tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6507963927661340662024-03-25T07:06:24.771-07:00BALAM Dance TheatreBalam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-63944990717852288732021-05-21T16:52:00.006-07:002024-03-25T06:09:02.807-07:00Mission Statement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkjIXeuKMmN-nuVl80JlDA3hJiYi_FXHjj77ivGChR5Vj2Dg0BH3o7NGnLPppoNgnXUWG-aaYFhNo4v9PaGJgm39v2RW7NQu0r4Bs8IQRz35EIdhaQmtJzIEytCm0Nq_kAf2dqIFEsagwmyTv8HmCOtDwhI0NGy0iMBOjgwtld3RQNFTTWWIjK_D8x/s200/Islene%2003.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="126" data-original-width="200" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkjIXeuKMmN-nuVl80JlDA3hJiYi_FXHjj77ivGChR5Vj2Dg0BH3o7NGnLPppoNgnXUWG-aaYFhNo4v9PaGJgm39v2RW7NQu0r4Bs8IQRz35EIdhaQmtJzIEytCm0Nq_kAf2dqIFEsagwmyTv8HmCOtDwhI0NGy0iMBOjgwtld3RQNFTTWWIjK_D8x/w256-h161/Islene%2003.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Balinese American Dance Theatre, also known as BALAM Dance Theatre, or BALAM was founded in 1979 by choreographer and dance educator Islene Pinder to bring the detailed skills of Balinese dance to New York City.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Photo of Islene Pinder by Julie Lemberger</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Presently, BALAM's mission is to</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">• create original work inspired by diverse cultural dances and historical periods,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">• entertain and educate the community through its activities,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">• enrich the aesthetics of contemporary dance through the inclusion of movement skills and aesthetics rooted in traditional and historical styles, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">• serve as a cultural resource for educators, artists, and community organizations,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">• serve communities of diverse socio-economic backgrounds at the grass-roots level by offering affordable and free, well-researched, customized, professional quality performances, lessons, and lectures,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">• foster cross-cultural understanding and appreciation, qualities essential for building a more just and civilized society.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">BALAM’s repertoire highlights Contemporary, Balinese, Ballet, Baroque, Spanish Escuela Bolera, Salsa, Japanese Noh, and Martial Arts techniques. Transporting and inspiring, the company’s unique blend of innovative choreography, opulent costumes, striking masks, eclectic music, and fantasy characters enacting mythic tales in a contemporary context, has broad audience appeal and is suitable for people of all ages and backgrounds.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><u>MONTHLY DANCE ADVENTURE</u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxplGef5wWBnBJ4qNI9dRTtUXLR7CUxnARis93DEPwqu5OjNq5IVII2JWXeqmplk3Z19q0-TZ0_6QfV-aQVKMMT_jqaztpbtsrTmvnAvx5hiE5WjgCNsyCM_8m3vkX-rKiLuyFGCsAVLTkRSiqhquP4TShWtEIjozeuGxytDQ5aAYIRF58lYxv9e_rTNE/s854/MDA%20Logo%203.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="854" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxplGef5wWBnBJ4qNI9dRTtUXLR7CUxnARis93DEPwqu5OjNq5IVII2JWXeqmplk3Z19q0-TZ0_6QfV-aQVKMMT_jqaztpbtsrTmvnAvx5hiE5WjgCNsyCM_8m3vkX-rKiLuyFGCsAVLTkRSiqhquP4TShWtEIjozeuGxytDQ5aAYIRF58lYxv9e_rTNE/w458-h290/MDA%20Logo%203.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 13.2px;">BALAM presents its Monthly Dance Adventure at the <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=628d66862a37906aJmltdHM9MTcwMzIwMzIwMCZpZ3VpZD0zMTA5YmZkZC0yNjUxLTY0MDUtMzk5OS1hYzA4MjdhYzY1MzAmaW5zaWQ9NTIwNQ&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=3&fclid=3109bfdd-2651-6405-3999-ac0827ac6530&psq=marbelhead+school+of+ballet&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9tYXJibGVoZWFkc2Nob29sb2ZiYWxsZXQuY29tLw&ntb=1" style="color: #1a1576; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Marblehead School of Ballet</a> (MSB), 115 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA 01945. </div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 13.2px;">This masterclass, open to all people ages 12 and up, is offered in both a hybrid in-person and virtual format. No previous dance experience required. Pre-registration at MSB is required. $21.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Thursday, March 28, 6-7 p.m. <i><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Shines (part 2)</b></span></i>. Learn <u>solo salsa moves</u> from BALAM's <u>NYC Salsa on 2</u> duet, <i>Fantasia de Amor</i>, choreographed for BALAM's repertoire by NYC Master Salsa teacher Carlos Koenig.</p>Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-77207644022664251542021-05-21T16:51:00.099-07:002024-03-25T06:10:58.715-07:002024 & 2023 Calendars<div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>2024 -Next Event</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: small;">Fiesta Odalan 45!</span></b></i></div><div>BALAM's 45th anniversary performance celebrating 45 years of presenting contemporary cultural dance.
<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWLsCHutmi9MPmK49vh5ebuVKkfv1lo54DKsV7SqoMEj6-Ae3QEIL4iiNA3IF3C9jBAxuYqkgTUwFlxtYXzSMdNOr-UvF9Wd_8b2XYZeUhdXnSqM6wT1klzm4pfNfLgPWrEbexDxUQvDjVXFevXiUma8dHEDDlCOS5rr0vHHin1RnD7pSU_iH92Zm_Qww/s1920/Fiesta%20Odalan%2045%20Oleg%20Blog%20QR%20Code%20%283_21_24%29.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWLsCHutmi9MPmK49vh5ebuVKkfv1lo54DKsV7SqoMEj6-Ae3QEIL4iiNA3IF3C9jBAxuYqkgTUwFlxtYXzSMdNOr-UvF9Wd_8b2XYZeUhdXnSqM6wT1klzm4pfNfLgPWrEbexDxUQvDjVXFevXiUma8dHEDDlCOS5rr0vHHin1RnD7pSU_iH92Zm_Qww/w530-h298/Fiesta%20Odalan%2045%20Oleg%20Blog%20QR%20Code%20(3_21_24).jpg" width="530" /></a></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a 10007="" 19="" 3-4:30.="" 53a="" b="" center="" chambers="" dance="" donations="" encouraged.="" free.="" gibney="" may="" new="" ny="" street="" studio="" sunday="" v="" york=""></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dance Photo Credit: Julie Lemberger. NYC Skyline from Openverse.com</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Free. Donations encouraged.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Sunday, May 19, 3-4:30 p.m.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Gibney Dance Center</div><div style="text-align: left;">53A Chambers St., Studio V</div><div style="text-align: left;">New York, NY 1007</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Limited Seating. Confirmed reservations required.</div><div style="text-align: left;">email: info@balamdancetheatre,org, or call: 646-361-9183</div><div style="text-align: left;"><u><br /></u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>PROGRAM</u></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a 646-361-9183="" b="" balamdancetheatre.org="" call:="" email:="" info="" limited="" onfirmed="" required.="" reservations="" seating=""></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a i="" program="" style="font-style: italic;">1. Oleg Tambulilingan, (Love Dance of the Bumblebees), </a>a traditional Balinese Dance Duet<i> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><i>2. La Zarzamora,</i> </span>a Spanish song<i> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><i>3. El Barreño</i>, </span>a Central American folk-dance duet </div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>4.</i> <i style="font-style: italic;">Huicho</i><i style="font-style: italic;">, </i>an 18th Century Peruvian Dance with live Baroque guitar, and singing<i style="font-style: italic;">. </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-style: italic;">5. Mariones,</i><i style="font-style: italic;"> </i>a Baroque guitar solo<i style="font-style: italic;"> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-style: italic;">6. Caballo de Rejoneo</i><i style="font-style: italic;"> (premiere). </i>Live singing and a Sevillanas duet dancing with castanets<i style="font-style: italic;"> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-style: italic;"><i>7. Harp and Butterfly</i>, </i>solos by Isadora Duncan, Marie Carstens-guest artist<i style="font-style: italic;"> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-style: italic;"><i>8. Ramayana: Abduction of Sita</i>, </i>BALAM's signature Balinese fusion dance story ballet inspired by the Hindu epic.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>ARTISTS</u></div><div style="text-align: left;">Nani Devi, Inma Heredia, Robin Gilbert, Yumiko Niimi, Steven Jeltsch, Ryan Closs, Eugenia Forteza, Barbara Romero, Toshinori Hamada, Carlos Fittante, Marie Carstens-guest artist</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Past Events in 2024</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj49rWAWkCXRKQ03kq6PXwsT4kWa4bk0YUNAA4zCPBRBJpBpEwsSoOzXEABh969UoFGsvN1CEmgtvNXxATKUCTwgoF_GmZSzm5il4Tl1JU24vt8gkiuqEU7znKsBefFzhBIhHXrwEe1ca64LXsY1ImlGF_pVB-dKN_IGuVJeJ1taAPEu2nSUJZLvmo-TjE/s3294/Terunajaya%20%20Brewster%20NY%20Oct%2027_2018%20Photo%20by%20Selena%20Cucta.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2507" data-original-width="3294" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj49rWAWkCXRKQ03kq6PXwsT4kWa4bk0YUNAA4zCPBRBJpBpEwsSoOzXEABh969UoFGsvN1CEmgtvNXxATKUCTwgoF_GmZSzm5il4Tl1JU24vt8gkiuqEU7znKsBefFzhBIhHXrwEe1ca64LXsY1ImlGF_pVB-dKN_IGuVJeJ1taAPEu2nSUJZLvmo-
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Shakespeare. <b>FREE</b><br />BALAM has choreographed for a cast of actors’ dances
inspired by the 19th century ballroom suite.<br />Castle Clinton National Monument, The Battery (Battery
Park) New York, NY 10004<br />Thurs., June 15 - Sun., June 18 & Thurs., June 22 -
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Also featured on Sunday's program are Inma Heredia: Spanish Show woman (Singer/Dancer/Actress), and Tali Roth: Israeli Concert Guitarist.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Thurs., May 25, 1-2 pm.<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Return to the Garden of Love</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b>• <b><span style="background-color: white;">FREE</span></b></div><div><div><div>St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Church</div><div>239 W 49th St, Manhattan, NY 10019 • (212) 489-1340</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Gotham Early Music Scene's (GEMS) <a href="https://www.gemsny.org/midtown-concerts" target="_blank">Midtown Concerts</a> series presents the debut of BALAM's sequel program <i>Return to the Garden of Love</i> featuring excerpts from the music <i>Concerts Royeaux</i> by Francois Couperin, Baroque dance by Carlos Fittante, a traditional Balinese mask, and an original script by <a href="https://houseofcisco.wordpress.com/bios/" target="_blank">Inma Heredia</a>. View the concert in a live broadcast at the <a href="https://www.gemsny.org/midtown-live" target="_blank">GEMS</a> website or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MidtownConcerts/featured" target="_blank">YouTube</a> channel. </div><div><br /></div><div>• Yumiko Niimi - dancer</div><div>• Carlos Fittante - dancer</div><div>• Mezzo-soprano Eugenia Forteza</div><div>• Lisa Terry - viola Parthenia Viol Consort</div><div>• Ryan Closs - theorbo</div><div>• Dongmyung Ahn -violin</div><div>• Dongsok Shin - harpsichord</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Sun., April 16, 1-2 pm. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Monthly Dance Adventure-Sevillanas Rocieras</span></b></div><div>Marblehead School of Ballet <a href="https://marbleheadschoolofballet.com/classes/workshops/" target="_blank">(MSB)</a></div><div>115 Pleasant Street</div></div><div><div>Marblehead, MA 01945</div><div>(781) 631-6262</div><div>$20. Registration required. Drop-ins welcome. Ages 12 and up. No previous experience needed. </div><div>In studio and virtual lesson format</div><div><br /></div></div><div><b>March 30-April 2, <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Metamorphosis: Wu Song and the Tiger, </span></b></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Chaconne de Phaeton, </b>and<b> Chaconne de Arlequin</b></span></div><div>BALAM joins <a href="http://voicesofmusic.org/concerts.html" target="_blank">Voices of Music</a> to present an original program of live music and dance.