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Ballet
NY
presents the 2012
New York City Season
August 9-11, 2012
The Ailey Citigroup
Theater
Ballet NY
presents its 2012 Season, including the World Premiere of
Trois Mouvements by Artistic Director Medhi
Bahiri and the Company Premiere of emerging
choreographer
John-Mark Owen’s Triptych, from August 9-11,
2012 at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th
Street, NYC (at Ninth Avenue). Performances: Thursday at
7:30pm, Friday at 7:30pm, Saturday at 2pm. Tickets are $26
($16 for students and seniors) and are available at
www.smarttix.com
or by phone at 212-868-4444.
Trois
Mouvements, a ballet
for seven dancers (four women and three men), is set to the
Concerto/Konzert Op. IX N˚2 for Oboe and Orchestra by Tomaso
Albinoni; Triptych is set to music by
H. F. Biber and Sergei Rachmaninoff. The program will also
include a work-in-progress presentation of In the
Garden of Souls, choreographed by Mr. Bahiri to
music recorded by Azam Ali (vocal) & Greg Ellis (percussion)
of the group Vas and a mixture of Middle Eastern, Indian and
Far Eastern compositions. An encore of Agnes DeMille’s duet
from The Other will also be on the program.
Dancers: Amy
Brandt, Kelsey Coventry, Michael Eaton, Fidel Garcia, Katie
Gibson, Jennifer Goodman, Jason Jordan, Luke Manley and
Nadezhda Vostrikov.
Founded in 1997 by
former New York City Ballet Principal Ballerina Judith
Fugate and International Guest Artist Medhi Bahiri,
Ballet NY is a company of accomplished principal and
soloist dancers, whose mission is to offer emerging
choreographers the opportunity to create new works on those
dancers. The Company is committed to keeping ticket prices
affordable in an effort to attract, cultivate and educate
new audiences for dance. The Company has performed in New
York City at The Joyce Theater, Symphony Space, Marymount
Manhattan College, The Miller Theater, The Ailey Citigroup
Theater, around the country and in Mexico and Canada. For
more information, visit
www.balletny.org.
Medhi Bahiri
(Co-Artistic Director, Ballet
NY) brings a wide and diverse background in dance to his
position. He was Principal Dancer with Ballet West and
Boston Ballet, and a member of Maurice Bejart's Twentieth
Century Ballet. As Principal Guest Artist, he has appeared
with Ballet National de Mexico, Ballet de Santiago, Chile,
Universal Ballet of Korea, Ballet du Louvre, Tulsa Ballet,
and Ballet Philippines. Touring in the United States and
Europe, his partners have included: Cynthia Gregory, Ann
Marie DeAngelo, Valentina Kozlova, Cheryl Yeager, Evelyn
Cisneros, Marie-Christine Mouis, Christine Spizzo, Christina
Fagundes and Laura Young, among others. Mr. Bahiri won the
First Prize of the Prix de Lausanne dance competition, and
was recognized for his outstanding artistic achievement and
original style at the International Ballet Competition in
Varna, Bulgaria. As a non-competitor, he was distinguished
as Best Partner at the Jackson and Tokyo ballet
competitions.
Judith Fugate
(Co-Artistic Director, Ballet NY), former Principal
Ballerina with the New York City Ballet, danced roles in
virtually every ballet in the NYCB repertoire, counting
among her partners Peter Martins, Mikhail Baryshnikov and
Helgi Tomasson. During her career she toured extensively
with groups led by renowned artists such as Mr. Baryshnikov,
Cynthia Gregory and Mr. Martins. Miss Fugate appeared on
“Live from Lincoln Center” with Ray Charles in Peter
Martins’ A Fool for You. In the Metropolitan Opera's
production of La Traviata, conducted by Placido
Domingo, she was partnered by Fernando Bujones and Peter
Boal. She left the company in 1997 to pursue a career as
freelance Guest Artist and Co-Artistic Director of Ballet
NY. Miss Fugate works as repetiteur for the George
Balanchine Trust and the Jerome Robbins Rights Trust,
staging these renowned choreographers' works worldwide.
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Ballet NY
4445 Post Road #3H
Riverdale, NY 10471
Phone/Fax:
718/543-2760
Email:
balletny.directors@gmail.com
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