Up CLOSE, on HOPE
Festival Ballet
825 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02906
Program 1
Saturday, November 8, 2003 or
Saturday, November 15, 2003 @ 7:30 pm
Program 2
Saturday, January 17, 2004 [sold out]
Saturday, January 24, 2004 @ 7:30 pm
Program 3
Saturday, March 20, 2004 @ 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 27, 2004 @ 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 28, 2004 @ 6:00 pm
synopsis | review

For dance so near you can touch it, Festival Ballet Providence inaugurates a new, limited seating series of studio repertory performances offering audiences the opportunity to experience dance in an intimate setting in its purest form. Risers will allow excellent viewing, and curtains will create the feeling of a black box theater setting in our own Grand Studio.

Three separate repertory programs will feature works by established and emerging choreographers. These performances offer the chance to see thrilling, original dance, to meet the dancers and to mingle with the choreographers.

Performances take place in Festival Ballet Providence’s “Grand Studio” at the Festival Ballet Providence Center for Dance Education, 825 Hope Street, on the East Side of Providence. It is a wonderful opportunity for theater-goers to see where the sweaty hard work that goes into Festival Ballet Providence’s magical stage productions takes place.

There will be three separate programs in the months between the main-stage productions, in November, January and March. Each program will be performed on two consecutive Saturdays, occasionally with casting and program variations between the two Saturdays of each program.

Mihailo Djuric's, toDAY Pictured Leticia Guerrero and Eivar Sair

The first program features works by Mihailo Djuric (Vals Fresco, For Susan, Fading, and The Unexpected), Colleen Cavanaugh (The Caress, Impatient, and Demeter’s Tears), Piotr Ostaltsov (Tristan and Isolde), Gianni Di Marco (Killing Time), and a new short work by Viktor Plotnikov, creator of our October premiere of Carmen.

Subscription tickets for the entire series of three performances is $75 per person, and gives the ticket buyer the benefit of preferred seating.

Individual performance tickets may be purchased for $25 per person, and will provide general admission to the performance, with available seating first-come, first serve.

To purchase tickets, contact Festival Ballet Providence, 825 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02906, or call 401.353.1129

For further information please view the Up CLOSE, On HOPE press release.

 

Program Casting, Up CLOSE program #2

Sketchs from Life (2003)
Choreography by James Brown
Cameron Baldassarra, Ty Parmenter, Davide Vittorino
Bums (1989)
Music: Kurt Weill
Choreography by Mihailo Djuric
Beth Petkus, James Brown, Caitlyn Novero with Marissa Gomer
For Susan (1987)
Music: Karl Reinke
Choreographed by Mihailo Djuric
Jennifer Young, Ty Parmenter
Scarlet Tangents (1997)
Music: Robert Schumann
Choreographed by Colleen Cavanaugh
Duet: Emily Bromberg & Davide Vittorino
Duet: Jennifer Ricci & Eivar Sair
Ensemble: Emily Bromberg, Carolyn Dellinger, Marissa Gomer, Jennifer Ricci, Eivar Sair, Davide Vittorino
Hard Times (2003)
Choreography by James Brown
Beth Pektus, Piotr Ostaltsov, Jennifer Young, James Brown, Frank Campisano, Erin Petitjean, Beth Reilly (Jan 17th ), Elizabeth Jessee (Jan. 24th) with Hannah Rogers, Arthur Rocha, Katie Paquin, Ceavan Connolly, Olivia Carr

Tentatively may add:

Hush (1996)
Music: Bobby McFerrin
Choreography by Mihailo Djuric
Cameron Baldassarra, Elizabeth Jessee or Daniela Debrot
or
Ty Parmenter, Caitlyn Novero or Jennifer Young

New Plotnikov ballet Larissa Ponomarenko & Yuri Yanowski (Viktor Plotnikov is injured) (Guest artists, principal dancers at Boston Ballet)