FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MIRO MAGLOIRE'S NEW CHAMBER BALLET OPENS ITS 2007-08 SEASON WITH THREE WORLD PREMIERES BY MAGLOIRE AND CONSTANTINE BAECHER of the ROYAL DANISH BALLET, SEPTEMBER 21&22 AT CITY CENTER STUDIO 4
Friday & Saturday, September 21 & 22 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 include Elizabeth Brown, Christin Hanna, Denise Small, Emily Vonne SoRelle, and Lauren Toole
Music performed by Erik Carlson, violin, and Melody Fader, piano
Miro Magloire will open the 2007-08 season of his New Chamber Ballet with World Premieres by Magloire and guest choreographer Constantine Baecher, along with a repeat of Magloire's Lace. Music always plays a major role in the New Chamber Ballet performances; as noted by Jennifer Dunning: "Magloire's knowledge and love of music shine through his unaffected ballet choreography." (The New York Times) The superb musicians, violinst Eric Carlson, and pianist Melody Fader, will both return for their fourth season with New Chamber Ballet.
Magloire will present two world premieres: an as yet untitled ballet to Fantasies for Solo Violin by Georg Philipp Telemann, and the full version of Adue, previewed at the company's June performance. The duet takes its inspiration from the music of contemporary composer Salvatore Sciarrino, born in Palermo in 1947 and currently a resident of Citta di Castello. Formerly artistic director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and teacher at the conservatories of Milan, Perugia, and Florence, Sciarrino's music is known for its isolated sonorities, extended playing techniques, frequent silences, and quotations of historic music.
Constantine Baecher returns for the fourth time as New Chamber Ballet guest choreographer with the World Premiere of Viduity, a meditation on the subject of mourning, set to music by Leos Janacek. Baecher, a native of Boston, has been a member of the Royal Danish Ballet since 2003.
Completing the program is Magloire's Lace, to Luciano Berio's Sequenza VIII for solo violin, a virtuoso violin work composed as an hommage to Bach's famous Chaconne.
Munich native Miro Magloire studied classical composition at the Cologne Conservatory of Music, and moved to New York to study dance. Also a composer and noted pianist, Magloire has created ballets for the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and the Cologne Ballet Academy in Germany. He recently spent time at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center in Southampton, working with Wilson on the choreography for a staging of the opera Faust, scheduled for performance next spring in Warsaw. Magloire and company members just returned from a week of teaching and performing in Lake Tahoe for their "New Chamber Ballet Tahoe Project."