Sierra Nevada Ballet hosts production of Brews, Bräts and Ballet in Carson City, Reno
Sierra Nevada Ballet welcomes the spring season with the annual production of Brew, Bräts and Ballet: A Celebration of Choreography with performances in Carson City and Reno beginning this weekend.
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 first run of the production is Saturday and Sunday, April 6-7 at the Reno Little Theater, 147 E Pueblo St. The Saturday performance is 6:30 p.m. There is a 2 p.m. show on Sunday. The following weekend is the Carson City performance, which will be Saturday, April 13, 7 p.m. at the Brewery Arts Center, 449 West King Street.
BBB has something for everyone and even includes a glass of beer and bräts for those who wish to partake. For ticket information visit www.sierranevadaballet.org or call 775-360-8663.
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, set 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 opera Merry Widow 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 is in a steampunk style based on Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and it 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 he still keeps his late-wife’s memory within his heart while he and his sense of loss are supported by his present wife. This piece is powerfully emotional and captures 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 Waking 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.
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