</div><div><br /></div><div>• Yihan Chen-guest pipa virtuoso, and Kaili Chen-guest Chinese dancer</div><div><br /></div><div><div>March 30 Palo Alto </div><div>April 1 San Francisco</div><div>April 2 Berkeley</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>March 4, <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Chaconne de Phaeton</span> </b>(Dongmyung Ahn, Baroque violin.)</div><div>Faculty Showcase at QC Arts</div><div>Lefrak Concert Hall at Queens College-City University of New York</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Feb. 9, <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Terunajaya</span> - A Balinese Dance Performance/Masterclass/ and Lecture</b></div><div>World Dance and Cultures, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u>2022 Season</u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Dec. 9-12, The Christmas Show. St George Theatre, Staten Island, NY</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTbnTXdefx9tf9OEuUsSzFiG9bXXKDCb7rugi37x0Nm1FxU5F30_KEKHuN4I5B1LdAqyZ7AQQwdZyT0h5GzE7y-c0m_z0z32F9xrapOP9Lt2RBpTpfycKqxgu2ogeoX6M4FxMvh2ufrnkatrYeN049e7oixdxBIjOH_nZpBhXPoWeUWjHY3jFJoHxw/s349/Christmas%20Show%202021.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="349" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTbnTXdefx9tf9OEuUsSzFiG9bXXKDCb7rugi37x0Nm1FxU5F30_KEKHuN4I5B1LdAqyZ7AQQwdZyT0h5GzE7y-c0m_z0z32F9xrapOP9Lt2RBpTpfycKqxgu2ogeoX6M4FxMvh2ufrnkatrYeN049e7oixdxBIjOH_nZpBhXPoWeUWjHY3jFJoHxw/w200-h134/Christmas%20Show%202021.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Nov. 23. Caton School Brooklyn, NY</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS2jrNTcNLstD8qzM-Dk11fdTAg4yevw1aIRukAM7d9m3mvozP9dm8ZnAVgf1oZb8gEiIH4u843QaI6GjE9_CTEDBboow-IBx6Tu7TMpyeuu_cfTTS16UX4W58BwgaiH11v-7L5Q8ACSJjhykU8ZjzlPnCqsm8QQIfG59JcUx6N9C8hnEb6QWs83FX/s405/Yloy_Ybarra_Photot%20by%20Julie%20Lemberger.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="329" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS2jrNTcNLstD8qzM-Dk11fdTAg4yevw1aIRukAM7d9m3mvozP9dm8ZnAVgf1oZb8gEiIH4u843QaI6GjE9_CTEDBboow-IBx6Tu7TMpyeuu_cfTTS16UX4W58BwgaiH11v-7L5Q8ACSJjhykU8ZjzlPnCqsm8QQIfG59JcUx6N9C8hnEb6QWs83FX/w163-h200/Yloy_Ybarra_Photot%20by%20Julie%20Lemberger.jpg" width="163" /></a></div><br />BALAM and Ballet Fiesta Mexicana join to present Hispanic Heritage Dance Extravaganza. Photo: Yloy Ybarra taken by Julie Lemberger</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Wed., Oct. 19 6:30-8:00 p.m. FREE</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjET876kYgMac77tUeKfwq0_8dLDgQwWXlo1sdhw6aqO7WWKtgLau2091EAqd1B2cQr8W3uM0aXI5rupOLrUBfhYnEEbCN_1504SzqNtgv_4iI0mZbUydRuEzOUoR4FlFRAU3hf4WFs1Ooje9p2ga_sTzlE3ahwrFNyUBL2BTA3Bc6MipY0hfvMhwei/s1920/Snapshot%20-%202.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjET876kYgMac77tUeKfwq0_8dLDgQwWXlo1sdhw6aqO7WWKtgLau2091EAqd1B2cQr8W3uM0aXI5rupOLrUBfhYnEEbCN_1504SzqNtgv_4iI0mZbUydRuEzOUoR4FlFRAU3hf4WFs1Ooje9p2ga_sTzlE3ahwrFNyUBL2BTA3Bc6MipY0hfvMhwei/w200-h113/Snapshot%20-%202.png" width="200" /></a></div></div><div>Hispanic Heritage Festival Program</div><div>BALAM guest performs with the Phyllis Rose Dance Company</div><div>Brentwood Middle School, Brentwood, Long Island, NY 11717</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Tues., Oct. 18, 11-1 pm. FREE</b></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFLIXOR0HlkfZr_iwSmTCK8XrUmTThghjrFR0chceGUcAnST5N2_K5asw77cK3WNXT15Tx8qUOnJpZszKDYwsis6AffKC4bHmXFSmSAdfasEepAIlLD4WLHyq8QUf3Qi9Yux5bqcnOMFuMFVGZEYyAJshCkVHnDFkY-2AMhEwK8mrzXj1v6SGc8fVj/s800/Huicho%20Duet.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFLIXOR0HlkfZr_iwSmTCK8XrUmTThghjrFR0chceGUcAnST5N2_K5asw77cK3WNXT15Tx8qUOnJpZszKDYwsis6AffKC4bHmXFSmSAdfasEepAIlLD4WLHyq8QUf3Qi9Yux5bqcnOMFuMFVGZEYyAJshCkVHnDFkY-2AMhEwK8mrzXj1v6SGc8fVj/w200-h133/Huicho%20Duet.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div><i>Danzas de ida y vuelta: A Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration!</i></div><div>Presented by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1043087599696729/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2252%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%7B%5C%22invite_link_id%5C%22%3A460987482485991%7D%7D]%22%7D" target="_blank">Hispanic Culture Arts</a></div><div>Williamsbridge Oval, Bronx, NY</div><div><br /></div><div><div>By subway, take the 4 Train to Mosholu Parkway stop, the D Train to the Norwood/Bedford Park stop, the MetroNorth to the Botanical Gardens stop.</div></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Sat. Sept. 24, 4 pm.</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Arts on the Lake, 640 NY-52, Carmel Hamlet in New York 10512</span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAFuUqihVUxseBBTOJFdtjuzTuPmbvB8OOidT7iUvRwbb2xf0CfAzMxQf3ei29azIO0udyY0vXSP0iOgO1Ytr_FvAz-c-cDy5deJQAhDHZJn5mucYmKuCaxTu-BvHhTotJowxsF_Bshk0Ii4eYGbtYJdngnTc7HLZdEB7Os8JY6QImJX7Jqyc9e88v/s1920/Attan.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAFuUqihVUxseBBTOJFdtjuzTuPmbvB8OOidT7iUvRwbb2xf0CfAzMxQf3ei29azIO0udyY0vXSP0iOgO1Ytr_FvAz-c-cDy5deJQAhDHZJn5mucYmKuCaxTu-BvHhTotJowxsF_Bshk0Ii4eYGbtYJdngnTc7HLZdEB7Os8JY6QImJX7Jqyc9e88v/w200-h113/Attan.png" width="200" /></a></div><div><i>Taking Flight, an Afternoon of Modern & Cultural Dances</i></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">BALAM guest performs with the<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Putnam County Dance Project. </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="color: #202020;">Sat., July 9, 2:45-2:52. FREE. </b><u><a href="https://norwalknice.org/" target="_blank">NICE Festival</a></u> (Norwalk International Cultural Exchange), <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">10 North Water Street in Norwalk, CT.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYLWOtyXXM5-lnBjG28AQx8NJr9fDeRqex0Le6Kup3Ra1jA4-0QAa7LyRrK3jP7KAMgT1k0a4GMHOAnz9w9puxCwzrkbpg4nyQi7cU0VINyv9tt37WYaRt1jnGYZZivpC_N3FcI896jaBK1KtYRk4lCUdC_bXptvDxBSYzKGd_q5z20z41VR01oAdo/s665/Carlos%20Fittante%20&%20Nani%20Devi%20in%20Oleg%20Tambulilingan_First%20Night%20NJ%2009.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="665" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYLWOtyXXM5-lnBjG28AQx8NJr9fDeRqex0Le6Kup3Ra1jA4-0QAa7LyRrK3jP7KAMgT1k0a4GMHOAnz9w9puxCwzrkbpg4nyQi7cU0VINyv9tt37WYaRt1jnGYZZivpC_N3FcI896jaBK1KtYRk4lCUdC_bXptvDxBSYzKGd_q5z20z41VR01oAdo/w200-h131/Carlos%20Fittante%20&%20Nani%20Devi%20in%20Oleg%20Tambulilingan_First%20Night%20NJ%2009.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><i style="color: #202020; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Oleg Tambulilingan (Love Dance of the Bumblebees)</b></i><i style="color: #202020; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;">, </i><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #202020;">a scintillating and playful Balinese dance duet choreographed in 1952 by the celebrated Balinese star dancer, I. Ketut Marya (Mario). This dance, popular in Bali, uses music from the exciting Gong Kebyar (bursting into flames) genre and was was in part Mario's response to the glamorous Hollywood movie musicals he experienced while touring internationally.</span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b style="color: #202020;">Thurs., April 21, 1:15-1:55 p.m. FREE</b></p><!--StartFragment--><!--EndFragment--><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhopzEA9mLRpAwxJAmFZy7ZrcoHkgJjFvTj4ky107j2C5_4uYvKDgfkmkKFgQbGxwXhKy1d8ct6jIhXbcfvm4W92S0nTN57005v4Ps6PWkO9df_2ruiv-M4DROoRe3CZgxUCjEU_HmN52y8k9BOT0h05l6srE0zHGVxmKWdZrPYLMq-OeVVwNmiGjD-/s3300/Collage%20April%206.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="3300" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhopzEA9mLRpAwxJAmFZy7ZrcoHkgJjFvTj4ky107j2C5_4uYvKDgfkmkKFgQbGxwXhKy1d8ct6jIhXbcfvm4W92S0nTN57005v4Ps6PWkO9df_2ruiv-M4DROoRe3CZgxUCjEU_HmN52y8k9BOT0h05l6srE0zHGVxmKWdZrPYLMq-OeVVwNmiGjD-/w200-h154/Collage%20April%206.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="color: #202020;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><b>Garden of Love in Miniature</b></div></i></span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #202020;">Presented by GEMS Midtown Concerts, and offered in honor of Gladys Isabel Fajardo Luhrs</span></p><p><span style="color: #202020;">Church of the Transfiguration, </span><span style="color: #202020;">1 East 29th Street, NYC</span></p><p><span style="color: #202020;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020;"><span>Live online at: </span></span><a href="https://gemsny.org/midtown-live" style="background-color: transparent;">Watch Live - Gotham Early Music Scene, Inc. (gemsny.org)</a></span></span></p><p>Music: Jean-Baptiste Lully's Entree d'Apollon transcribed for solo harpsichord by Jean-Henri D'Anglebert, Francois Couperin's Concerts Royaux 1 and 2, Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Sans Freyeur Dans Ce Bois. </p><p><u style="color: #202020;">2021 Season</u></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">Wednesday, October 6, 7-8 p.m. FREE</strong></p><p><u></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6XFfXLlNA0bZCxkfmB_90YqqA5GVT7FSKTtD0jqlH-V0OavIc_kDc-l1MuqSvrwBqpBDQ4r1WsrlzwwhVFi4C0sjCUXWwp_nxo3g0tGoRZYB0iJ2kQ4IJ9Bx9_jQo80hLVGigfpQeMoQ/s859/Nani+300+DPI+Resized+2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="859" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6XFfXLlNA0bZCxkfmB_90YqqA5GVT7FSKTtD0jqlH-V0OavIc_kDc-l1MuqSvrwBqpBDQ4r1WsrlzwwhVFi4C0sjCUXWwp_nxo3g0tGoRZYB0iJ2kQ4IJ9Bx9_jQo80hLVGigfpQeMoQ/w200-h176/Nani+300+DPI+Resized+2.jpg" width="200" /></a></u></div><p></p><p><em style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></em></p><p><em style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></em></p><p><em style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></em></p><p><em style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></em></p><p><em style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"><em><em><em><em><br /></em></em></em></em></em></p><p><em style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"><em><em><em><em>Photo: Julie Lemberger</em></em></em></em></em></p><p><em style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><em><b>BALAM Festival: Live Cultural Dance and Music</b></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></p><p><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"> La Nacional: Spanish Benevolent Society, 239 West 14</span><sup style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"> Street, New York, NY. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">Reservations required. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">• </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">Oleg Tambulilingan</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"> (Love Dance of the Bumblebees), a Balinese dance duet with Nani Devi and Carlos Fittante;</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">• </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">Rama and Sita</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">, a duet from B ALAM’s Balinese/Ballet fusion dance Ramayana story ballet, with Robin Gilbert and Carlos Fittante;</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"><span>•</span></span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><em style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">Kamisama</em><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">, a Japanese Noh dance solo, performed by Toshinori Hamada;</span></p><p><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">• El Bosque (The Forest), a Baroque/Balinese fusion duet, performed to the Toccata Arpeggiata (1604) by Giovanni Kaspberger, played live by Ryan Closs and danced by Yumiko Niimi and Carlos Fittante;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">• </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">Scottish Tunes</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"> (1742), a Baroque musical suite, is performed by Lisa Terry on gamba and Ryan Closs on theorbo;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">• </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">La Madrileña</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">, a mid-19</span><sup style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"> century Spanish Escuela Bolera duet presented at the Paris Opera, performed by Barbara Romero and Carlos Fittante; and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">•</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"> Panaderos de la Flamenca</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">, an early 19</span><sup style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"> century Spanish Escuela Bolera dance, in the Andalusian style.