The world's premiere heavy metal ballet company, New York City-based BALLET DEVIARE, proudly announces its next performance in Philadelphia, PA at the unOfficial Fringe Late Nite Cabaret. Witness the full-scale vision of this astonishing ensemble (which is) a theatrical hybrid of contemporary ballet accompanied by an earth-shattering live heavy metal performance by the NYC heavy metal band GWYNBLEIDD.

Two performances are scheduled for September 13th 2008, at the The Painted Bride Arts Center. Both performances are on September 13th, 2008. First performance is at 8:30pm and entails the full scale production of Memento Mori. Second performance - The Closing Night of The unOfficial Fringe Late Nite Cabaret entails a complilation of selected works from Memento Mori presented at 10:30pm.

Tickets available at the door @ 7pm on the day of the performance.

Painted Bride Arts Center

230 Vine Street

Philadelphia PA, 19106

The Bride is located on the north edge of Old City, between 2nd and 3rd Streets on Vine.

Memento Mori, a Latin phrase, is translated loosely as remember you will die. Ballet Deviare uses this phrase for its next performance not only to recognize our mortality, but also to celebrate living.

Ballet Deviare was founded in 2003 and is located in New York City. With an international following based on intense and riveting stage productions, Ballet Deviare is revered as the world's premier heavy metal ballet company, it is the brainchild of Laura Kowalewski (Co-Director and choreographer) and Andrew Carpenter (Co-Director). Specific musical genres that are used include, grind, doom metal,

death metal, black metal, progressive metal, and folk metal. The vocabulary of movement that Laura Kowalewski draws from includes classical ballet, modern, butoh, and heavy metal "posturing". Segments of the company with the band Arsis have been featured on MTV2's Headbanger's Ball.