BALLET HISPANICO PERFORMS OLLER WORLD PREMIERE IN NYC.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of CITY--Ballet Hispanico's season at the Joyce Theater The Joyce Theater is a 472-seat dance performance venue located in the Chelsea area of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The Joyce Theater Foundation, the organization founded in 1982 that operates the theater, also owns the Joyce SoHo dance center located in a opens December 1 with a new work by Ramon Oller entitled Bury Me Standing. Inspired by the Gypsies and their journeys across continents, the work, named after a book by Isabel Fonseca, depicts their longing for their homeland. The work is set to Gypsy music from Spain
"Music from Spain" is a short story by Eudora Welty, published in 1948 as a limited edition monograph by the Grenville Press, and as a part of the novel The Golden Apples in 1949. and Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. . Oller's fluid style has a strong Limon influence, traces of classical ballet Noun 1. classical ballet - a style of ballet based on precise conventional steps performed with graceful and flowing movements ballet, concert dance - a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers , an element of Spanish dance, and an occasional touch of African dance. The strong sense of rhythm in Spanish dance is used generously throughout the piece. Bury Me Standing is Oller's third collaboration with Ballet Hispanico. He has become one of Spain's most prolific choreographers, producing thirty-two dances in the past thirteen years. Trained in Barcelona, Paris, and London, he began choreographing in 1984 and created his company, Metros Dansa Contemporanea, in Barcelona in 1985. Also included in Ballet Hispanico's season at the Joyce are Ann Reinking's Ritmo y Ruido (Rhythm and Noise), Maria Rovira's Tierra de Nadie (No Man's Land), and David Roussbve's When Dreams Explode, an innovative theater dance piece dealing with the downside of the immigrant experience in the U.S. |
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