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkzNLtbe9hJZDFaO7zQIiMTJSQRVYXxtzPktbf7OLpCCNMgwI-evuaqF8aCFXojWSWUX6Iqlji2A0xP3c-uhpRfHLI0tFx9rJ1JAmfXFcfvHxM5rMUUdRAg1Q88TCWh-941NPQK4ueax_epoQ7750u6Qwxc7e2OBkLy95dYGtQRGQAqw4P-8VHJ86t/s1200/CAC_Logo_FINAL-05.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="98" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkzNLtbe9hJZDFaO7zQIiMTJSQRVYXxtzPktbf7OLpCCNMgwI-evuaqF8aCFXojWSWUX6Iqlji2A0xP3c-uhpRfHLI0tFx9rJ1JAmfXFcfvHxM5rMUUdRAg1Q88TCWh-941NPQK4ueax_epoQ7750u6Qwxc7e2OBkLy95dYGtQRGQAqw4P-8VHJ86t/w98-h98/CAC_Logo_FINAL-05.jpg" width="98" /></a></div><br />This program was made possible by the New York City Artist Corps and Friends of BALAM.<p></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p></div>Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-21108231554287924492020-06-12T08:05:00.068-07:002024-02-06T10:46:40.972-08:00BALAM Blog Articles<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0in 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Learning the Terunajaya</i> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Carlos Fittante. (Feb. 2024)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTgNrAMt1iaiAf5Uves7W-GNdc3f1jx7Xzg24ErCUUACBdP4TJvJafK5Hc36jbKCburNUz68Th-0gcZL-nYL8ekol9fS7X8-1ZFdUTwQfsrEqpA-uXlpYq8mBahxmz5E7698x1Y_ufjQnKOQIQ2Scs0ZL3D4QeBYoCVW4yI3DXcHks-pu6ieEwkvlA_Jw/s2134/_DSC2042a.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2134" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTgNrAMt1iaiAf5Uves7W-GNdc3f1jx7Xzg24ErCUUACBdP4TJvJafK5Hc36jbKCburNUz68Th-0gcZL-nYL8ekol9fS7X8-1ZFdUTwQfsrEqpA-uXlpYq8mBahxmz5E7698x1Y_ufjQnKOQIQ2Scs0ZL3D4QeBYoCVW4yI3DXcHks-pu6ieEwkvlA_Jw/s320/_DSC2042a.jpg" width="240" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Photo Credit: Neil Simpson</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">I first studied <i>Terunajaya</i> with BALAM’s Founding Director, Islene Pinder, whose expressive hands and carefully selected cue words quickly put me into a different mind-body state. Eventually, Islene and I pieced together an acceptable draft of the dance for me to bring to Bali. There, I continued my instruction under the tutelage of Ayu Sukmawati, an award-winning Balinese dancer and Co-Artistic Director of the <a href="https://semararatih.org/" target="_blank">Semara Ratih Gamelan</a>. This was an immersive experience that frequently overwhelmed my nervous system. It was amazing!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Choreographed in 1918 by Pan Wandres and revised in 1952 by I. Gede Manik, this formidable dance solo is in my opinion one of the great works of the cultural dance genre. This solo combines male and female Balinese dance movement patterns and draws upon several other popular Balinese dances. These include the <i>Baris</i> solo warrior dance, <i>Legong</i>, typically performed by pre-pubescent girls; <i>Oleg Tambulilingan</i>, a dancing queen bumblebee; and the <i>Jauk</i>, a strong masked demonic character.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">How a dancer embodies these diverse energies and movement patterns is a sign of their skill in the role. When preparing my performance of <i>Terunajaya</i>, I use the <i>Baris</i>, a Balinese dance role that I also perform, as the substratum for my movement. His physical prowess suits my height, cisgender male identity, and innate body’s physicality, which also easily transfers to the <i>Jauk’s</i> moments in the dance.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">However, to realize the identity of the <i>Terunajaya</i> character, I must also show the coy innocence of the <i>Legong</i>, and the flamboyant sensuality of the <i>Oleg Tambulilingan</i>. The result of this surreal blend is a unique Balinese dance expression that leaves me feeling like a martial artist in combat, who is simultaneously flirting with a suitor!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Mystery of Bali Combines with Baroque Music and Dance in Garden of Love in Miniature </span></b></i>(Jan. 2022)</p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhShKYS7cAWliK25qGTIwCVqZ2L8uoxMnRrac1Lh7_ckAUa-BbPB-g09mdlbdA82_UrBbK0Tjddh_j-B4HjL0M3PRQ3JKEHwt1E4p7kWFAf4_TMeF7Th23_DtFcnSwYEFbIO0uEACXSWND6W6eJVhzEs5cd28szIbXeUR2pK5BVGrSG_kR6YphqBc6uCfc/s4032/DSC_2617.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhShKYS7cAWliK25qGTIwCVqZ2L8uoxMnRrac1Lh7_ckAUa-BbPB-g09mdlbdA82_UrBbK0Tjddh_j-B4HjL0M3PRQ3JKEHwt1E4p7kWFAf4_TMeF7Th23_DtFcnSwYEFbIO0uEACXSWND6W6eJVhzEs5cd28szIbXeUR2pK5BVGrSG_kR6YphqBc6uCfc/w400-h225/DSC_2617.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>The vitality of Bali combines with Baroque music, dance, and song in BALAM Dance Theatre's premiere of <i>Garden of Love in Miniature</i>. The original and imaginative program will be presented both live and virtually by <a href="https://www.gemsny.org/midtown-concerts" target="_blank">Midtown Concerts</a>, a project of Gotham Early MusicScene, at Church of the Transfiguration, located at 1 East 29th Street, New York, NY 10016 on Thursday, April 21 from 1:15 p.m. to 1:55 p.m. EST. Photo Credit: Toshinori Hamada<p></p></div><p></p><p>The program is open to the public and admission is FREE. The performance will also be live streamed on April 21 at <a href="https://gemsny.org/midtown-live">https://gemsny.org/midtown-live</a>. </p><p><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> </span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjufueUZw7JyS_JDi-8E9HKjOJJQtGu-EcPkNdd_HazgMqB7771MWFkAeFqfq-XiNFy7ThnIEuItEyaji10FRCKbBX627z-uTae2fHcfULRJ5XSUUMMkp1N08lQ4D9rfTwtY8MBLez2zeXi0q4EcL8ciXZOOXgqwWywmKw5qpcVGt34-TOHzAZ5vDYu/s6983/Gladys%20Luhrs%20600%20dpi%20Size%20A6.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6983" data-original-width="4950" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjufueUZw7JyS_JDi-8E9HKjOJJQtGu-EcPkNdd_HazgMqB7771MWFkAeFqfq-XiNFy7ThnIEuItEyaji10FRCKbBX627z-uTae2fHcfULRJ5XSUUMMkp1N08lQ4D9rfTwtY8MBLez2zeXi0q4EcL8ciXZOOXgqwWywmKw5qpcVGt34-TOHzAZ5vDYu/s320/Gladys%20Luhrs%20600%20dpi%20Size%20A6.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;">The concert is dedicated in memory of Gladys Isabel Fajardo Luhrs, a Friend of BALAM, who appreciated and enjoyed classical music and dance during her life. Her goodness, integrity, and generosity were inspiring. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in;">In this program, gorgeous Baroque period costumes, a striking wooden Balinese deer mask, and Balinese hand carved golden leather bird wings are shown on one stage. "BALAM Dance Theatre's feel-good program presents light entertainment in the spirit of the Baroque opera entrée act, inspired by the theme of love, that will charm and enchant the audience. This performance embodies the mysterious spirit of Balinese masked dancing and fantasy wings with the bucolic delights presented by Baroque master painters François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard," said Fittante. <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYC10Xv-NcPGZDHUUHXq5Z4SM3r-wnI-Mp3grDEUJRsWvVM83xGp5QhZhuC2Uu-78CLtOCmBq5J-wWB8PcrdJogbk2hqOnP26Yk3-oygm9x2xSwCEwM2tE3-mytJ7UQiSf7fefKJmRCoGHlj8P6m2U23bql-zjOA1jUXlcNfa98yCmp1SUOgkwdKir/s3300/Collage%20March%2021.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="3300" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYC10Xv-NcPGZDHUUHXq5Z4SM3r-wnI-Mp3grDEUJRsWvVM83xGp5QhZhuC2Uu-78CLtOCmBq5J-wWB8PcrdJogbk2hqOnP26Yk3-oygm9x2xSwCEwM2tE3-mytJ7UQiSf7fefKJmRCoGHlj8P6m2U23bql-zjOA1jUXlcNfa98yCmp1SUOgkwdKir/s320/Collage%20March%2021.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">BALAM, a non-profit, professional dance theatre company based in New York City, offers a new vision of contemporary cultural dance by combining diverse dance styles from around the world and historic periods with ballet and modern. The company's new program opens with the stunning Entrée d’Apollon, a notated Baroque dance solo, circa 1701, performed by Baroque choreographer and dancer Carlos Fittante. BALAM dancer Yumiko Niimi performs an Allemande, as a masked bird character, with Fittante reappearing as a masked deer. Eugenia Forteza, guest mezzo-soprano, debuts with the company, as the fictitious Madama Amorina, a famous Baroque actress visiting the garden of love to meet a secret admirer. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;">Musicians of BALAM's Lisa Terry of Parthenia Viol Consort performs on viola de gamba with Ryan Closs from 4&20 Strings and the Lute Society of America New York Chapter on therobo. Guest musicians Kenneth Hamrick of American Virtuosi on harpsichord and Dongmyung Ahn on Baroque violin join the company. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;">This intimate, imaginative program features the exquisite music of Jean Baptiste Lully’s Entrée d’Apollon transcribed for solo harpsichord by Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, François Couperin’s Concerts Royaux: Concerts 1 and 2, and Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Sans Frayeur dans ce Bois. Throughout the program, recited text created by Fittante and Inma Heredia is spoken.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;">For further information about the program or BALAM Dance Theatre, contact balamdancetheatre@gmail.com or call 646-361-9183.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">BALAM Dance Theatre
to Debut 'Live Baroque Music and Dance' at Midtown
Concerts </i>(March 2021)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKL6yimDcQRDXC-7vt7Cnw5mIYbUA7rmEYDWXv4-N8xLWE9ENEtmGKKFJgtTE-iBwbWeW84eouE2ngJw0jIGPzcWL_ec_0DlWqhy-rBSRrU5SfAIUQD-EyvRw8YxT0k1quHQxZdvqFSCI/s716/Balam_collage_web.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="716" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKL6yimDcQRDXC-7vt7Cnw5mIYbUA7rmEYDWXv4-N8xLWE9ENEtmGKKFJgtTE-iBwbWeW84eouE2ngJw0jIGPzcWL_ec_0DlWqhy-rBSRrU5SfAIUQD-EyvRw8YxT0k1quHQxZdvqFSCI/w475-h198/Balam_collage_web.jpg" width="475" /></a><b></b></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0in 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0in 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0in 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0in 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0in 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0in 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0in 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">BALAM
Dance Theatre premieres </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Live Baroque
Music and Dance, </span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">a new Baroque
inspired choreography created by artistic director Carlos Fittante</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">. The virtual performance will be presented
live by Midtown Concerts, a project of Gotham Early Music Scene, at </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Church of the Transfiguration, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">located at </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">1 East 29th Street, New York, NY 10016 </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">on Thursday, May 27 from 1:15 to 1:55 p.m.
