Rehearsal: Two Duets by Cherylyn Lavagnino

Above: Ramona Kelley and Daniel Mantei rehearsing for Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance; photo by Dmitry Beryozkin

~ Author: Oberon

Thursday June 21st, 2018 – Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance are preparing for their annual New York season with performances at the Tisch School of the Arts’ Jack Crystal Theatre on June 27th and 28th, 2018. Details and ticket information here.

I had missed Cherylyn’s performances last season due to my prolonged ‘indisposition’; I was all set to attend the performance this month when a family obligation took over. So I was very grateful indeed to be able to go down to the Tisch studios this afternoon watch a rehearsal of two duets from the upcoming program: one from the ballet Kamila, set to the song cycle The Diary of One Who Vanished by Leoš Janáček, and a free-standing duet set to Janis Joplin’s classic rendering of Gershwin’s Summertime. The delightful ballerina Ramona Kelley and former ABT dancer Daniel Mantei were paired in these two distinctively different pas de deux. My friend Dmitry Beryozkin was there to photograph the dancers: