BALLET NY
Presents the 2014 New York City Season
April 15 -17 @ 7:30 PM
The Ailey Citigroup Theater
405 West 55th Street (corner of Ninth Avenue)
(212) 868-4444 or www.smarttix.com

Dancers
MICHAEL EATON, MIRIAM ERNEST, KATIE GIBSON
TAUREEN GREEN, JESSICA LAWRENCE
IBRAHIM PEREZ, AMY SAUNDER, BRENT WHITNEY

Lighting Director: SCOTT BOROWKA
Company Photographer: EDUARDO PATINO
Website Designer: ENDA KEEEGAM
Wardrobe: KRISTI WOOD
Videographer: BRANDON SKOLNIK
Publicist: MICHELLE TABNICK

In BALLET NY’s 2014 Season four distinct dances are presented. Kinderszenen (“Childhood Scenes”) is both playful and contemplative as six dancers celebrate sisterhood and brotherhood, as well as solo adventures, choreographed by Antonia Franceschi to a simplistic piano (music by Allen Shawn; pianist – Yushiko Sato). In the Garden of Souls choreographed by Medhi Bahiri is a far more forceful piece with ominous and eerie backgrounds, spirited dances, and almost-Gregorian chants and Middle Eastern music. Choreographer Margot Parsons’ Dreams is an ethereal reflection where female dancers cavort to the limits of the mind in silvery goddess costumes. Dancers strut their stuff in urban black costumes in Ginger Thatcher’s Urban Study-Excerpts. Hip music by Annie Gosfield make this a fun, rollicking street dance and an homage to the frenetic energy of humanity.

BALLET NY 2014 provides a tasty sampler of the diversities of dance and the many talents that bring them to life.

- Laurie Lawson -