EST. </span></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0in 0in; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The program is FREE and may be
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New York City-based company, offers a new vision of contemporary dance by
combining ballet, modern and diverse cultural dance styles from around the
world and historic periods.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
new program features </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">two New York premieres, <i>El Bosque</i> and <i>Fandango</i>, and
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Carlos Fittante, and guest musicians Lisa Terry of Parthenia Viol Consort and
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BALAM celebrates its first live performance since the COVID-19 pandemic
began with this intimate and imaginative program using Baroque musical gems
from </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">England, Scotland, Italy, and Peru.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These works
are featured: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">diverse Corantos and other selections from the
Leycester Lyra Viol Manuscript by John Jenkins (1592-1678) for solo viol,
charming Scottish Tunes by Francesco Barsanti (1690-1775), the rolling Toccata
Arpeggiata for theorbo by Giovanni Girolamo Kaspberger (1580-1651), and the
commanding Fandango for Baroque guitar by Matías Maestro Alegría (1766-1835).<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">BALAM creates
a unique entertainment experience that has universal
appeal. Audiences of all ages and backgrounds enjoy the company's
innovative movement alchemy where dynamic athleticism, detailed skills, and
movement techniques from around world and time periods are fused and enhanced
by eclectic music, striking masks, vibrant costumes and fantasy stories.</span><p></p>
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company educates the community about dances and cultures featured in its
repertoire. Through its Out & About Series, free and affordable
performances, workshops and creative events at the grassroots level are made
available for families, children, students and community residents. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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in-person feels like a joyful blossoming, after a harsh and austere
winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We encourage teachers and other
educators to attend and invite their students to experience this unique
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the performance, viewers will see Fittante's original and historically informed
choreographies: El Bosque (The Forest); Fandango, with castanets and </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">taconeo</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> (rhythmic footwork in the
Escuela Bolera style); and four distinct representations of the Coranto, a
dance form inspired by King Louis XIV’s favorite dance, the Courante.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">These dances bring history to life through an
elegant and artistically charged embodiment of period aesthetics.</span></p>
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further information, call 646-361-9183 or visit BALAM Dance Theatre on its
website, <a href="http://www.balamdancetheatre.com/">http://www.balamdancetheatre.com</a>,
and blog, </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.balamdancetheatre.blogspot.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">www.balamdancetheatre.blogspot.com</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Follow the company on Facebook, </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/balamdancetheatre"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">www.facebook.com/balamdancetheatre</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, and check for updates on Twitter
@BALAMDance.</span></p></div>Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-29337510100725687082020-01-22T13:41:00.004-08:002020-11-20T16:16:36.450-08:00BALAM's Artists<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Nani Devi,</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> BALAM Dance Theatre's Resident Balinese Artist, teaches and
performs several Indosnesian dances from the Indonesian islands of Bali,
Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Sulawesi. Born in Tabanan, Bali, Indonesia, she
began dancing at the early age and was noticed for her naturaln government to perform in the palaces of
Bali for visiting heads of state, she has performed in Russia, Japan, China,
Thailand, the Philippines, and the United States, among </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">grace and sweet expression. Selceted by the Indonesia</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">others. Her Balinese
dance roles include the </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Legong, Oleg Tambulilingan, Margapati</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">,
and </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Terunajaya</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Toshinori
Hamada,</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> BALAM principal dancer and Japanese dance and theatre expert, originated
the role of <i>Rahwana</i>, the demon king in BALAM’s <i>Ramayana</i>, and choreographed <i>Sunda Upasunda</i>, which toured Bali with the Semara Ratih gamelan. Schooled
in Buddhism as a boy in a monastery in Japan, his love for traditional Japanese
culture led him to study and perform as a Kabuki actor, and later Noh Theatre
under the direction of Master Junosuke Watanabe. He also holds a black belt in
Kyokushin Karate. <o:p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></o:p>In NYC, he studied
Martha Graham Contemporary Dance technique and has performed extensively as a
modern dancer throughout the United States. An independent film maker, he
received several awards for his productions <i>Dream on Flatbed</i> and <i>My Master</i>, and presently writes and composes original
Japanese/American musical dramas, such as <i>Wind Chime</i>, created as a tribute to the 2011 Fukashima Nuclear Disaster.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dance Theatre’s principal ballerina<b>,</b> is originally from Cleveland,
Ohio, and is a graduate from the renowned North Carolina School of the Arts. A
complete dance-artist, Robin brings strong ballet and point technique,
musicality, dramatic ability, and performing charisma to all her performing
work. Some of her Balinese-fusion dance principal roles include Sita from <i>The
Abduction of Sita</i>; Tigerlily in <i>Tigerlily and the Dragonfly</i>, and
Eve in <i>Eden’s Mandala. </i>She also performs as a Baroque dance
guest artist working with Apollo's Fire, Haymarket Opera, La Fiocco, and the
Hartford Symphony, to mention a few. Other performing credits include
Ballet Verite, Michelle Brangwen Dance Ensemble, Periapsis Music and Dance,
Benjamin Briones Ballet, Atlantic Contemporary Dance Theatre, New American
Ballet Ensemble, Connecticut Ballet and Anglo-American Ballet. She has
also danced in Musical Theatre, Industrial shows, Opera, commercials, and
videos, and has worked with numerous choreographers including Peter Pucci, Ann
Reinking, Lila York and Arthur Faria. In her non-dance life Robin is a drummer
and vocalist for the Long Island based band The Generators as well as the
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Barbara Romero, </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">BALAM
Dance Theatre Spanish dance expert, specializes in Spanish dance, especially
the Escuela Bolera School, while having background and experience in other
forms. She began her Spanish dance studies with Ramon Ramos de Vigil and Jose
Molina but considers Mariano Parra and Jerane Michel her most influential
teachers. Ms. Romero has also studied in the US and Spain with others such as
Luis Montero, Orlando Romero, Estrella Morena, Paco Romero, Maria Magdalena,
and Fernando Romero. Her dance studies began with ballet and character at the
ABT school, and modern with Dorothy Vislocky and Billy Siegenfield. Ms. Romero
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Yumiko Niimi</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">, Dancer, made her debut
with BALAM Dance Theatre in the title role of Sita in 2015, as well as
performing as the Golden Deer. She has been featured in the ballet <i>pas
de de</i>ux from the Romantic ballet Giselle in company’s Out & About
community service touring program and more recently in the salsa dance
duet, <i>Fantasia de Amor</i>. She has worked as a principal dancer and
performer in several operas and Broadway musicals including, Washington
National Opera’s production of Norma, The King and I at the MUNY theatre, A
Chorus Line, Evita, New York Theatre Ballet, Japanese Folk-Dance Inc.<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Inma Heredia</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">, BALAM Dance Theatre’s resident actor and host, brings vitality
and joie de vivre to each of her appearances. A native of Seville, Spain, Inma
has been showcased in a variety of entertainment settings ranging from acting
and comedy to dance. She has performed in shows, plays, movies, and
ceremonies around the world as an actor, singer, flamenco dancer, comedienne,
master-of-ceremonies, and voiceover artist. Recognized as the first – and only
– flamenco comedienne in the world, she created her one woman show, <i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Divas
de España and </i>received the "Latinos Unidos" Press Award.
