FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MIRO MAGLOIRE'S NEW CHAMBER BALLET - SEASON FINALE - JUNE 15 & 16 AT CITY CENTER STUDIO 4 - GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER: CONSTANTINE BAECHER
Friday & Saturday, June 15 & 16 at 8 PM
City Center Studio 4, 130 West 56 Street, 4th floor
Tickets: $20; $10 for students & seniors
Reservations: Smarttix 212/868-4444 or www.smarttix.com
Dancers: Elizabeth Brown, Christin Hanna, Damien Johnson, Denise Small, Lauren Toole
Musicians: Erik Carlson (violin) and Melody Fader (piano)
Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet will complete its 2006-07 season with a program of ballets by Magloire, including a world premiere, and guest choreographer Constantine Baecher. As always, live music by violinist Erik Carlson and pianist Melody Fader will accompany all dances. Performances are June 15 & 16, 8 PM, in City Center Studio 4, 130 West 56 Street.
Magloire will premiere a new, as yet untitled, work to piano music by Salvatore Sciarrino, a contemporary composer born in Palermo in 1947. Sciarrino was formerly artistic director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and has taught at the conservatories of Milan, Perugia, and Florence. In this duet for dancers Denise Small and Lauren Toole, the choreographer's movement is inspired by Sciarrino's music, known for its isolated sonorities, frequent silences, and quotations of historic music.
Life, which premiered in 2005, was conceived by Magloire as part of his Mozart tribute for the composer's 250th anniversary. The plotless trio to Mozart's Violin Sonata in D major, K306, begins with a lively first movement with virtuoso solos for two of the dancers. A lyrical trio follows, and the last movement is an extended solo in which the choreography distintegrates little by little until the dancer finally collapses to the floor.
Magloire's La Follia is set to the composition of the same name ("madness" in Italian) by Arcangelo Corelli. Here the "musically astute Magloire" (Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times) embraces a baroque spirit with a series of overlapping solos, duos and trios in an appropriately busy and whimsical trio.
The company will repeat Constantine Baecher's Terzetto, described by Jennifer Dunning as "a cheeky romp." (The New York Times, Sept. 2006) Pianist Fader shines in the challenging Scriabin Etudes in this amusing, good-natured women's trio.
The June 15 & 16 performances conclude New Chamber Ballet's 5-weekend series during 2006-07 at the City Center Studios. Magloire favors these intimate studio presentations; as noted in The New Yorker, "Magloire keeps it simple, putting the focus on the music," and on the performances by his "excellent, classically trained dancers."