FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MIRO MAGLOIRE'S NEW CHAMBER BALLET AT CITY CENTER STUDIO 4, NOVEMBER 10 & 11
Saturday, November 10 at 8pm; Sunday, November 11 at 7pm
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, Kfir Danieli, Christin Hanna, Denise Small, Emily Vonne SoRelle, and Lauren Toole
Musician: Melody Fader, piano
Continuing his 2007-08 performance series at City Center Studio 4, Miro Magloire will present his New Chamber Ballet in works by Magloire, including the World Premiere of a new ballet for which he also composed the music, and Viduity, a work by guest choreographer Constantine Baecher, currently a dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet. All ballets are set to solo piano music, to be performed by superb young pianist Melody Fader. Performances are November 10 & 11 in City Center Studio 4, 130 West 56 Street.
The company welcomes a new dancer, Kfir Danieli, from Haifa, Israel. Kfir currently dances with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and is a former member of the Alabama Ballet, under the direction of Wes Chapman.
Magloire, who studied classical composition at the Cologne University of Music in his native Germany, composed the score for a new, as yet untitled, solo for Denise Small. The choreographer's musicality has been remarked upon by several writers, most recently Claudia LaRocco: "Mr. Magloire... has great musical sensitivity." (The New York Times, September 24, 2007)
Commenting on Constantine Baecher's Viduity, repeating on the Nov. 10 & 11 program, Ms. LaRocco found it "a ballet made for sinking into, and Mr. Baecher is a welcome new voice." (The New York Times, September 24, 2007) A U.S. native and dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet for the past five years, Mr. Baecher set his quartet to a moody piano sonata by Leos Janacek.
Magloire's Adue is inspired by the music of Salvatore Sciarrino, contemporary Sicilian composer. Formerly artistic director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and teacher at conservatories in Milan, Perugia, and Florence, Sciarrino's music is known for its isolated sonorities, extended playing techniques, frequent silences, and quotations of historic music.
The evening will be completed by Spring, choreographed by Magloire as part of the company's Mozart celebration in 2005. Reviewing in The New York Sun, Joel Lobenthal wrote: "Perhaps because Mr. Magloire himself is both a musician as well as a choreographer, he had the confidence to avoid being trapped or subservient to the cascade of notes that poured forth in the Mozart piano Sonata." (September 25, 2006)