s model, the Isaac Stern Auditorium was sold out with over 400 dancers in attendance. During the finale Rose Ceremony, as is our tradition, each director is presented a rose and photographed onstage to audience applause.
(© Terry Wyatt)

The 11th PAE Annual Invitational at Carnegie Hall, January 14th, 2017
WAR, PEACE, AND THE POWER OF MUSIC
DR. PEGGY DETTWILER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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Host: Tony Award Winner Chuck Cooper

 Celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
FEATURING THE 350+ COMBINED CHOIR FINALE WITH ORGAN AND PERCUSSION
THE FINAL MOVEMENT OF VAUGHAN WILLIAMS’S DONA NOBIS PACEM
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The 10th PAE Annual Invitational at Carnegie Hall, January 16th, 2016
TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

~ a Dance Festival ~ 
 The production highlighted select groups from the past 10 years with an amazing collaboration of song and dance, with an international flair, and one-of-a-kind performances.
425 performers representing 13 schools from 5 states, performed in front of a full house.
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The 9th Anniversary Invitational at Carnegie Hall, January 17, 2015.
~ a Choral Festival ~ 
​  This production showcased 11 groups from across the USA and was accented with several dance and choral collaborations plus the famous Indianica Dance Troupe.  
Dr. Peggy Dettwiler conducted the finale,
​Handel’s 
Swell the Full Chorus from Solomon and Keith Hampton’s True Light .

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    • Summer Stages: Greece 2021
    • Summer Stages: Italy 2018
    • Summer Stages: Barcelona 2016
    • Summer Stages: Paris 2015
    • Summer Stages: Scotland 2014
    • Olympics: London 2012
    • Olympics: Sydney 2000
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