New York Theatre Ballet Performs Thursday
New York Theatre Ballet will perform Thursday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Keihin Auditorium on the Tarboro campus. Admission is free, but tickets are required.
New York Theatre Ballet, the foremost chamber ballet company in the United States, will return to Tarboro on Thursday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. to perform in the Edgecombe Performance Series, bringing a program of mixed repertoire.
NYTB has performed in the series annually for the past four years.
Founded in 1978 by artistic director Diana Byer, NYTB has been hailed by The New York Times as “an invaluable company.” NYTB is dedicated to inspiring a love of dance in diverse audiences through performances of chamber ballet masterpieces and bold new works, as well as innovative one-hour ballets for children, all at affordable prices.
By pairing the ballets of legendary creators with those of contemporary visionaries, NYTB brings a new understanding and appreciation of dance. The approach to live performance for children is groundbreaking and unique.
Pam Tanowitz’s Double Andante, a 13-minute ballet for ten dancers set to the Andante movement of Beethoven’s Sonata in D Major #15, will be played live on piano two times at different tempos. The dance is based on the “pas de deux” and will be used as a metaphor for the age-old notion of unrequited love.
A duet set to music by Franz List, Run Loose is the first ballet choreographed by Gemma Bond especially for NYTB. Bond is an up-and-coming choreographer from the corps of American Ballet Theatre.
In Antony Tudor’s Judgment of Paris, the Greek legend is transferred to a French Café, late at night, where a drunken boulevardier makes his choice from three sad and aging ladies of pleasure.
Set in a magical fairy kingdom beneath the roots of a great tree and filled with magic and poetry, Sleeping Beauty, choreographed by James Sutton, tells the fantastic tale of Princess Aurora from her fateful birth to her triumphant wedding. Tchaikovsky’s captivating score sets the mood for New York Theatre Ballet’s unique one-hour version of this beloved classic.
The performances have included an evening mixed program of balletic works for the general public and a Friday morning matinee of children’s programming for all second and third graders in the county free of charge. Over 1,100 students each year have been in attendance, and more than 3,000 students have been exposed to the art of dance through these programs.
With sincere gratitude to the Furman Mathewson Trust of Edgecombe County Memorial Library, ECC is pleased to welcome New York Theatre Ballet back to Tarboro for a fifth straight season.
Admission for the March 30 performance is free to the public, but tickets are required. Reserved seating tickets are available to the general public through the ECC Box Office (823-5166, ext. 187) and at Edgecombe County Memorial Library (823-1141).