2026

Thursday, February 12 | 1:15-2:00 p.m. FREE

Dancing the Lyra Way

Presented by GEMS Midtown Concerts, BALAM will perform its new Baroque choreography for a Lyra Way program.

Musicians: Lisa Terry, Niccolo Seligmann

Dancers: Yumiko Niimi, Erin Hunter Jennings (BALAM debut), Carlos Fittante

St. Malachy's Church (The Actors' Chapel) 239 West 49th Street, New York, NY

Live Broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/midtownconcerts

Enjoy BALAM's imaginative Baroque dances inspired by the vivid lives of King James I of England and his queen, Ann of Denmark. Experience in stylish Baroque fashion adventure, royal marriage, estrangement and concord, peace and prosperity, accompanied by rare 17th century viol music.

More 2026 activities forthcoming!

2025 Performances

A Virtual Offering: Te Quiero Vida Mía

(I Love You, My Darling)

A 2.5-minute video of a Spanish song and improvised Baroque dance for the Thanksgiving Holiday, featuring Inma Heredia!

Sunday, November 23. 2 p.m.

An Afternoon of Dance: In-Studio Performance

Marblehead School of Ballet (MSB)

115 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA 01945.

A free community event featuring BALAM’s Tari Coba Kecil Oleg (A Little Balinese Bumblebee Dance) and the premiere of Cumbia Graciosa—two works created for MSB’s adult students as part of the Spring and Fall Dance Adventure 2024/2025 series. Also included is Chaconne de Phaëton (circa 1704) a Baroque dance masterpiece performed by BALAM’s Artistic Director, Carlos Fittante.

Saturday, October 4 | 12-8. FREE
Oleg Tambulilingan (Love Dance of the Bumblebees)
9^th Annual NICE Festival – Oyster Shell Park, 95 North Water Street. Norwalk, CT 06854

Friday, September 12, 7 p.m. | Annual Jazz and Noh Fusion Collaboration in Japan

Drawing inspiration from the Commedia dell’Arte, BALAM’s Toshinori Hamada joins legendary jazz flutist Lew Tabackin for a groundbreaking collaboration blending live jazz and an improvised Noh-Commedia dance in a BALAM costume and mask!

Shogun’s Garden
11-1 Koyamachi, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka-ken, 420-0852, Japan
(Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Shizuoka.)

CANCELED DUE TO BAD WEATHER!

Saturday, June 7 | 2:00-2:20 p.m.

Dance for World Community - FREE!

Stage 2 (near Putnam St, Cambridge, MA)

Tari Coba Kecil Oleg (A Short Balinese Bumblebee Dance), & Harlequin's Whimsical Love Dance

Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre's15th annual Dance for World Community in Cambridge, MA.

Thursday, June 5, 1:15-2:00 | FREE

Baroque Dance Fantasies about England, France, and Spain.

St Malachy's Church

239 West 49th Street, NYC

Presented by Midtown Concerts produced by the Gotham Early Music Scene (GEMS)

Saturday, April 26, 2:00 pm | FREE
Spring Spotlight: An In-Studio Performance!

Tari Coba Kecil Oleg-Parts 1 & 2

(BALAM’s Bumblebee Dance for adult dance students) and the work-in-progress, Harlequin’s Whimsical Love Dance.

Marblehead School of Ballet

115 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA 01945

Photo Credit: BALAM Dance Theatre

A Virtual Offering: Y Se Amoran Dos Caballos (And Two Horses Fell In Love)

A 2.5-minute video of a Spanish Sevillanas song and dance for St. Valentine's Day, featuring Inma Heredia!

2025 Guest Lecture Performances

Friday, November 21 | The Baroque Body and Its Physical Culture (Guest Presentation)

Early Modern Fashion: Men in Tights (Course), Professor Elizabeth Morano

New School–Parsons, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011

Friday, October 24 | Sprezzatura: New York Style (Guest Presentation)

How to be a Renaissance Person, Professor Karen Raizen

Bard College, 30 Campus Road, Annandale‑on‑Hudson, NY 12504

Fridays, October 10, 17, November 14, and December 5 | Introducing Baroque Dance to Students of Baroque Music (Guest Presentation, 4-class series)

QC School of Arts - MUSIC 7772: Baroque Performance Practice (Course), Dr. Masayuki Maki

Aaron Copland School of Music

Queens College-City University of New York

65‑30 Kissena Boulevard, Queens, NY 11367

This initiative is funded by the Queens College School of Arts as part of its Multidisciplinary Project Grants program. Instagram | LinkedIn

