FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MIRO MAGLOIRE'S NEW CHAMBER BALLET IN BALLETS BY MIRO MAGLOIRE AND DEBORAH LOHSE
Friday, March 27th & Saturday, March 28th 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: Emily SoRelle Adams, Elizabeth Brown, Madeline Deavenport, Emery LeCrone, Lauren Toole
Musicians: Erik Carlson and Owen Dalby, violin, and Melody Fader, piano
"It's heartening to see work so focused on the meeting of
dance and music."
Alastair Macaulay, The New York Times, Feb. 10, 2009
Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet will perform premieres by Magloire and guest choreographer Deborah Lohse, along with two repertory works, March 27 & 28 at the City Center Studio 4, 130 West 56 Street.
Guest choreographer Deborah Lohse returns to New Chamber Ballet with a new duet for Emily and Emery. Music is a score for violin and piano commissioned by the choreographer from New York composer Stefan Weisman, whose works include chamber, orchestral and choral pieces, as well as compositions for theater, video and dance. The versatile composer has created music for a variety of organizations, from Bang on a Can to the Oregon Bach Festival Composers' Symposium.
Magloire's new work is set to Anton Webern's Four Pieces for violin and piano op. 7.
The Company will repeat Monologue, in which Elizabeth takes the central role. With his ever-interesting musical choices, Magloire has set Monologue to Morton Feldman's Extensions I and Projections 4. Philip Gardner commented on the "angular, plucked, pingy music," noting that that "Ms. Brown keeps the edgy feeling but humanizes it with her expressive movement." (Oberon's Grove, February 2009)
Completing the program is Aeolia, a trio premiered in January 2008 and set to music by Georg Philipp Telemann for solo violin. Miro's notes on the ballet state that it has "no plot and is not about anything other than the movements and the music. Still, when seeing it in the rehearsal studio, I realize how futile the claims of abstraction in dance are. The three different personalities of the dancers interact with the effects of the music and turn so-called abstraction into a subtle form of storytelling. Aeolia is, therefore, a tale of three soloists and a solo violin."
New Chamber Ballet's 2008-09 season will end with performances June 19 & 20 in the City Center Studio 5.