FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MIRO MAGLOIRE'S NEW CHAMBER BALLET IN PREMIERES BY MAGLOIRE AND EMERY LECRONE
Saturday & Sunday, April 17 & 18 at 8pm
City Center Studio 4, 130 West 56 Street, 5th floor
Tickets: $22; $12 for students & seniors
Reservations: Smarttix 212/868-4444 or www.smarttix.com
Dancers: Emily SoRelle Adams, Elizabeth Brown, Madeline Deavenport, Victoria North, Lauren Toole
Musicians: Erik Carlson, violin, and Melody Fader, piano
Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet continues its 2009-10 performance series with a program of four ballets, including premieres by Magloire (music by Pierre Boulez) and Emery LeCrone (Chamber Dances to music by John Adams), April 17 & 18 at 8 PM in the intimate City Center Studio 4, 130 West 56 Street.
Emery LeCrone's sprightly new Chamber Dances will receive its World Premiere performances, danced by Madeline Deavenport, Lauren Toole, and Victoria North. The ballet, scheduled for a February premiere but postponed due to an injury to one of the cast members, is set to Road Movies for piano and violin by famed American composer John Adams.
The program's second, as yet untitled, premiere is a solo for Emily SoRelle Adams, created by Miro Magloire to Anthèmes for violin by Pierre Boulez, renowned for his contributions to music as a composer/conductor/teacher and music director of New York Philharmonic from 1971 to 1977. Boulez, who turns 85 this year, joins New Chamber Ballet's list of unique composers, which includes John Cage, Morton Feldman, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Giacinto Scelsi.
From the repertory are two dances by Miro:
Allegretto, Innocente, a February 2010 premiere, set to two piano sonatas by Joseph Haydn. The title of the ballet, taken from one of the sonatas, translates as "jovial and innocent". Miro's musicality continues to be recognized and lauded. Reviewing in the Village Voice, Deborah Jowitt noted that "Magloire, born in Munich and trained as a composer under Mauricio Kagel, switched his attention to dance when he moved to the States.....The choreography doesn't adhere rigidly to the music that accompanies it - sometimes floating easily on the surface, something diving beneath the waves - but Magloire's musicality is evident." (February 2010)
Magloire's Monologue will complete the program. The adventuresome choreographer has set the dance to music by American composer Morton Feldman, and calls it "a solo for Elizabeth Brown, with accompaniment by two dancers".