Monday, September 22 | Teruna Jaya: A Dance Journey into

Balinese Culture (Guest Presentation)

World Dance Cultures (Course), Professor Patricia Beaman

NYU Tisch School of the Arts Open Arts Program
Silver Center - 31 Washington Place, Room 507. New York, NY 10003

Thursday, April 10 | Sevillanas Dance Workshop (Guest Presentation)

World Dance and Global Perspectives (Course), Professor Kathryn Posin

New York University: Gallatin School of Individualized Study

1 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003

Thursday, February 6 | Body Trip to Bali (Guest Presentation)

World Dance and Global Perspectives (Course) Professor Kathryn Posin

New York University: Gallatin School of Individualized Study

1 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003

Fall 2025 Dance Adventure

Thursdays, September - November. 6:15-7:15 | Cumbia Graciosa

A Cumbia inspired choreography designed for adult beginners.

Marblehead School of Ballet

115 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA

Pre-registration is required. Call: (781) 631-6262.

Spring 2025 Dance Adventure

Thursdays, January -April | Tari Coba Kecil Oleg - Part 2

The second choreographic section of a Balinese-inspired dance designed for adult beginners.

Marblehead School of Ballet

115 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA

Pre-registration is required. Call: (781) 631-6262.

About BALAM

BALAM has performed throughout the United States and internationally at renowned venues such as: Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, American Museum of Natural History, and the Bali International Arts Festival. Its work has received acclaim from audiences, critics, scholars, and dignitaries alike, including critical praise mentioned in the New York Times, Village Voice, and endorsements from the Indonesian Consulate of New York, and the Governor of Bali.

The company's long standing interest in dance research, along with its extensive collection of Balinese masks, and cutural costumes and props, make it a resource for educators, artists, and scholars.

The Deeper Meaning of the "Ramayana"

By Shelley Lynne Cummins, www.jaisriyogis.com/

Shelley Lynne Cummins is a yoga and Oneness Blessing trainer, as well as a dancer.

The first two limbs in the eight fold path of yoga are the Yamas, Awareness of the obstacles in life, and Niyamas, cultivating practices to remove the obstacles. As these limbs are activated in harmony, a balance or zero point arrives allowing causality to permeate. The classic tale of the Ramayana is a perfect depiction of this inner balance Of polarities producing unity.

As a dancer and yogini, I have had the great opportunity to study and dance the Ramayana for many years. Every time I enter into this great epic, new realizations are found. It is likened to the dance of day, going to sleep and awaking again in the morning for a new play. Amidst the routines of life subtle realizations appear as the mystery of unity Dances around in the unseen worlds.

A yogini's reflection of this great great tale.

The Ramayana is the story of the divine marriage within. It is everyone's story with all the players aspects of their self. The story begins with a happy and harmonious marriage of Sita and Rama. Sita symbolizes the balanced female and Rama the balanced male within each individual.

One day Sita is enticed by a golden deer into the cave of the evil demon, Rawana.

The capture of Sita is a metaphor of the ego consciousness trying to gain control over the potential of all. The golden deer represents the possible deception and false allure of the illusion of this physical plane.

Upon hearing the news of Sita's capture, Rama gives his golden ring to Hanuman the Monkey King. He orders Hanuman to deliver the ring to Sita so she will know help is on the way.

Here Rama embodies his higher masculine qualities of protection of the unseen and the absolute creation which lives in his word.

The ring symbolizes the circle of light around the body, known as the merkabah or golden carriage of light.

Hanuman the Monkey King represents our monkey mind constantly chattering. As our mind unites with the purpose of reinstalling causality, it becomes a servant of the heart. In service Hanuman flies across the ocean to deliver the ring to Sita. He is able to tap into the One Heart Mind And use his merkabah to transport himself where needed.

Hanuman delivers the ring to Sita and upon his return tells Rama of her whereabouts. Rama goes to fight the evil demon, Rawana, for the release of Sita.

Rama is fighting the ultimate battle of light and dark in order to regain the feminine intuitive, All knowing, nurturing life force. The light always wins as it illuminates the dark corners and shadows. Rama reunites with Sita and together they live happily ever after in the diversity and play of unity.

And to think we know the whole story, the entire ring in the circle of life.We boldly go on experiencing each section of the ring.

As Joseph Campbell says: We are each a heroine or hero on a great journey.We begin enlightened creating a life of experiences in order to realize and reunite with our all encompassing light.

Calendars

2026

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2025 Performances

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Fall 2025 Dance Adventure

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