abatt Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 MCB will tour in the US next season, including stops in NYC and Chicago. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/miami-city-ballet-gets-funding-for-tour-and-midsummer/?ref=arts Link to comment
Helene Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 This is great news: Miami City Ballet presented a fantastic mixed bill in Vancouver -- "Ballo," a sublime "Symphony in Three Movements," and "Serenade" -- and NYC and Chicago will be lucky to see them. The PNB re-design was based in Pacific Northwest fauna and flora, and I can't wait to see the MCB designs. Link to comment
sandik Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I'm sorry they're not coming to Seattle... Link to comment
ABT Fan Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Are they allowed to "reimagine" Balanchine's Midsummer with new/different sets and costumes? I thought that altering any aspects of Mr. B's ballets was prohibited under his trust. Link to comment
abatt Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 I'm not sure that the prohibition on alterations extends beyond the choreography. It's the choreography that is copyrighted. Link to comment
sandik Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 When Pacific Northwest Ballet got new designs (sets and costumes) for MND in the 1990s, they asked for and received permission from the Trust to do so -- I believe that's still the norm. Link to comment
Natalia Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 I wonder if the Trust also governs changes to designs within NYCB itself? The recent (awful, IMO) costumes for WHO CARES? come to mind. Link to comment
Helene Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 The Trust, at minimum, has to give permission to other companies to perform and re-design ballets. The Trust's relationship to the mother ship is different. Link to comment
KarenAG Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 This is welcome news! I can't wait to find out what they will perform. Link to comment
Helene Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with a new design, “re-imagined as a reflection of the South Florida region” by artists with ties to Miami: Michele Oka Doner, who is designing its costumes and sets, and the playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, who will serve as dramaturge." Link to comment
brokenwing Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Dates (April 29-30, 2016) and a venue for the Chicago visit has been announced. Still no word on repertory, though. http://entertainment.suntimes.com/dance/miami-city-ballet-slated-harris-theater-visit/ Link to comment
Helene Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 The blog entry in the NYT linked in the original post said: The company plans to perform next season in New York, Chicago and Minneapolis, and said that its tour plans would be announced later this spring. Link to comment
brokenwing Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/stageandarts/300294711.html Repertoire for Minneapolis announced as 'Symphony in 3 Movements', 'Serenade' and the new Peck, 'Heatscape'. Looking forward to hearing what they will bring to NYC and Chicago! Link to comment
abatt Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 http://entertainment.suntimes.com/music/miami-city-ballet-hamburg-ballet-among-major-dance-companies-headed-harris-theater-2015-2016-season/ MCB going to Chicago's Harris Theater Apr 29-30 with two programs. Link to comment
mussel Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Hope they'll come to NYC during ABT and NYCB offseason, and with live orchestra. Link to comment
abatt Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 Based on the other dates, it appears that the dates will conflict with the NYCB season. Also appears that they would be going to City Center rather than the Koch. Link to comment
brokenwing Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 It looks like Miami City Ballet will be visiting Chicago, not once, but twice this year. The lineup for the Chicago Dancing Festival this August has been announced and will feature Miami City Ballet in at least two of its performances. http://entertainment.suntimes.com/dance/2015-chicago-dancing-festival-taking-shape/ Link to comment
Jack Reed Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Is there any word as to their Dancing Festival repertory? If I were Lourdes Lopez, I'd pick something loud for the second item, in the Pritzker Pavilion - it's open-air in downtown Chicago, not far from heavily-trafficked Lake Shore Drive, and whatever sound-track normally accompanies the dancing is apt to be punctuated on a summer evening by car horns and motorcycle exhausts and the occasional siren, if not thunder as well! I'm not following MCB so closely anymore, so I'm wondering only half-facetiously whether she's got something in repertory by now where these ambient "contributions" will blend right in. (Just checking the MCB web site, I found no mention of tours. Odd.) Link to comment
cubanmiamiboy Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 (Just checking the MCB web site, I found no mention of tours. Odd.) That site has always been a useless disaster. Link to comment
KarenAG Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Greetings! Does anyone know what dates and venue MCB will be in NYC? I cannot find anything on the net. Thank you. And yes, Cristian and Jack, MCB's website is quite deficient in not mentioning its tours! Link to comment
RosieS Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 It's possible the announcement timetables don't line up between all their theaters, and MCB is waiting to make one big announcement on tours. After all, they've been off the road for some time. Link to comment
Jack Reed Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Actually, they were just in Vancouver and then Ottawa in February and March, though those stops do mark the company's first international tours since 2011, and this northern (former) fan remembers that in years past it was pretty easy to check whether and where they would be on tour, so he could mark his calendar and plan ahead as much as those in their tour cities, especially if they were coming someplace nearby. You may be right, they may want to make a "splash" announcement or something, but maybe it's just a consequence of other recent management changes that this aspect of their publicity, convenient to us in their national audience, has been overlooked. On the other hand, the Harris Theater here in Chicago has already announced their dates and repertory for April, 2016. (Scroll down the linked page. Scroll way down!) So some decisions have been made. Link to comment
Helene Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 (And Chicago gets Mark Morris' "Dido and Aeneas," too. Link to comment
abatt Posted July 8, 2015 Author Share Posted July 8, 2015 The Chicago programs look fantastic. I hope we get those in NYC too. I see Hamburg Ballet is also performing in Chicago. Just checked the Hamburg website, and Chicago is the only tour venue in the US for next season. Darn. Link to comment
Jack Reed Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Yeah, Morris's Dido, too, and in the same month. The Harris is a real asset. And luckily, no conflict has emerged at the Auditorium Theater so far; it tears me when compelling shows go on back-to-back across town, as though this were New York or someplace, after what (to my taste anyway) has been a drought the rest of the year. The Chicago programs look fantastic. I hope we get those in NYC too. On the other hand, didn't their Vancouver and Ottawa tours show different repertory, or mostly different, in different cities? Nothing wrong with hoping, though, unless it sets you up for disappointment. Link to comment
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