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Ballet Hispánico returns to the Apollo Theater with a work originally shown in 2014, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s “CARMEN.maquia,” a reinvention of Bizet’s classic opera. Sansano has taken inspiration from Picasso, as well as flamenco and paso doble dance styles, to transform the 19th century verismo drama through a modernist’s lens. The story is set in a bleak, stark world where the sensuality and characters drive the drama. Opens Friday, December 7 at 8 pm.
The Fridays at Noon (FAN) series at the 92Y has long given viewers a chance to see top-notch dance in an unusual way. The midday timing of the series allows the audience to focus as much on the opportunity to learn as to watch; it targets dance-lovers as well as novices and school groups of all ages. In the next two weeks, the series focuses on two important groups of choreographers whose work has been underrepresented in performance.
On Friday December 7, FAN presents “Performing Justice: Dancing While Black,” including both performance and dialogue about the vision and artistry of “dance artists of the Black diaspora,” with choreographers Jaime Yawa Dzandu and Maria Bauman, in conversation with Eva Yaa Asantewaa and DWB’s founder Paloma McGregor. The following week the series focuses on “Early and Significant Solos by Women,” choreographing in the early 20th century. The solo works will include pieces by Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, Jane Dudley and six other seminal artists, and will be performed by artists who are “legacy specialists,” and whose role here is to keep the works alive with new presentation and interpretation.
Cover: Shelby Colona and Chris Bloom in “CARMEN.maquia.” Photo © Christopher Duggan.
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