FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MIRO MAGLOIRE'S NEW CHAMBER BALLET IN WORKS BY MAGLOIRE AND CONSTANTINE BAECHER
Saturday, February 7th & Sunday, February 8th 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
Musician: Ariana Kim, violin, and Melody Fader, piano
"...one of the small-scale delights of the New York dance scene."
Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times, Sept 2008
A young choreographer on the rise, Miro Magloire presents his New Chamber Ballet in premieres and repertory works by Magloire and guest choreographer Constantine Baecher, an American currently dancing with the Royal Danish Ballet.
The company returns to its home at City Center Studios for two performances, February 7 & 8 at 8pm. Music is always live at Magloire concerts - the company's longtime pianist Melody Fader will be joined for the February season by violinist Ariana Kim, who has performed as a recitalist and with orchestras around the world and was called "a superb musician" by the Minneapolis Star.
"A conservatory-trained classical-music composer, Magloire lets his advanced musical knowledge drive his choreographic explorations," wrote Lisa Jo Sagolla in Backstage, April 2008. For this season's premiere, Magloire has chosen music by Morton Feldman (1926-1987). Born in New York City, Feldman studied with Ferruccio Busoni, Wallingford Riegger, and Stefan Wolpe. A bio of the composer notes that he did not agree with many of the views of these composition teachers, and he spent much of his time simply arguing with them. Magloire has set his new duet to Feldman's Projections #4 and Extensions #1, written for piano and violin.
Guest choreographer Constantine Baecher was called "a welcome new voice" by Claudia LaRocco (The New York Times, September 24, 2007). Trained in his native Massachussets and in Germany, the young artist has danced with the Royal Danish Ballet since 2003, and is also making a name as a choreographer, with his ballet The Ungentle Guest premiered by the Royal Danish Ballet last spring. New Chamber Ballet will perform Baecher's quartet Viduity, a ballet about loss, set to leos Janacek's Piano Sonata 1.X.1905.
In a musical departure, Magloire created a trio called Romantic Pieces to the lush, lyrical Four Romantic Pieces for violin and piano by Antonin Dvorak. The program will be completed by Klavierstück, "a very personal work," according to Magloire, set to a pounding score by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Magloire, who idolized the German composer from his teen-age days, contacted Stockhausen's publisher in 2007 to ask permission to use one of his scores. To Magloire's delight, he received an e-mail from the master himself, who suggested particular pieces of music, and the choreographer went to work. Sadly, Stockhausen died suddenly in December 2007, and the dance, which was to premiere the following March as a tribute, became a memorial to the composer.
New Chamber Ballet will next perform March 27 & 28 in the City Center Studios.