From Memphis to the Joyce.Music, not ballet, comes to mind when Memphis gets mentioned, but Ballet Memphis braids dancing with the city's sound during its first Joyce run April 3-8. The 14 dancers, including Dawn Fay ("25 to Watch," Jan.), perform in two programs of works by resident choreographer Trey McIntyre, Julia Adam, and Thaddeus Davis. In Mercurial mercurial /mer·cu·ri·al/ (mer-kur´e-il) 1. pertaining to mercury. 2. a preparation containing mercury. mer·cu·ri·al adj. Balance, which concludes both programs, Davis incorporates text by urban poets into a dance blending hip hop hip-hop or hip hop n. 1. A popular urban youth culture, closely associated with rap music and with the style and fashions of African-American inner-city residents. 2. Rap music. adj. with his high-energy jazzy jazz·y adj. jazz·i·er, jazz·i·est 1. Resembling jazz in form or nature; rhythmical. 2. Slang Showy; flashy: a jazzy car. style. Program A includes McIntyre's The Naughty Boy and Adam's A Curtain of Green A Curtain of Green was the first collection of short stories written by Eudora Welty. In these stories Welty looks at the state of Mississippi through the eyes of its inhabitants, the common people, both black and white, and presents a realistic view of the racial relations , based on a story by Southern writer Eudora Welty. Adam's The Awakening, a compression of Kate Chopin's feminist novel, appears on Program B with a new McIntyre ballet that is accompanied by the passionately sad music of Roy Orbison. www.balletmemphis.org. |
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