FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MIRO MAGLOIRE'S NEW CHAMBER BALLET OPENS ITS 2008-09 SEASON SEPTEMBER 5 & 6
BALLETS BY MAGLOIRE, CONSTANTINE BAECHER AND LAUREN TOOLE
Friday, September 5th & Saturday,September 6th 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, Maddie Deavenport, Damien Johnson and Emery LeCrone
Musician: Erik Carlson, violin, and Melody Fader, piano
Magloire's New Chamber Ballet begins the 2008-09 season with two performances, September 5 & 6, at their home base of City Center Studios, 130 West 56th Street. Joining ballets by Magloire will be the new Arachnophilia by frequent guest choreographer Constantine Baecher, and a new ballet by company member Lauren Toole. As always, music for all ballets will be performed live on piano and violin.
The subject of spiders, specifically Louise Bourgeois' spider sculptures at the Guggenheim Museum, has inspired the new Arachnophilia by Constantine Baecher. An American who is currently a member of the Royal Danish Ballet, Baecher has set his new ballet to John Cage's Six Melodies for violin and piano, and Nocturne for violin and piano.
Company member Lauren Toole has used Paul Hindemith's Sonata in E major for violin and piano for her new, as yet untitled, quartet. Toole was formerly with New York City Ballet and currently dances with New Chamber Ballet and the Los Angeles Ballet.
Miro Magloire continues his tribute to composer Karlheinz Stockhausen with two ballets: the premiere of a solo for new company member Maddie Deavenport, and a repeat of last season's Klavierstück.
Claudia LaRocco, in her full page feature article about Miro Magloire (The New York Times, June 22, 2008) remarked that "a New Chamber Ballet performance is always as much about the music as the choreography. In Klavierstück, set to and named for a piano work by Karlheinz Stockhausen, the instrument is center stage."
Magloire had been in touch with Stockhausen last year, receiving permission from the composer to use his music. After Stockhausen's sudden death in December, Klavierstück became a tribute, and Magloire continues his hommage to the major German composer (who would turn 80 on August 22nd) with this season's new solo to his music.