FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MIRO MAGLOIRE'S NEW CHAMBER BALLET MARCH 28 & 29 AT CITY CENTER STUDIO
Friday, March 28th & Saturday,March 29th at 8pm
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: Christin Hanna, Emery LeCrone, Emily Vonne SoRelle, and Maddie Deavenport
Musician: Erik Carlson, violin, and Melody Fader, piano
Magloire's New Chamber Ballet returns to the City Center Studios for March 28 & 29 performances featuring the premiere of Magloire's Klavierstück, to music by Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), widely acknowledged as one of the most important and controversial composers of the 20th Century.
Born in Moedrath, Germany, Stockhausen became a ground-breaking force in shaping the development of music in the decades after World War II. Munich native Magloire contacted Karlheinz Stockhausen last year, before the composer's death in December, to discuss the possibility of creating a ballet to his music. Stockhausen, who would turn 80 this August, was enthusiastic and immediately suggested his Klavierstück IX, with its stark contrasts between obsessively repeated chords and sections of very free rhythmic variations. Magloire was struck by the beauty of the score, despite the often harsh texture of the music, and went to work on the choreography. In light of Stockhausen's sudden passing last December, the ballet will also be a tribute to the composer's unique talent to turn radical ideas into fascinating music.
Silent Shadows, a women's trio, is set to music by Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), a reclusive nobleman (he was the Count of Alaya Valva), who was infatuated with eastern spirituality and wrote music often consisting of minute, continuous transitions, concentrating on only one or two notes.
Aeolia, a lively trio premiered last season, was inspired by Georg Philipp Telemann's Fantaisies for solo violin No. 1, 3, 9.
Reflections II has both choreography and music by Miro Magloire. The solo is a miniature in which the violin remains on the sideline as it engages in an intense dialog with the solo dancer, Christin Hanna.
The company welcomes new member Emery LeCrone, originally from Greensboro N.C., who received her dance training at SAB and the North Carolina School of the Arts. She recently staged her Pulling to Break on members of NYCB for Greensboro Ballet Gala and, as a dancer, appeared with Christopher Wheeldon's company Morphoses at its recent City Center season. Also joining for the March season is Maddie Deavenport, a San Diego native last seen with the Pennsylvania Ballet.