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Greetings,
Do we crave the solace of art when life seems fragile?
I have recently despaired over nature's blind rage. More than that: as 'an artist' I felt frustratingly powerless in a week that called for doctors, nurses, soldiers or engineers.
Still - two generations ago, in the midst of the death and destruction of World War II in Europe, people would
flock to performances, risk their life to hear a concert or see a play.
The Arts don't provide food or water, shelter or medical care. They can provide, in moments of doubt, a reminder of our own humanity.
These are serious thoughts in a year that has begun with serious events. Our upcoming performances on February 5th and 6th, however, are not all that serious. With two World Premieres and three repertory works, they go from exuberant to dramatic to physical to... you get the idea. I hope to see you there - the details (and more!) are below.
Warmly,
Miro Magloire
Artistic Director, New Chamber Ballet
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Upcoming Performance - Program III
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 February 5th & 6th, 2010
Our winter program is full of riches: five works, including two World Premieres and two revivals.
There's driving energy, in Emery LeCrone's new ballet, set to John Adams' Road Movies;
Balletic elegance, in Miro Magloire's new work, a whimsical tribute to the genius of Joseph Haydn;
Raw emotions in Two, Deborah Lohse's acclaimed duet making its long overdue comeback. An poignant work to a commissioned score by Stefan Weisman, it "suggests Ms. Lohse's gifts for creating theatrical atmosphere." (Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times)
Mysterious rituals in Lace, a séance-like work set to Luciano Berio's seminal Sequenza for solo violin, and performed here for the first time in two years;
And crystalline beauty in the repeat performance of Pas De..., Magloire's recent gloss on a pas de trois, set to his own music.
Don't miss it! Tickets are on sale already - reserve your seats today!
Friday, February 5th at 8pm &
Saturday, February 6th at 8pm
New York City Center Studio 4
130 West 56th St, 4th floor (betw. 6th and 7th Ave)
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NCB Portrait: Emery LeCrone
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 More, Please...
Not quite a year ago the New York Times' Claudia LaRocco called one of Emery LeCrone's choreographies a "ready-for- primetime knockout," adding "More, please, Ms. LeCrone."
Born in Greensboro, NC, the dancer and choreographer took up dancing at an early age. After training at Greensboro Ballet, the North Carolina School of the Arts and the School of American Ballet, and dancing with North Carolina Dance Theater, she moved to New York City two years ago and soon joined New Chamber Ballet.
Here, her luscious, long-limbed movement has left its mark in ballets like Magloire's Klavierstück or Deborah Lohse's Two. She is at her best injecting abandon into the steps, and admits to loving "pushing my body to physical extremes."
Increasingly these days, her focus is on making dances: "As a dancer, I try to absorb someone else's movement and aesthetic - as a choreographer I create my own." And create she does, having recently completed works for Oregon Ballet Theatre, Arizona's NovaBallet and the Columbia Ballet Collaborative.
For Emery, choreographing is not just a matter of easy inspiration. "You must balance, daily, the ability to take risks and move forward with the chance to go back and re-do something," she says.
This winter she has come 'home,' choreographing her first work for NCB. "I know the dancers very well. I know their strengths and weaknesses, and they know mine," she says. "There is a lot of trust and comfort in the room."
The ballet, a trio set to John Adams' rousing score Road Movies, will premiere in the company's February performances. More please, Ms. LeCrone.
Click here to read the complete interview...
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The Haydn Connection
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 A Double Bicentennial
Miro Magloire's new ballet is a belated tribute to the music of Joseph Haydn (photo left), the bicentennial of whose death was last year.
The new work will be Magloire's third ballet to music by the Austrian composer. "Haydn has a sheer endless bag of ideas - everything changes all the time," Magloire says. "Also, he is so refreshingly underestimated as a ballet composer."
Indeed, Haydn himself wrote no bona fide ballets, and his concert music is not often used by choreographers. Magloire chose two piano sonatas as the score for his ballet. "I hope the ballet will be both elegant and startling - an unexpected surprise in a familiar surrounding."
(Trivia: Haydn did have a connection to the ballet world that few know about. One of his closest friends was his copyist, Hans Elssler, whose daughter Fanny (photo right) would go on to become one of the 19th century's most famous ballerinas. And Fanny Elssler's 200th birthday is, indeed, this year. Happy Birthday!)
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New Dancer
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 Victoria North
Since our last newsletter, a new dancer has joined the ranks of New Chamber Ballet: Victoria North.
Victoria joins us after dancing with the Maryland Youth Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theater II, the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, and Complexions. But New Chamber Ballet is not all that's on her mind - she also directs and dances for the Columbia Ballet
Collaborative at Columbia
University, where she is a Neuroscience and Behavior
major. Welcome to NCB!
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 NCB is on Facebook! If you're among the growing number of adults who depend on Facebook to relax, stay in touch, procrastinate and conspire, this is good news. Visit our page, become a fan, we'll reward you with up-to-the-minute information on our performances, preview videos, photos and other goodies!
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The Buzz
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 News From Our Artists...
Here's what New Chamber Ballet's artists have been up to since the last show:
Company member Emery LeCrone choreographed a new ballet for Oregon Ballet Theater (photo: Emery rehearsing with OBT dancers Artur Sultanov and Kathi Martuza). The new work will premiere in April... Emily SoRelle Adams performed in the Metropolitan Opera's production of La Damnation de Faust... Madeline Deavenport performed in Wisconsin, dancing Arabian in the Wausau Dance Theatre's Nutcracker alongside ABT principals Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Belotserkovsky... Melody Fader played Beethoven's 1st piano concerto with the Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra in West Hartford, CT... Erik Carlson performed with the International Contemporary Ensemble at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the multimedia event Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica; with the same group, he also performed and recorded a program of music by Iannis Xenakis in San Diego, CA. |
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