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Intermezzo Dance Company: Rehearsal

Above: dancers Kaitlyn Gilliland and Stephen Hanna

Thursday January 30th, 2014 – Intermezzo Dance Company are in rehearsal, preparing for their January 31st appearance at the 92nd Street Y as part of the series “Movement Talks” presented by Edward Henkel. The program, which will explore the theme of beauty in dance and choreography, is sold out. Newly created works by Gemma Bond, Claudia Schreier, and Craig Salstein will be danced by Intermezzo‘s Kaitlyn Gilliland, Amber Neff, Nadezhda Vostrikov, and Stephen Hanna. I was able to see a run-thru of all three ballets this evening at DANY Studios.

Above: Kaitlyn Gilliland rehearsing Claudia Schreier’s ballet Harmonic which originally premiered at Columbia Ballet Collaborative‘s November 2013 performances; a great score for dancing by Douwe Eisenga propels a quartet of dancers thru this fast-paced work.

Gemma Bond, a member of ABT‘s corps de ballet, has created a sisterly duet to Schubert, danced by Amber Neff and Nadia Vostrikov (above). And Craig Salstein has choreographed an arrangement of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy as a pas de trois for Kaitlyn Gilliland, Amber Neff, and Stephen Hanna.

Nadia

Amber

Stephen

Kaitlyn

Following the evening at the Y, Intermezzo Dance Company will begin preparations for their upcoming performances at Vassar College.

Performance dates are March 29th (evening) and 30th (matinee), 2014. Tickets are free. Send an e-mail to [email protected] write “Intermezzo” in the subject line and the number of tickets and which performance date you wish to attend in the body of the e-mail.

Details of repertory and participating dancers for the Vassar performances will be forthcoming.

January 30, 2014
Intermezzo Dance Company/Update

Above: Carlos Lopez and Kurt Froman in the ‘drunken duet’ from Raymond Lukens’ ballet VEILS from Intermezzo Dance Company‘s debut performance at the 92nd Street Y; photo by Sarah Sterner

Mary Cargill writes about the Intermezzo performance here, and Deborah Wingert covers it here.

Above: Aran Bell and Kurt Froman in VEILS; photo by Sarah Sterner

Above: Intermezzo ballerinas Kaitlyn Gilliland and Rina Barrantes; photo by Sarah Sterner

After the show: Craig Salstein (center) with the Intermezzo dancers and the members of the Wyrick String Quartet.

October 23, 2013
Premiere Performance: Intermezzo Dance Company

Friday October 18th, 2013 – Since I was involved in the early planning stages of these first performances by Craig Salstein’s Intermezzo Dance Company. I can’t really write about their premiere performance tonight at the 92nd Street Y with any sense of detachment – not that we should ever be detached from dance. But of course I loved the music – the Verdi string quartet and a fantasia on themes from his opera A MASKED BALL (all played live by the Wyrick Quartet) – and the choreographers and dancers all came thru with flying colours. And the audience was simply loaded with dance-world celebrities.

With three sold-out performances, Intermezzo‘s off to a fine start, and I know Craig has some exciting future plans – which can’t, as yet, be announced.

Hopefully I’ll soon have some production photos to share.

October 18, 2013
Rehearsal: Intermezzo Dance Company

Above: Shoshana Rosenfield and Kurt Froman rehearsing for Intermezzo Dance Company; click on the image to enlarge.

Thursday August 29th, 2013 – Craig Salstein, founder of Intermezzo Dance Company, invited me to a Company rehearsal today at the ABT Studios. Choreographers Lisa de Ribere and Gemma Bond were working on the 2nd and 4th movements – respectively – of the Verdi string quartet which will be shown at Intermezzo‘s premiere performances in October.

Intermezzo Dance Company will debut at the 92nd Street Y with a programme celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Italian opera composer Giueseppe Verdi. Craig Salstein, a serious opera-lover, will honor the Maestro with a setting of the composer’s string quartet as well as a fantasia of melodies from the dramatic opera UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (A Masked Ball), specially arranged for these performances. Four choreographers – Marcelo Gomes, Lisa de Ribere, Adam Hendrickson and Gemma Bond – will each set a movement of the quartet, while BALLO will be choreographed by Raymond Lukens. Tickets for the performances are on sale now: click here to order.

Craig has put together a handsome roster of dancers, including established favorites and some exciting newcomers. It was great to see everyone today, and if they were for the most part moving too fast for my camera to capture, I do have a few images to share:

Kurt Froman

Aran Bell warming up

Shoshana Rosenfield and Nancy Richer

Nadezhda Vostrikov, Carlos Lopez and Kaitlyn Gilliland

Nancy Richer, Rina Barrantes

Kaitlyn Gilliland, Stephen Hanna and Nadia Vostrikov getting notes from Gemma Bond

Kaitlyn!

Carlos and Nadia

Striking a melodramatic pose: Carlos Lopez

Rina, Kaitlyn and Stephen

Aran Bell

Carlos and Nadia, one of my few actual dance shots that turned out

Kaitlyn Gilliland and Sarah James

Nancy Richer, Gemma Bond

Carlos Lopez. I met Carlos this past Spring when he danced with Lydia Johnson Dance.

Another of the Intermezzo choreographers, Adam Hendickson, is creating the 3rd movement of the string quartet as a pas de deux for Kaitlyn Gilliland and Stephen Hanna. I’m hoping to watch a rehearsal of this part of the programme soon.

Meanwhile, a short film featuring all the Intermezzo dancers moving to music from Verdi’s NABUCCO is in the works.

August 30, 2013
DIY Dancer Interviews Craig Salstein

Craig Salstein, soloist at ABT, talks about his new enterprise Intermezzo Dance Company in an interview at DIY Dancer here.

Photo: A Capella Pictures

July 16, 2013