Other New York City credits include Dulcinea in <i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
Adventures of Don Quixote</i> at the Hudson Guild Theatre, the Statue of
Liberty in the musical, <i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dan
versus the Statue of Liberty</i>, Blanche in <i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
Streetcar Named Desire</i>, and as the host in the New York hit, <i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Latinas
Don't P.M.S</i>, which premiered at the world-famous Apollo Theatre. She has
been a guest performer at the United Nations, Central Park, and numerous
Off-Broadway theatres. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Carlos Fittante</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">,
Artstic Director, Baroque and Balinese dance specialist, has received critical
praise from the New York Times, Village Voice, and Dance Magazine for his
performances and choreography. Some highlights from his diverse performing
career include the Metropolitan Opera, New York Theatre Ballet, Semara Ratih
Gamelan, Joan Miller and Dance Players, Danzas Españolas, and several prominent
Baroque ensembles including Apollo’s Fire, Juilliard 415, and the Boston Early
Music Festival. A graduate of the School of American Ballet, he has a Master of
Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is an Adjunct
Assistant Professor at Queens College: City University of New
York, where he teaches Ballet and Introduction to Dance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Period Works by and about Women</i> presented by GEMS Midtown Concerts</div>
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The Chapel St. Bartholomews Church, 50th St and Park Avenue, NYC</div>
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Inma Heredia-actor, and</div>
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<b>Friday and Saturday, January 18 and 19 at 8 p.m. Sunday, January 20 at 3 p.m. Tickets: $35-$68</b></div>
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<i>Bach & Beyond</i> presented by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra</div>
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Belding Theater at The Bushnell, 166 Capitol Ave, Hartford, CT 06106</div>
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Lisa Rautenberg conductor and associate concertmaster, Leonid Sigal conductor and concertmaster</div>
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Enjoy an eclectic program of period and popular music featuring the Baroque choreography <i>La Follia </i>with Robin Gilbert and Carlos Fittante, guest Baroque dancers</div>
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<b>Wednesday, February 6, 7:05-8:05 p.m. Baroque Dance Masterclass</b></div>
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EYEONTHEARTS, graduate students dance history course, Hunter College, taught by Celia Ipiotis</div>
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<b><br /></b><b>Sunday, February 17, 3 p.m. <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://stlukeinthefields.org/music-arts/concerts--choir-of-st-luke-in-the-fields/" style="color: #888888;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">St Luke's in the Field</span></a> </span>Music Concert </b></div>
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Directed by Leah Nelson, Carlos Fittante plays castanets</div>
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World Dance, NYU's Gallatin School of Independent Study taught by Kathy Posin</div>
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Dance History course at Hunter College taught by Lori Brungard</div>
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<b><br /></b><b>Saturday and Sunday, March 30 and 31 at 7:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. <i>Sarabande. </i></b>Presented at All Saints Church, Princeton, NJ and Trinity Episcopal Church, Solebury, PA, respectively, by <a href="https://www.lafiocco.org/" style="color: #888888;" target="_blank">La Fiocco</a>. BALAM's Robin Gilbert and Carlos Fittante, guest Baroque dancers</div>
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BEMF Chamber Opera Series: <i>VERSAILLES: Portrait of a Royal Domain</i></div>
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<b>Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 8 p.m.</b> New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall Boston, MA. <b>Friday, June 21, 2019, at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 22, 2019, at 3 p.m. </b>Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. </div>
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Carlos Fittante, Baroque choreographer and dancer</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogspot.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f087eeb1d0bb91bb1a55eae7&id=8cc3b39a82&e=ab00bc78c4" style="color: #007c89; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">Shakespeare Downtown</a><span style="color: #202020; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> presents </span><em style="color: #202020; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Hamlet</em><span style="color: #202020; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">. </span><strong style="color: #202020; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Thursdays-Sundays,</strong><span style="color: #202020; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> </span><strong style="color: #202020; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">June 13-16</strong><span style="color: #202020; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> and </span><strong style="color: #202020; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">20-23</strong><span style="color: #202020; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> at 6:30 p.m. </span><strong style="color: #202020; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">FREE </strong><span style="color: #202020; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">at the Castle Clinton National Monument located in The Battery in Lower Manhattan, NYC, featuring a pantomime choreographed by BALAM for </span><em style="color: #202020; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">The Dumb Show</em><span style="color: #202020; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> within the play.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif;">115 Pleasant Street, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif;">Marblehead, MA 01945</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif;">Featuring: Inma Heredia, Robin Gilbert, Ryan Closs, and Carlos Fittante</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif;">• Eden’s Mandala, a fusion masked duet of Balinese, Baroque, and ballet dance, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif;">• Que Viva España, a popular traditional Spanish song sung in English and Spanish, and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif;">• Codex Martinez Compañon Trujillo, Peru (1785) / Peruvian Colonial Dances</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif;">Early Music Princeton with Carlos Fittante and Caitlin Klinger, guest Baroque dancers</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif;"><i>Corelli Sonata 10 in F Major: Preludio, Alemanda, Sarabanda, Gavotta, Giga</i></span></div>
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Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-82453082931065355882019-03-13T05:59:00.001-07:002019-03-18T05:05:56.535-07:00A Reflection on Islene Pinder's Fascination with Neutral Tension Flow by Ling Ong. March 13, 2019<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
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is in the Merriam-Webster; it is our company name, but the dictionary says it
is the Mayan deity of agriculture who has a long head, a nocturnal supernatural
who whistles as he walks on air. For us
though, BALAM is the Balinese American Dance Theatre and represents </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">a
blend of Balinese and American aesthetics. We are also inspired by the European Baroque,
Spanish, Japanese Noh, and those dance traditions are very likely to appear in
our performances. We are drawn to
diverse movement-techniques, and we do not recoil from the<span style="background: white;"> European thought-patterns so deeply ingrained in our bodies such that an easy walk across the floor turns into a
long and winding assessment of Effort-Shape, positioning in space-near and far;
the Balinese <i><u>taksu</u></i> that is a
spiritual stage-presence; the problem of reconciling the energy of balletic,
athletic partnering with the Balinese dancing face of discreet smiles and
flickering eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-QJB1Y_w7cO_wPEsAzOLbznKGH-UZCTA_J5ZgoYkUBRkF9yIg7blzbzKRx18_FxQegQOAUbj4ZxLBSZn-DGJAjIA6iYb13YJoN893vNAzFC9FB0ucSoYq3hIdwh8yPPnWwQCmLAgnNCA/s1600/IP+Speaking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="302" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-QJB1Y_w7cO_wPEsAzOLbznKGH-UZCTA_J5ZgoYkUBRkF9yIg7blzbzKRx18_FxQegQOAUbj4ZxLBSZn-DGJAjIA6iYb13YJoN893vNAzFC9FB0ucSoYq3hIdwh8yPPnWwQCmLAgnNCA/s200/IP+Speaking.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">The
work of movement analysts and therapists, who were actively promoting the
principles of Rudolf Laban and embellishing upon his methods of analysis and
notation, profoundly influenced BALAM’s founder, Islene Pinder. She truly enjoyed their pointillist reduction
as a method of self-comprehension, whether in the everyday or theatrical
context. Converting their weighty analysis
into her own appreciation of each dancer’s Effort-Shape patterns and
idiosyncratic style, Islene practiced “on the body” choreography as the pathway
for Balinese movements to come to the professional modern-dancer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all the Laban-influenced concepts Islene loved discussing, Neutral Flow seemed
the most important to her. It is best
understood </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">as existing </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">in between Free and
Bound Flow on the Tension Flow Scale<span style="background: white;">.<span style="color: red;"> </span> She saw how slight moments of Neutral Tension Flow
in the Balinese dancer’s movements were contrasting and thus accentuating the
movements gravitating between Bound Tension Flow and Free Tension Flow. She associated Tension Flows with elasticity
and the regulation of continuity and discontinuity in movement. So she was fascinated by how the child,
learning to master his/her small body in the world, inevitably is resolving
“the great internal affair of the temperament and feelings, matters of safety
versus danger, feeling tones and needs”; and the child’s personal patterns of
resolution would come forth as “rhythms of Tension Flow (which) would become
appropriate to specific tasks and become functional” such that we shall see
“rhythms of excitation, gratification, and relaxation” as the “child achieves
mastery over initiation, continuity and stoppage.” For Islene, Laban’s Effort was clearly
impossible without the underlying rhythms of Tension Flow which “reflect our
bodily needs and…are guided by our wishes”, and once those rhythms become
“preferred patterns of tension-flow”, they become “the substrate of a person’s
temperament”. In her personal notes,
Islene kept a yellowed, typed cribsheet of these important statements; these
pearls of wisdom influenced the way she interacted with students and
professional dancers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Neutral
Tension Flow was a concept originally developed by Dr. Judith Kestenberg
(http://www.kestenbergmovementprofile.org/home.htm). Dr. Kestenberg formulated the Kestenberg
Movement Profile as a method for analyzing and notating the interactions of
mother and child, those non-verbal expressions beginning in the womb. Muscle lacking tension and being in a state
of de- animation was an essential factor for describing the inter-personal
dynamics of the unborn child’s and the mother’s physicalities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">I
like to think that Islene may have associated Neutral Flow with floating in
water or the fact that once upon a time, in the 1960s or 1970s, she was in a New
York University workshop that involved standing still on demi-pointe for long
periods of time, say up to 45 minutes or so.
Islene laughed over the memory of her reflex reaction—hopping around
like a kangaroo—when the instructor told the students to let go. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Was he the
legendary Alan Wayne attempting to induce the sensation of Neutral Flow through
prolonged static posture? There is the
Alan Wayne Technique that trains the body to move with subtle expressions by
totally exhausting the larger muscular parts; but having never experienced this
technique, I wonder how it recruits all the soft tissues—muscles, tendons,
ligaments, fascia—whether in tandem or altogether in unison.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is the biomechanical fact that a kangaroo can bounce with minimal muscular
effort in its lower legs when the soft tissues are acting like springs
receiving/releasing kinetic energy. We
can relish the divine playfulness as we follow that kangaroo bouncing down a
laboratory treadmill; it is needing less and less oxygen as it gains speed,
rebounding into longer hops. We can only
wonder if the kangaroo’s lower legs ever have moments of Neutral Flow and if
such moments drag upon velocity because the scientists recorded a higher rate
of oxygen consumption when the kangaroo was ambling along upon 4 limbs and a
tail. [</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Dawson,
T.J., and Taylor, C.R. (1973) Energetic cost of locomotion in kangaroos.
Nature, Lond. 246:313-314.]<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Fittante has had tinier releases of Neutral Flow performing European Baroque
dance. In his opinion, aristocratic
courtiers would have resorted to Neutral Flow as they stood for hours (chairs were
the privilege of the royal family), backs against the wall and supported by
stiff corsets (worn by women and elderly men), dozing off as they waited for an
audience with the king. His picture of
subliminal, fatigued anticipation is actually based upon historical
documentation of court protocol, so we may reasonably suppose a great deal of genteel
de-animation, tempered by courtly self-control, transformed into moments of stillness
as self-preparation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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saw the white-gloved hands of Carlos, who danced a Baroque chaconne to music
composed by </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Jean-Baptiste Lully--a favorite of France’s Sun King, Louis XIV.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">His white-gloved hands were larger than life
as they vividly put into motion the Baroque sentiments eloquently interpreted
by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I
saw momentary points of Neutral Flow contrasting and thus emphasizing whorls,
flicks, commands and rhetorical flourishes of hands and wrists, all necessary
to offset the heaviness of the court costume and tall, plumed headdress.</span></div>
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way to apprehend Neutral Flow would be the ending of an Iyengar Yoga class--Ṥavasᾱsana,
the corpse pose, which according to B.K.S. Iyengar, is the most difficult pose
to master but can be the most refreshing of all. In his book, <u>Light on Prᾱnᾱyᾱma</u>, Mr.
