FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AN EVENING WITH THE NEW CHAMBER BALLET AND GUESTS ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2005
NEW CHAMBER BALLET TO OPEN NEW SEASON WITH WORLD PREMIERE, GUEST ARTIST AND LIVE MUSIC
8/22/2005 - New York, New York – The New Chamber Ballet will open its 2005-06 season with an evening of new ballets with live music on Saturday, September 17th, 8pm at City Center’s Studio 4, 130 W 56TH St between 6th and 7th Ave. The program will include a trilogy of ballets to music by Bach, including one World Premiere by Artistic Director Miro Magloire, as well as a guest appearance by Bessie-Award winning dancer Megumi Eda. Admission is $15 ($10 for students and dancers). Reservations and information are available at (212) 246-5758 or at www.newchamberballet.com.
Guest Appearance – A highlight of the evening will be a guest appearance by Bessie-Award winning dancer Megumi Eda. Eda has danced with the Hamburg Ballet, Dutch National Ballet and Rambert Dance Company and has won a 2004 Bessie Award for her performance in Karole Armitage’s works at the Joyce Theatre. She will perform a solo created in collaboration with choreographer Troy Mundy, Small Neptune, which was described by its choreographer as a “journey into one’s self, so deep inside your own thoughts, memories and experiences that it seems that you have traveled to another planet - the landscape of your own mind.”
World Premiere – Another highlight of the performance will be the world premiere of Miro Magloire’s Dawn to music by Johann Sebastian Bach. Dawn is the third ballet in a trilogy of works that Magloire has created to Bach’s music this year. Set to Bach’s Trio Sonata BWV 526 in an arrangement for violin and piano, Dawn is an uplifting, energetic plotless ballet inspired by the composer’s very restrained yet emotional music. It will be danced by Elizabeth Brown, Christin Hanna and Julia Welsh. The program will also include repeat performances of the first two ballets of the trilogy, Preludes and Fall.
Live Music – This performance of the New Chamber Ballet will be accompanied by live music. The musicians are violinist Erik Carlson and pianist Melody Fader. Mr. Carlson is a young violinist who has extensively performed in New York and beyond, and Ms. Fader, a recent Juilliard graduate, also has a busy performing career that has brought her among others to the Spoleto Festival in Italy. For both artists this is the third collaboration with the New Chamber Ballet.
This performance is made possible in part through the sponsorship of The Field.