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Carlos Fittante in Fandango Fantasy
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Fandango and Other Fantasies, March, 2007
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Tuesday, March 6 and Wednesday, March 7 at 8:00 PM
at Santa Barbara's Center Stage Theater
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The Dancers
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Carlos Fittante |
Aida Amirkhanian |
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Colleen Bialas |
Ian Vincent McGinnis |
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Eduardo Cueto |
Christina Sanchez |
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Aimee Lopez |
Denise Woods |
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Thomas McDonnell |
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The Program
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Fandango Fantasy
(West Coast Premiere) |
Choreographed and Danced by Carlos Fittante
Music: Grave Assai & Fandango by Luigi Boccherini
Costumes: Gregory Nelson
Violin: Nicole McKenzie
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Nicole McKenzie and Carlos Fittante in Fandango Fantasy
Photo: ©2007 David Bazemore |
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BSB Artistic Associate and Guest Artist Carlos Fittante returned to present Fandango
Fantasy, "a playful seduction between a dominatrix violinist and a leather-clad
matador" set to mustic by Boccherini played on stage by Santa Barbara violinist
Nicole McKenzie.
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Slowdance
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Choreographed by Melinda Horwitz
Music: Slowdance by Kenji Bunch
Colleen Bialas, Ian Vincent McGinnis, Christina Sanchez
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Christina Sanchez and Ian Vincent McGinnis in Melinda Horwitz's Slowdance
Photo: ©2006 David Bazemore |
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First performed in November, 2006, this contemporary work explores the recollections
of an intimate relationship and what might have been, set to music by Kenji Bunch.
Horwitz comments, “With [Mr. Bunch's] Slowdance, I explore contemporary
relationships including unrequited love and the absence of physical communication.”
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Persevere
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Choreographed and performed by Aida Amirkhanian
Music: Selections from Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach
Costume: Sonia
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Aida Amirkhanian in her Persevere
Photo: ©2007 David Bazemore |
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Based on a poem by the 13th Century mystic Rumi and set to music by Bach, Persevere
is a new solo by Aida Amirkhanian who the Canberra Times called "an exceptional
performer who stunned with her performance and challenges with her views... she sidles
surreptitiously into our hearts, then grabs and manipulates our emotions like a
master juggler."
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New Step Rag
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Choreography: Carrie Diamond
Music composed and performed by Eric Valinsky
Colleen Bialas
New Step Rag was made possible in part by a Space Grant
from the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center.
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Eric Valinsky and Colleen Bialas in Carrie Diamond's New Step Rag
Photo: ©2006 David Bazemore |
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A fiendishly difficult and dramatic solo set to a fiendishly difficult original
piano score by music director Eric Valinsky, the choreography by
Carrie DIamond represents the struggles of a dancer at the turning
point of her career. Although intended to represent the end of a dance career,
Colleen Bialas presents an exquisite interpretation at the beginning
of hers. Dr. Valinsky performed the music at the West Coast Premiere. |
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Serenade
(West Coast Premiere) |
Choreographed by Carrie Diamond
Music: Serenade in C major, Op. 10 by Erno von Dohnányi
First performed in 1986
Aimee Lopez
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Eduardo Cueto
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Aimee Lopez and Eduardo Cueto in Diamond's Serenade
Photo: ©2007 David Bazemore |
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Serenade, an early pas de deux choreographed by Carrie Diamond,
is an introspective yet romantic look at a developing relationship of a young couple.
It was originally premiered in New York by Ms. Diamond with the New American
Ballet Ensemble.
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Remember Me (Silent Voices)
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Choreographed by Susan Shaberman
Music: Silent Voices, Piano Trio No. 2 by Benjamin Lees
The Witness: Aida Amirkhanian
Christina Sanchez, Eduardo Cueto, Colleen Bialas,
Aimee Lopez, Thomas McDonnell,
Denise Woods
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The Company in Shaberman's Remember Me
Photo: ©2007 David Bazemore |
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Local choreographer Susan Shaberman created a haunting and intensely
moving work based on a musical composition by Benjamin Lees. Performed
to live accompaniment, it featured the internationally acclaimed dancer Aida
Amirkhanian. Ms. Shaberman says about the piece, "Silent Voices
has inspired me to create a piece addressing the human capacity for genocide, and
the greater human spirit that exhibits incredible beauty and inspiration as we witness
the rise from the smoke and ashes, and the triumph of life."
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© 2006-2007 American Dance and Music, Inc.
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