FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MIRO MAGLOIRE'S NEW CHAMBER BALLET IN WORKS BY MAGLOIRE AND EMERY LECRONE
Friday & Saturday, November 19 & 20 at 8pm
City Center Studio 4, 130 West 56 Street, 4th floor
Tickets: $22; $12 for students & seniors
Reservations: Smarttix 212/868-4444 or www.smarttix.com
Dancers: Alexandra Blacker, Elizabeth Brown, Madeline Deavenport, Victoria North, Lauren Toole
Musicians: Erik Carlson, violin, and Melody Fader, piano
Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet continues its 2010-11 season with a program of new and repertory ballets by Magloire and the company's Choreographer-In-Residence Emery LeCrone, on November 19 & 20 at City Center's Studio 4, 130 West 56 Street.
Magloire will premiere a new duet for Victoria North and Alexandra Blacker, set to three Violin Sonatas by George Frederick Handel.
Moments is an elegant duet for dancer and violinist, created for and performed by Lauren Toole and Erik Carlson. According to writer Joey Lico, "Toole soaks in the music (Salvatore Sciarrino's Caprices No. 2&6 for violin), with her movement. Her port de bras wrap around the music like an embrace from a lost love: desperately and tenderly holding and unwilling to let go." (idanz.com, September 17, 2009)
In Allegretto, Innocente, premiered in February of 2010, Magloire uses music by one of his favorite composers, Franz Joseph Haydn. His Piano Sonatas in G minor and G major accompany this women's trio.
A second women's trio is 104 Fahrenheit, set to music by choreographer/composer Magloire, and premiered at the company's last season in September 2010. Philip Gardner praised the choreography for bringing out "...the individual beauty and poetry of these three dancers." (oberon's grove, September 2010)
Completing the program will be a repeat of Five Songs For Piano, created by New Chamber Ballet's Choreographer-In-Residence Emery LeCrone, and set to Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words. Following the work's premiere by the Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Roslyn Sulcas remarked that "Ms LeCrone has genuine choreographic gifts." (The New York Times, April 11, 2010)