Ballet Ny 2012 Season August 9, 2012

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.