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MIRO MAGLOIRE'S NEW CHAMBER BALLET BEGINS ITS 2006-07 SEASON WITH TWO WORLD PREMIERES BY MIRO MAGLOIRE AND GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER CONSTANTINE BAECHER, MEMBER OF ROYAL DANISH BALLET
Saturday September 23, 8 PM
City Center Studio 4, 130 West 56 Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues)
Tickets: $20; $10 for students & seniors
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Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet begins its 5-performance, September-June 2007 series at the City Center Studios, with a September 23rd program that includes world premieres by Magloire and guest choreographer Constantine Baecher, and live musical accompaniment by violinist Erik Carlson and pianist Melody Fader.
Magloire's as yet untitled premiere is set to music by 20th century Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola, and was conceived as a companion piece to his recent Silk. Transforming the movements of the earlier ballet, it reconfigures them into a pas de deux for Damien Johnson and Lauren Toole.
Also receiving its world premiere is Terzetto by New England native Constantine Baecher, trained in Germany and currently a member of the Royal Danish Ballet. Set to Etudes by Alexander Scriabin, performed live by Melody Fader, the work was conceived as a portrait of the three performers: Elizabeth Brown, Christin Hanna and Denise Small. This is Mr. Baecher's second work for the Company
The program will also include a repeat performance of Miro Magloire's Spring, set to music by Mozart, created as part of a tribute on the 250th Anniversary of the composer's birth. The trio will be danced by Elizabeth Brown, Christin Hanna, and Damien Johnson.
More About the Company
New Chamber Ballet performs original works of contemporary ballet with live music in simple, intimate settings. Founder/director is Miro Magloire, a native of Munich who has studied modern dance in New York at the Ailey and Graham Schools, and ballet with Peff Modelski and Wilhelm Burmann. Magloire's sophisticated musicality is evident in his works - his early training was in piano and composition, and at age 17 he was awarded the "Forum of Young Composers Award' in his home state of Rhineland-Westfalia. His own music compositions were presented at festivals across Europe and broadcast on national German radio. Members of New Chamber Ballet are Elizabeth Brown, Damien Johnson (studied at SAB on scholarship and danced with DTH and American Repertory Ballet), Christin Hanna (formerly with Oakland Ballet and Ballet NY), Denise Small (formerly Kansas City Ballet and Pennsylvania Ballet), and Lauren Toole (formerly New York City Ballet and Berlin Staatsballett, directed by Vladimir Malakhov).
This performance is made possible in part through the sponsorship of The Field.