Rehearsal: New Chamber Ballet

Above: New Chamber Ballet dancers Amber Neff and Sarah Atkins

Monday February 22nd, 2016 – I dropped in at Ballet Hispanico’s studios today where Miro Magloire, just back from choreographing the ballet sequences for Sarasota Opera’s production of Verdi’s AIDA, is preparing his New Chamber Ballet dancers for their upcoming performances: February 26th and 27th, 2016, at City Center Studios. Ticket information here.

Marina Harss wrote a wonderful article for DanceTabs about Miro’s Sarasota experience: read it here.

At today’s rehearsal, Miro was fine-tuning the ballets we’ll be seeing on the coming weekend at City Center Studios. Here are some photos of the dancers I took at the studio today:

Amber Neff

Shoshana Rosenfield, Amber Neff, Sarah Atkins

Shoshana Rosenfield, Sarah Atkins

Sarah Atkins, Amber Neff

Shoshana Rosenfield

Traci Finch

Elizabeth Brown, Sarah Atkins

Traci Finch, Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth Brown, Traci Finch

Elizabeth Brown, Amber Neff

Elizabeth Brown, Amber Neff

Elizabeth Brown

The works to be presented at the upcoming City Center Studio performances are: the premiere of the full version of Gravity to music by Austrian composer Friedrich Cerha, who turns 90 this month; the premiere of a new ballet to Maurice Ravel’s 2nd violin sonata; a revival of Quartet, a dramatic solo set to Arnold Schoenberg’s Six Little Piano Pieces; a revival of Two Friends, a trio danced to Claude Debussy’s violin sonata; and Miro’s recent success Voicelessness, a duet set to music by Beat Furrer.

The dancers are Sarah Atkins, Elizabeth Brown, Traci Finch, Amber Neff, and Shoshana Rosenfield, and the music will be played live by Doori Na (violin) and Melody Fader (piano).