Brew, Brats and Ballet
Sierra Nevada Ballet welcomes in the Spring Season with the annual production of Brew, Brats and Ballet-A Celebration of choreography on April 6 (7:30 PM) and April 7 (2:00 PM) at the Reno Little Theater and on April 13 (7:00 PM) at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City.
This year the BBB presentation features six different choreographers with each one presenting a special short work and a short talk before it. The program culminates with a post performance Q and A session between choreographers and audience.
The diverse BBB program is filled with several dance styles from classical to contemporary to jazzy musical theater. Jennifer Boyle August creates a very moving modern piece to the beautiful Adagio For Strings by Samuel Barber as a tribute to her late mother; Barbara Land captures the feeling of the dreamy waltz from the Merry Widow Opera while using the classical ballet vernacular as a tribute to the Nevada Opera; Alexander Biber presents a completely contemporary piece to modern music while Ananda Bena-Weber presents an excerpt from her new full length story ballet, Twelfth Night-A Ballet Noir, that SNB will premiere this summer. Bena-Weber’s innovative original creation for SNB in a steampunk style based on Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream was so popular with Nevada audiences last summer that it inspired her to do another brand new ballet based on a play.
Oliver Adams creates a very moving and very contemporary piece about a husband who lost his first wife and remarries but still keeps her memory within his heart and his present wife is supportive of his loss. This piece is powerfully emotional while capturing the magic and resilience of human nature.
Artistic Director, Rosine Bena, contributes two very different pieces to the program: La Danse, to music by Fredric Chopin, and Walking On Broken Glass, to the music of Annie Lennox. La Danse makes use of comic ballet mime and Walking On Broken Glass is a very stylized contemporary pointe piece that was first presented in 1995 by the Reno Ballet.
BBB has something for everyone and even includes a glass of beer and a brat for those who wish to partake. Do not miss this exciting program!
SNB performs Brew Brats and Ballet on April 6 (7:30 PM) and 7 (2:00 PM) at the Reno Little Theater and on April 13 (7:00 PM) at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City. For ticket information visit www.sierranevadaballet.org or call 775-360-8663.
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