Iyengar provided immensely detailed instructions, with photographs of himself,
so that we have landmarks and signposts to practice Ṥavasᾱsana as the
culmination of vigorous asanas. Because it
involves so little Effort, and replicates Neutral Flow, Ṥavasᾱsana has allowed
me to experience the ebb and flow of tension and where it is concentrated; it
seems similar to the aristocratic, resting composure that Carlos engages in
during his moments of stillness, anticipating an audience with the Sun King.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I feel the tension dissipating, nearly gone, I enter the subjunctive state of
trailing away and returning elliptically inside a poem by the American poet and
dance critic, Edwin Denby. I glide into
Denby’s impressions of New York City commotion and panoramas as the familiar</span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">timing
of falling asleep, upstairs perhaps. How
pleasant to lie back and mentally snap my fingers at the great pronouncement--I
think, I am—to Denby’s poem “Standing on the Streetcorner”, a very hushed and
private paean by someone who just realized the connection between himself and
humanity is only one more dynamic confluence of shifting, urban perspectives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Any
movement analysis includes that statement—I think, therefore I am—originally
argued by the French Baroque mathematician and philosopher René Descartes in
his eloquent essay “Of the Principles of Human Knowledge”. Yet we must carefully consider Mr. Iyengar’s
proposition in his book, <u>The Tree of Yoga</u>, that the dance is directed to
the world outside one’s inner being while yoga’s “tremendous” implications lie
within one’s inner being. It is true
that the asanas do not propel our bodies across the dance floor; they are a
confluence of small movements by body parts fitted together into spiritually
determined shapes which test our understanding of where we are in life. It is almost the same thing every time we
stand at the barre and go through our warm-up routines; we are asking ourselves
if it is the mind controlling the body,</span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">if they are two distinct things, if it is the
body shaping the mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Carlos
reminds me that we can simply rely upon our dancing, our years of experiencing
kinesthestic connectivity, then tap into the psychological effect it has
wrought upon our bodies—serenity and connectivity; simply performing the
movements tells us how much more delving into the physical sensations and
analyzing is needed to attain the artistic quality we desire; performing the
movements also reminds us of the goodly sum of lessons learned through
observation, practice, and immersion in the dramatic role. In other words, we should use our malleable minds
to support our dancing bodies. We should
inhale acquiescence to exhale the performing art. We should, as Carlos has learned in aristocratic
fencing classes, find the proper mindset for the physical art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">As we enjoy the alchemy of combining different
worlds, different heritages and civilizations, the convergence of the East and
the West, we are calmed by the tempering effect of Neutral Flow upon the
magnificently conscious drive to create.
BALAM likes Promethean power coming forth from our innermost being, but there
is this other problem--dancing the role of Lord Hanuman who is the mischievous
problem-solver in the Ramayana epic and the inspiration for the Balinese Kecak
dance…He who is as swift as the wind and the human mind, He who subjugates
Himself to Lord Rama…Geeta Iyengar reminds us to think of Lord Hanuman as one
who has mastered perception and bodily senses, to remember how His name invokes
the Protector Lord Vishnu (ha) and the Destroyer Lord Shiva (nu) and the
Creator Lord Brahma (ma). Prashant
Iyengar cites Patanjali as he reminds us to aspire to perform the asana with decreasing
<i>prayatna</i> (effort) and increasing <i>saithilya</i> (effortlessness), to fully
sense ourselves going into the asana, staying within it, and coming out of the
asana. [Yoga Rahasya, vol. 11, no. 2, 2004]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">I would also think of it this way—sleep and
inactivity allow for a blurring of movement boundaries. The subliminal is our staging ground. Then
when we push off from the self-readying stillness, we start sharpening the boundary
edges between the inner being and the world outside. By dancing through whatever boundary edges--between
ourselves and our present worlds or between our inner beings and our distant
muses--we acquire a body-consciousness, a sensation of being different from
that slight moment ago (or that one we just shed after an eternity of
self-improvement). </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">For Carlos, Neutral Flow is the dancer’s gateway
for emerging, coming into being. </span><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Certainly, we will inhale stillness to exhale our
movements whenever we rely on Neutral Flow to provide for resting, for
self-composure, for letting the artistry come of itself and into its own. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">This
photograph is part of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Andreas Rentsch’s portfolio of
subliminal motion captured on Polaroid film.
His stunning array of portfolios is best seen on
http://rentschphoto.com/about/ where they are complemented by his life story. Andreas has been exhibited or collected by
Belgium’s Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi , Switzerland’s Musée de
l’Elysée in Lausanne, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston TX, Chrysler Museum of
Art in Norfolk VA, the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington NY. A native of Switzerland, he now resides in
the USA and has taught photography at Stony Brook University, St. John’s
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Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-80258034728123789282017-06-01T05:29:00.000-07:002017-06-02T05:37:22.779-07:00Remembering Founding Director Islene Pinder (1929-2012)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Trailblazing Balinese dance pioneer, Islene Pinder, founding director of BALAM Dance Theatre (BALAM), a Lehman College-City of New York University dance professor from 1968 to 1998, became interested in Balinese dance and culture upon seeing a touring troupe of Balinese dancers and musicians perform in New York City.<br />
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In 1974, she embarked upon the first of many trips to Bali, Indonesia before running water, electricity and paved roads were introduced throughout the island. In Bali, she studied with prominent master dance teachers Bapak Kakul and I. Made Jimat from Batuan, Tutur from Petulu Ubud and A. A. Gde Breset from Mas Ubud, Agung Rai and others. She excelled in the challenging male dance roles of Baris (warrior), as well as the masked roles of the demonic trickster, Jauk, and the elegant Dalem (king) characters.<br />
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During a sabbatical in 1976, she lived in Bali and undertook an extensive study of the culture. While on this life changing visit, she became the adoptive godmother to Balinese child dancer, A. A. Gde Anom Putra (Anom), now the artistic director of the acclaimed gamelan ensemble Sanggar Semara Ratih of Ubud, Bali.<br />
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<b>Joining Dance and Movement Research</b><br />
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At Lehman College, she developed Pinder fundamentals, a systematic instructional method created to teach and present Balinese dance to Western students. She received numerous research awards from the PSC-CUNY Research Award Program for her groundbreaking study, Movement Patterns Seen in Balinese Mothers and Babies and Balinese Dance, using the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP), a psycho-analytical system of movement analysis. Other KMP investigation conducted by Islene included an examination of the the Balinese iconic dance, Baris, and an analysis of the fundamental qualities of Baroque dance.<br />
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<b>Balinese Life, Dance Filmmaker</b><br />
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For 37 years, Pinder documented on film and video some of Bali’s greatest dancers and captured many of the culture’s daily rituals and important festivals. Pinder’s movement analyst eye drew her to many unique, meaningful moments as a cultural anthropologist, rooted in a body-movement perspective. Her own physical understanding of Balinese dance gave her deep insight and she compiled a comprehensive library of Balinese life and dance, culminating in the 45-minute video documentary, Isle of Bali, created specifically for educational purposes to teach students and people of all ages in school and college classrooms, lecture halls, libraries, museums, and community centers in the West.<br />
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<b>BALAM Dance Theatre Founded</b><br />
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Pinder founded the non-profit dance company BALAM Dance Theatre in 1979 with the explicit goals of bringing the beauty and detailed skills of Balinese dance to the greater New York community and exploring the fusion of Balinese and contemporary dance styles. Under her leadership, the company performed in Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, and the United States.<br />
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As the founding director of BALAM from its inception until her death, the company collaborated with the Sanggar Semara Ratih many times, touring throughout the remote villages of Bali, as well as participating in the Second International Dance Festival at Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia (STSI): College of the Performing Arts in Denpasar, Bali. On BALAM’s Bali Tour 2010, Pinder returned to the stage in the comedic masked fantasy, Harlequin’s Charade, dancing excerpts that referenced her favorite traditional Balinese dance roles, Baris and Jauk.<br />
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Some of her enduring choreographic works include Night Shadow-A Balinese Dream, Vision of Sound, Bird Jauk, Gods Through a Temple, Memory, Fragrance and Pity. Her eclectic vision received critical praise from the media with notable reviews in the New York Times, Dance Magazine, Village Voice, Bronx Times and many others.<br />
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A mentor for many generations of dancers and artists, Pinder trained BALAM’s co-artistic director, choreographer and dancer Carlos Fittante. Together they created BALAM’s signature work, Ramayana-Abduction of Sita, thrilling audiences with its fusion of Balinese, ballet, karate, Baroque and modern dance styles. The Governor and people of Bali and the Indonesian Consulate of New York have highly commended this cross-cultural interpretation of a beloved Hindu myth.<br />
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<b>Love of Dance Begins Early</b><br />
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Born Islene Gassman in Hoboken, New Jersey, Pinder lived a life of dance, study and creativity. A dancer, choreographer and researcher of Balinese dance and culture, she received a master of arts degree from Teachers College, Columbia University and an undergraduate degree in physical education from New York University. Other credentials garnered include certification in Effort-Shape, a system of movement pattern analysis, and intensive studies with Dr. Judith Kestenberg, the originator of the Kestenberg Movement Profile. A dance lover from childhood, her dance studies included Martha Graham technique, ballet and Luigi Jazz in New York, where she studied with dance luminaries, such as Martha Graham, Louis Horst, Charles Weidman, Doris Humphrey, Hanya Holm, José Limon, Walter Nicks and Luigi. She worked briefly as a performance-synchronized swimmer in an aquatics show and a print model in Florida.Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-60283735160514051152016-04-07T09:34:00.003-07:002016-04-08T09:23:48.842-07:00BALAM Dance Theatre to Debut A Multicultural Ramayana: A Blending of Balinese and Spanish Cultures.<style>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">BALAM Dance Theatre premieres
its new Out & About series program, </span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">A Multicultural Ramayana</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">, a </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">performance of a beloved Hindu myth,
featuring Balinese fusion and Spanish dances performed to live Indonesian
gamelan music. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">The performance will be presented at </span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.piedpipertheatre.com/" target="_blank">The Pied Piper Children's Theatre of NYC & Delphi Theatre</a> The Community Theatre Outreach Ministry of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church located at 20 Cumming Street in New York City </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">on Friday,
April 15 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The story of the <i>Ramayana </i>presents a narrative of good
versus evil between archetypal characters with good triumphing and restoring
the balance of order between cosmic forces of creation and destruction. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">"This
new rendition of BALAM Dance Theatre's signature work of the story ballet
inspired by the Hindu epic, <i>Ramayana:
Abduction of Sita</i>, reveals with greater clarity one of its deeper themes, a
call for unity and peace. Presenting
work that express a message of inclusion and forgiveness is particularly
poignant," said Carlos Fittante, Artistic Director, BALAM Dance Theatre.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The New York City-based company
offers a new vision of contemporary dance by combining ballet, modern and
diverse cultural dance styles from around the world and historic periods with
Balinese theatre. This latest program
from BALAM’s community Out & About series features the company’s Artistic
Director Carlos Fittante as Rama and performer Toshinori Hamada as
Rahwana. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Yumiko Niimi returns to the company to perform the role of Princess
Sita. Boonyarith Pankamdech,</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> a
specialist in Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Technique, joins as</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> Hanuman-The Monkey King. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Flamenco Stand-Up Comedian</span> </span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">BALAM's resident actor Inma
Heredia, the world's </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">first
and only flamenco stand-up comedian, </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">will </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">perform <i>La Chispa de Andalucia </i></span><span style="line-height: 150%;">(The
Spark of Andalusia). She will tell the
story in English and Spanish and offer dramatic narration interspersed
throughout the dance and music segments.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Barbara
Romero,</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
BALAM’s Spanish Escuela Bolera dance specialist, </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">debuts as the Golden Deer.
