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Film shot locally to screen in Elkins

Submitted photos West Virginia Highland Dancers are featured in ‘Dancing Joy.’
Davis & Elkins College Appalachian Ensemble appears in ‘Dancing Joy.’

The global film “Dancing Joy,” a movie that was partially filmed in Elkins and features three local dance groups, will host its West Virginia premiere at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Science Center, Room 400, at Davis & Elkins College.

Everyone is invited to attend this free private screening, but reservations are required, via tinyurl.com/DancingJoy-WV-RSVP. Please RSVP for each person attending in your party.

Local talent represented in this feature-length film are the beautiful artistry of West Virginia Highland Dancers, Davis & Elkins College Appalachian Ensemble and SpiritWing Dance Ensemble. The D&E College campus provided the backdrop for local filming segments.

“Dancing Joy” is a groundbreaking new film set to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. It brings together 21 different dance cultures from around the world. Traveling 56,000 miles, to every populated continent and Oceania, the crew circled the globe to film.

Profoundly deaf by the time he wrote the symphony, his last, Ludwig van Beethoven created music so beautiful that it is still played and loved internationally over two centuries later. “Dancing Joy” is a soaring journey that celebrates humanity and nature as never before and shows how we are all meant to live in joy, officials said.

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