Her piece will </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">utilize a 19<sup>th</sup> century Spanish <i>escuela bolera</i> dance movement,</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> while playing castanets performed
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://gamelansonoflion.org/" target="_blank">Gamelan Son of Lion</a> will perform live </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">an original gamelan score</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> of vibrant Indonesian music. The New York City based </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The costumes, designed by the company's late
founding director Islene Pinder, were created in Bali and are variations on
traditional Balinese dance costumes. The
props used in the ballet were handcrafted in Bali and suggest the forest of
Alengka, where, according to the <i>Ramayana</i>
myth, the story unfolds. The movement
styles utilized in the fusion ballet blend Balinese, ballet, modern, Baroque,
and karate movement, reflecting the dance skills of the BALAM company
members. </span></span><br />
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audience participation segment and a question and answer period. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Limited
seating is available.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>For further information, call BALAM Dance Theatre at<b>
</b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">646-361-9183</span></b><b> </b>or send an email to<b> </b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">balamdancetheatre@gmail.com</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>.</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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Ramayana</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;"> is made possible
in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by
New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo
and the New York State Legislature and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-83667841197947956542016-01-03T12:02:00.005-08:002016-04-07T09:39:26.324-07:00Artist Spotlight: Nani Devi<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Nani Devi, BALAM Dance Theatre's Resident Balinese Artist, teaches classical Balinese dance lessons for the company, as well as those from the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Sulawesi. Born in Bali, Indonesia, Ms. Devi began dancing at the early age of ten in the village of Tabanan. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Noted for dancing with a natural grace and sweet expression, she was selected by the Indonesian government to perform in the palaces of Bali for visiting heads of state. She has performed in Russia, Japan, China, Thailand, the Philippines, and the United States among others. Look for announcements about her upcoming master classes that will be open to the public. </span></span></span></div>
Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-21223653312962330942015-09-30T12:59:00.000-07:002015-10-14T08:54:29.813-07:00BALAM to Perform in the Scottish Highlands of Verismo Opera's Lucia di Lammermoor <style>
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Dance Theatre will grace the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera's stage </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-TRAD;">in the
company's new production of Gaetano Donizetti's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucia di Lammermoor</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under
Verismo Opera's Artistic Director <a href="http://verismopera.org/staff/lucine-amara-2/">Lucine Amara</a>, BALAM
will perform in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Donizetti's famous tragic opera on Sunday,
October 18, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. at the <a href="http://www.bergenpac.org/">Bergen
Performing Arts Center</a> (bergenPAC), located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in
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was selected to perform for a second time in a Verismo Opera production because
of its extensive knowledge of period dancing and experience choreographing
dance scenes in opera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">"<a href="http://www.verismopera.org/">The New Jersey Association of <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Verismo
Opera</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is delighted to have BALAM Dance Theatre on our
stage again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their professionalism and
dance talent cannot be overstated," said Stage Director <a href="http://verismopera.org/staff/evelyn-la-quaif/">Evelyn La Quaif</a>.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo Credit: Marilyn Monsanto </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Dance Specialist Barbara
Romero debuted performing as gypsies in Verismo Opera's production of Georges
Bizet's <i><a href="http://balamdancetheatre.blogspot.com/2015/04/balam-dance-theatre-to-perform-in.html">Carmen</a></i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the new production, BALAM will transport
the audience to a completely different landscape, Scotland, performing as </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">courtiers invited to perform in the
wedding party at the beginning of Act Two. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></div>
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classics for the entertainment and enrichment of the community. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ms. Romero and I are delighted to dance once
again for the discerning Verismo Opera audience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They graciously received our performance in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Carmen</i>," said Fittante.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Donizetti's
decision to set <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucia di Lammermoor</i>
in Scotland was not a coincidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
the time, the land known for its hearty, fast growing heather was the rage in
Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">"</span></span><span style="font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 1832, the world's first
toe ballet, La Sylphide featuring Marie Taglioni, came to the stage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was followed in 1835 with Donizetti's
premiere of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucia di Lammermoor</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both works were inspired by a European
fascination with Scotland and part of the Romantic Era," explained
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Researching
the movement vocabulary and the aesthetic conventions of the times, provided insight
and inspiration to create the choreography for BALAM's new dance in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucia di Lammermoor</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As dancers brought to celebrate
Lucia's betrothal, Ms. Romero and I selected buoyant period dance steps that
compliment Gaetano Donizetti's musical fanfare incorporating</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> hand holding, partnered dance
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period costumes to be worn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Calculating
the time needed for a velvet skirt and full-length petticoat to unfurl and
settle with a flair was a fun part of the process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Our costumes' weight provides
elegant gravitas to the dance</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other period dance touches include crafting
the choreography to reflect Donizetti's music," he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> choreographer
and dance artist of remarkable diversity performing Ballet, Spanish Escuela
Bolera, <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Baroque, Balinese and other movement styles, Fittante has performed
throughout the world<span style="background: white;"> in Japan, Korea, Indonesia,
England, Germany, Spain, Mexico, and the United States</span>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As a Baroque
choreographer and dancer, he has performed with several leading period
companies such as the acclaimed Boston Early Music Festival, where he is a
resident co-choreographer, and Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland’s period music
orchestra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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also performed with the New York City Opera, Bilbao Opera, Four Nations
Ensemble, Sinfonia New York, Teatro Lirico D.C., The Bishop’s Band, and
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His new period choreography for </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">George Frideric </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Handel's operas <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Almira</i>
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under the direction of "El Naranjito" (Simon Blasco), where she
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</style>Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-85992181536355020942015-08-22T17:00:00.000-07:002015-08-28T13:25:40.648-07:00The Triumph of Dharma<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Don't miss BALAM Dance Theatre's debut at the <a href="http://dharmaconference.com/" target="_blank">Global Dharma Conference</a> (GDC) in <a href="http://hindustudentscouncil.org/" target="_blank">Hindu Students Council </a>Presents Sounds of Harmony on
Saturday, September 12. The classical
concert will be performed at the NJ Convention & Exposition Center, located
at 97 Sunfield Avenue in Edison, New Jersey.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">BALAM will premiere this scintillating new piece, <i>The Triumph of Dharma</i>,
a Balinese modern fusion dance inspired by the Hindu epic, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="line-height: 150%;">Ramayana</i><span style="line-height: 150%;">.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">At the request of
presenter Hindu Students Council (HSC), BALAM created the expanded new piece especially
for this international event.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">The
performance features ten dancers wearing vibrant, colorful costumes and masks from BALAM Dance Theatre's extensive inventory and collaborator
Coyote Dancers.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;">"This project has allowed BALAM to explore the
profound concept of Dharma. One of its meanings introduces the immutability of
right thinking in an environment of chaotic polarity. Creating a dance drama that reflects the
underlying unity at the heart of these contrasting qualities has been an
inspiration for the company," said Carlos Fittante, artistic director of
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piece represent different cultural backgrounds. BALAM Resident Balinese Artist
<a href="http://www.balamdancetheatre.blogspot.com/2015/07/artist-spotlight-nani-devi.html" target="_blank">Nani Devi</a>, <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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a celebrated performer from Bali who has toured and taught
throughout the world, performs an excerpt of traditional Balinese dance to Gong
Kebyar gamelan music and also appears as Trijata, Sita's friend and confidant.
Dancer and Japanese Noh Theatre actor Toshinori Hamada takes to the stage as
the evil demon king Rahwana. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fittante performs the role of Prince Rama. He has studied extensively Balinese dance and
toured several times in Bali. Principal
ballerina Robin Gilbert dances the role of Sita, Rama's wife, one she is performed many times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> The multi-talented Fittante, a Baroque dance specialist and co-choreographer
with the prestigious <a href="http://www.bemf.org/" target="_blank">Boston Early Music Festival</a>, created the choreography for
this new piece. Hamada and Coyote
Dancers' Maher Benham co-created the choreography for the fight scene.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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from Coyote Dancers joins BALAM’s talented team. Originally from Thailand, Pankamdech debuts
with BALAM as the playful, fun Hanuman the Monkey King.
Five modern dancers from Coyote Dancer also perform in this new production.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Three thousand people from over 20 countries are expected
to attend the three-day international conference that begins on Friday,
September 11 and continues through Sunday, September 13. The three day event attended by students,
youth and others from over 20 countries and more than 50 universities and
colleges. The unique blend of thought
provoking sessions and discussions on Hindu tradition and practices, blissful
Yoga and meditation workshops, fun-filled dances, thrilling performances and
other activities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">In addition to BALAM Dance Theatre, the concert presents
these diverse classical musicians and performers: flute virtuoso Rakesh
Chaurasia, mandolin virtuoso U Rajesh, Ghatam (Indian clay pot) Virtuoso
Giridhar Udupa, composer and percussionist Rajeev Mahavir, Rachna Sarang
Academy of Performing Arts, and Ashwin “AKS” Subramanian.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Tickets, ranging from $25 to $125, to attend the concert
may be purchased <a href="http://www.sulekha.com/" target="_blank">online</a> or call 732-857-0581 or 732-322-3895. For more information about the concert and
the conference, visit the conference's <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://dharmaconference.com/" target="_blank">web site</a></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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drama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In collaboration with <b><a href="http://gamelansonoflion.org/" target="_blank">Gamelan Son of Lion</a></b>, a new music repertory ensemble specializing in contemporary pieces
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for the instruments of the Javanese gamelan, BALAM Dance Theatre will
provide a new arts and educational enrichment workshop for children from the
communities of Hunter and Tannersville, New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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the workshop, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=650796392766134066#editor/target=post;postID=8720875015681869172;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=22;src=postname" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Discover the Splendors of Spain</i></a>, inspired by the diverse dance traditions of that country on the
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York will present the new piece with BALAM Dance Theatre's performers and the
Gamelan Son of Lion's musicians on Friday, July 10 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. at <b><a href="http://www.htcsd.org/HTCElem.html" target="_blank">Hunter-Tannersville Elementary School Gymnasium</a></b>, located at 7794 Main Street in Hunter, New
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public. For further information contact, (518) 263-4256.</span></div>
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the music and magic of an Indonesian shadow puppet play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the workshop sessions, they will play
percussion instruments, gongs and metallophones. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 150%;">Under the guidance of BALAM Dance Theatre and
Gamelan Son of Lion, they will act, dance, and become puppeteers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The students' work will explore fundamental
concepts of dance making and performance, as articulated through the New York
State Board of Education’s arts guidelines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Barbara Romero, BALAM Dance Theatre's Spanish
Escuela Bolera dance expert, and Toshinori Hamada, BALAM Dance Theatre's
principal dancer and martial artist, will appear as Mr. and Mrs. Van Winkle in
period costumes and guide the children in creating their choreographic segments
for the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gamelan Son of Lion's
company members will perform live on gamelan instruments in the program.</span></div>
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is presented through the <b><a href="http://www.catskillmtn.org/" target="_blank">Catskill Mountain Foundation</a></b> Performing Arts Program
at the Hunter-Tannersville Summer School Program with funding received in part
through the New York State Council for the Arts and Friends of BALAM Dance
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Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-36464695820309341502015-04-08T06:17:00.003-07:002015-04-08T06:58:30.823-07:00BALAM Dance Theatre to Perform in Verismo Opera's Carmen at Bergen Performing Arts Center<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8666667938232px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 24px;">BALAM Dance Theatre has been selected to perform in the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera's new production of Georges Bizet's </span><i><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 24px;">Carmen</span></i><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 24px;">. Under Artistic Director and Met Opera luminary Lucine Amara, </span><b><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 24px;">Verismo Opera</span></b><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 24px;">, the house opera company of the </span><b><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 24px;">Bergen Performing Arts Center</span></b><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"> in Englewood, New Jersey, will present <i>Carmen</i> on Sunday, </span><b><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 24px;">April 26, 2015</span></b><b style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 24px;"> </b><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 24px;">at 3:00 p.m</span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 24px;">. at the theatre.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #351c75;">"I am very excited to have the professional dance company, BALAM Dance Theatre, on our stage. The professionalism and pure excitement they are assured to bring cannot be overstated. We are thrilled to have them on board!"</span> said Verismo Opera Stage Director, General Manager and Canadian soprano Evelyn La Quaif.</span></span></div>
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Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-40124195419161661212015-04-08T05:10:00.002-07:002015-04-09T07:04:59.400-07:00Don Quixote Soy Yo to Premiere at The Brick Church School<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">BALAM will transport the community to the Golden Age of Spain with the premiere of this new program at <b>Watson Hall</b>, located at <b>62 East 92nd Street</b> in <b>New York City</b>. The performance is open to the public and a donation is suggested to benefit the African Dream Academy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The performance is the culmination of a workshop series for kindergarten children portraying gypsies, windmills, and sleepy villagers. Principal Lydia Spinelli, attired as the Condesa de Lebrija, will narrate the classic story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-58597907431116398412014-12-09T20:51:00.001-08:002014-12-12T10:03:57.909-08:00Peruvian Colonial Dances at Trinity Church, December 29<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Herald the New Year! BALAM’s Robin Gilbert and Carlos Fittante join
GEMAS-Early Music of the Americas in a presentation of the 18th century Peruvian Codex by <a href="http://bit.ly/1F7OqXc"><i>The</i> <i>Bishop’s Band</i> </a>at Trinity Church, 74 Trinity Place, in New York City
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Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-79388391658607052772014-10-03T17:26:00.003-07:002014-11-05T23:00:00.604-08:00Balinese Dance Masterclasses in October with Nani Devi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">BALAM's Resident Balinese Artist Nani Devi is teaching Balinese dance masterclasses every Saturday in October from 1-2 p.m. Classes are only $15. Enroll for all four classes or drop in try a single lesson. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please call 646-361-9183 to notify BALAM if you plan to attend.</span><br />
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(Photo Credit: Eric Bandiero)Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-74150864853244221842014-10-03T16:36:00.001-07:002014-11-05T23:00:56.598-08:00BALAM's 2014 Balinese Dance Masterclass at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Every year, without fail, I have Carlos Fittante come to teach a Master Class in Balinese dance to my students at Tisch Dance, NYU. He performs for them in full regalia, then dresses them in sarongs, introduces them to the technique, and gives them the opportunity to work with the unique masks he has collected from his trips to Bali over the years. The breadth and exposure they receive from Carlos in that 90 minutes is a remarkable gift of education that could never be gleaned from a book or film. They come away enriched by his talent and deep knowledge of Balinese dance and culture."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">- Patricia Beaman, Adjunct Instructor, Dance History, NYU Tisch School of the Arts</span></blockquote>
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Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-60730923973915605472014-09-26T17:33:00.003-07:002014-11-05T23:02:03.646-08:00BALAM Celebrates 35th Anniversary in 2014<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This year, BALAM Dance Theatre celebrates its 35</span><span style="font-size: large;"><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> anniversary. Founding Director Islene Pinder formed the company in 1979 to educate, delight and transport audiences with performances of cross-cultural work, especially the scintillating dances of Bali. BALAM proudly continues her vision and now brings an expanded diversity of world dance styles and time periods to communities at the grassroots level. This unique programming opens minds and changes lives! </span></span></div>
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Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-10658863296403032942014-08-04T16:29:00.000-07:002014-11-05T23:20:09.040-08:00Broadway Meets Baroque in Washington Heights<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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the <b>Fund for Creative Communities</b>. The
grant will provide the ensemble dance company</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18pt;">
with seed money to present an imaginative Spanish Baroque dance workshop series and a
performance in Washington Heights, New York for the community to experience and
engage with the arts. </span></span></div>
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will create a workshop and new program, <i><b>A
Don Quixote for the Washington Heights Choir School,</b></i> a <u>non-denominational </u>after school program. Inspired by the
classic novel, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18pt;">The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha<b><i> </i></b></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18pt;">by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, t</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18pt;">he children’s workshop series will run from September
18 through October 17 and be offered <u>free-of-charge</u> to the students
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Baroque music lessons at Washington Heights Choir School and dance and act in a
finale performance with BALAM's artists on October 18.<b> </b>In the workshop, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18pt;">students will learn period fencing, perform the dances <i>sarabande </i>and <i>bourree, </i>and get acquainted with grotesque masks in the commedia
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18pt;">The program will feature BALAM’s
artists and guest artist Broadway actor and singer <b>Mauricio Villalobos</b>, as the
bilingual English and Spanish narrator and Don Quixote figure, and <b>Elias Guzman</b>
performing on the vihuela. </span><br />
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performance will be presented on <b>October 18 at 3:00 p.m. at Holyrood Episcopal
Church -- Iglesia Santa Cruz, located at </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18pt;"><b>715
West 179th Street, in New York City.</b> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18pt;">The unique program will be <b>free
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families from the vibrant Washington Heights community to Baroque music and
dance and our eclectic programming,"</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-TRAD;"> said Carlos Fittante, artistic director, BALAM
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possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities,
supported by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor
Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Lower
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Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-56388582142405804322014-08-04T07:46:00.000-07:002014-11-05T23:03:19.065-08:00Thank You from the Children of Hunter, NY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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children, ages 4-11, experienced a diversity of Spanish dance styles. They performed the courtly <i>Pavana</i> with live music, as well as the Sevillanas
and Escuela Bolera dances. They were
intrigued with the lesson about the bullfight and enjoyed the bilingual songs performed
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<o:p></o:p>Balam Dance Theatrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595637616186157518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650796392766134066.post-89618733405545837722014-08-04T06:16:00.001-07:002014-11-05T23:05:57.720-08:00Spirals Abound<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">What do Baroque dance and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">French small
sword technique have in common? As part
of BALAM Dance Theatre's work to research and clarify its art, I undertook a
weeklong intensive study at The French Small Sword School of the Martinez
Academy of Arms that offered me rare insights into these fields.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">I was
inspired and in awe of the physical skill and intelligence of this period
martial art form. Both Maestro Ramon Martinez and Maestra Jeanette
Acosta-Martinez are true masters with outstanding scholarship, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">knowledge and
experience, and an impressive physical ability to reconstruct this
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Aplomb</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> was the first body position
taught and is a fundamental concept in Baroque dance, as well. This refers
to a vertical carriage of the body and a sense of ease and serenity. The implications
are profound! In the heat of a duel, one must remain detached,
centered, and calm. The arrangement and stillness of the torso is not
disturbed.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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other similarities and some differences were found. A 90 degree turn-out
of the legs is used by both; however, the arrangement of the body angle is
different, with a three-quarter orientation in the fight technique and <i>en face</i> in dance. In the martial arts form, stepping occurs
with the heel first. In dance, the ball
of the foot slides on the floor with the heel raised before taking a
step. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Droigté</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> (fingering or
dexterity) was the most surprising concept I encountered in handling the
weapon. The small sword is held between the fingers with a firm but light
grip, and the wrist remains flexible to allow for a timely <i>parry</i> and <i>riposte</i> (ward
off and respond). Through a minute and precise movement range, the small
sword point is partially directed and redirected by squeezing and releasing the
fingers, creating mini spirals with the weapon.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">These spirals
and the use of the fingertips are deadly with the small sword. They seemed akin to the ornamental hand
gestures and wrist curls in the dance technique. In dance, the gestural
spirals create aesthetic movements that complement the legwork and help express
the emotions of the character. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">The 18<sup>th</sup>
century courtier trained daily in dance and fencing. Studying at the Martinez Academy of Arms sparked
in me a refreshed and exciting perspective on the Baroque dance movement that I
know and love, and I will continue my gentleman’s training in the art of defense.
<i>Touché</i>!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">BALAM is launching <i><b>Saraswati’s Forum</b></i>, an extensive archival project to transfer digitally and catalog founding director Islene Piunder's exclusive archive of films, videos, slides, audio cassette interviews on Balinese Dance and culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This vital project will assure all future company members and guest artists will be inspired and informed by this exclusive body of information. The community will continue to benefit from these sources which motivate many of BALAM's customized programs that target schools, libraries, churches and temples, and community centers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To sample a1988 audio interview from Ms. Pinder's library, click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1EICMh88Y#" target="_blank">Islene</a> and also see the accompanying 90 second slideshow that offers two photographs taken in Bali of her signature dance roles, Jauk and Spirit Window.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't miss <i>The Faces of Love</i> on Saturday, February 1. 8 p.m.</span></h3>
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Puffin Cultural Forum</span></h3>
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20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ 07666 </span></h3>
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For more information, visit <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45,"tn":"*G"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><a href="http://www.puffinculturalforum.org/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>www.puffinculturalforum.org<wbr></wbr>/</a></span></span>.</span></h3>
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(201) 836-3499 </span></h3>
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Tickets: $10 Seating is limited. Reservations are recommended!</span></h3>
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<u>By Public Transportation</u><br />
<b>Midtown Manhattan</b><br />
NJ Transit bus #167T or 167Q "DUMONT - HARRINGTON PARK - NEW YORK" from the 42nd St. Port Authority terminal. These buses usually leave from gate 210 on the second floor and usually takes about 25 minutes depending on Lincoln Tunnel traffic. The stop for the 167T is "Teaneck Rd. at Puffin Way", which is the first stop after turning on to Teaneck Rd. As you get off the bus, facing the same direction as the bus is traveling, Puffin Way (formerly East Oakdene Ave.) should be right in front of you on the right, immediately in front of the Enrite gas station. For the 167Q get off at the first stop after crossing over Teaneck Rd. on DeGraw Ave., then walk back to Teaneck Rd., take a left and walk 2 blocks until you see Puffin Way and the Enrite gas station on the other side of Teaneck Rd. Puffin Way is a short street that dead ends with our parking lot on the right. Theater entrance is on the first floor at the far end of the sole building.<br />
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<b>Uptown Manhattan</b><br />
Take the NJ Transit bus #182 "HACKENSACK - NEW YORK (GWB)" bus from the GW Bridge terminal (175th St. on the A subway) to the stop on DeGraw Ave. immediately after crossing Teaneck Rd. The bus usually leaves from Platform #23 and it takes 20-25 minutes.<br />
Walk back to the intersection with Teaneck Rd., take a left onto Teaneck Rd., and then your first right, immediately before the Enrite gas station onto Puffin Way, which deadends to the left of the entrance to our parking lot.<br />
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